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How Viral Marketing Can Kill You

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Viral Marketing, or the spread of ideas (also called Word of Mouth Marketing) is usually thought of as a good thing. Scott Stratton , author of “ UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. tells in his book a personal account of how a viral marketing campaign went wrong. A Viral Marketing Lesson. Start Engaging.”

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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How to Include Webinars in Your Content Plan

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If the myriad of webinar platforms out there with new entrants every year is not an indication that webinars are hot marketing tactic, then take a look at the following chart from MarketingSherpa : Webinars, together with virtual events were ranked top three marketing tactics to have their budgets increased in 2011.

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How to Fail at Social Media

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Fail at Social Media The challenge of keeping up with the competition in the social media space is not new. But wait, that’s not new… is back to marketing 101 you’d think, no?

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Social Media's Next Victim?

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Social Media’s Next Victim? And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video.

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The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior How do you change people’s behavior? link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention?

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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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Competitive Battle Cards (BTW I’ve seen them spelled together, battlecards, and separate – battle cards) are a staple of product marketing. So for the purposes of this post I will focus on the marketer or product marketer that has been tasked with coming up with a competitive analysis to help sales. Presentation.