Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. I have summarized here my takeaways on her five steps. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer challenges big and small, if we’d just watch less TV and commit to participating in something other than our own mental decay. Who we are. Who we want to be.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. He has outlined what is wrong with the theory of mass marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers? A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

However, in this example, Service Experts has the forum to provide this type of content (a blog), and it also has the ability to actually rank for these types of phrases. Don’t you think that it makes sense for Service Experts to be exposed to people searching for this?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. Are you working with a team or collaborating with a client? •

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics. agencies, you should be experimenting with this too).

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results. And it’s free. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social Media is Email Without the Database Because social communication feels more authentic and timely in most cases, email marketers must fully embrace testing, personalization and optimization to boost relevancy for recipients. Follow/fan/friend is just opt-in – and all you've done is agreed to be sent direct marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. You would be entirely wrong.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If you fall in love with tools, you’ll constantly be changing directions, with no real plan to guide your way. link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] rlseymann (Rebecca Seymann) Twitter Comment Really enjoyed this presentation: 7 steps to creating a social media strategic plan. They always do. Yahoo, too.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. Or, you could just use Swix, the super slick new social media scoreboard that just works.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

You often are buying in part because of the service and personnel of the company in question. For whom is it more important to have a humanizing social media presence? A B2B software company, or Skittles? There’s only one precursor to successful social media adoption, and that’s believing that it will work.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? Has it made me a local expert in technology?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

In the last two-three weeks, I participated in 3 webinars and 5 software demos, with more planned this week. I have an RSS reader with 150 or so blogs to stay up to speed on the ever changing world of demand and lead generation. Content Marketing. Search Marketing. Our focus at NuSpark Marketing is lead generation.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). We’re working on tweaking the subscription center at the top a bit, too. All three could work but you have to eliminate clutter around your C & C brand. Maybe just one instead of a couple.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

JULY 9, 2009

For updated reports, article trackers and other Adv/Marcom postings, please subscribe to my RSS feed. Media Buying: DIY (Or Not?) Read time: 6-7 minutes) With budgets tight, companies are looking for every way possible to shave pennies. Is “Do-It-Yourself” a viable option? This isn’t actually a new conversation.

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RebelMouse

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Better Code: To be in sync with Instant Articles, publishers have to ensure that their site's template or RSS Feed is cleaned up and working 100% correctly. But Instant Articles works similar to Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in that regard, where the article is not hosted by Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I don’t feel the need to experiment with every new piece of software that emerges from its chrysalis, but I do feel a responsibility to you and my clients to have some idea of what’s out there and what’s worthwhile. Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use.

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Sprout Social

JULY 13, 2016

Are you in charge of getting your company’s social media marketing up and running? Using social media to grow your business, generate leads and build a brand may seem like a huge task, and in some ways it is. Create a Plan for Each Social Media Channel. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

RT @jaybaer Will you join me for Social Media Success Summit? 24 killer Webinars for a crazy low price [link] [link] Find Marketing You’re Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] #marketing #socialmedia [link] Cara You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] // This has brought excitement to my day : ) Now, off to speak to the boss!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

The drawing apps I’ve played with are simply incredible, but that’s not really my line of work – and probably not yours either. Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? Would it work with a i-pen or something like that? The exception is content that is created by touch. What is it?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter. So as expected, Facebook just added Twitter-style features and functions to its service , to evaporate Twitter’s competitive angle. A new Pew Research study shows only 8% of U.S. It enriches my life every day.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I don’t feel the need to experiment with every new piece of software that emerges from its chrysalis, but I do feel a responsibility to you and my clients to have some idea of what’s out there and what’s worthwhile. Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 14, 2012

This is Episode 20 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Read on for insights from Katie and our Social Media Stat of the Week ( this week : 47% of B2B companies do not track brand mentions on social media). The RSS feed is: [link]. Listen Now. Find us on iTunes: [link].

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Pattern recognition is available almost instantly, and companies can capitalize on just-in-time marketing and social CRM opportunities like never before. Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced less by the grand, sweeping programs that take old marketing and put a fresh coat of social paint on them. There are two strategic ramifications for this new era of content marketing. Targeted at marketing directors. But, it’s still important.

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