How does your 2012 social media spending compare to spending levels at similar companies? Is your B2B social media strategy based on hard data, or guesswork? It’s often hard to know how to budget effectively, but two new reports may help marketers with their B2B social media strategy for the remainder of 2012 and beyond. Forrester […]
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5 Things You Need to Know About Twitter #Hashtags
Nearly every marketer uses Twitter – and the vast majority of us also use Twitter hashtags – the letters that follow the pound or number sign (#) in a tweet. But here are five things you might not know about using Twitter hashtags that could help you boost your Twitter results dramatically. For example, did […]
Social Marketing or Marketing on Social Networks?
Does your company practice social media marketing, or do you use social networks for marketing? There is a difference. The first – social media marketing – requires a strategy specific to social channels, and content tailored to those platforms. The second – marketing on social networks – is simply distributing traditional marketing messages through social […]
Five Rules of Content Marketing
Content marketing works. That simple premise is why more and more marketers are making content marketing a core part of their lead generation strategies. One of the reasons that they work is that providing high-quality content helps build trust and rapport with prospects and customers, making it easier for them to make an eventual purchasing […]
SEO Fairy Tales Without Happy Endings
We share office space with Vertical Nerve, a web analytics, search marketing, and mobile marketing company. In other words, they’re Google Analytics geeks, who understand exactly how to measure, monitor and tweak marketing campaigns to get the results you want. I’m not, even though I’ve known about Google longer than most people on the planet. Months before […]
Facebook Timeline Steps to Take Now
It’s been about a month since Facebook implemented the new Timeline layout for business pages. When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s new page design was first announced, the reaction was less than positive. Like it or not, there are some features in the new layout that can make a big difference in how user-friendly business pages […]
Pinning Email to Pinterest for Faster ROI
Pinterest is the fastest growing social media site, far outstripping other recent entries into the social media sweepstakes. But Pinterest isn’t for everyone. People either love it or hate it. Forbes blogger David Coursey called it “Facebook with training wheels” in a recent article in which he said that Facebook’s purchase of Instagram would kill Pinterest. The same […]
Five Steps to Reviving B2B Email Results
When did you last open an unsolicited e-mail and think “Hey, this is really useful?” When did you last actually download the pictures for an unsolicited e-mail? There are those who make pretty convincing arguments that B2B email marketing is a dying art. I’m not one of them, although from a personal angle, I’ve seen more […]
Using Case Studies to Make Your Sales Point
Satisfied, happy customers extolling the virtues of a product or service after they’ve tried it and gotten the results they wanted. It’s the one sales and marketing message that never goes out of date, and never gets old. Finding customers willing to do that isn’t always easy, which is why using case studies isn’t first […]
How to Give Stellar Presentations
Earlier this year, I was standing in front of a room filled with Indian entrepreneurs. At first, it looked as if I’d be speaking to a half-empty room – but noted Indian investor Vinod Khosla was speaking to a full-house next door and the overflow crowd drifted into the next open door where I was waiting […]
5 Things to Do When You’ve Published New Content
Most marketers understand that content marketing is no longer optional – it’s a requirement. So nearly all of us write blogs, publish white papers, and create a variety of eBooks and PDF’s that are available for download on our websites. At SXSW this year, Jay Baer of The Content Marketing Institute said the biggest content marketing […]
Making Email Deliver Financial ROI
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise to most marketers when the researchers at MEC Labs/Marketing Sherpa published this week’s marketing graphic: a look at how the ways in which email marketing campaigns are measured has changed over the last two years. How to make email deliver measurable results is a hot topic for nearly […]