What makes an effective content marketer? It’s not all about the writing, that’s for sure. Try these four steps to effective marketing.
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Remembering to Support Your Sales Reps: A Marketer’s Dilemma
Sales and marketing should go together like peanut butter and jelly. Unfortunately, many organizations experience friction between these two areas, especially when it comes to meeting goals and hitting sales numbers. Sales tends to blame marketing for lack of sales support and successful advertising campaigns, while marketing becomes frustrated with sales….
Timeliness is Key to Email Marketing
The first is the most obvious way to a more effective email campaign but the most often unstated is timeliness.
Artificial Intelligence
How smart can computers get? Most of us already have smartphones we use for a thousand small tasks that used to take a lot longer to accomplish: check out library books, find the cheapest gas station by your office, Google an authoritative-sounding statistic to use in the heat of an argument. One day we’ll just leave it to the iPhone to cut the grass, babysit the kids, and serve the perfect martini. (What will I do with my weekends then?)
Property & Casualty Insurance Companies Ramping Up Marketing Efforts
The marketing of insurance has becoming a lot more interesting in recent years. A product category that had previously been perceived as uninteresting has gotten a lot of attention and marketing dollars. Many players in the space are using various tactics to promote greater brand awareness and more positive brand beliefs in order to induce purchase.
NFL Season Kickoff: How Social Media Marketing Has Changed NFL TV Advertising
The NFL season may be kicking off now, but brand advertisers are already deep in the planning for the end of the season: Super Bowl Sunday. However, TV advertising during the Super Bowl isn’t the same as it was 10 years ago. Social media has left its mark on Super Bowl advertising, and if a brand isn’t taking advantage of the social media channel as part of their Super Bowl advertising strategy, they are missing a tremendous opportunity. The Super Bowl advertising strategy serves as great proof of the contemporary, multi-channel marketing approach.
The One Key Skill Great Marketers Have
Marketers come from a wide variety of backgrounds. But there’s one common unifying skill that separates the best marketers from the rest of the pack. Ultimately, geat marketers see the trends and adjust their efforts accordingly while maintaining an approach rooted in fundamental marketing theory.
Do Marketers & Salespeople Ruin Everything?
During last week’s LIMRA-LOMA Social Media Conference, one of the key points that keynote speaker Gary Vaynerchuk made was that marketers & salespeople ruin everything. By everything, Vaynerchuk is referring to the dynamics of a marketing channel, and that channels lose their cool factor once they are discovered by marketers & salespeople. Does history support his viewpoint?
Gary Vaynerchuk’s LIMRA/LOMA Social Media Conference Speech Broken Down
Gary Vaynerchuk’s speech at this week Social Media Conference packed in a lot of value about the current state of marketing. He believes that all companies are media companies and that plumbing is a central idea to present day marketing. Find out more about these ideas.
Excerpts From the Newest White Paper: Setting and Managing Expectations for Social Media
Distribion’s newest white paper, Setting & Managing Expectations for Social Media, is now available in the Access Resources section of our website. Here’s a quick glimpse at some compelling parts of the paper.
Keeping Content Interesting: A Challenge of Distributed Marketing
With the growth and adoption of new marketing channels, it can be perceived as a greater challenge than ever to find a way to consistently produce fresh and engaging content. Every organization should want to create content that stands out from the crowd and is captivating. Here are some thoughts on how you can keep content fresh, intriguing, and engaging.
Millennials Represent Opportunity For Insurance & Financial Services Companies
Life Health Pro recently featured an article that stated that nearly 70% of Millennials have no retirement plan. For as long as I can remember, I have seen advice articles about the importance in starting young in saving for retirement. Millennials (often considered the children born in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s) […]