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by Jason Miller Having a solid social media plan in place around your marketing events is essential to boosting engagement and overall awareness. Before an event your social channels are a great way to spread the word while pulling in registrants that are not currently in your database. During an event social networks offer a unique opportunity to interact directly with your audience while empowering them to share and amplify your message.
Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? To answer this question, I looked at a variety of factors including twitter followers, profiles that included “B2B marketing,” the focus of their tweets including the hashtag # B2BMarketing , as well as a variety of social scoring tools using the keyword. Earlier this month, I released the 20 B2B Marketing Blogs you need to read.
Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Andy Sernovitz – Enjoy! photo credit: woodleywonderworks via photopin cc. Most small businesses will tell you their new customers come through word of mouth, but very few can tell you how those referrals happen or where they come from. But, it’s not magic and it’s not an accident.
by Dayna Rothman We are excited to welcome Michael Boyette as our guest author today. Michael is the Executive Editor of Rapid Learning Institute and editor of Top Sales Dog Blog. The number-one issue in Sales and Marketing alignment can be summed up in three words: “These leads suck!”. No matter how much effort Marketing puts into delivering high-quality, actionable leads, most salespeople remain convinced that marketing-generated leads are lousy.
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by Jason Miller If you are tasked with building a social media dashboard to track your efforts, look no further than this post. I have built many dashboards over the years and as a personal resolution to making my job easier, I decided to cut to the chase and get to the metrics that matter most. That means cutting out the everyday metrics that litter and cloud up the social media manager’s real success story.
by Jason Miller As a modern marketer it is vital to stay on top of current trends and brush up on forgotten or underutilized skills. In my last blog post I was asked by several folks what books I am currently reading and what books I recommend to become a better writer. As I mentioned, becoming a better writer starts with the basics, but you also need some inspiration and ideas along the way.
by Jason Miller As a modern marketer it is vital to stay on top of current trends and brush up on forgotten or underutilized skills. In my last blog post I was asked by several folks what books I am currently reading and what books I recommend to become a better writer. As I mentioned, becoming a better writer starts with the basics, but you also need some inspiration and ideas along the way.
by Jason Miller Content marketing is taking a bit of heat these days as marketers scramble to jump on the latest trend of thinking like a publisher. Chris Penn recently wrote a post that perfectly sums up the current state of content marketing: “If 2012 was about the power of content marketing, then 2013 has to be about making content that doesn’t suck if we want content marketing to remain a viable method of reaching and acquiring new customers.
by Jason Miller Social media is the Wild West of differing opinions. In a split second you can find yourself receiving a virtual hi-five and then immediately involved in a shootout at the OK corral. This is both the beauty and the beast of social media. It can be a marketer’s best friend or your worst enemy depending on your ability to keep your cool.
by Dayna Rothman You have worked hard to create some awesome content. Now what? How do you get your thought leadership pieces to your audience? To encourage consumption of your content, you want to promote it to your prospect database, relevant customers and those in your target demographic. Promotional channels include email campaigns, events and social media.
by Dayna Rothman I get asked quite frequently how I became a content marketer. Not only is content marketing a newer role within an organization, but there has also been a lot of backlash against bad content marketing. A lot of companies remain in the dark when it comes to making the right hire because it isn’t necessarily something you can major in.
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Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead
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by Dayna Rothman We recently held a webinar to show marketers how to rock their online and offline events, featuring insights from Marketo thought leaders Heidi Bullock, Director of Marketing, Sandra Freeman, Director of Marketing Cloud, and myself ( @dayroth ). We had so many great questions from the first webinar that we didn’t have time to answer, so here are answers to the top event marketing inquiries.
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by Kelly Waffle When people hear the name, John D. Rockefeller, they usually think of “one of the world’s richest people” or “one of the world’s most successful business people.” But Rockefeller did not grow up in a wealthy family. In fact, his father was a “pitch man” who would be gone for months at a time selling cancer treatments from town to town.
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by Dayna Rothman We have seen a huge transformation in marketing over the past 10-12 years. Buyers are now in control of when and how they access information during the purchase process. At the same time, marketers are constrained by tight budgets and are being asked to interact with buyers across a huge array of channels. All of these changes can prove to add up to numerous challenges, but they also open up new opportunities for marketers.
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By Gerardo Dada. As we look back on 2012, I think the award for biggest buzzword for the year should go to Content Marketing. Not that it is not useful or powerful, on the contrary. However, I think the term has been overused and misunderstood. Plus, content marketing has been around for a long time, especially in B2B high-tech marketing. In this post I’ll cover why content marketing is so important today and I will provide some practical advice about how to be good at content marketing.
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