March, 2013

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The Truth about Social Media Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller There are hundreds of differing opinions regarding the effectiveness of using social media for lead generation. This is my opinion and it comes from over two years of trial and error using what I consider to be the best tools available for the social media marketer. Social is an essential channel for the modern marketer to have a presence, but it can’t become the number one revenue driver all by itself.

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The Human Touch – Important For Marketing Today and Tomorrow

Marketing Insider Group

In this Future of Marketing series, we have covered topics such as Agile Marketing , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Content , and so much more. Despite all the change in the world and the impact of these changes on our marketing strategy, one thing has never changed. And that is the importance of relationships, and the ability to communicate with people.

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5 Questions That Will Lead to Market Domination

Duct Tape Marketing

One of the things most small business struggle with mightily is differentiation. And yet, it’s probably the number one factor in the success of one business over another. If you can’t demonstrate how your business is significantly different than every other business that says it does what you do, you are doomed to compete on price. Being different is the first step in building a business that people care about.

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Improving Content Conversion with Dynamic Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman Today’s marketers know that quality content is essential to marketing success. Content needs to educate, excite, and inspire prospects, customers, and partners alike. Unfortunately, today’s buyers are bombarded with multiple marketing messages. When your prospect’s inbox explodes with offers daily, how do you ensure your content stands out?

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Do's and Don'ts: How to Pitch Your Press Release to Journalists

Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 With that said, have you ever wondered how to write a compelling press release? Have you considered best practices when it comes to pitching your news to journalists to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each of each piece of news you pitch!

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5 Ways to Get The Most Out of Vine In Your Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman So what is this Vine phenomenon? If you are a marketer (or anyone on social), you have most likely started to hear a ton of news centered around this cool app. Basically, you can create short, 6 second videos using the iPhone app Vine and then post to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. The cool part about Vine is not only can you do a regular video stream, but you can also create a stop motion video tying together split second clips.

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5 Reasons Why Your Inbound Marketing Isn’t Working

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman Here is a scenario that resonates with many marketers using inbound marketing as part of their marketing mix. You create your blog, social accounts, maybe a couple of ebooks, and invest in marketing automation software. At first, things are going great! You see more blog subscribers, a huge increase in website traffic, and your social media followers are way up.

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What Your Instagram Filter Says About You [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Are you one of the 100 million active users generating 40 million photos a day on Instagram? As a marketer, user generated content is a gold mine for insights and can be a nice complement to any content marketing strategy. Even better, applications such as Instagram are primed for taking that content mobile. Smart savvy marketers that are harnessing the power of visual content and the high engagement that it delivers are much more likely to be rewarded by leveraging Instagram as

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5 Steps for a Most Excellent Google Hangout

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller So you want to host a Google hangout? Before you get started researching and reading the countless number of eBooks and blogs that promise to tell you everything you need to know, let me save you a bunch of time. I have read the top posts out there and distilled all of the important stuff down to a simple five step process saving you time and frustration.

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6 Reasons Why Your Company’s Facebook Page is Unattractive

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman I am pleased to welcome Helen Nesterenko as today’s guest blogger. Helen is the founder of writtent.com. She enjoys helping businesses create content their customers and prospects will love. Can you believe that Facebook’s Timeline feature is nearly a year old? 12 months later, small businesses are still trying to figure out how to use the visually-driven and slightly complex design to its full advantage.

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Make Way For The Agency of the Future [Infographic]

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by Dayna Rothman The digital revolution has transformed marketing. With the changing buyer, budget pressures, new social channels, and content, marketers have to do more with less. And marketing automation has become the new must-have technology to help marketers increase their reach. Now marketers can nurture leads until they are ready to buy, send only the hottest leads to sales, and deliver results to the executive team.

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Cracking the Code: Turning Intent Data into Go-to-Market Success

Speaker: Steven Bryerton, SVP of Sales at ZoomInfo & Robin Izsak-Tseng, VP of Revenue Marketing at G2

Join Steven Bryerton, SVP of Sales at ZoomInfo, and Robin Izsak-Tseng, VP of Revenue Marketing at G2 in this webinar where you're guaranteed to walk away with a fresh understanding of and a new perspective on intent data! Turn your go-to-market motions around with intent data! Instead of searching for ways to showcase your products, reach out to the customers that are searching for your solutions — then build your messaging around their needs to set you apart from the competition. 🚀 With

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The Top Social Media Topics On the Minds of Real Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman In Marketo’s recent Social Marketing Rockstar Tour, we visited 15 cities to talk about implementing, executing, and measuring social strategy. We met marketing interns and CEOs and all levels in between; spoke to marketers from every industry; and networked with marketers from large companies with 10,000+ employees and small companies with fewer than 10.

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Think Creatively About Your Search Ads With These Top Questions

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by Dayna Rothman Today’s guest post is from Marlin Gilbert, Industry Head of Advertising and Sales at Google. Marlin manages a team responsible for B2B Technology clients nationally. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Our advertising sales teams at Google meet with B2B advertisers on a daily basis to discuss how we can help our clients grow and best leverage the power of digital marketing.

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The 5 Key Marketing Metrics You Should Be Watching

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by Dayna Rothman We’d like to welcome Justin Gray as a guest blogger in today’s post. He is the CEO and chief marketing evangelist at LeadMD. The company helps businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technologies. He can be reached at jgray@leadmd.com. Marketing metrics often go wrong, so what’s the right way to go?

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5 Marketing Lessons from Spinal Tap

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by Jason Miller “This Is Spinal Tap” is a 1984 rock and roll musical “mockumentary” directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap. The movie satirizes the wild behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal musicians. It’s filled with pitch-perfect one liners from the band and cast of characters as they tour America and prepare for the release of their comeback record.

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Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode

Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o

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Three Key Job Roles to Make Your Marketing Automation Rock

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by Heidi Bullock Marketing automation is a great solution to help drive your business. Marketers need to be more accountable, engage with customers and potential buyers, and also scale their activities. They are increasingly spending more dollars on technology to support these activities, and in the near future may even out pace CIOs on technology spend.

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Dominate Your Next Event With a Great Public Relations Strategy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman Great public relations can help your company break through the noise that can sometimes dominate a busy event. Remember, you are competing with many different companies for share of voice, and a solid PR strategy helps you get heard by prospects, customers, as well as important media outlets. You’ll need a different PR strategy based on whether you are hosting or sponsoring an event, but for both you need to formulate a solid plan.

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Accelerate Demand using Rich Media

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Dayna Rothman Mani Iyer is CEO of Kwanzoo, a cloud-based platform for building and running rich media campaigns that accelerate & optimize demand across all online channels (email, website, social, display, re-targeting & mobile). Enterprise marketers today constantly seek new and creative ways to engage, qualify and convert prospects online.

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John McTigue On The Intersection of Content and Marketing Automation

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by Dayna Rothman For our recent Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation launch, I interviewed several marketing automation experts to get their input on key questions such as the future of marketing automation and it’s key benefits over an Email Service Provider (ESP). I had so many awesome answers from thought leaders, that I wanted to create a blog series that showcased their advice and opinions.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Listen. Ask. Share. It’s Time For Agile Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

What is agile marketing? According to Sandra Zoratti, the VP of Marketing at Ricoh, agile marketing is all speed, collaboration and taking an iterative approach to marketing. Sandra is our honored guest in today’s Future of Marketing interview series where we have covered topics such as Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Technology , and so much more.

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Getting Back to Basics In The Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In this Future of Marketing series, we have covered topics such as Agile Marketing , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , Culture , Content , and so much more. We also cannot forget the importance of getting back to the basics of marketing. We need to stay focused on the power of ideas and the creativity required to make a human connection between our brand and our customers.

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How Will 50 Billion Connected Devices Affect The Future of Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Imagine the inevitable Future of Marketing with 50 billion connected devices! How will marketing change and what role will brands and consumer play? In our previous interviews on the future of marketing, we looked touched on topics such as Marketing Fundamentals , Personal Branding , Content Brands , Customer Brands , Creativity , Big Data , Customer Experience , Thought Leadership , the Future of Search , the Science of Marketing and many more… Today’s interview is with L

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The Future of Marketing – Adapt And Be Creative!

Marketing Insider Group

In our last Future of Marketing interview, Scott Brinker riffed off the Marketing and Big Data idea by asking if the future of marketing was all about “ Big Testing? ” Previous interviews covered customer experience , thought leadership , , creating a content culture , the roles of content and technology , the future of search , the science of marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the content is king in the future of marketing.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Focus On Your Customer’s Brand In The Future of Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In our last interview, Paula Cusati suggested that we will need the ability to adapt and be creative in the rapidly changing world of Future of Marketing. Previous interviews covered Big Data Marketing and Big Testing , customer experience , thought leadership , , creating a content culture , the roles of content and technology , the future of search , the science of marketing , the rise of Content Brands and we asked whether the customer or the content is king in the future of mar

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How to Sell More by Focusing On Less

Duct Tape Marketing

Today’s guest post is from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Sean D’Souza. – Enjoy! Image Credit: Sean D’Souza. I rem ember flying to Pittsburgh in the year 2004. It was a 7am presentation in front of about 40 people who I didn’t know. And who didn’t know me, either. And by the time the presentation was done at 7:45am, I asked the crowd a simple question. “How many of you would like to buy this product?

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Why Good Questions Always Trump Even Your Best Answers

Duct Tape Marketing

In almost every marketing and sales situation you often need to pose question after question to get at what the problem might actually be. Or often, a good line of hard questions can help eliminate a problem a client thinks they are trying to solve and get them to see the right direction to move. photo credit: Oberazzi via photopin cc. The right questions get you and the client to the right place together.

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Why You Need a People Bucket List

Duct Tape Marketing

In all likelihood you’re familiar with the term “bucket list” made extremely popular from the 2007 Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson film by the same name. photo credit: peasap via photopin cc I hear this concept, making a list of all the things you want to do before you die, tossed around in entrepreneurial circles frequently and it occurred to me that there’s another kind of bucket list that actually might be more important in business.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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How to Lift Your Website Conversions

Duct Tape Marketing

It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Chris Goward – Enjoy! As a growing business, you need more than just a basic website to be successful on the Internet. You need a website that serves prospective clients and clearly communicates why they should buy from you. Your website needs to work hard. In short: you need more than just traffic; you need conversions!

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How to Set Your Business Up So You Never Have To Actually Talk to Anyone

Duct Tape Marketing

I’m guessing the headline for this post brought you here for one of two reasons – you were curious or you were dismayed by the thought of it. And I’m okay with either, but one of you is going to be disappointed. photo credit: Stuck in Customs via photopin cc See, technology has indeed brought us to the point where we can actually run a business, sell a product and serve a customer without the need for human interaction.

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The 7 Pearls of Selling Wisdom

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Jeff Kline – Enjoy! The concept of “selling” is different these days. And that’s because customers are different. Today’s customers are more educated and informed than ever. Much of this is a result of the Internet, which expedites word of mouth and provides consumers with easy access to thousands of product reviews.

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The 3 Keys to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Enjoy this guest post from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Joe Costantino. photo credit: seeveeaar via photopin cc. What separates the good from the great in any endeavor? What allows one athlete to compete at a consistently high level for many years, while another, who may appear on the surface to possess great talent isn’t able to achieve even close to the same level of success?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr