Archive for category: Smarter Marketing

Three Ways to Creep Out Your Prospects

Three Ways to Creep Out Your Prospects

  As marketers continue to expand their use of customer data in the creation of content, personalized recommendations and promotion are also becoming more prevalent. While this has helped many companies such as Amazon, Zappos, and Target, it can sometimes cross a fine line and become somewhat invasive. Here are [...]

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Marketing Automation Success with Insightera and Marketo

Marketing Automation Success with Insightera and Marketo

  Marketo just released a really smart, thorough eBook covering every facet of marketing automation. Whether you’re a novice or a bona fide marketing automation expert, there is valuable information for all marketers in “The Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation.” Insightera believes in marketing automation and personalization throughout the entire [...]

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5 Ways for Irrelevant Marketing

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February 24, 2013

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5 Ways for Irrelevant Marketing

There are a lot of helpful guides out there on how to improve social media strategy, content pieces, and other marketing tools. Today we’ll take a look at the other side of the coin and examine ways to get the most out of your marketing plan by avoiding these common [...]

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5 Rules for Ruling LinkedIn

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February 7, 2013

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5 Rules for Ruling LinkedIn

When it comes to social media marketing, LinkedIn has become one of the most important tools companies use to connect with prospective customers online. In fact, the lead-to-conversion rate on LinkedIn is more than three times as effective as Facebook or Twitter. Companies of all sizes should have a LinkedIn [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions

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December 21, 2012

Smarter Marketing

New Year’s Resolutions

Since the Mayans were mistaken, its time for New Year’s celebrations and for the resolutions to come crawling out of the woodwork like they always do. Weekly planners, diet plans, and gym memberships will be snapped up around the world. This will lead to about two weeks of changes before [...]

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How to Fix the Top 3 Email Campaign Blunders

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November 28, 2012

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How to Fix the Top 3 Email Campaign Blunders

It’s a statistic every marketer has to face. Only 20% of your emails will be opened and even less will see a click or response – 3% if you’re very good at what you do and very lucky. These facts are hard to digest, but they get worse. Many of [...]

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What Do Baked Beans Have to Do with the Top 6 Social Media Networks?

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November 15, 2012

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What Do Baked Beans Have to Do with the Top 6 Social Media Networks?

I’m going to take you back, all the way back to a commercial in 1996 for Bush’s Baked Beans. The spokesman of the bean company, Jay Bush, reveals that the delicious success of his baked beans “lies in a secret family recipe that the company guards closely,’ and the only [...]

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How to Use the Top 3 Social Media Channels to Generate B2B Leads

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September 8, 2012

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How to Use the Top 3 Social Media Channels to Generate B2B Leads

In this fast paced business economy, people change jobs faster than Superman on Red Bull. Marketers switch titles, sales people get promoted and companies merge into big corporations with new names. Sometimes, it seems as though the moment you’ve made new contacts and plugged in their identifiable information into your [...]

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Big Data & Big Sharks: Marketing Technology in the Food Chain

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August 23, 2012

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Big Data & Big Sharks: Marketing Technology in the Food Chain

Every year the Discovery channel presents “Shark Week,” a 24/7 non-stop marathon of documentaries, science shows and the latest research on anything and everything shark. Each year I tune in, eagerly soaking in the wealth of information. As I sat back watching the screen, while munching on gummy sharks (yes, it’s [...]

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