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  • by Mark Goren
    In business, a consistent experience is often the key to establishing comfort among your consumers. While I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't surprise them by going above and beyond their expectations, it's important to get the basics right first and deliver on your Here's a recent example of a situation ... more
  • by Paul Dunay
    One of my most trusted friends and mentors recently joined a very intriguing company called .... SuccessFactors (stock symbol ). They specialize in HR software with a SaaS product that is second to none in the From a marketing and social media perspective several things about this company got my ... more
  • by Andrea Learned
    I've talked with a lot of men lately about gender roles and stereotyping, and those issues come up in their personal and work lives. Most of them have said, after making clear they couldn't speak for all guys, that they see their lives with their spouses and kids as very ... more
  • Case Study: How One Whitepaper Generated 500 Leads and Significant PR for a B2B Manufacturer
    by Nettie Hartsock
    JER Envirotech, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly thermoplastic biocomposite materials, needed to stand out in the green manufacturing industry. Its solution: create a white paper to both explain and build credibility for its offerings. Here's how that led to 500 new leads over 60 days. more
  • by Nettie Hartsock
    This afternoon had the pleasure of sitting in on Chris Brogan's session, "Successful Lead Generation in a Social Media World," at our B2B Marketing Forum in Boston. The session was superb and my favorite quotes from the session are as On corporate blogging - "If you can't take criticism, your ... more
  • by Nettie Hartsock
    Nancy Harhut presented, "Secrets and What's Really Working in B2B Creative" and covered the most common misconceptions about business-to-business creative and provided tips for identifying those lies and reinvigorating direct mail Here are three of the ten lies Harhut cited in her Lie Everything must come in an Sure envelopes ... more
  • by Nettie Hartsock
    We're all gathered at the MarketingProfs B2B Marketing Forum 2008 in Boston where it's nearly 90 degrees today! The morning kicked off with a great intro by Roy Young and Ann Handley and tons of inspiring presentations. I attended the B2B Web Delivering on the Vision of Lead Generation helmed ... more
  • by Lewis Green
    Social and Social can be effective tools for growing our businesses when they are part of our marketing mix. However, if they are the sole source of our marketing plan, we fail to reach the majority of our potential customers, especially if we are a B2B Let's get real! Most ... more
  • by Mack Collier
    And , we have all been talking about over the last week or so. And while many of us are talking about the site, I think the key point here is that Plurk's emergence could validate the micro-blogging space as a Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku all offer a somewhat similar ... more
  • by John WallChristopherPenn
    In this Marketing Over Coffee we discuss spinning a PR Crisis, Marketers as deceivers and liars, and the Google Dance..... all that and more in this Marketing Over Coffee, a weekly audio program sponsored by MarketingProfs that covers classic marketing tactics and what's new on the technology Direct Link to ... more
  • by Scott Monty
    There's an interesting experiment going on - well, if you're reading this any time after AM EDT on June 6, 2008, it already has finished - that involves five prominent social media marketing experts and a charitable . If you don't typically follow social media (wait - you're reading this ... more
  • by Paul Dunay
    An interesting study from the University of Texas recently showed that the typical information posted on social networking sites .... favorite books, movies, music, and quotes; major; hometown; and similar personal items .... doesn't always give others an accurate impression of When the researchers tested so called "friends" of a ... more
  • by Paul Barsch
    Think marketing doesn't have much to do with mathematics? An unseen mathematical world is giving some companies a competitive edge in better understanding customers. Indeed, companies across all industries are now capturing data and creating rich profiles of customers to "predict" their wants, needs and future Mathematics has left the ... more
  • by John WallChristopherPenn
    In this Marketing Over Coffee we discuss why bulk commercial email is different from spam, what's going on with Social Media Consultants, and how to monitor your brand on the web..... all that and more in this Marketing Over Coffee, a weekly audio program sponsored by MarketingProfs that covers classic ... more
  • by Mack Collier
    Have you heard of Plurk? Well I hadn't, not until very early Sunday morning, when I first saw talk of the micro-blogging site being mentioned on Twitter. Over the course of the day, talk of Plurk spread like wildfire via Twitter, as users jumped over to see what the site ... more
  • by Mack Collier
    Founder Aruni Gunasegaram found herself in a position that any company would dread. She had launched a new product that she had hoped would be well-received by her target audience, mothers who breastfeed their children. Unfortunately, the product was immediately reviewed, and shredded, by Jennifer Laycock, a very popular mommy-blogger ... more
  • by Paul Dunay
    What if you placed a call to GM and the CEO answered the phone? You would think perhaps this company is too small to suit my needs. This is why the bigger a company gets the more faceless they become because they layer on infrastructure to foster a certain But ... more
  • by Ted Mininni
    Here was a great statement in a recent Reuters article, Food makers look to health as downturn "Industry giants such as Kraft, General Mills, Sara Lee, ConAgra, Unilever and Danone all told the Reuters Food Summit in Chicago that healthy products were on top of their menus in insulating themselves ... more
  • by Tim Jackson
    I've got a viral sickness. This is unrelated to my recent stays in the hospital; I'm talking Viral I love– no, L-O-V-E– viral marketing. A bunch. I don't pretend to be a total expert on it, or anything (ok, well maybe a little), but I know what I like and ... more
  • by Mack Collier
    Seriously, we need to For the past few days, the site's been going through another of its infamous 's down again, isn't it?" spells. These problems always lead to grumpiness from many of those using Twitter, and the inevitable "where else could we go?" discussion pops up. This time, many ... more
  • by Paul Barsch
    As marketers become more tech-savvy, the demands they place on corporate information technology (IT) departments often increase. Unable and reluctant to meet the demands of marketing, IT sometimes turns a deaf ear to change and budget requests causing marketers to go it alone. However, going it alone–without IT–can create headaches, ... more
  • by Valeria Maltoni
    You've got something to say and you need a company to listen to your feedback. Would you use a suggestion box? You are a company in search of a fast way to help capture feedback and a structured approach to deal with it. Would you buy a suggestion One of ... more
  • by Ted Mininni
    If there was ever a time when the food industry needed to build the three big T's, the time is now. A terrific short on this topic appeared in a recent issue of Environmental News A Food Marketing Institute press release announcing the results of its survey, U.S. Grocery Shopper ... more
  • by Paul Dunay
    Right now, your customers are writing about your products on blogs and reediting your commercials on YouTube. They're defining you on Wikipedia and ganging up on you on social networking sites like Facebook. These are all elements of a social phenomenon – the groundswell – that has created a permanent, ... more
  • by Lewis Green
    We've all been there. In fact, I just visited this place of client frustration and fear a few days ago. It usually happens when the solution provided to the client's (or boss's) problem will cost them time, money and stress. At that very moment, we stand at the We can ... more

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