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by Pawan Deshpande
No doubt about it: 2011 was a big year for content marketing. Twice the number of marketers implement content marketing vs. the number of those who use print, television, and radio advertising. But what's in store for 2012?
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by William Arruda
Personal-branding expert William Arruda offers six more trends to keep in mind and on top of in 2012 as you continue to build, improve, and polish your own personal brand as a marketer in tune with the times.
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by Verónica Jarski
On this Free Friday at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog, we're offering you the downloadable "B2B Content Marketing: 2012 Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends" report.
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by Anita Williams Weinberg
When working with freelancers, "let the buyer beware" is a good rule of thumb. If you aren't careful in the due-diligence process, you may be in for more than you bargained for (literally). How can you make sure you don't get burned?
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by Ann Handley
Check out the hilarious moments in this video blooper reel from MarketingProfs's Take 10 Author Series—10-minute webcasts with best-selling authors in marketing and business.
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"Today I was sad," writes Tara Jacobsen at the Marketing Artfully blog. "I got a message from someone who I like a lot and have been 'friends' with on the Internet for a while."
The problem? Unlike the steady stream of relevant content the business friend used to distribute, this ...
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by Guest Blogger
When is the last time you had a crash course in online marketing and took a hard look at the pillars your marketing strategy is resting on? MarketingProfs guest blogger Dan Mckee helps you revisit these ideas.
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by Guest Blogger
MarketingProfs blogger Carlos Hidalgo answers Lauren Carlson's question: What's the difference between demand generation & lead management in the context of the sales funnel?
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It's hard to decide what's appropriate for posting on social networks without an etiquette road map—and harder still when you're doing it as a company, not just as yourself.
Amalia Agathou of The Next Web understands. To help marketers get the art of social updating right, she has written an article on ...
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by Verónica Jarski
For this Free Friday, MarketingProfs invites you to attend a Citrix-sponsored series on the three steps for turning webinar registrants into closed deals.
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by Shaun Ryan
A website with poorly designed navigation can frustrate your visitors, cost you sales, and hurt your reputation. Learn how to enhance your site's navigation to showcase your content—and keep your customers coming back.
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"Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms are giving organization like yours an enormous opportunity to engage directly with your customers or would-be customers," write Ann Handley and CC Chapman in their book Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) that Engage Customers ...
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Any successful email campaign begins with a good offer. But you won't close the sale or earn the click-through if your copy doesn't do its job.
For instance: Are you discussing features without explaining benefits? Or placing your call to action "below the fold" where subscribers won't see it unless ...
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by Corey O'Loughlin
MarketingProfs blogger Corey O'Loughlin shares some marketing-related New Year's resolutions from the MarketingProfs team. What's one of yours?
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by Verónica Jarski
Want to write for the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog? Veronica Maria Jarski shares 12 tips to help you raise your chances of being published at the Daily Fix and other blogs you enjoy.
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"There are a lot of things that can go wrong with email marketing—broken links, typos, unoptimized images—the list goes on," writes Magdalena Georgieva at the HubSpot blog. But on the other hand, she notes, marketers shouldn't focus so intently on small technical details that they lose sight of the big ...
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by Guest Blogger
MarketingProfs guest blogger Nichole Kelly is the CEO of Full Frontal ROI Consulting and shares five vital tips for proving that social media matters to your company team members.
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Writing at the Daily SEO blog, Brian Patterson highlights a problem many companies are starting to encounter: "As you began to type our client's brand name into Google Search, Google Suggest displayed our client's brand name + the word 'scam' as the second option, directly below their brand name." Patterson's ...
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by Tyler Garns
Is your business throwing Web traffic in the trash? If you're not capturing the traffic you spend big bucks to get, it's time to re-evaluate your lead-capture strategy by looking at the effectiveness of your lead magnets.
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by Jason Miller
Want to prevent your content from being snuffed out too early? MarketingProfs blogger Jason Miller offers five tips to make sure your content is kept alive and thriving online.
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More than three-quarters of US corporate marketers say they are aggressively (16%) or moderately (62%) shifting spending from traditional marketing to branded-content marketing, according to a study by the Custom Content Council (CCC) in partnership with ContentWise.
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by Matthew Grant
Marketing Smarts podcast host Matt T. Grant asks Shannon Paul of A Healthier Michigan how marketers should answer the question, "How will this brand live and breathe?"
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We all know purchase confirmations are a great place to suggest complementary products and generate additional sales. But how well does your system work? In a post at the Bronto blog, Fawn Young recounts the story of an online retailer that had the right idea—but the wrong content.
After purchasing a ...
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"Not too many years ago, content was produced by analysts, researchers, writers and journalists who spent a great deal of time developing well-written, thoughtful and provocative material," writes Joellyn Sargent at the Fresh Sprouts blog.
Sadly, that level of attention to the written word is often lacking these days. With the ...
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Wat sets apart the top-shelf events from the more pedestrian gatherings? MarketingProfs blogger Tobias Schremmer shares the three basics every event you attend must have.
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It's hard to decide what's appropriate for posting on social networks without an etiquette road map—and harder still when you're doing it as a company, not just as yourself. Amalia Agathou of The Next Web understands. To help marketers get the art of social updating right, she has written an article on ... more
"Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms are giving organization like yours an enormous opportunity to engage directly with your customers or would-be customers," write Ann Handley and CC Chapman in their book Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) that Engage Customers ... more
Any successful email campaign begins with a good offer. But you won't close the sale or earn the click-through if your copy doesn't do its job. For instance: Are you discussing features without explaining benefits? Or placing your call to action "below the fold" where subscribers won't see it unless ... more
"There are a lot of things that can go wrong with email marketing—broken links, typos, unoptimized images—the list goes on," writes Magdalena Georgieva at the HubSpot blog. But on the other hand, she notes, marketers shouldn't focus so intently on small technical details that they lose sight of the big ... more
Writing at the Daily SEO blog, Brian Patterson highlights a problem many companies are starting to encounter: "As you began to type our client's brand name into Google Search, Google Suggest displayed our client's brand name + the word 'scam' as the second option, directly below their brand name." Patterson's ... more
We all know purchase confirmations are a great place to suggest complementary products and generate additional sales. But how well does your system work? In a post at the Bronto blog, Fawn Young recounts the story of an online retailer that had the right idea—but the wrong content. After purchasing a ... more
"Not too many years ago, content was produced by analysts, researchers, writers and journalists who spent a great deal of time developing well-written, thoughtful and provocative material," writes Joellyn Sargent at the Fresh Sprouts blog. Sadly, that level of attention to the written word is often lacking these days. With the ... more
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