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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

At what point does a buyer persona mutate from a useful marketing tool into a meaningless collection of bullet points, stock headshots, and random guesses? Here's what we really need to know about our prospects to motivate them to respond.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

Lasting brand admiration is achieved when your business becomes part of who people are (think "Mac people") and what they stand for. That kind of relationship isn't accidental or the result of good fortune.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

A unilateral or bilateral business model, whereby vendors sell to customers or via business partners, is old-school. Today, forming an ecosystem is the way to increase shareholder value, foster customer relationships, and enhance brand equity.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

It's exciting to be part of a growing business. But growth can also be stressful, especially for Marketing. In fact, sometimes growth can cripple your business if you do not have the resources to adequately support it.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

It doesn't matter how much time you spend on crafting your marketing campaign: You have no guarantee it will pay off. Sometimes marketing just doesn't work the way you want it to. Here's what to do when that happens.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

Word-of-mouth marketing is not new, but companies are putting a new spin on it to help their marketing, sales, and recruiting: Instead of customers, employees are the ones spreading word to their social networks via employee advocacy programs.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

If you develop a new offering, will customers buy it? That's the perennial challenge for today's companies, and it's increasing as pressures to innovate "first and fast" intensify.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

People like to be catered to, but not pandered to. Doubly so when they're at the receiving end of a marketing campaign. And especially so if they're Millennials. So here's advice from a Millennial on how to actually reach young customers.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding

Just how valuable is brand admiration, and what impact does it have on your brand's bottom line?

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

The story of the Trojan Horse seems a simple tale, but it was a stroke of strategic genius that took concerted effort to pull off. And there are important business and marketing lessons to be learned from it.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

In our fast-paced, always-on, agile, want-it-yesterday, mile-a-minute world... there is a critical need to slow down. Why? Because doing so allows you to achieve real results—faster.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

Your product is naked in front of all of your prospects, and they're highlighting not just its obvious beauty and strengths but also its small blemishes, stained teeth, and bad haircut. That's not a nightmare. That is the reality in our age of technology.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

Developing strong messaging and activating it across your organization ensure that everyone can communicate clearly and consistently about your company's value. And that vastly increases your chances of attracting customers you want to attract.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

We're all familiar with the 3 Rs from elementary school. These days, though, every marketer—especially those working in e-commerce—should have a firm grip on three other essential Rs: retention, retargeting, and re-engagement.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

B2B marketing leaders who have experience with rapid growth give advice on the role of Marketing in such growth, what it means to think like a growth marketer, what challenges arise with scale, and how to approach those challenges.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Career Development

"At work upon a client query, while I pondered, bleak and bleary, / Over many a bloated and drab volume of marketing lore, / While I nodded, nearly blotto, over another limp marketing motto, / Came to my cell a tweet so branded, deftly done, not underhanded..."

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

"At work upon a client query, while I pondered, bleak and bleary, / Over many a bloated and drab volume of marketing lore, / While I nodded, nearly blotto, over another limp marketing motto, / Came to my cell a tweet so branded, deftly done, not underhanded..."

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Measurement & Analytics

Without a doubt, data and analytics have become central to every organization's business strategy. Find out how to enable your marketing organization to successfully use data and analytics to drive business decisions.