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  • Mark W. Schaefer has written three books, including best-sellers Return on Influence and The Tao of Twitter. His marketing blog, {grow}, has won numerous international awards. I invited Mark to Marketing Smarts to discuss his recent book, co-authored with Stanford A. Smith, Born to Blog.

  • Pinterest is the social network most likely to drive spontaneous purchasing, whereas Twitter and Facebook users are more likely to make social media-related purchases of products they were already considering, according to a recent report.

  • The typical business communications mistakes I read and hear rarely reach the level of farce or slapstick. They're more missteps that detract from your message. Here are three of them to avoid.

  • Asked how they expect this summer to compare with last year's, nearly 40% of US college students surveyed characterized summer 2013 as "real-world: more work and less fun," according to a recent report.

  • The results of the 11th annual Marketing Performance Management Survey are out. Find out about the key findings in this infographic.

  • Marketing is full of choices, so let's have some fun with the social platforms of choice: What social media outpost works best your brand? And which do you love to use personally? And which would you choke, if you could?

  • Apple just unveiled iOS7—a radical transformation of the world's most popular smartphone and tablet operating system. Apple is preparing for a rapidly evolving mobile world, and so should marketers. Here's how.

  • A website with the first position in Google results receives 33% of the traffic for a keyword or phrase, compared with 18% for the second position, according to a recent report.

  • Recently, Google Reader became the latest product laid to rest in the Google graveyard. Though beloved by its (relatively small) fan base, Google Reader just wasn't popular enough to merit existence. Here's a look at other great Google products that didn't last.

  • Happy post-Independence Day! Fireworks may still be exploding in our ears, but as usual we've got a bunch of new tricks and tools for you this week. Read about Vine's latest marketer-friendly features, and learn how to target Twitter users from your email list, as well as embed Instagram Videos. Skim for social liberation.

  • Good personal branding is all about presenting yourself as both personable and professional. In this article you'll find seven tools and services to help you automate the growth of your personal (or business) brand.

  • Events used to be about getting bodies in the door, then delivering a message to a captive audience and hoping it sticks. But today's busy professionals—attendees and event organizers alike—don't have time for such a haphazard method.

  • Best-selling author and online marketer Jackie Huba shares marketing lessons from her book Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers Into Fanatics.

  • Emails from banks, job sites, and dating sites are among those most likely to be rescued by consumers from their email spam folders, according to a recent study by Return Path.

  • If there's a bible for this new media world in which we do business, it's David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing and PR. A revised and updated edition (its fourth!) of the classic is out this month. David and I had a chance to sit down and talk about what's new in new marketing.

  • To help suppliers understand the trends in B2B buying, Acquity Group took stats from its recent B2B procurement study and created the following infographic about B2B buyers by generation.

  • Fully two-thirds (67%) of bloggers say paid sponsored/branded content is their most profitable revenue generator, according to a recent report from Zig Marketing. Moreover, though 90% of bloggers say they use an advertising network, only 17% say it is their biggest revenue source.

  • Before I ventured into the exciting world of digital marketing, I had a short career with the Israeli Defense Forces. Some of the lessons I learned during my service apply to my current role managing people as well as marketing campaigns.

  • Top marketers are outpacing their peers in using technology across multiple channels, applying advanced analytics to determine media spends, and tracking their customers' lifetime value, according to a recent report.

  • Some 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing, and 86% of B2C marketers do. And no wonder: Customers and clients, and potential customers and clients, respond more favorably to content than they do to advertisements and overt selling.