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  • 23 Tips for Using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter for Business

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    With the global economy still slumping, businesses and marketing companies are embracing new methods of social marketing as a way to spread the word in a more reliable, consistent, and cost-effective way. Are you taking advantage of all that LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter offer?

  • Photo-Sharing on Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Nearly one-half (46%) of online adults post original photos and videos they themselves have created, and 41% curate photos and videos they find elsewhere on the Internet and post them on various photo-sharing sites, according to a study by Pew Research.

  • Six Tips for Creating an Analytics-Driven Marketing Culture

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    These days, if a marketing organization is to deliver value and show tangible results, it must build an analytical culture. If yours is like most marketing organizations, you already pack a strong dose of creativity. Analytics enables you to combine that creativity with fact-based decision-making—with powerful results.

  • Does Your Brand Have a Visual Hammer? Laura Ries on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: None

    This week's guest , Laura Ries, believes in tying a brand's core message (the "verbal nail") to a striking visual image (the "visual hammer"). Her premise is straightforward: To leave a lasting impression on the mind of customers and potential customers, brands must rely on images because they wield a blunt, emotional force that words lack.

  • Most Valuable Global Brands: Coca-Cola, Apple, and IBM

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Coca-Cola, Apple, and IBM became the three most valuable brands in 2012, according to Interbrand's 13th annual Best Global Brands report. Coca-Cola retained its No. 1 position from the 2011 ranking, Apple jumped six spots to rank at No. 2. And Google for the first time surpassed rival Microsoft.

  • The Four Relevancy Commandments of Lead-Gen Marketing

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    People hate push marketing: It interrupts their favorite shows. It clutters their screens. And too often it has nothing to do with their interests. But customers don't mind messaging that's relevant to their needs. These four commandments will keep relevancy central to your messages.

  • Instagram Surpasses Twitter in Daily Mobile Traffic

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Instagram, the popular photo-sharing platform, attracted an average of 7.3 million daily users in the US via mobile device in August 2012, surpassing the 6.9 million who visited Twitter via mobile device, according to data from comScore Mobile Metrix 2.0.

  • For Effective Company Web Events and Presentations, Learn From the Politicians

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Whether you like politicians or not, you've got to hand it to them: On either side of the aisle, they know how to connect with others and win hearts and minds. How they do it is how you can do it, too.

  • B2Bs Lack Collaborative Processes for Content Creation

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Two-thirds of B2B companies struggle to achieve a truly collaborative process for message development, according to a report from Corporate Visions: 33% of B2B sales and marketing professionals say their message creation process is non-collaborative, politically charged, or nonexistent, and 33% say their message creation process is semi-collaborative.

  • The Six A's of Marketing Performance Management [Infographic]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: None

    What grade would your CEO give your marketing organization for its ability to demonstrate its impact on the business? Today's "A" marketers demonstrate these Six A's of Marketing Performance Management: the best-practice competencies of alignment, accountability, analytics, automation, alliances, and assessment.

  • BMOC (Big Marketer on Campus): How Your Brand Can Win Over the College Crowd

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    The more than 21 million US college students have a total discretionary spending power of $120 billion per year. No wonder marketers are excited about the opportunity at colleges. Here's a quick refresher course on how your brand can make a splash on campus.

  • Social Sharing Best-Practices for B2Bs and B2Cs

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    As might be expected, the best day and time of day to share content via social media depends on your target audience (business or consumer) and the specific social platform you're using, according to research by Compendium.

  • Who Has Time for All That PR Stuff?

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    When people want to know about you, your products, and your success story, the first thing they do is go to Google to see what you're doing, even before checking out your website. And if you look as if you don't have momentum, you may never get that call. It's not too late to start doing that PR stuff...

  • B2B Content Marketing: Trends and Benchmarks for 2012

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Content marketing is gaining in popularity: 83.5% of B2B marketers surveyed say they are stepping up their content marketing production over the next 12 months, up from the 71% who said so a year earlier, according to a report by Holger Schulze for Optify.

  • Nine Tips for Writing Effective SEO Content

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Writing

    Content creation is a large part of what we do as marketers—and writing effective, well-optimized content is, well, hugely important. In fact, poorly written and unoptimized Web content can render you all but invisible on the Web. Not good...

  • Three Customer Service Lessons From Dave 'United Breaks Guitars' Carroll on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]

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    CONTENT TYPE: Podcast | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Dave Carroll is the man whose guitar United broke. He joined us to discuss his book, titled United Breaks Guitars, about the experiences that led up to his now famous music video, lessons he learned along the way about social media, and the keys to effective, meaningful customer service. I asked him what companies need if they are to avoid a "Dave Carroll" in their future. This is what he told me.

  • Forrester Profiles Smartphone and Tablet App Users

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: None

    Mobile app users are an attractive audience for marketers, skewing younger and more affluent than other online adults in the US, according to research from Forrester.

  • How Agile Project Management Saved My Marketing Team

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    Here's a quick crash course on the agile project management methodology and how I, as a marketer, applied it to managing my team. I hope to help you identify where you can improve your marketing project management.

  • Why Facebook Users 'Like' (and 'Unlike') Brands

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    CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

    Nearly nine in ten Facebook users (87%) say they "like" brands on Facebook, and among them fully one-half (50%) say a brand's Facebook page is more useful than its website, according to a survey from Lab42.

  • Nineteen (19!) Ideas for Growing Your Email List

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    CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: None

    What would you rather have, a big list with dismal conversion rates or a smaller list targeting a highly engaged audience? Thought so. For a healthy opt-in email list, quality always trumps quantity, and here are 19 budget-friendly ways to get the list you want.