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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Social Media Marketing

A crucial element of marketing that all CMOs—and marketers as a whole—need to be addressing right now is social listening and analytics. Because social intelligence can be vital to business success.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

Poor customer experience drives brand switching—a key reason for three quarters of lost customers. And customers who suffer a bad customer experience spread negative word-of-mouth.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

Your product or service cannot survive on its own. It needs backup in the form of strong customer support. The way you interact with your audience will determine how far your business goes in our competitive world.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: SEO

Nearly every business in the world has a website today, and that means small businesses have to overcome nearly insurmountable search marketing odds to claim one of the few spots on the first pages of search engine results.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding

Now that you've done all the work of creating your new brand, it's time to unveil it for the world to see. These six best-practices are essential to achieving a successful launch, both internally and externally.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding

Once you've decided that you need a companywide makeover, use these nine tips to achieve the results you want on a reasonable timeline.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Measurement & Analytics

With the convergence of online and offline marketing, choosing the right metrics is far more important than the quantity of data measured. Measuring the right data, and acting on the results, is essential to operating Marketing as a center of excellence.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding

It's hard to imagine a world where we lace up our Blue Ribbon Sports running shoes (instead of our Nikes), stop for lunch at Pete's Super Submarines (instead of Subway), and then enjoy a refreshing Brad's Drink (instead of a Pepsi) later that afternoon.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

Customer behaviors are changing. Fast. Not keeping up is all too risky. The companies that really "get" their customers, like Apple and Amazon, are setting the standards—and the bar is set high.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Management

Unless you're one of the iron-walleted few, gaining startup capital for your business venture will require the help of investors. Navigating those waters can be a lesson in humility; it also requires a certain amount of know-how.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

Performance marketing demands objective ways to evaluate what's working (vendors, channels, media, creative...) and how your strategies and tactics are affecting the bottom line, margins, and cost efficiency. These nine optimization techniques can help.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Content

Here's how marketing, PR, and content can work together across four main areas—the PESO model—as well as where they diverge, and how to assign responsibilities where they make the most sense.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

The near-universal adoption of smartphones and social media has fundamentally altered the science of handling customer complaints. The critics ("haters") are not your problem, however... Ignoring them is.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

A customer journey map is a visual representation of the various interactions a buyer has with a business. Building that map from the outside-in—from the customer's perspective—requires a thorough understanding of the customer's needs, wants, and desires.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience

Customer insights are essential to growth and success, yet they remain the elusive holy grail of many a business—a seeming exercise in futility. But you can avoid others' mistakes and develop actionable customer insights.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

We all have dream clients—company logos we'd love to place on our homepage. The only way to get there, in most cases, is by engaging with senior decision-makers over time—starting right now.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Management

Marketing budgets are already on the chopping block, even though CFOs say better top- and bottom-line growth requires sales and marketing. We need to prove our value by turning Marketing into a center of excellence. These five steps will help.