| Tamara Halbritter and Hank Stroll Invitation to Join the MarketingProfs SWOT Team Readers of MarketingProfs are some of the most experienced marketers out there. In this new column, we tap into that wealth by presenting a marketing dilemma and asking you for your best advice. So, join the conversation. You won’t be disappointed. When we tap into our collective experience, strength and hope—everyone benefits. Get the full story.
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Mitch McCasland Marketing to Peacocks Years ago, Mitch was conducting research on the personal grooming habits of the American consumer. The research highlighted one segment of the target audience as a group of males who spent an extraordinary amount of time on hair care each day. This group was referred to as the “peacocks.” Animal euphemisms aside, the research identified what has become known in current marketing-speak as the metrosexual. What's a metrosexual? Get the full story. |
Michael L. Perla What Are Your Biases and Heuristics? Heuristics and biases are ubiquitous because they are innate to the human animal. They apply to customers, colleagues, executives, investors and any other category to which we assign human beings. To better understand how people’s distortions, shortcuts and biases affect how you market to various stakeholders, you should be aware of people’s thinking patterns and perceptual filters, including your own. Get the full story. |
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| | | A Note to Readers Big News!
Big news this week!
You might notice a new button on the home page, to the far right on the navigation bar. It reads “Bookstore,” and it links directly to the brand-spanking-new
ebook that MarketingProfs just published this week.
A Marketer’s Guide to e-Newsletter Publishing is the single source that gives you the “how” along with the “why” of e-newsletter publishing. The authors of the book—Hank Stroll and Tamara Halbritter—guide you step by step on how to create, edit, distribute, manage and track electronic newsletters. What’s more, they tell you how to convert your readers from casual suspects to paying customers.
Cool, huh?
So check it out. Heck, buy a copy—at $24.95, it’s a steal!
Hank and Tamara are all over the site this week. In addition to the book, they also unveil a new column. In it, they offer up a marketing dilemma and ask you, dear readers, for your “best advice.” Read their “Invitation to Join the MarketingProfs SWOT Team” and start sharing your wealth of experience with this week’s thorny problem. (Or email Hank and
Tamara with a thorny problem of your own!) As always, your feedback is both welcome and encouraged. Until next week, Ann Handley ann@marketingprofs.com MarketingProfs.com
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| Gerry McGovern Web Team Roles and Responsibilities: Who’s in Charge? Significant change is well underway. The Web may once have been the almost exclusive domain of techies. Today, it is increasingly the domain of communicators. Get the full story. |
Kristine Kirby Webster Trust Is a Two-Way Street What is a relationship built on? Trust. And people buy—repeatedly—from brands they trust. But how do you build trust with your customers? The answer is at once simple and complex. Get the full story. |
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| A Marketers Guide to e-Newsletter Publishing Your Roadmap for Visibility and Profit Published by MarketingProfs, this is step-by-step guide that shows you how to create, write, edit, distribute, manage and track electronic newsletters, and convert your readers from casual suspects to paying customers. Now available in our bookstore |
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Randy Siegel The Power of Self-Disclosure Self-disclosure is the hardest piece of the communication puzzle. Yet, it's critical. Why? Get the full story.
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Tig Tillinghast Dear MarketingProfs: Digital Marketing Salaries, and Do US Privacy Laws Apply in Europe? This week: How much do digitial marketers make? Also, how are US privacy laws regarded in the European market? Get the full story. |
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