Learn How Timing Matters for an Effective Email Campaign An email campaign may seem to be an outdated form of marketing to you. On the contrary, even in 2022 it is still one of the most effective tools in any marketing team’s plan. It can lead to new lifelong customers and help to grow your bottom line. B2B marketers as well as B2C industries still embrace email marketing. Fifty-nine percent of B2B marketers claim email is their most effective revenue generation channel. Email campaigns boast a 3,800 percent ROI, which make them......
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Gain Visibility While Educating Your Customers Have you ever read an interesting article to only discover that it is an advertorial instead? An advertorial is a cross between an advertisement and editorial content; therefore, the name advertorial. A company sponsors, pays for and often writes it or hires an agency to produce the content. An advertorial can be published in print publications and in digital media. Its goal is to inform prospects about a company’s product while also providing educational content. The words, sponsored content or advertorial, are posted either at the......
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Outsource Marketing Leadership for Long Term Business Success The word, fractional, has been gaining momentum in today’s business world. Investors can purchase fractions of stock or real estate. And, now it is becoming increasingly popular for businesses to hire a fractional executive such as a CMO or chief marketing officer. Savvy business owners realize that a fractional CMO can fulfill a variety of roles at a cost that fits in a company’s current budget. Portrait of a Fractional CMO A fractional CMO is a marketing executive hired to establish or lead your......
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How to Guarantee Your Content Audit is a Screaming Success
Posted by:Lynn Ventimiglia-Lobit
October 28, 2019
in:Blogging, Branding, Content Marketing, E-newsletter, Influencer Marketing, Infographic, Marketing, Marketing Plan, Printed Materials, Sales & Marketing, Social Media, Video Marketing, white paper
A Step-by-Step Guide to Take the Fear out of Your Next Content Audit When you hear the word “audit” you probably associate it with adjectives such as scary, time-consuming, and complex. A content audit is no exception. However, instead of classifying it as a dreaded activity, you should view it as an opportunity. It can yield some eye-opening results as demonstrated by Microsoft. This powerhouse company conducted a content audit and discovered that its website had 10 million pages of content, but three million pages had never been visited. By removing the......
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Time to Retool the Marketing Mix One of the key learnings from an introduction to marketing class is the four P’s – product, place, price and promotion. Marketing professor and author, E. Jerome McCarthy, first introduced the four P’s marketing mix in his 1960 book, Basic Marketing: A Managerial Approach. These elements are still key to any marketing strategy today, but they are especially relevant for the marketing of consumer goods. However, according to thought leaders, Richard Ettenson, Eduardo Conrado and Jonathan Knowles, the four P’s can restrict B2B marketers; therefore, they reinterpreted......
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Smart Marketers Have the Future in Mind For many, the U.S. economy is humming along. The unemployment rate is 3.7 percent, the lowest in almost 50 years. Manufacturing is returning to the states and is forecasted to increase faster than the general economy. Home healthcare is the fastest growing sector, projected to add 425,000 new jobs by 2026. With this type of rosy economy, businesses may become over-confident and over-optimistic, often forgetting about the bad times. One of the biggest mistakes companies make during a good economy is reducing their marketing efforts......
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Whether your company is a start-up, mid-size business or a member of the Fortune
500, it is critical that you have a core messaging document. Consistent and effective
messaging is one of the most important marketing components a company will possess
yet it is also one of the most challenging to create. However, it is important that every
employee is “on message” when representing your company at a trade show, briefing
an analyst, attending a client meeting, producing collateral, or engaging in a myriad of
other marketing related activities....
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Exploring the Pros and Cons of Outsourcing vs. In-House Marketing Every business needs marketing. Without it, growth is evasive. However, exactly how you fulfill that need varies. With the unemployment rate reaching historically low levels, hiring new talented marketing personnel may not be so easy. Recently, a potential client told us that he plans to hire a marketing manager who is going to be responsible for their website, content creation, graphics, social media management, strategic direction, events, and the list continued. My colleague told him “Let me know when you find that......
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Security Must be Part of the Event Planning Process Event security and brand protection may seem like opposite concerns for marketers, but the two are very closely related in today’s world. Your big event is about to kick-off. You and your team have been planning diligently for months, maybe even years for this moment. Everything is ready, from the catering and the presentations to the security plan, correct? In today’s world it is crucial that security is included early in the event management process. A security issue can be a nightmare for......
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Why You Should Start Planning for 2018 Today 2018 is less than three months away. That means it is now the time to be thinking about your marketing strategy for the new year. When done well, a marketing plan serves as a great road map to increase sales and overall company success. Here are a few points to consider as you create your 2018 marketing plan: Set Clear Goals Establishing clear goals will allow you to track and measure the success of your marketing plan. Goals should be tied to a defined......
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