Content Marketing: Page 172

  • Evergreen Content, Timely Distribution: Harnessing the Power of Social Media Trends

    Content marketing is one of the most successful marketing techniques used by businesses today. The key goal of content marketing is creating content that is valuable, relevant, and consistent. Content marketers' main aim is to attract a targeted audience composed of those who can influence customer action.

    By • March 16, 2015

  • 5 Do's and Dont's for Effective Prospecting

    Don't email contact@ or info@ looking to have a personal conversation. There are plenty of tools to get the actual email address of people so you can address them directly. Anything else makes you seem lazy and impersonal. I also love when people add the postscript "Are you not the right person? Please forward this to the person who is." Could you be any more lazy? Do I get a cut of your commission? Come on.

    By • March 16, 2015

  • It Is Time for a New Take on the Social Command Center

    Marketing executives are excited by the idea of the social command center as a way to organize many social streams into a single view. They envision a room full of interactive, responsive TV screens that show real-time activity across social networks, enabling instantaneous response and engagement with customers.

    By • March 15, 2015

  • Is Your Contact Page A Dead End?

    When someone decides to contact a company, they generally will figure that the contact page will be their best bet. Unfortunately, some contact pages are not so great at actually letting the user contact a real person in the company. Bizjournals just took a look at the contact challenge in Brandon Bruce's post on 6 must-have elements for your website contact page.

    By • March 15, 2015

  • Top 5 Nonprofit Email Newsletter Mistakes

    According to the Nonprofit Communications Trends Report for 2015, nonprofit marketers spend a great deal of time publishing email newsletters. After all, it's one of the most effective ways to stay in touch with supporters.

    By • March 14, 2015

  • 4 Examples of Effective Content Personalization

    Each of these companies has taken into account the types of information or data that their target customers would likely want to find and provided it to them. Amazon provides recommended products, Netflix provides recommended movies, Facebook provides relevant news, and Mapmyrun provides relevant data about your fitness progress.

    By • March 14, 2015

  • The Internet's Evolution to Authenticity: SEO vs Content Marketing

    The word on the "industry" street is that authentic people, and authentic writing, have finally come into vogue. According to Ad Age Magazine, companies (and recruiters alike) have learned from their past experiences in digital marketing and are quickly realizing that the long-lasting Google-lov...

    By • March 13, 2015

  • Creative Integrity

    Far too often when presenting creative concepts and programs to brand and marketing professionals, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the creative integrity of the program. Here are a few tips to help that process.

    By • March 13, 2015

  • Customer Experience Is Your Brand: Adobe Summit Inspirations, Day 1

    How do you differentiate? How do you stand above the crowd? How do you embrace real change? How and when do you disrupt the current status quo? This week I am at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was invited as an Adobe Insider to get a behind the scenes look at how Adobe is driving innovation and empowering their clients and community to change the world with amazing digital experiences.

    By • March 12, 2015

  • 6 Facebook Graph Search Tricks No One Talks About [Tutorial]

    Facebook graph search isn't just one of the most under-leveraged tools on Facebook, but also in the entire social media world as a whole. When used right, it can give you unparalleled insight into your audience as well as your competitors' audiences...if you ask the right questions.

    By • March 12, 2015

  • 20+ Ways to Repurpose Content

    I covered content operations through the lens of the "4Ps of Content Marketing", a framework I had created. I received a lot of questions in response to my comment about taking a piece of content and extending the life and reach of that idea. Due to the interest in this topic (and the audio challenges on my end at the end of our session), I started a list using long-form content, such as a white paper or brochure, as the inspiration. Of course, your options will vary depending on your budget, time and resources.

    By • March 12, 2015

  • Who's Referral Is It Anyway? The Importance of Measuring Content Marketing ROI

    2015 is already turning out to be another exciting, if not challenging year for marketers. Two major consumer trends around mobile devices and social engagement are turning the traditional marketing funnel upside down.

    By • March 12, 2015

  • 5 Ways to Unite Sales and Marketing for Increased Revenues

    Do you need to increase revenues? Companies with strong alignment between marketing and sales achieve 20% revenue growth. Here's how to do it.

    By • March 12, 2015

  • 3 Ways to Maximize Your Marketing Resources

    From two person teams to marketers with $10 million budgets, everyone feels as if they need more resources, but maybe we should focus more energy on figuring out what we can do to make the most of the resources we have. In order to optimize your resources, everyone should complete these 3 steps first: Write down your strategy, define your target personas, and create a promotion strategy.

    By • March 12, 2015

  • Tackling Content Marketing on a Budget

    By • March 12, 2015

  • Focus On Your Customers First, On Your Business Second

    When launching a new small business or working hard to grow an existing one, we can get so caught up in looking for ways to promote our business and bring in revenue, that we can forget one of the most important factors in our short and long-term success: what it means to deliver great customer service.

    By • March 11, 2015

  • 17 Sites to Submit Your Products to for Traffic and Sales

    Finding distribution channels for your products can be tough, especially if you are a new company with a product that no one has ever heard of. In the startup world, there are websites and newsletters like Product Hunt and Betalist that aggregate cool new apps and software on a daily basis and bring in a game-changing amount of new users and customers for those who get listed. It's harder to find anything like this for the e-commerce world, so we set out to compile a list.

    By • March 11, 2015

  • Content Kung-Fu

    If you're not yet familiar with the terms, please step into my Online Marketing Dojo, Grasshopper, and allow me to enlighten you. The terms "To Fu", "Mo Fu" and "Bo Fu" are nothing more than acronyms corresponding to the three main parts of your business funnel: the top, middle and bottom.

    By • March 11, 2015

  • Your Advertising Agency: Soul Mate or Dead Weight?

    It goes without saying that every relationship takes two parties to come together and it's based on both parties' willingness to make it work. The basis of this article however, is about the degree of difficulty to making the relationship work. Here are a few indicators to determine if the branding and advertising agency you have on board really is your business soul mate.

    By • March 11, 2015

  • Loyal Fans, Timely Events and Powerful Positivity: How February's Top Brands Created Social Love

    Do you know if your brand is loved on social? True brand health is based on more than success in one social metric or sheer popularity-there is a big difference between Like and love. To find which brands seeing "love" on social, we went beyond fans and followers to focus on several different social metrics that showcase the reaction to brands across the social web.

    By • March 11, 2015

  • Your Marketing Content Lifecycle: How Well Do You Know It?

    A successful marketing content lifecycle is all about nurturing. Not just with your leads, but your content too. Unfortunately many companies approach their content marketing with a "one and done" approach. This is not how successful marketers garner engagement. It's imperative to understand whe...

    By • March 11, 2015

  • SMT Power Talk: Social Media Reach, Engagement and the Franchise Question

    When it comes to using Hangouts On Air (HOA) to reach a wider audience, Social Media Today has pioneered techniques with our #SMTPowerTalk series. Our Engagement Broadcasting has established a reach basis that even manages to blow the Walking Dead HOA out of the water!

    By • March 11, 2015

  • 50 Shades of Content

    Taking some inspiration from the famous book title that has now premiered in worldwide theaters, I'm taking an original, descriptive look at 50 Shades of Content. Do you actually know just how many shades content has? From bold to macabre to natural, there are so many shades out there among the millions of web pages that exist.

    By • March 11, 2015

  • Personalization: Creepy vs. Brilliant

    The idea of improving engagement with prospects by personalizing their experience has been at the forefront of the marketing landscape for the last few years.

    By • March 10, 2015

  • Taylor Swift Is a Master Marketer and You Can Be, Too

    That's what brands need to take to heart. Loyalty isn't about the immediate fix, or points, or discounts. It's about people. The people who take the time to shop your brand and interact on social - even if they've got a complaint. Focus on the people, get the help of a solid consumer management platform to help you manage the details, and you too can be the next Taylor Swift. Which in this case is a very good thing.

    By • March 10, 2015