The Anatomy of an Awful Marketing Email Posted by Hannah Fleishman Tue, Jan 29, 2013 @ 08:00 AM How often do you think about junk mail? Probably not too often, because there’s a folder in your email that thinks about it for you, right? But consider this: according to...
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How To Explain The New Marketing To Your CEO
CMO EXCLUSIVES | January 24, 2013 by Tony Quin Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) Board Chair and IQ CEO. If there is one person who needs to see the big picture, clearly it’s your CEO. So here’s an elegantly simple, easy-to-explain model for how all of the new...
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Online Video Killed The Video Star
According to the IHS Screen Digest Television Intelligence Report, U.S. cable subscribers are on pace to lose 3 percent of their subscribers this year, following a now longtime trend among U.S. cable operators–the ninth consecutive year of decline in cable video subscribers, going back to 2004. At the same time,...
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‘Digital marketing’ to become just ‘marketing’ in 2013
Wed, 9 Jan 2013 | By Lara O’Reilly Digital is set to lose its prefix and just be referred to as “marketing” this year as all marketers’ output will become “inherently digital” over the coming months, Forrester predicts. The research company forecasts that digital budgets will become 20 per cent...
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How To Integrate Social Customer Service Into Your Marketing Strategy
You’re spending a significant part of your digital marketing budget on getting fans and followers; your TV spots link to your Facebook page, but what do people see when they get there? Unfortunately for most brands, what they see is you ignoring your customers. ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS: Social media isn’t...
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Video content marketing brings more click-throughs and conversion
Published on November 14, 2012 by Brafton Editorial Video is becoming a powerful marketing tool and disseminator of information, evident in the results of a recent report by Cisco. The company explored a number of ways that video is positively affecting its return on investment (ROI) and other brands should...
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Why 1700 CEOs Are Wrong about Social Media
IBM asked CEOs all over the world what they believe is going to happen with social media for the next three to five years. What they had to say was revealing. “For the first time in my career, I feel old. People in their 20s work and think about this...
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Cause Marketing Matures Into Meaningful Marketing
PUBLICATION: CMO.com Exclusive DATE: November 01, 2012 Jim Andrews, SVP, Content Strategy, IEG In 1984, American Express introduced the concept of cause marketing, permanently changing the dynamic in the relationship between for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations. In the intervening 28 years, change has continued, but in smaller increments. But now we’re...
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The Hidden Power of the Hashtag
By Rosie Taylor Social Media has been around for a bit now and one of its more notable players, Twitter, has brought a slew of new words into business language like tweeting, retweeting, and hashtags. So what’s the hidden power of hashtags and why should you care? Hashtags are used...
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What is the benefit from a strong Brand?
The rationale for building a strong brand lies in the fact that in every corporate valuation the key component of the value of a company is based on its “blue sky value”…its “brand value”. Greater Brand Value = Greater Corporate Market Value. Normally you will find that the average market...
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