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5 Steps to Create an Outstanding Marketing Plan [Free Templates]

Hubspot Marketing

Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on the budget you'll need to secure for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing you'll encounter over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

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Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

At the same time, you know that social media has changed the marketing landscape : shouting to prospects with endless email offers may produce leads but you’re worried about the longer term implications to your market. So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix? Hold tweetups or tweetchats.

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Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Blogs help deliver information from the company to the consumer. Your statistics back up my thinking!

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How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan

Marketing Insider Group

It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. If you are looking for a more formal approach, check out The Marketing Leadership Council which offers a marketing planning tool called MarkPlan and recently held a series of workshops on marketing planning.

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3 Steps To Make Blogging A Top Priority

Marketing Insider Group

Are blogs an important part of your marketing mix? Blogging should be one of the first thing every marketer considers when starting their marketing plan, when distributing budgets, or when assessing their results. Inbound marketing leads cost 62% less than outbound.

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The Secret To B2B Social Media?

Marketing Insider Group

Share Today I presented on the Focus webinar titled “ The Secrets to B2B Social Media Success Revealed&# where I discussed how to integrate social media into your marketing mix. The bottom line: the question is no longer “Should we?” but rather “How?” we begin to align our organization around the new/old social world.

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7 Common B2B Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Marketing Insider Group

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.