November, 2014

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Swag, Tchotchke, Bauble: 7 Things To Consider For Event Giveaways

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Michael Gerard Earlier this year I attended Content Marketing World in Cleveland, Ohio representing Curata as its CMO and hoping to learn best practices in content marketing from other marketers. That said, I also had a special mission assigned to me by three very important people–my children. I needed to bring back the best tchotchkes that the event had to offer.

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The Top 200 Content Marketing Brands And Influencers

Marketing Insider Group

'One of the biggest questions buyers ask in their online journey from awareness, to consideration, to selection is “who is influential?” on the topic. It is human nature to look for validation, expert advice and insights from those who understand a topic and seem to know what they are talking about. This is true in just about any major decision, including who we buy from.

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How to Build Your Marketing Hourglass

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Build Your Marketing Hourglass written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. This post is one in a series of tips designed to guide small business owners through the challenges of today’s startup environment and is sponsored by Canon MAXIFY – the printer lineup designed to help small business owners increase productivity so that they can focus on everything else that matters.

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Perfecting the Art & Science of Engagement Marketing at Panasonic

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Shyna Zhang When I think of Panasonic, I think about the TVs, cameras, camcorders, and headphones that fly off of Black Friday shelves. If you have the same impression, you’d be just as surprised as I to learn that over 70% of Panasonic’s revenue stream actually comes from their B2B business – selling automotive & industrial systems, high end projectors, electric batteries, inflight entertainment systems, etc.

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Why B2B Growth Needs a Co-Marketing Strategy

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Struggling to grow your B2B brand in an overcrowded market? Discover how partner marketing can transform your strategy, unlocking new opportunities for lead generation and ROI. What you'll gain: Craft collaborative campaigns that minimize conflicts and maximize ROI. Harness automation to streamline partner marketing efforts. Learn to gain and retain partner mind share with proven strategies.

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4 Things You Can Learn From Non-Profit Social Media Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Shanna Cook Many brand marketers at for-profit companies are accustomed to working with a large marketing budgets that fund their vast array of marketing activities from events, to syndicated content to paid social media advertising. But not everyone has that luxury, and I’m inspired by how non-profits, often with limited budgets, use social media to drive successful campaigns.

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7 Questions to Ask Before Creating a Video Campaign

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Colin Osing If you’re a digital marketer who is somewhat new to video marketing, you can take some comfort in the words that follow. First of all, you’re not alone! While 52 million US adults watch professional video content every month, online video marketing is still largely viewed as the new kid on the digital marketing block. However, setting up a video campaign doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Events for Everyone! How Industry Conferences Shape Your Organization

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen In just a couple days, the industry’s top digital marketers, advertisers and technology enthusiasts from around the world will come together at The Javits Center in New York City to connect, learn, network at ad:tech New York 2014. If you’re looking for an event to reboot your creativity and get you up to speed on market changes, check out ad:tech, where CAKE’s President, Santi Pierini and Marketo’s Sr.

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[Infographic] The 3 Rs of Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Ellen Gomes Every content marketer knows about the investment it takes to create awesome content. We’re not just talking about time and money, but the blood, sweat and tears it takes to create an amazing piece of content — from ideation to completion. So you know that after you’ve traveled that path, and created great content you don’t really want it to fall flat, like a soda left out on the counter.

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Innovation in Marketing: A 2014 Survey Report

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Raymond Coppinger In 2014, innovation was the central focus of our Marketing Nation Summit and the subsequent roadshow tour, which came to a spectacular end in Sydney. The theme certainly resonated with marketers in cities across North America, Europe and Asia as they came out in great numbers to catch the wave of inspiration and learn from thought leaders in the field, and their marketing peers.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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How To Build Your Marketing Stack

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Lou Pelosi As a marketer, you probably know too well that buying has changed. Today’s self-empowered, self-educating buyer makes major progress down the path to purchase before ever talking to sales, which means that marketing is responsible for more engagement and interaction with buyers than ever before. It also means that marketers need to stay educated about new channels, evaluate their potential, and understand all of the various marketing technologies and solutions available to he

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The Definitive Guide To Engaging Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Ellen Gomes Content marketing is the process of creating valuable, relevant content for the purpose of attracting, acquiring and engaging your audience. While content marketing can be anything your organization creates to share its story, it only qualifies as content marketing if it aims to drive customer action. Today your buyers and customers are thrust into a crowded market filled with marketing messages – up to 2,900 per day.

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Last Minute Lifts – How to Increase Traffic on Black Friday

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Phillip Chen You’ve most likely been working all year to prepare for Black Friday, with fingers crossed that it will all pay off. It is finally upon us, and here are some last minute ideas and tips to make sure your Black Friday is successful and goes off without a hitch. Be Socially Prepared. Most marketers have already spent their budget on search ads in the weeks leading up to Black Friday.

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[Quiz] Who’s Your Content Marketing Crush?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Lizzy Funk Whether you like to write a blog post here and there, or you get paid to write ebooks all day, every day, we all have a little love for content marketing in our blood. Like most other types of marketing, each person has a different approach that works best for them. Just take a look at some of the top content marketing thought leaders – they each have certain skills that differentiate them from each other, but they are all still considered “grade A” content marketers.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Always Be Improving: The 5 Rules of A/B Testing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Matt Zilli There are two types of marketers in this world: The 2 percent who would happily A/B test all the livelong day, and the 98 percent who emit an audible groan every time the topic gets raised. The latter group — the vast majority of marketers — complains: “I know I should be testing more, but…”. “But it’s hard.” “But it’s time-consuming.

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At The Start Of A New Season, A Play For Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Mike Moeller Just what is a season ticket holder? Does it mean that I am holding a season ticket? Of course it does. But is that the best way to describe a team’s most loyal fan? I think not. And neither does the Detroit Pistons. A couple months ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the CMO for Palace Sports and Entertainment (owners of the Detroit Pistons) at an event we hosted during AdWeek.

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Content Marketing Is The Only Marketing Left

Marketing Insider Group

'This is a quote from Seth Godin after hearing the definition of content marketing back in 2008: Content Marketing is all the marketing left! At the AWeber Ascend Digital Marketing Summit , I shared my view on how the future of marketing is all about content marketing. I talked about how content marketing, storytelling and brand publishing are more than just buzzwords.

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The Content Marketing Word Of The Year?

Marketing Insider Group

'Well if you haven’t heard, Oxford Dictionary has released their annual “ word of the year.” After 2013’s word of the year selfie , the 2014 word of the year is vape. The word is short for vaporize and also comes in verb form (vaping). It means ‘to inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.’ Some of the runner-ups were contactless, (relating to mobile phones and payments) and slacktivism, ( supporting a worthy cause with l

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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The Real Time Marketing Myth – How To Win The Superbowl

Marketing Insider Group

'Ever since Oreo’s famous “dunk in the dark” tweet moment, brands have been dancing to the tune of so-called “real-time marketing.” With each holiday, award ceremony and cultural event, brands have gathered their agencies, PR team and lawyers and made awkward, sad and sometimes pathetic attempts at being “hip,” “in the moment,” and “culturally relevant.” Brand attempts at Real time marketing have faired so poorly that there’

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How True Authority Is Actually Gained

Duct Tape Marketing

'How True Authority Is Actually Gained written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The idea of authority has gotten a great deal of attention in business circles the last few years. People who have amassed lots of fans and follows in social networks are seen to have authority. People who have lots of blog readers or who have carved out some niche of expertise are seen to have authority.

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Using Social Media to Generate Sales Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

'Using Social Media to Generate Sales Leads written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Dawn Ellis – Enjoy! photo credit: Free Images. If you’re looking to generate sale leads successfully, you need to go where the people are.

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How to Future-Proof your Company’s Social Media Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Future-Proof your Company’s Social Media Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Reagan Cook – Enjoy! Remember when Snapchat was simply known as that weird “sexting” app? I do. I was the first person in my circle of friends to download the app.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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How to Make Your Competition Irrelevant

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Make Your Competition Irrelevant written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: jenny downing via photopin cc. Lots of companies come to me for advice on ways to grow their businesses massively. I start off by telling most that if you have big growth objectives you better have big marketing vision.

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Telling the Story of You

Duct Tape Marketing

'Telling the Story of You written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Judy Carter. photo credit: Will Tull via photopin cc. Storytelling in business is a hot topic. Marketers, leaders and brand builders are all encouraged to create narratives around their business, culture and even products.

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3 Super Simple Ways to Make Buffer Even More Useful

Duct Tape Marketing

'3 Super Simple Ways to Make Buffer Even More Useful written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I’ve long since professed my love of the BufferApp. But it’s been a while since I’ve shared some of the ways I use this tool, so I thought I would add some tips today. (About a year ago my youngest daughter landed a job with Buffer – so take that for what you will as you read!

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How and Why to Conduct a Meaningful Content Audit

Duct Tape Marketing

'How and Why to Conduct a Meaningful Content Audit written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Liz O’Neil Dennison – Enjoy! You’ve probably heard that a content audit is essential for driving engagement and revenue with content.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Be Everywhere: Connecting Social Media to the Real World

Duct Tape Marketing

'Be Everywhere: Connecting Social Media to the Real World written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Jeremy Miller – Enjoy! photo credit: flickr. Social media is a powerful set of tools for marketers to connect with prospects and clients, but social media has its limitations.

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Weekend Favs November Twenty Two

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs November Twenty Two written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting.

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How to Create Buyer Legends

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Create Buyer Legends written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Bryan Eisenberg. photo credit: Anna Fischer via photopin cc. Like many marketers I’ve trumpeted the virtues of something called buyer personas for years. A persona, borrowed from the theater, is a thorough description of a character in a play.