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    Are Popover Forms Right for You?
    Although improved browser technology has rendered the popup window nearly obsolete, most of us remember its intrusive horrors. "As a result," writes Mark Brownlow at Email Marketing Reports, "email marketers have been reluctant to use 'in your face' website sign-up forms that in any way resemble those popups of the ... more
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    The Changing Agency/Client Relationship: Glenn Engler Talks to Marketing Smarts [Podcast]
    by Matthew Grant
    Senior-level marketers don't seem to believe their digital partners are adequately extending their service capabilities in the digital age. So how does an agency demonstrate that it "gets" digital? Glenn Engler, CEO of Digital Influence Group, answers that question in this episode of Marketing Smarts. more
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    Why a Silent Customer Can Be Deadly
    Never assume a customer who doesn't complain is a happy customer. According to a Bain & Company survey, major companies typically lose half of their customers over a five-year period. "Notice, it wasn't 'one year' or 'suddenly,'" writes Sean D'Souza at True You Marketing. "Clients have a tipping point. ... more
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    SMBs Missing Email List-Building Opportunities
    Most small-to-midsize businesses have mastered the basics of organic email list-building, making use of Web-based sign-up forms and even offering incentives to encourage subscriptions, but fewer than half use any type of email-to-social collaboration, limiting the potential of cross-channel marketing, according to a study by GetResponse. more
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    Five Tips for Building Brand Fidelity With Tumblr
    Tumblr has become a go-to spot for building social presence. Fashion brands and others are realizing it's a great medium for quickly and easily spreading content—particularly images. Might Tumblr be the engine to boost your social growth in 2012? Depends on how you answer the burning question: Is Tumblr right for ... more
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    Forrester: 'Customer Experience' Roles Gaining Popularity
    Over the past six years, an increasing number of US companies of all sizes have appointed a single executive who leads customer experience efforts across a business unit or the entire company, according to a new report by Forrester Research. more
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    Social Media Trends With Benefits in 2012
    The integration of social media and business has come of age: 38% of CEOs now label it a high priority, and 57% of businesses plan to hike their social media spend in 2012 (Booz Allen/Buddy Media). As the use of social media advances across the business spectrum, Edelman's David Armano has ... more
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    How to Influence the Influencers [Slide Show]
    by Christian Gulliksen
    Getting influencers on your side is a major feat that can help exponentially amplify your message. But how can you win them over? Here is a five-point plan for effectively influencing the influencers. more
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    Three Tips for Effective Feedback-Loop Management
    "If you are a large-volume sender of email, you should be signed up for all the feedback loops that are available," writes Tom Sather in an article at MarketingProfs. "Why? Because feedback loops are a great way to … increase customer satisfaction, and reduce sender questions and end-user complaints." While ... more
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    Maximizing Your Brand Presence on Google+
    Recently, Google+ granted companies the ability to launch brand pages. Its stated goal in doing so was to help users build relationships with any company they "care about." As Google's SVP-Engineering Vic Gundotra describes it, "behind every page (or storefront, or four-door sedan) is a passionate group of individuals, and ... more
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    The Importance of Relevance: A Cautionary Tale
    "Today I was sad," writes Tara Jacobsen at the Marketing Artfully blog. "I got a message from someone who I like a lot and have been 'friends' with on the Internet for a while." The problem? Unlike the steady stream of relevant content the business friend used to distribute, this ... more
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    Overcome the Status Quo Barrier Like Malcolm Gladwell
    "Malcolm Gladwell sold millions of copies of his book The Tipping Point, and he made millions of dollars on the concept he wrote about," writes Tim Reisterer at MarketingProfs. "But, he didn't discover it." That idea, it turns out, belonged to Morton Grodzins. Likewise, it was K. Anders Ericsson—not Gladwell—who ... more
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    Some Do's and Don'ts of Social Updating
    It's hard to decide what's appropriate for posting on social networks without an etiquette road map—and harder still when you're doing it as a company, not just as yourself. Amalia Agathou of The Next Web understands. To help marketers get the art of social updating right, she has written an article on ... more
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    Four Timeless Email Copywriting Commandments
    Any successful email campaign begins with a good offer. But you won't close the sale or earn the click-through if your copy doesn't do its job. For instance: Are you discussing features without explaining benefits? Or placing your call to action "below the fold" where subscribers won't see it unless ... more
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    Top 12 Customer Loyalty Trends for 2012 [Slide Show]
    Customer loyalty is critical for driving sustainable business growth, but retaining customers remains a challenge for many businesses. To improve your customer loyalty strategies, tap into these trends that'll be big in 2012. more
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    How to Avoid Four Deadly Email Program Sins
    "There are a lot of things that can go wrong with email marketing—broken links, typos, unoptimized images—the list goes on," writes Magdalena Georgieva at the HubSpot blog. But on the other hand, she notes, marketers shouldn't focus so intently on small technical details that they lose sight of the big ... more
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    What Marketers Don't Get About Social Media Audiences
    There appears to be a disconnect between what marketers think consumers want from social media and what consumers actually want: Most senior marketers say consumers "want to be heard," but consumers say they want exclusive offers in exchange for interaction, according to a report by the CMO Council. more
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    Social Marketing Going Mainstream, but Experimenting Is Still Key
    Brand managers are split on the current state of social marketing in their organizations: 50.8% say marketing via social media is already mainstream or will become so by the end of 2012, but nearly an equal proportion (49.2%) say social marketing will likely still be characterized by continued experimentation by ... more
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    Corporate Marketers Shifting Spend to Branded Content
    More than three-quarters of US corporate marketers say they are aggressively (16%) or moderately (62%) shifting spending from traditional marketing to branded-content marketing, according to a study by the Custom Content Council (CCC) in partnership with ContentWise. more
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    Do Your Product Suggestions Delight or Alienate Subscribers?
    We all know purchase confirmations are a great place to suggest complementary products and generate additional sales. But how well does your system work? In a post at the Bronto blog, Fawn Young recounts the story of an online retailer that had the right idea—but the wrong content. After purchasing a ... more
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    How to Nurture Brand Advocates and Keep Them Loyal
    John McTigue believes the number of brand advocates you have is more useful than more-easily-accessible metrics like "How many hits?" or "How many likes?" for online marketing. Advocates are those folks who love your brand so much they evangelize it for you, provide detailed feedback, and are often the first ... more
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    Why Targeting Matters
    In a post at her eponymous blog, Elaine Fogel asks how frequently you receive email with content that has no relevance. "I'll bet it's a lot," she says with certainty. "Let's just look at the ones you receive from companies and organizations that have your permission to send communications. Count ... more
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    'Tis the Season for Holiday Branding
    Bored with the usual "Seasons Greetings" client postcard? Use a bit of holiday spirit to warm up your social campaigns! Meghan Gargan has made a list of do's and don'ts for sending social holiday greetings with panache. "While you should capture the magic and merriment of this time of year, ... more
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    How Would You Register Existing Subscribers For a New Newsletter?
    When subscribers are receiving your general newsletter, what's the best way to get them registered for a newly launched supplement that focuses on a more specific topic? In a post at Email Karma, Matt Vernhout examines the pros and cons of just such an outreach from Beyond the Rack: "To keep you ... more
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    Are You Ready for the Holidays?
    "When the weather is warm, the sun is shining and kids are out of school, I think about … the winter holidays," writes Kelly Glass at the Affinity Express blog. Preparing your holiday strategy months in advance might seem like overkill to many small businesses. But it's an effective way ... more

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  • Content Machine: The Street Guide to Building a Successful Content Marketing Program in 7 Weeks
    MarketingProfs' 30-page How-To Guide, CONTENT MACHINE: The Street Guide to Building a Successful Content Marketing Program in 7 Weeks, provides a week-by-week agenda for launching your content marketing program using a strategic, systematic process.
  • Influencer Marketing Success Stories
    Influencer Marketing Success Stories features 13 companies that have leveraged the influence of outspoken opinion-makers and ordinary online reviewers to achieve their marketing objectives. With examples including Forbes Digital and Virgin America, this new Case Study Collection will show you how use influencer to boost brand awareness, introduce new products, increase sales, and more.
  • Research Spotlight: Twitter
    A successful Twitter program requires extensive research on whether your audience is there, what everyone is interested in, and what they're doing. Lucky for you, MarketingProfs has done the work for Research Spotlight: Twitter. Download it now to access close to 70 pages of Twitter research from 30 unique sources.
  • Social Media Integration Success Stories
    Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. While these social media tools are all effective on their own, they work best when part of other marketing programs. See how 10 companies have maximized results by integrating social media into traditional marketing efforts.
  • Website Conversion Success Stories
    Many marketers spend too much time and money trying to get people to visit their sites, and not enough boosting the number of sales from the people already visiting. See how 11 companies, including Jelly Belly Candy Company and Kinaxis, are transforming their landing pages, and get great ideas for optimizing your own site to increase sales.
  • Mobile Marketing Success Stories
    Mobile marketing campaigns can be inexpensive, easy to execute, and very profitable. See how 8 B2B and 11 B2C companies are using SMS, mobile websites, mobile ads, Smartphone applications, and Bluetooth marketing to achieve huge results.
  • Facebook Success Stories
    When it comes to social networking sites, Facebook boasts the most loyal visitors on the Web. So it's easy to see why successful brands are embracing it as a platform to connect with customers. Facebook Success Stories gives you the real scoop on how 21 companies, including Adobe and Dunkin' Donuts, are pushing the social media marketing envelope using Facebook's tools and apps.
  • Social Media ROI Success Stories
    Learn how social media is changing the way we market to consumers and businesses, and how 11 companies are measuring and monitoring the success of their social media campaigns.
  • Customer-Centric Innovation: How Companies Engage Customers in Product Development and Radical Innovation
    Engaging your customers can help increase satisfaction, loyalty, and brand awareness. This research report will help you understand the role of customers in product development.
  • Email Success Stories: How 11 companies are pushing the (electronic) envelope
    Propel your email marketing efforts beyond the subject line. Read Email Success Stories: How 11 companies are pushing the (electronic) envelope to learn how to convert your emails into money-making machines.
  • Twitter Success Stories: How 11 Companies are Achieving Their Marketing Objectives—140 Characters at a Time
    Twitter’s brief tweets let you communicate with friends and family. But did you know that those 140 characters can also build your business? Read Twitter Success Stories: How 11 companies are achieving their marketing objectives, 140 characters at a time.
  • The Obama Playbook: How Digital Marketing and Social Media Won the Election
    Want to create a veritable army of customer-advocates to champion your brand? The Obama Playbook: How Digital Marketing and Social Media Won the Election shows you how the Obama campaign masterfully used new media to build awareness, engage prospects, and start a movement. It takes you step-by-step through the new media strategies of the campaign and provides actionable guidance on how you can modify each to benefit your business. Both entertaining and useful, it's an invaluable resource for the savvy marketer who wants to take full advantage of the amazing powers of new media.
  • Web 2.0 Marketing Guide
    Here's a straight shooting guide on how Web 2.0 can help you grow your business
  • E-Newsletter How-To Guide
    The e-newsletter has become ubiquitous. Almost a dime a dozen. How do you make yours not only stand out in the inbox, but make a positive impact on your bottom line? This guide will show you how.
  • SWOT Analysis How-To Guide
    This comprehensive, step-by-step how-to guide will help you assess the position in the market of your product or firm, by identifying the product's Strengths and Weaknesses, by considering the potential Opportunities the product has in the marketingplace, and by assessing the potential Threats posed by either the competition or the marketplace.

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