• Four Case Studies: How These (Very Different) B2B Organizations Are Succeeding With Social Media by Christina "CK" Kerley
  Even though B2C companies get the lion's share of coverage about the benefits of social media, B2B organizations of vastly different sizes and industries are making striking gains in employing these technologies to increase their market share and solve revenue ...
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• 11 Tips for Challenging Government-Marketing Myths and Reaching Buyers by Becky Sheetz-Runkle
  Just as selling to government is different from selling to any other industry, marketing to government requires a distinct approach. Although there is no shortage of ways to reach government buyers, some ways are better than others. To help shatter ...
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• Growing Subscription Revenue With Triggered Emails and Online Renewals: How Three Companies Did It by Winston Bowden
  Publishers, membership-based organizations, and anyone who manages subscriptions can benefit from triggered emails by using date-based triggers to remind customers to renew. Automating this process saves time and money. Even more important, using triggered emails can significantly boost your response ...
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• Case Story: Boosting Email-Subscriber Satisfaction by Stephanie Miller
  Sometimes doing a little more for your email subscribers can make a huge difference. Tafford Uniforms of North Wales, Pa., faced a challenge to engage email subscribers because of two common but seemingly incongruent realities.
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• 25 Ways to Build Trust (and Sales!) with Customer Success Stories by Casey Hibbard
  Capturing the experiences of your most successful customers not only boosts your credibility but also educates buyers and shows them the payoff of your solutions. Here are 25 ways to use customer success stories in your sales and marketing to ...
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• 10 High-Impact, Low-Budget Ideas for Marketing in a Down Economy (Part 2) by Jonathan Kranz
  Earlier this month, the author offered five ideas for getting ahead in an economy that's got us down. As promised, here are five more inexpensive (yet powerful!) ideas that can help you and your business come out on top.
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• Customer Success Stories Speed the Sale by Barbara Bix
  Would your prospects be more likely to buy if they knew how others have benefited from your services? If so, maybe it's time to tell them. Better yet, let your current clients do the talking. But make it easy for them ...
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• Six Keys to Writing a Great Case Study by Doug Stern
  "Case study" is really just another way to say "storytelling." The best ones recognize that we all connect on a primal level with anything that begins with "Once upon a time" and ends with "and they lived happily ever after." ...
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• Case Study: The Attraction Advantage—How Mexican Mangos Ripened Sales 13% in Four Months by Jenny Schade
  It's a marketer's dream. Customers are so passionate about your product they actually crave it. In fact, outside of the US, your product is the number-one consumed fruit. However, here's where the dream hits reality. You're in the US, where two-thirds ...
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• The Secret to Creating Compelling Case Studies by Gail Martin
  Case studies are a marketer's secret weapon for creating an emotional link with valuable prospects, because compelling case studies invite prospects to place themselves in the story and imagine the rewards of their own successful outcome. A well-told case study ...
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• Make Every Word Count: Q&A With Jonathan Kranz by Mack Collier
  What's the most common mistake companies make in crafting collateral? What are the keys to creating content that reflects a company's credibility? And how does a company stop talking about itself... and focus on its customers? Here, the author ...
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• Create Compelling Business Stories in Three Simple Steps by Jonathan Kranz
  Stories aren't just for campfires and school children. They're a powerful way for businesses to communicate their value, to create an emotional hook that sticks. Nordstrom's and HP have used them effectively to convey outstanding customer service (the former) and ...
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• Six Keys to Lead-Generation Success by Eran Livneh
  Lead generation is an important function, yet one of the least understood and most mismanaged in many organizations. Why is that so, and what can you do to put in place a best-in-class lead generation program? Here are six keys to ...
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• Transforming a 'Use Case' Into a Sales Tool by Laura Patterson
  A use case, often created for product development, is commonly used to capture functional requirements. A use case provides one or more scenarios for how a solution/system/product/service achieves a specific business goal. From this perspective, then, another way to think ...
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• Four Opportunities to Harvest Informal Customer Success Stories by Peter Cohan
  We often complain that we have too few success stories or lack examples in specific verticals, or in specific geographies, or find that the customers' quotes are bland and lack specific metrics of success. Even worse, all success stories age. ...
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• 10 Big Mistakes Marketers Make in Case Studies by Martin Middlewood
  Customer case stories are a powerful way to communicate the value of a company, product, or service. Nobody speaks more loudly for you than your customers. But if that's the case, why do so many customer success stories and case ...
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• IBM Marketing Champion Uses Online Marketing to Boost Divisional Revenue and Share of the SMB Market by Roy Young
  Sandra Zoratti, vice-president of worldwide marketing of the soon-to-be-formed InfoPrint Solutions Company, a Ricoh/IBM joint venture, added interactive marketing to the InfoPrint Solutions Company marketing mix to multiply the reach of the sales force in pursuit of the coveted small ...
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• Five Quick Tips for Creating Conversations Salespeople Will Use by Jody Canavan
  If you're like most marketers, you're probably struggling with the best ways to help your salespeople have more meaningful conversations with customers and prospects. Here are five quick tips for creating scripted conversations to help salespeople more effectively communicate your ...
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• Divide and Conquer: A Case Study of Profitable Market Segmentation by Paul Schwarz
  Well-executed market segmentation quickly identify customer profiles that have a higher likelihood to buy. And once a company has identified that customer profile, it can use that information to target new customers with similar profiles. By targeting these prospects directly, ...
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• B2B Search Engine Optimization: Driving Conversion by Galen DeYoung
  Getting your site to rank high in the search engine results and getting searchers to click through to your site are among the foremost objectives of B2B search engine optimization. But that's just the beginning. You still have to turn ...
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• You Make It Easy to Stay Friends
  When your company generates revenue from annual subscriptions or memberships, renewal rates are critical to your bottom line. To keep them high, Winston Bowden recommends email programs that use date-based ...
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• Case Study as Mirror: Reflect Your Audience's Concerns
  Imagine this scenario: Your engineering team is about to close out a flawlessly executed systems job, and your customer is thrilled because the solution is already performing beyond expectations. ...
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• Get Those Happy Customers Yakkin'
  "[M]any companies hesitate to launch customer case studies because they worry about imposing on their best customers," say Barbara Bix and Olga Taylor in an article at MarketingProfs. "To their ...
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• The Case for Cases
  A premium membership at MarketingProfs includes access to case studies that examine a new story of marketing success each week. A recent example—written by Kimberly Smith—looks at Tripmela, a site ...
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• How a B2C Website's Landing-Page Tests Increased Conversions 67%by BabyCenter
  CASE STUDY: What do you do when the landing page for your most popular search term converts some 30 percent less frequently than your general landing page?
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• How a Small Company Went Global (Without Breaking the Bank)by Lingo24.com
  CASE STUDY: In the age of globalization and the Internet, extending your reach beyond you home market is easier than ever... if you put some strategic thinking behind it.
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• How Domino's Managed a Viral Video Nightmareby Domino's Pizza
  CASE STUDY: What do you do when potentially devastating information about your company goes hyper-viral online, reaching millions of people essentially overnight?
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• How IBM Offset the Impact of a Down Economy on Event Attendanceby IBM
  CASE STUDY: How can you confront today's economic headwinds? See how IBM avoided a looming disaster and reached safe harbor with the help of customers and partners.
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• How Getting Personal Helped Spur Renewals for the Golden State Warriorsby Golden State Warriors
  CASE STUDY: So maybe your organization hasn't had a stellar year. (Really, how many have?) But you still have fans. How can you reach out, in a more personal way, to keep the customers you have?
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• How One Website Doubled Its Ad Revenueby PlanningFamily.com
  CASE STUDY: Even in the midst of a recession, when advertising spend has been drying up, this website doubled its ad revenue. How, exactly? Take a gander...
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• How a New, Low-Cost Offline Channel Generated Surprisingly Stellar Results for Samsungby Samsung Electronics Canada
  CASE STUDY: When your product competes with the iPhone, you have to get creative. Which is just what Samsung did.
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• A Facebook Experiment in Ad Targetingby One Day, One Job
  CASE STUDY: Here's how One Day, One Job—an online company that helps college students find entry-level jobs—grew its Web traffic and visibility via targeted ads on the social network.
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• How Low-Cost Conversation Starters Built Community, Generated Leadsby Open Kernel Labs
  CASE STUDY: How do you build a thousand-strong online community when your entire global audience is just 20,000 people? Easy! (Not really, but it's possible.)
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• How a User-Focused Website Boosted Sales at Jelly Bellyby Jelly Belly Candy Company
  CASE STUDY: How Jelly Belly earned double-digit growth in Web traffic, conversions, and sales. (And you can, too.)
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• How to Spark Fanatical Engagement and Advocacy by Heroically Tapping Into User Interestsby Cisco Systems
  CASE STUDY: Forget the norms. For Cisco Systems, reinvigorating its security line and authenticating its leadership spot meant something truly heroic.
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• Twitter + Coffee = A Delicious Elixir for Customer Acquisition and Salesby Coffee Groundz
  CASE STUDY: The Houston-area coffee shop was just one among many, until it found Twitter. Today, the Coffee Groundz is ground zero among local social-media fans—and sales have soared.
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• A Fresh Way to Use Email as an Interactive Toolby Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp.
  CASE STUDY: Garden Fresh had more than half a million customers on its email list. But it wanted customers to do more than print out coupons. It sought to build customer loyalty by using email as an interactive tool.
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• Reviving the Dead List to Grow Email Revenuesby Perricone MD
  CASE STUDY: All your opt-ins won't stay loyal forever: Interests change, as do expectations about messaging and frequency. Even as your list grows, so will the number of unopened emails. So you should cut off the "dead weight," right? Not so fast, there might still be money to be made.
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• Generating Serious B2B Buzz With Dead Bugs... and Videoby Grasshopper.com
  CASE STUDY: Entrepreneurs, by definition, don't play it too safe. So for a company that serves startups and small businesses, what better way to launch a rebranding campaign and generate buzz than doing something novel and risky—but being wicked smart about it. Which is where the bugs come in.
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• How an Interactive Game Stimulated Product Awareness and Salesby Sony United
  CASE STUDY: To differentiate itself in a crowded consumer-electronics market, Sony Electronics leveraged a bond—James Bond—with sister company Sony Pictures. A Bond-themed interactive game and sweepstakes resulted in 45,000 clickthroughs to product pages—and a 12-15% increase in sales of those products.
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• Tips From Microsoft on Cultivating Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty on a Global Scaleby Microsoft Corporation
  CASE STUDY: With millions of customers in more than 90 countries, Microsoft has its hands full keeping customers satisfied and loyal. But it has found a way to do so—by using Web-monitoring tools, social-media analytics, and the energy of influencers. Read on for valuable insights.
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• Three Small (Biz) Steps to Increased Product & Service Sales, Recession Editionby Paul Hyland Salon & Day Spa
  CASE STUDY: Sales of luxury products and services have been suffering in the current economy—all the more so for small businesses. But email, coupons, and new-client referral and member-rewards programs have helped this small business beat the recession blues. See how.
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• Using Video to Reel in Record High Traffic and Conversionsby Kinaxis
  CASE STUDY: Supply-chain software provider Kinaxis needed to reel in more customers, so it created a comedy video series, which soon became its most popular online content. The videos drew record site traffic and conversions, as well as doubling RSS subscriptions to the company blog within the first month.
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• Harnessing Web 3.0 to Pump Up Brand Preference and Loyaltyby ASUS (North America) and Intel
  CASE STUDY: In this new age of conversation between corporation and consumer, chip-maker Intel and PC-maker ASUS have embraced "crowdsourcing." Allowing consumers to design the ideal PC, they are gaining valuable consumer insight and in the process building not just a PC but customer loyalty.
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• Street Stories: Social Media and the Sales CycleAttendee rating:  - 8/6/2009
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• Telling a Story that Sells: Case Studies with HeartAttendee rating:  - 2/14/2008
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• B2B Web Power: How to Find, Create and Write the Content You Need, FastAttendee rating:  - 9/15/2005
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