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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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Three Caveats for Multicultural Marketing
"Are your campaigns reaching the intended audiences?" asks Darren Megarry at MarketingProfs. "That's a key question facing marketing professionals, as the combined wave of technology, communication access, and spending power ...
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Three Tips for One-to-One Marketing
"[H]ow many of us do one-to-one marketing?" asks Elaine Fogel at MarketingProfs. "I don't mean sending out personalized mass communication. I mean marketing to one person at a time." It ...
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Facebook: Brands Should Target Friends of Fans
Brands that conduct Facebook marketing can gain huge benefits by targeting the friends of their Facebook fans, according to a new report by comScore and Facebook, which also found that ...
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How to Improve the SEO Value of Your Twitter Account [Slide Show]by Daniel Rosenhaus
We have known for some time now that Google and Bing use Twitter as a ranking factor, so it'll pay
to improve the SEO value of your Twitter account and tweets. ...
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Online Video Ad Effectiveness Rivals TV's, Budgets Shifting
Ad agency executives say online video is an increasingly powerful tool to reach audiences and, largely because of video's targeting capabilities, fully six in ten say online video ads are ...
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Three Things You Must Do Before You Increase Email Frequency
Frequency has become an increasingly hot topic for email marketers. A recent article in The New York Times, for instance, reports research results from marketing firm Responsys that show large ...
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Loyalty Programs Boost Email Success
Email campaigns that target loyalty program members are more successful at engaging their audiences, generating higher open rates, transaction levels, and revenue per email, according to a report by Experian ...
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Most Americans Oppose Behaviorally Targeted Ads
Most online adults (61%) say they're aware advertisers use their online browsing history to target ads to them, and roughly two-thirds (67%) say they are opposed to such tactics, even ...
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Three Ways to Identify Your Brand Loyalists
On any email list, there will be three populations," writes Karen Talavera at MarketingProfs. "[T]he people who love you, the people who like you, and the group who are just ...
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One Thing Most Viral Campaigns Know Up Front
As our recessionary hangover drags on, you're probably thinking of evermore-creative ways to engage customers. But Drew McLellan of the Marketing Minute blog offers this caveat: "As you are crafting ...
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How to Build a Content Time Bomb
When we write for company blogs, we tend to focus on timely information that's meant to be read sooner rather than later. But Rohit Bhargava suggests the creation of "content ...
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How Chick-Fil-A's Email Offer Brought Customers Into Stores
In a post at the Bronto blog, Julie Waite says you may know Chick-Fil-A recently introduced a Spicy Chicken Sandwich. "What you may not have heard," she notes, "was that ...
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How to Get Inside Your Target Audience's Head
It's one thing to market to people just like you. But what if you have nothing in common with your target audience? How do you get inside their head? In ...
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One Easy Way to Make Your Emails More Readable
Writing at the Retail Email blog, Chad White offers some interesting facts about the Baby-Boomer generation. First, by 2015, nearly half of the US population will be age 50 or ...
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Four Lessons from Posh Real-Estate Agents
If you're not in the market for luxury real estate, there's a good chance you haven't seen the glossy brochures that Christie's Great Estates and Sotheby's International Realty produce for ...
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Ease Their Separation Anxiety
Conflicting views exist on the desirability of "service separation" for customers, say the authors of a new research report. Service separation occurs when a customer is "absent" from the "production" ...
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Stepping out (of Your Comfort Zone)
It's hard enough to keep up with new technology, so when it comes to selling IT, you might find yourself stuck using familiar tactics, even when business challenges signal otherwise. ...