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Personal Branding Trends for 2012 (Part 2) by William Arruda
Personal-branding expert William Arruda offers six more trends to keep in mind and on top of in 2012 as you continue to build, improve, and polish your own personal brand as a marketer in tune with the times.
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Four Event Marketing Predictions for 2012by Kristin Veach
Tablets, social media, QR codes, and hybrid events all redefined tradeshow and event marketing in 2011, but what will 2012 bring? How can marketers embrace the latest trends to make their events more exciting and engaging?
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Nine Essential Skills for Any Public Relations Professionalby Ford Kanzler, H. Buford Barr
If staying current in today's PR world is important to you, adopt the famous aphorism "Learn as if you were to live forever." This article highlights skills that remain essential—and some new skills you'll need for future PR success.
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10 Tips for Producing Tantalizing Business Video Toursby Cara Barineau
If the term "video tour" makes you think of something you'd find only on a real estate website, think again! Video tours are a great way to market a wide array of products and services—if you do it the right ...
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Three Things Marketers Can Learn From a Law Firm (Yes, a Law Firm) About Creating Awesome Contentby Ann Handley
What can you learn about content marketing from video vignettes of lawyers speaking candidly about their professional philosophies and personal viewpoints? For one, you can humanize your business and show off your personality in a creative, interesting, and wholly unexpected ...
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Snackable Content: The Key to Engagementby Glenn Engler
Whether it's listening to an iTunes 30-second free snippet or grabbing a snack pack of chips, people like to sample. Apply that idea to marketing, and learn why it pays to create consumable, snackable content.
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How to Rebrand a 10-Year-Old Company in Six Weeksby Kathy Saenz
After laying out an 18-month plan for rebranding our 10-year-old company, we learned we had only six weeks to do it. Here is how we shifted from "OMG, they're crazy" mode into high gear, accomplishing the unthinkable in 42 days.
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The Career-Search Game Changer: Your Video Bio by William Arruda, Catharine Fennell
When you strip away the basic requirements expected of marketers—hard skills and experience—what's left? Everything that can't be said in a resume! Learn how to stand out and let your personal brand shine with a video bio.
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Seven SMB Marketing Trends for 2011by Niel Robertson
This will be the year online advertising turns its attention to small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Many SMBs could get overwhelmed by the number of new online marketing tools. Here are seven trends that'll create the biggest opportunity—and confusion—for SMBs ...
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Five B2B Trends in Content, Social Media in 2011by Ann Handley
As an editor and marketer, I think about how to translate marketing ideas into actionable steps. But sometimes it's good to take stock of the bigger picture. Here are some big trends I see shaping B2B marketing in 2011.
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Five Important B2B Marketing Trends in 2011 by Chris Chariton
2011 is here, and that means B2B marketers have just been evaluating plans and allocating budget. Though each company is different, the same five trends will affect them all—and marketers who capitalize on them are better positioned to reach their ...
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Eight Ways to Create Enough Video Content to Last 18 Monthsby Pete Savage
Studies show that online video improves email click-through rates, sales conversions, and search engine rankings; it's no wonder marketers are funneling more budget dollars into this tantalizing medium. Learn eight ways to make your video content last 18 months.
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Personal Branding Trends: The Top 11 for 2011by William Arruda
Staying ahead of personal-branding trends will keep you visible and vital in your marketing career. Learn these 11 personal-branding trends for 2011, and let your brand take center stage.
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Four Affordable Tools That Can Help You Market Your Businessby Steve Adams
Small-business owners often feel the cash-flow pinch, especially when they're starting out. Because their resources are limited, they may feel that their marketing efforts have to be limited as well. Yet what they may not realize is that they already ...
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Four Lingering Myths About Video-Email Marketingby Andy Shore
People are always looking for the next great thing in email marketing, and these days much of the talk involves social-networking integration. But now that email and online media have gotten much more sophisticated, there is one other technology—video, long ...
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Video—Personal Branding's Killer Appby William Arruda
It's hard to stand out. There are myriad other marketing professionals with seemingly similar credentials and experience. Yet differentiation is key to your success. How do you cut through the clutter and get people interested in who you are and ...
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10 Tips for Crowdsourcing Advertising With a Video Contestby Wil Merritt
Conversation marketing. Engagement marketing. Social media. Earned media. Consumer-generated media. User-generated Content. Crowdsourcing. Outsourcing. Co-creation. No matter what you call it, the evolution of the way brands reach and interact with consumers has led to mass experimentation with the alluring, ...
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Un-Advertising: The Power of Testimonial Video in the Post-Advertising Eraby Ted Page
Mad Men-style advertising, based on interrupting entertainment or news, is still with us—but most marketers recognize that it's unsteady on its feet. The reality is that people are tired of being "targeted" with ads and so are inclined to take ...
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Eight Tips for Optimizing YouTube Videos
by Larry KimVideo is 50 times more likely to appear on the first page of Google search results than text. But in order for your intended audience to find your video, you need to optimize it for maximum visibility in Google and ...
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Six Ways B2Bs Can Increase Their Marketing Impact With Mobile
by Christina "CK" KerleyWhen considering mobile marketing for B2B companies, today's marketers are wrestling with some big questions: How can we use mobile to engage our target audience of business professionals? Where do we even begin to integrate mobile media into our B2B ...