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Vol. 6 , No. 15     April 10, 2007

 


In this Newsletter:

  1. Key Tune-up Tips to Keep Your Email Campaigns Humming
     
  2. How to Deal With Crisis—and Defend the Brand
     
  3. B2B Demand Generation in the Age of Accountability, Measurability, and Automation
     
  4. 10 Tips for Building a Better Web Site
     
  5. Want Better Sales Copy? Take a Tip From Zig Ziglar
     
  6. Segmentation in a Web 2.0 World—and Beyond
     
  7. Marketing Challenge: Three Ways to Fire up the Team
     

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Key Tune-up Tips to Keep Your Email Campaigns Humming

In this era of blocked images, preview panes, new ISP deliverability rules, and the constant flux in rendering issues associated with Web-based and desktop email clients... a one-size-fits-all email design just won't cut it.

Each email template needs to be "tuned-up"—that is, assessed and configured optimally for each campaign for it to truly deliver. Here are key steps to take, as well as advice for ongoing list and delivery maintenance.

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How to Deal With Crisis—and Defend the Brand

How companies deal with negative experiences is just as important as creating positive experiences.

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Mike Zavershnik
B2B Demand Generation in the Age of Accountability, Measurability, and Automation

Never before have business-to-business (B2B) marketers faced such enormous pressure in their jobs. With competition intensifying and prospective customers becoming increasingly elusive, companies are demanding that marketers deliver measurable results. Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) are now expected to demonstrate the impact of their actions and the return on their investments. The failure of so many marketing executives to rigorously and successfully defend their decisions partly explains why the average tenure of top CMOs is now less than 23 months.

Several factors have dramatically altered the landscape of B2B marketing in recent years, forcing marketing practitioners to rethink their tactics and reinvest their resources to achieve superior outcomes. Here are the top challenges B2B marketing organizations now face, and how to address them.

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10 Tips for Building a Better Web Site

Building Web sites involves three very different kinds of skill—technical, visual, and editorial—and the three must work together, which is why the task is so daunting.

Here are 10 tips for smoothing the process.

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Ernest Nicastro
Want Better Sales Copy? Take a Tip From Zig Ziglar

In his keynotes and recordings, world-class motivational speaker and sales trainer Zig Ziglar often talks about the importance of having meaningful, specific goals. And he'll drive home his point with the rhetorical question, "What would you rather be in life, a meaningful specific or a wandering generality?"

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Segmentation in a Web 2.0 World—and Beyond

In 1964, in the Harvard Business Review, Daniel Yankelovich introduced the concept of "non-demographic" segmentation. By moving past demographics, Yankelovich's goal was to look at things that mattered more—customer usage and adoption patterns. This meant that marketers could craft better messages and develop improved channels to reach them.

While this revolution helped us to understand customer requirements and interests, it has its own limits. In fact, Web 2.0 blows out the Yankelovich model. What's it mean for marketers? And where is this heading?


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Marketing Challenge: Three Ways to Fire up the Team

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