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Vol. 6 , No. 30     July 24, 2007

 


In this Newsletter:

  1. Six Tricks for Creating Brand-Building, Sales-Ripping Creative Briefs
     
  2. Taking the Fear Out of Customer Advisory Programs
     
  3. Four Essential Tips for Building Quantifiable Marketing Programs
     
  4. PR Persuasion: It's All About the Story—and Positioning
     
  5. Three Key Concepts to Drive More Referrals
     
  6. Value Creation in the Age of Collaboration (Part 3)—David vs. Goliath
     
  7. How to Hire a Marketing Innovator
     

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Six Tricks for Creating Brand-Building, Sales-Ripping Creative Briefs

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Taking the Fear Out of Customer Advisory Programs

Planning and running a customer advisory program may seem daunting at first. But the results are well worth it.

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Four Essential Tips for Building Quantifiable Marketing Programs

Often regarded as a soft science, the ROI of marketing programs can be difficult to measure.

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A Note to Readers

Welcome to 'The Age of Conversation'

In what is being billed as the first-of-its-kind collaboration via the internet, a group of marketers last week published The Age of Conversation, a book that offers advice on ways businesses can engage consumers through conversation – especially, in less chatter, more listening.

Authors are 103 marketing professionals – including me, along with many of the contributors to the MarketingProfs blog – who contributed a single 400-word essay. Contributors hail from 24 states and 10 nations, and were knit together by Drew McLellan, who heads McLellan Marketing Group in Des Moines, Iowa, and Gavin Heaton, Interactive Director of a leading marketing and promotions agencies, Creata, in Sidney, Australia.

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Value Creation in the Age of Collaboration (Part 3)—David vs. Goliath

The Web enables an entirely different way of doing business. Collaboration on a scale previously impossible now occurs on an ongoing basis. Mass sharing ideas globally is easy using wikis and other software.

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How to Hire a Marketing Innovator

So you're looking for an impresario of innovation, a doyenne of the different, a marketing maven.

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