Archive for Marketing

If the ‘guerilla’ suit fits, wear it! Guerilla marketing for small businesses.

Guerilla marketing: it works for small businesses!

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Social media marketing is showing real payoff for small businesses.

How Social Media Marketing is being shown to deliver discernible results for small businesses. Fact!

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How “agencies of the future” are dinosaur bait.

What does the loss of SCJ by DraftFCB say about the “agency of the future” cant?

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Becoming an industry resource and ‘thought leader’ in B2B

Many companies and brands want to jump on the “thought leader” bandwagon, especially in these bold new days of the social Web.  They’re getting sound advice: to be visible, buzzed-about, and viewed as having a positive repute that drives leads and sales, they’ve got to step up and be seen as being at the head [...]

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Some tips on using video in B2B.

Too few companies use video as an effective B2B marketing tool; many don’t even think of it, in fact, except in the context of YouTube or Vimeo.  But any marketer who doesn’t include B2B in their planning is doing their firm or brand a disservice by ignoring or minimizing one of the most effective communications [...]

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Consumer brands are finding out what B2B marketers always knew.

Consumer marketers are picking up on lessons that have been plain as day to B2B marketers, and are being driven there by the new truth of digital and social communications.

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Groupon: innovation that can empower B2B marketers

Groupon offers B2B marketers new means to reaching out to customers and expanding business.

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Facebook and the power of perception

Managing buzz and perception is just as important as the products or services you provide, in building equity and presence!

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The ever-building brand: Star Wars

This augmented reality video on YouTube of TIE Fighters strafing over NYC is just the latest example of how Mr. Lucas is extending his brand — say what you will about the prevalence (or supersaturation?) of the Star Wars franchise, it hasn’t yet shown signs of reaching a point of diminishing returns or consumer fatigue.  [...]

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Social media proven to aid search rankings for B2B marketers

There’s less reason than ever for B2B marketers to hesitate about leveraging social — the results are definitively in.  According to almost half of B2B marketers, using social media aids their search rankings — with the other half split between “neutral” and “don’t know,” according to results posted by B2B Magazine and Business.com.   And [...]

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