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Analytics & Testing
It’s Time for Your Year-End Marketing Review
It’s that time of year again… when you must put time aside to review your annual marketing plan. Next year may be more important than any year previous with the rapid adoption of social media strategies. Here’s what I recommend collecting: Marketing Spend by Medium – this is actual money paid for external marketing and advertising efforts. Breaking this down…
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Similar Content Different Delivery
Most people instinctively change their communication style when speaking to a child, a close friend, or someone who does not speak English as a native language. Why? Because each group has a different frame of reference, experiences, and relationship with the speaker which will effect their ability to interpret the message. The same is true in your written communication or…
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Content Marketing
You Know You’re a Smippy When…
You know you’re a social media hippy (smippy), when: You start or sign a petition to stop Twitter auto-responses… which won’t actually do anything to stop Twitter auto-responses. You think outsourcing your company blog is some violation of the commandments of blogging. You think a company developing a character on social media sites in order to market their product is…
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You Don’t Know what Marketing is
Have you given much thought to the word Marketing? As with many words, the definition has been distorted and redefined over time. Wikipedia provides the following definition: Marketing is an ongoing process of planning and executing the marketing mix (Product, Price, Place, Promotion often referred to as the 4 Ps) for products, services or ideas to create exchange between individuals…
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Analytics & Testing
Don’t forget online in your offline marketing!
Online consumer behavior is becoming invaluable to online marketers, but has been primarily missed with respect to offline entities. Many companies who have retail stores, as well as online stores, treat the two audiences separately, missing an excellent opportunity to target and track the other. Advanced analytics applications such as WebTrends, Coremetrics, and Omniture have largely been treated as reporting…