Infographic: The Rise of the Progressive SMB

Part of recognizing the opportunity for marketing is understanding how your customers are using your products and services. Our workforce is dramatically changing in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) segment. If your business serves SMB’s, you have to ensure that the remote work force and collaboration tools are available to fully leverage your products and services. If you’re B2C, understand that work hours are changing and buying habits are changing. While retail outlets serve customers during the day and weekends, ecommerce is handling all of the other hours. If … Continue reading

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Social Marketing ROAD Map Handbook

Based on the ROAD Map methodology, MarketingSherpa’s Social Marketing ROAD Map handbook is a step-by-step guide to mapping your social marketing strategy. It is loaded with research-based insights on proven practices, hands-on worksheets and checklists, and social marketing case studies featuring the real life successes of marketers like you. ROAD is an acronym for the following four elements: Research – Gather intelligence on target audiences, social use and competition Objectives – Define objectives aligned with target audiences and social metrics Actions – Create a social marketing strategy with a tactical … Continue reading

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Video Infographic: Social Media 2013

Erik is back with his latest (4th) installment of his video infographic on social media. If you pay close attention, each version of the video does an incredible job at showing the change that this new media has sweeped the world with. Even the parodies are fantastic. Compare to last year’s Social Media Revolution video and you’ll find a lot more statistics associated with real, monetary interactions between brands and consumers. Erik Qualman is an American author of Socialnomics, Digital Leader and Crisis. He is also an international keynote speaker … Continue reading

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Infographic: The Road to Modern Marketing

I love marketing and everything it represents. In my opinion, marketing is special because it brings together a number of talents and factors: Human behavior – predicting the behavior of humans and understanding their wants and needs that drive that behavior. Creativity – coming up with innovative ideas that are simple and beautiful, addressing people’s appreciation for aesthetics. Analysis – analyzing reams of data to find opportunities for improvement and increased response. Technology – applying technologies to measure, improve and automate marketing efforts. We’re reaching a Golden Age of marketing … Continue reading

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Infographic: The Road to Modern Marketing

I love marketing and everything it represents. In my opinion, marketing is special because it brings together a number of talents and factors: Human behavior – predicting the behavior of humans and understanding their wants and needs that drive that behavior. Creativity – coming up with innovative ideas that are simple and beautiful, addressing people’s appreciation for aesthetics. Analysis – analyzing reams of data to find opportunities for improvement and increased response. Technology – applying technologies to measure, improve and automate marketing efforts. We’re reaching a Golden Age of marketing … Continue reading

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Infographic: The Rise of the Second Screen

We’ve written about the future of Social Television, but the fact is that the second screen is already here. Outside of going to the movies, when my television is on at home, I always have a laptop, tablet or my iPhone at the ready. A second screen is natural to me… and it’s becoming mainstream for everyone else, too! Changing Television Advertisements and Product Placement How does this change how we market? Well for one, companies that advertise on television must integrate strategies online. Building out easy to find landing … Continue reading

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Infographic: The Link Acquisition Playbook

As soon as some folks realized that links on external sites could drive up your Google rank, the SEO industry exploded in growth. It was a billion dollar market and Google quickly lost control of providing users with great results. It turned into a contest of who paid for the most backlinks. Thankfully, for deserving marketers, these SEO cheaters have been largely halted. Google algorithm changes have unraveled poorly placed links and they’ve even started penalizing companies where they’re finding unnatural links. Links puchased with the intent of altering or … Continue reading

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Infographic: 5 Steps to Increase Traffic and Convert Leads into Customers

The folks at The Whole Brain Group have released an infographic, What is Inbound Marketing? The best infographics are the ones that take a complex idea and simplify it. This infographic aims to do just that on the topic of inbound marketing. My only criticism of this infographic is that there’s a huge step missing between the writing of the content and getting found… and that’s optimization and promotion. In order to get found, you can’t simply wait for people to find you, you have to be optimizing and promoting … Continue reading

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Infographic: Google Facts

Whether you appreciate them or not, Google owns the playground that marketers must be working in. Whether it’s paid advertising with Google or organic placement in the search engine, you might be underestimating the reach of Google. This infographic from Wordstream puts it all into perspective. From Wordstream’s Google Facts Infographic: Our research for the infographic included over 2,600 AdWords accounts that ran the AdWords Grader in Q3 2012. The accounts in aggregate represented over $250 million in annualized spend. We had accounts with a wide range of spending; some … Continue reading

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Pinfluencer: Marketing and Analytics From Pin to Purchase

Companies have found some incredible results utilizing Pinterest to grow their marketing reach. As with any social platform, Pinterest has its own marketing best practices, campaign opportunities and influencers. Pinfluencer is a marketing and analytics platform that integrates with your site’s analytics to provide you with return on investment data. They’ve also added a new Pinterest promotion platform that enables you to host promotions on Facebook, choose from multiple contest types and track reach and revenue. When a user pins a picture to a Pinterest board, it may be anything … Continue reading

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