SMS often leaves the rest lagging behind in terms of effectiveness as a marketing channel. And yes, it does have a place in B2B Marketing
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SMS often leaves the rest lagging behind in terms of effectiveness as a marketing channel. And yes, it does have a place in B2B Marketing
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An efficient marketing plan defines all the tools and strategies we use to attain revenue related goals. Read here to see the essential elements of any plan
I selected this article from Curatti written by Liaqat Ali Hamiya because it provides insights into how to effectively create a strong marketing plan.
It's important for your business to have an effective marketing plan in addition to your business plan.
Marketing Success Strategies
In order to move your marketing in the right direction you need to have both short-term and long-term goals. I agree that this enables us to know who our target market is and how to best reach them.
Hamiya explains the right steps to take in order to build a successful business marketing plan.
Here's what caught my attention:
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Good blueprint for building an effective marketing plan from Curatti.
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Choosing the right Social Customer Service platform for your business is one of the latest steps of your overall strategy. Learn about the main features.
I selected this article from Curatti written by Paolo Fabrizio because it explains how to choose the right platform to handle customer service through social media.
Interacting with your customers takes attention to all digital channels where they are active.
Establish a Successful Social Customer Service System
Being attentive and involved with your customers is the key to growth and trust in your business. I agree that you can better provide for them by choosing the right management system.
Fabrizio shows you several ways to improve your customer service on social media with the right platform.
Here's what caught my attention:
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Learning to develop b2b buyer personas is essential to building a modern marketing organization. When implemented properly these buyer personas create stronger alignment across your different departments. When developing a buyer persona some of the common traits are appearance, personality, their story, their needs, and their values. The idea behind the strategy is that once you’ve better defined your ideal customer you can […]
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Revisiting business facts: plain and simple.
Groove, a B2B, removed FB page and focused on more productive tools. Groove understands the exact meaning of sanity.
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Use These 5 Web Writing Tips To Crate Trust & Loyalty
1. Use Bullet Points To Introduce Sub-Heads.
2. Short sentences.
3. Small paragraphs.
4. Be Specific.
5. Ask questions & leave room for User Generated Content.
Great copy creates community and your website is about to need COMMUNITY most of all (why we are creating Curagami).
Using anchor text links is life saving on the web. Isn't it?
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This is an excellent infographic, presenting the challenges B2B marketers face at the different stages of the sales cycle.
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Around the social media in 80 Rules...take it one at a time
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84 percent of online shoppers now use social media to seek advice before they make a purchasing decision.
Social media is now large enough to generate nearly twice the marketing leads when compared to direct mail, PPC, telemarketing, and trade shows. In addition, its lead conversion rates are 13 percent more than the average conversion rate.
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I chose this infographic and article from Blackbaud because it helps you go from social media to social business. It was written for non-profits but it definitely applies to any business as well.
By understanding how to evaluate people by their degree of influence and their ability to help change behavior in others can be invaluable to you and your organization.
**It's also important to use this information to understand how you and your organization fit into this mix. They say knowledge is power, once you have a clearer picture, you can shift what you're doing and take your business or cause to the next level for greater results.
Intro:
"Understanding the Value of Your Social Media Influencers: How to Identify and Empower Those Who Can Engage an Entire Community!
(Download the White Paper Today!)"
Here are some highlights:
**Learn how to use the information your consitiuents are sharing to attract more people to your mission, campaign.
**Learn how to analyze your database and assign social scores to engagers that represents their ability to interact with and influence others across their online networks
**Based on the social score you assign to these individuals, you can then segment them into one of four categories, each of which plays a diferent role on social networks, relevant to your business
Here are the categories:
Key Influencers - They have a powerful impact not only the people they know but also others they don't know. Their posts are widely spread and shared by more people than many other people
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Engagers - These people have well-established social networks and are strong influencers of people they know personally
Multichannel Consumers - They enjoy keeping up with social media conent and occasionally participate. Their influence is not a dominent part of their persona
Standard Consumers These engagers read and watc updates more than they create new content or make comments. They are more influenced by family and friends.
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read article and see infographic here: [http://bit.ly/N4a2Km]
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Beth Kanter wrote a very complete and interesting piece in NTEN's latest edition of their quarterly journal for non-profit leaders. You have to download the journal but it's worth it and it's free (you just need to register).
Jan Gordon: I agree with Guillaume, Beth Kanter knows what she's talking about and her article is definitely worth reading.
Guillaume Decugis wrote this commentary:
"It's been fascinating for me to see how non-profits seem to embrace Social Media in general and Content Curation in particular - Beth of course being a key advocate in that move.
The broader take-away that I see for those of us in all sorts of organizations, as independant professionals or SMB-owners is the validation it brings to the model. When tightly-budgeted NPO's embrace a practice as a group, you can bet they're not wasting their scarce resources on a hype. They have to be efficient and as Beth puts it in the article: "Putting content curation into practice is part art form, part science, but mostly about daily practice. You don’t need to do it for hours, but 20 minutes every day will help you develop and hone the skills."
This is precisely where we see the opportunity with curation for professionals: building up a good practice that fits with one's daily routine and that -as Beth puts it - brings great "unexpected benefits".
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Nearly every business in the world has considered using social media for their brand (or at least been told by someone to do so).
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"A social media plan is a deliberate exercise of effort. All of the pieces must fit together, and steps must be taken in consequential order. If not, the plan will not work and the business objectives your company wishes to accomplish would remain unmet."
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I selected this piece was written by Chris Sietsema for convinceandconvert blog because the post plus the infographic lays out a very clear and concise plan to create your content marketing strategy.
**Whether you're creating or curating content, this is something I think is very useful. This is why I rescooped this from my content marketing, social media and beyond topic.
Here are a few highlights from the article:
He compares selecting and producing content to what he calls "bricks" and "feathers".
Bricks are referred to as research reports
**are larger content productions such as research reports, events, white papers .
video series, mobile apps, etc
**have the potential to make a larger splash when executed and promoted correctly.
Feathers are comprised of simple text and photo content published via popular social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, etc.
**Less intensive than bricks from a production budget standpoint, feathers are created consistently to maintain an ongoing stream of communication between a brand and its audience.
The infographic shows you how to discern what content to use and illustrates the how, what, why and when to use it.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering, "Content Marketing, Social Media and Beyond"
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Here's an excerpt:
The Social Media Universe
Perspective is hard to find unless you take the time to sit back, reflect and take the time to view a “Landscape” or “Universe” from a distance.
The larger the view the further back you have to stand to see the depth and breadth of the scenery and ecosystem.
See article and infographics here: [http://bit.ly/zGYnAN]
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This post was written by Jayme Thomason for Content Marketing Institute
I think we're all probably suffering from content marketing overwhelm?
I thought this article had some good ideas to cut the complexity.
Here are a few things that caught my attention:
Traffic sources This tells us from which social media spaces, email campaigns, or websites most of our traffic is coming from.
****Increase your engagement in the ones that are sending the most traffic.
Keywords What words are people using when they find your content in search engines?
****Make sure you are using them in your content on a frequent basis.
Most popular content This will tell you which pages on your website or posts on your blog are getting the most traffic.
****Whatever they are, create more content on those subjects or figure out how to repurpose that content for other uses.
Excerpt:
"If Leonardo Da Vinci was a content marketer today, I think he might say something like,
“Content marketing is only as valuable as the people who consume it deem it to be.” Behind the scenes, our processes can be as complex or as simple as we choose to make them."
Curated by JanLGordon covering "Content Curation, Social Media & Beyond"
Read more:
http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/2011/10/cutting-complexity-of-content-marketing/
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Announced today, Kyoo is a social media aggregator that intelligently finds, indexes and displays social content on any topic.
The business versions of Kyoo allows organizations to aggregate and display content on their own sites, with moderation tools, in a similar fashion.
It features hot topics bubbling up in U.S. News, World News, Business, Science & Tech, Entertainment, Politics, Sports, What’s Viral and Lifestyle sections.
You can browse sections or search for topics of interest.
Each topic page is an amalgamation of topic-related tweets, public Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Delicious bookmarks, and top news stories from Digg and Reddit.
With a broad spectrum of channels, Kyoo provides a real-time, contextual glimpse at what’s happening in the world based on the updates pouring in from social media sites, making it akin to a crowdsourced 24-hour news network.
Kyoo is free to use for consumers, though it does offer a separate business product for companies that starts at $349 per month.
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Announced today, Kyoo is a social media aggregator that intelligently finds, indexes and displays social content on any topic.
The business versions of Kyoo allows organizations to aggregate and display content on their own sites, with moderation tools, in a similar fashion.
It features hot topics bubbling up in U.S. News, World News, Business, Science & Tech, Entertainment, Politics, Sports, What’s Viral and Lifestyle sections.
You can browse sections or search for topics of interest.
Each topic page is an amalgamation of topic-related tweets, public Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Delicious bookmarks, and top news stories from Digg and Reddit.
With a broad spectrum of channels, Kyoo provides a real-time, contextual glimpse at what’s happening in the world based on the updates pouring in from social media sites, making it akin to a crowdsourced 24-hour news network.
Kyoo is free to use for consumers, though it does offer a separate business product for companies that starts at $349 per month.
I selected this article from Curatti written by Orla Forrest because it explains how to run a smart SMS marketing campaign with better results.
You can reach your prospects through specific SMS strategies.
Exploring the Mobile SMS Marketing Method
When a business sends out a marketing text message it can get either get deleted or missed. I agree that your customers will respond as you reach them with the right approach.
Forrest shows you several ways to improve your SMS marketing strategy for more sales.
Here's what caught my attention:
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