Content is perhaps the most important investment any marketer can make in promoting his or her brand and driving sales. But you need to make your content work a little harder than the stereotypical monarch, shouting out orders and appearing regal. Your content will not work if it is aloof, impartial or positioned as an edict from above.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Make sure the channels that you are pushing are appropriate to the audience member...
Too many B2B marketers and business leaders are focusing on likes, followers and readers rather than engagement, revenue and conversions from marketing.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Figuring out what you want your audience to do should dictate how you put your social media strategy together. If you want someone to click and read a document, direct it to them, not 50K eyeballs...
One of the key areas for CMOs is #5, to bring out the superpowers in others. By cultivating the best talent together in a team you can push forward your firm's agenda quickly, efficiently and creatively.
It's only a matter of time before holiday deals start lapping themselves. Last year, Target kicked off the Christmas shopping season with a holiday ad on October 7th, 79 days before Christmas and 3 weeks before Halloween.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
One of my biggest pet peeves is Christmas ads and decorations before Halloween. I like to enjoy one holiday at a time please!
B2B marketing used to be a business career backwater that lacked the bombast of sales or the glitzy sheen of B2C marketing. Thank goodness that’s changed.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
I too am thankful that B2B marketing is now able to prove itself valuable with tight campaigns, focused content and marketing automation.
To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world's first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all...
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Awesome satirical ad for an agency that does cat videos.
A recent article in BtoB Magazine highlights how marketing to the electronics engineering vertical is changing due to technological innovation and the demands of a more specialized (and time-constrained) workforce.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Guest blogging is an easy way to get in front of the right buyer without spending a lot of money.
Three Experts Speak to the Necessity of Person-to-Person Marketing in the Digital Age In the age of social media, when brand success may be measured by friend and follower counts in the thousands or even millions, it seems almost quaint to think...
Every marketer knows the importance of a compelling brand story, but, it can be a bit tricky when it comes to B2B. The products or services in this realm aren't
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Really great examples of how to make B2B videos entertaining, memorable and educational!
Many brands place far more emphasis on new customer acquisition than on customer retention. Yet it costs five times more to attract a new customer than to retain an existing customer.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Don't make client retention an afterthought. Your marketing campaigns should be dedicated to not only attracting new customers, but keeping the ones you currently have.
How's your first impression with social media marketing? Are you leaving a bad taste in your prospects' mouth? Find out what not to do from Robert M. Caruso
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Stay engaged with your audience and keep your bio up-to-date.
At the heart of this skit is the anxiety around the tremendous power marketers have to influence and change brand perception. Every manager chuckles on occasion about how they could consciously take their brand in an absurd direction (but don’t, of course), in large part no doubt because we all privately fear being the oblivious victim of the kind of blunder that has everyone thinking, “How could they not have seen that coming…”
www.scofieldedit.com Produced by Scofield Editorial, Inc. Casting Agency: Artistic Enterprises Casting Director: Michelle Moore Video Store Customer: David M...
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:
Don't be one of these lame clients with your vendors! Respect the process and what they do.
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