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50% of Marketers Feel They Are Not Viewed as Strategic Partners at their Company: Big Data Marketing Global Survey

50% of Marketers Feel They Are Not Viewed as Strategic Partners at their Company:  Big Data Marketing Global Survey | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Data Warehousing juggernaut Teradata surveys over 2200 marketers globally, on their data harnessing strategies, and shares the results.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Great information in the survey - such as 75% of respondents report that they have difficulty in calculating ROI on their data-driven market spend.

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Drive Your Brand: The Definitive B2B Marketer’s Guide to Using Video

Throughout 2012, video marketing for B2B marketers undoubtedly showed an upward trend in both effectiveness and popularity, and most industry observers expect t
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Clearly script out the purpose and the need your video will fill, and go for it!  Video is powerful for B2B firms to tell their story, have happy clients tell their stories and get the message to the marketplace. More video please!

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Stop Pitching Strangers on the Internet!

Stop Pitching Strangers on the Internet! | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
You wouldn’t walk into a crowded party and shout, “ok, who here is the most popular? It’s time for you to tell everyone about ME!”


That’s what cold pitches of influencers is like. It happens all the time.


Instead, you should discover people now (right now!), get to know them over time,enjoy the huge wins that come with paying attention to the best in your field, and then pitch them later once you’re a known and respected entity.


Via Jaana Nyström
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Monotasking Is The New Multitasking

Monotasking Is The New Multitasking | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
How can you get anything done when your tasks turn into competing preoccupations In this age of distraction it's all about monotasking. Here are six...
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Love "Don't tolerate boredom" - find that there is less olerance for wasting time when you are focused on doing only one thing at once!

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7 Ways to Manage Email So It Doesn't Manage You

7 Ways to Manage Email So It Doesn't Manage You | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
I'm always struck by the number of people who complain about the amount of email they receive and how much they despise their inbox -- not because their complaints aren't valid but because my own
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Great points to manage email traffic.  I especially like #1 - send less email!

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Over-Thinking Online Advertising

Over-Thinking Online Advertising | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Sometimes marketers can fall into the trap of over-thinking.  Online advertising is moving at the speed of the attention-span of the audience. Make an intelligent decision and stick with it!

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How to Win Face-Time With Tough Prospects

How to Win Face-Time With Tough Prospects | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Use these strategies to get in front of hard-to-reach potential clients and make a sale.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Use your existing client relationships to refer you into a prospect.

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3 Deadly Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Blog Posts

3 Deadly Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Blog Posts | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
If you want your website content to be taken seriously, steer clear of these missteps.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

I love it when I come across one gigantic paragraph in an article.  One of the biggest turn-offs in reading!

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4 things B2B marketers get wrong on the social web

4 things B2B marketers get wrong on the social web | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
People have turned to the social web in their droves to market themselves and their companies. The very medium that people are using to connect and sell their services also provides all the informa...
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Social media is about sharing and engaging with your audience - not just selling.  Make sure that you have a reason to your posts.

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Tried and True - Promotional Products Still Work

Tried and True - Promotional Products Still Work | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Think hard about your clients. You should know what kind of promotional products will work for them.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Fit the promotional items with your brand image - are you a trendy firm? a traditional firm? a high-tech firm? and find promotional items that fit with who you are.

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17 Essential Content Templates and Checklists

17 Essential Content Templates and Checklists | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
By far, the most popular post we have ever published at the Content Marketing Institute is "10 Must-Have Templates for Content Marketers." To that end, we wanted to provide a refresher on the most ...
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Great tool to plan out your content work flow.

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Awesome Ad Series by O2 - Be More Dog

Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Clever ad series by O2 - the phone company in Europe.  Really makes you smile and remember who did the ad!

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10 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget

10 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Useful strategies to help you maximize your campaigns and save money.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Reuse your advertising for reprints, marketing campaigns, and utilize press releases - some simple ways to get the most out of a marketing dollar.

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10 Possibilities In a World Without Twitter

HubSpot gives you a view into what the world would be like without Twitter in this humorous infographic.
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Trust Is Not An Algorithm: Big Data Are Hot, But They Also Miss A Lot

Trust Is Not An Algorithm: Big Data Are Hot, But They Also Miss A Lot | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

While Big Data can help identify new prospects, there are still opportunities beyond it.  It will still show an incomplete picture if you rely too much - you still need the human interaction to flush out real opportunity and to build relationships.

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Duh: 3 Ways To Be Less Stupid Today

Duh: 3 Ways To Be Less Stupid Today | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Step one: After you finish this article write down what you think of it. A tweet counts
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Ever see the t-shirt, I'm with Stupid?  Wake up!  Stop listening to everyone around you and start thinking for yourself.  Love #3 - Schedule thinking time.  Too often we are just on auto-pilot, going from one task to another and don't take the time to really stop and think.


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How To Be Totally Persuasive, But Not At All Sleazy

How To Be Totally Persuasive, But Not At All Sleazy | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
You don't need to make crazy advances to convince people of your rightness. You just need to find where your and their perspectives align.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Empathy is a stong tool in staying focused on the individual you are trying to persuade, so they can see how you share an interest.

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This Is Your Monday in GIFs

This Is Your Monday in GIFs | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
From the moment your blaring alarm jostles you awake to the moment you fall asleep dreaming of Friday, Monday is a particularly difficult day to love.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

A little humor for the day...

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Chasing The Wrong Solutions

Chasing The Wrong Solutions | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
business problems won't be solved simply by applying old improvement theories or by chasing strategic initiatives to become a social business. Old improvement

Via Lydia's Marketing & Communication Consulting
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Take a fresh look each and every budget season to try new methods of reaching your audience.

Lydia's Marketing & Communication Consulting's curator insight, August 5, 2013 5:36 PM

Recommended read for all, not just B2Bs. "Today’s business problems won’t be solved simply by applying old improvement theories or by chasing strategic initiatives to become a social business."

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Quote for today

"I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else." -- Pablo Picasso
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Brainstorming Session

Brainstorming Session | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Work as a team - trash talking is a quick way to lose trust and confidence in each other.

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The big idea is dead, long live the long idea

The big idea is out. The long idea is in.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

I like the idea that having your brand be a long story, and the touchpoints are chapters in the book that get the audience moving along the path.  Interesting concept.

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How to turn content marketing into content ROI - VentureBeat

How to turn content marketing into content ROI - VentureBeat | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
How to turn content marketing into content ROI
VentureBeat
Content marketing is the latest buzz word on the lips of marketers and for good reason. People are no longer directly contacting vendors to make their buying decisions.
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

Educate and then sell! All marketing should have ROI tied in to the process.

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Mid Year Report 2013: Current Trends in B2B Lead Generation

Mid Year Report 2013: Current Trends in B2B Lead Generation | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
The B2B Marketing Technology Community on LinkedIn conducted this year’s lead generation survey to better understand how new challenges are affecting today’s B2B marketers.

Via Liana Ling
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

I think lead generation needs to be #1 every year for B2B marketing.  If we are not generating new business, we aren't marketing well.

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Executives Try to Control Everything - Not Always a Good Idea

Executives Try to Control Everything - Not Always a Good Idea | OnMarketing: Marketing Tips for Growth | Scoop.it
Jennifer Palmer Farrington's insight:

How many times has a marketer faced this situation? Executives can sometimes miss the point that word-of-mouth marketing, "buzz" can help a firm understand better what services are successful and why, and also the opposite - why something doesn't work.

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