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4 Pillars of Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is any marketing delivered via an Internet, mobile or tablet device. Here’s how to organize your plans and related strategies around the four pillars of digital marketing, content, communication, community and commerce.
Tags: Commerce, Communication, Community, content, Digital Marketing, Email, smartphone, Tablet
30 Social Media Definitions
The definition of social media continues to evolve as the platforms and technologies continue to change and expand. Here are thirty social media definitions to help clarify these trends. What would you add to this list?
Tags: Adam Kleinberg, Angie Schottmuller, Ann Handley, Arment Dietrich, Augustine Fou, Barn Raisers, Blue Focus Marketing, Bryan Eisenberg, Cheryl Burgess, Chris Garrett, Clayman Advertising, Content Marketing Institute, Dave Kerpen, Deborah Weinstein, eMetrics, Gini Dietrich, HARO, Heidi Cohen, Howard Greenstein, Jim Sterne, Joe Cothrel, Joe Pulizzi, Lee Odden, Likeable Media, Lisa Buyer, Lithium Technologies, Liz Strauss, Marjorie Clayman, Mark W. Schaefer, Marketing Sciences Consulting Group, MarketingProfs, Mass Relevance, Michelle Chmielewski, Online Marketing Blog, Peter Shankman, Pressfeed, Rebecca Lieb, Riverside Marketing Strategies, Rob Petersen, Sally Fallow, Sam Decker, Sarach Hofstetter, SOBcon, Social Media Club, Strategic Objectives, Synthesio, The Buyer Group, Traction, Trey Pennington, Wikipedia
Social Media Contingency Plan: Do You Have One?
As corporate social media usage increases and expands across functions, organizations are hiring social media managers. Here are 5 tips to help you develop a social media contingency plan.
Mobile Marketing: What Are You Waiting For?
Are you always thinking that mobile marketing is going to be the next big thing but maybe you can put off taking action until next year? Given the high growth of web-enabled mobile devices, now’s the time to start your mobile marketing strategy. Here are six basic steps to get your mobile marketing on track.
Social Media Marketing on a Budget
For small businesses and other organizations with limited budgets, social media marketing can be a great equalizer by providing another way of engaging with your target market and the public. Social media marketing on a budget requires thinking through your business and marketing strategy first. Focus your efforts on one form of social media and do it well. Here’s a set of ten questions to help you lay the groundwork and seven options for leveraging social media on a budget.
Tags: budget, Facebook, Flickr, Marketing, Meetup, Online Video, photographs, Social media marketing, Twitter, YouTube
What Is PR?
PR (also known as public relations) continues to evolve as a business art and science. The objective of PR is to craft messages about a product, brand, individual, business, or organization targeted at a variety of one or more chosen publics. Here are 15 points that answer the question What is PR based on input from 31 PR professionals.
Tags: B.L. Ochman, Barbara Kowalski, Beth Harte, Cece Salomon-Lee, Deb Weinstein, Jayme Soulati, Lee Greenhouse, Lee Odden, Lisa Buyer, Lucy Siegel, Mark Burgess, Marla Aaron, Nancy Tamosaitis, PR Definition, PRSA, Public Relations, Richard Reavey, Sally Falkow, Shennandoah Diaz’, Steve Stratz, Sue R.E. Geramian, Susan YOung, Toby Bloomberg
What Marketing Is NOT
My recent post of marketing definitions with contributions from seventy-two different sources generated a lot of discussion around what marketing is. One interesting topic that arose in these discussions was the question of what marketing is NOT. As with art, examining negative space provides a different view of marketing and how it functions within an organization. Here are five definitions of what marketing is NOT.
What Do We Mean When We Say Marketing?
To help us understand what marketing means in today’s evolving media environment, where increasingly connected prospects, customers and the public interact with a broad range of businesses, seventy-two senior marketing executives were asked to define their profession. Here are twelve consistent marketing elements that ran across these seventy-two seemingly divergent marketing definitions. (Here’s the original marketing definitions post.)
How to Create Marketing Personas
Marketing personas are imaginary versions of your prospects, customers and the public that contain in-depth, lifelike character traits including fun names to help develop content and marketing. Personas guide a firm’s marketing and content decisions. To this end, here’s a twelve point checklist to help you develop your firm’s personas.
Tags: Chart, Maslow hierarchy, Persona, persona marketing
72 Marketing Definitions
Marketing comes in a wide variety of flavors based on audience, media platform and business in today’s evolving and dynamic marketplace. Therefore, it’s no surprise that marketers define what they do differently. Inspired by the 31 PR Definitions article, here’s a roundup of seventy-two marketing definitions by experienced practitioners across different specialties.
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Defintiion
Content Marketing Feeds Social Media [Data]
Content marketing is the creation of relevant and useful branded content in one or more formats distributed across owned media, third party media and/or social media, both online and offline, to increase brand awareness, attract and engage prospects, retain existing customers, and expand thought leadership while encouraging further action towards a sale without being promotional. Here are the 5Ws of content marketing.
Tags: content marketing, Definition
20 Blog How-Tos
Mayday is a boat’s distress signal. To celebrate May 1st, here’s a blogging 911 to give you the answers to the top twenty blogging questions. There’s useful blogging how-tos for both beginning and experienced bloggers.