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Is Your Small Business Website A Dinosaur? [Research]
While small businesses are often considered nimble and digitally adapt, the reality is that most SMBs are dinosaurs in terms of their online presence across digital media.
By not keeping up with evolving consumer behavior that’s increasingly mobile-based and socially networked, many of these businesses are missing profitable opportunities because prospects and customers can’t find or contact them the way that they want to—fast and on-the-go via digital and mobile devices. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: small business, SMB, Website
Social Media and Content Marketing: 5 Trust-related Elements Your Marketing Needs
Social media and content marketing require customer trust to help build and extend your 360° brand.
Without trust, customers won’t believe what your brand represents or what you say on your site, on third party sites or on social media. Even worse, they won’t buy from you, regardless of whether you’re a B2B, B2C, not-for-profit or solopreneur.
To this end, Edelman’s 2013 Trust Barometer reveals five trust element marketers must take into account when developing their social media and content marketing plans. Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog analyzes the data.
Tags: Chart, Edelman's 2013 Trust Barometer, Research, Trust
How Social Media and Mobile Change Pricing Strategies
While pricing has always been hard, in today’s social media engaged, mobile connected world, pricing is even more challenging because the changing environment has increased the risks. Here are pricing’s five biggest challenges and thirteen tactics to help handle them. While many of these examples are B2C, the same principles hold for B2B and solopreneur pricing. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
105 Point Checklist to Get 2013 Marketing On Track
Want your 2013 marketing to succeed? Of course you do! (Who doesn’t?) Then follow this 2013 Marketing Guide, written in plain English and broken into 105 easy-to-follow steps.
To get your 2013 marketing on track regardless of whether you work for a B2C, B2B, not-for-profit or you’re a solopreneur, this 105 point checklist is a must-have business tool. It’s useful for specialized marketers including social media, content marketing and mobile.
Tags: 2012, 2013, Brand, marketing persona, Product
7 Marketing Predictions for 2013
The beginning of a new year is a time to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re going with our 2013 marketing plans. Here, in order of importance, are seven marketing predictions for 2013 that apply across many business types. (As a point of comparison, here are 2012’s marketing predictions.)
Tags: content marketing, Email, Mobile, Search, Social Media
2013 Extreme Marketing Predicitions
Before we dive into the ho-hum forecasts of 2013, here are extreme predictions that go beyond the conventional trends of the past few years. The goal is to capture the thinking of marketing experts that can be conveyed via a smartphone. We started this tradition last year with twenty-four experts giving their 2012 predictions. Here are the extreme predictions of nineteen marketing experts, a majority of whom have contributed useful books on the range of marketing topics. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
2012′s Biggest Marketing Break Throughs
2012 was an evolutionary year for marketing. Trends that had been growing outside of the main focus of social media, search and digital moved to the center of marketing driven by the expanded offering and ownership of smartphones, tablets and other content consuming devices. Here’s what stood out for eighteen marketing experts. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Angie Schottmuller, Ann Handly, CC Chapman, content marketing, Daina Middleton, Dave Kerpen, David Berkowitz, Gini Dietrich, Jeff Hansen, Joe Pulizzi, Jon Mandell, Margie Clayman, Michael Stelzner, Mobile, Peter Shankman, Rebecca Lieb, Ric Dragon, Shari Thurow, smartphone, Tablet, Todd Wheatland
2012′s Biggest Marketing Surprises
Regardless of how well you plan, every year has a few surprises that catch you while you weren’t paying attention.
Here is what nineteen experts reveal was their biggest surprise in the marketing sphere this past year.
Top Marketing #FAILs of 2012
While marketing made significant gains in 2012 in terms of social media, content marketing and mobile, not every campaign was a winner. There were notable marketing #FAILs in 2012.
Based on how effectively a marketing campaign’s executed, there’s a range of potential results from excellent to poor. But to fail in today’s always-on, connected social media ecosystem means the marketer is tone deaf to what’s happening in the world or hasn’t focused on the appropriate elements of their marketing plan.
Here’s what seventeen top marketers viewed as the top marketing #FAILs of 2012. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
13 Steps to Create An Effective Promotional Calendar
Here are the thirteen steps to creating an effective promotional calendar. Based on my corporate experience, I recommend developing a promotional calendar as the basis for building your marketing budget and then revising your promotional plan once your budget is finalized. (Here’s how to create your sales budget and here are the costs marketers need to measure.) Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: budget, Promotional Calendar
Smartphones & Tablets: How We Shop Now [Research]
With 115.8 million US smartphone owners and 54.8 million US tablet owners estimated by eMarketer in 2012, how we shop is changing. Using multiple devices, particularly smartphones and tablets, at different steps of the purchase process is an emerging trend.
Tags: eMarketer, Nielsen, shopping, smartphone, Tablet
The Tug of War Between Marketing And PR [Chart]
There’s tug of war between marketing and PR over who owns which functions in today’s ever expanding media marketplace. Let’s look at the differences between marketing and PR when you put them into action in your organization. (Here’s what 11 professionals say about the differences between marketing and PR.) [Chart included] via Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog.
Tags: Branding, Chart, content marketing, Social Media
