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10 Social Media Mistakes Marketers Can’t Help Making
When it comes to social media, marketers can’t help making mistakes. [Check out When Social Media Goes Bad.] 
Here are ten social media mistakes marketers can’t help making because social media differs from the way they’ve always done marketing. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: LeBron James, Marketing, Old Spice
Marketing Versus PR: What’s the Difference
There’s a love-hate relationship between marketing and PR. While both marketing and PR are at their best when used together, many professionals feel that they need to choose one or the other. To frame this conversation, marketing is defined by Dr. Phillip Kotler as “the science and art of exploring, creating, and delivering value to satisfy the needs of a target market at a profit.” By contrast, here’s how PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) defines PR: “[Public relations] helps an organization and its publics adapt mutually to each other. ” Here’s what 11 communications area experts said.
Marketing Needs Big Data – Explained in Plain English [Research]
Looking to improve your digital marketing efficiency? Whether it’s social media, content marketing, mobile, search or email, the answer is two words: Big Data. Big data can make you a marketing star. Big data is all the information required for business intelligence including the mountains of digital footprints created by the explosion of social media, mobile and other forms of digital marketing and engagement. Here’s what ten data experts say about big data along with related research.
2012 Extreme Marketing Predictions
While many marketing experts, myself included, use the beginning of the year to give their predictions for the coming year, they often stay close to the mainstream currents. To get beyond the conventional forecasts, I asked a group of leading marketers across a range of expertise for their most extreme marketing prediction for 2012. Their responses are a quick roundup that could be conveyed on a smartphone. Here are 24 extreme marketing forecasts that take a look inside the minds of some marketing leaders.
Tags: 2012, Angie Schottmuller, Ann Hanley, BL Ochman, Brian Rice, Dave Kerpen, Deborah Weinstein, Dr4Ward, Extreme Marketing Predictions, Greg Jarboe, Heidi Cohen, Jim Siegel, Jim Sterne, Joe Pulizzi, Lisa Buyer, Luke Brinley-Jones, Margie Clayman, Mark Schaefer, Marketing, Matt Blumberg, Michael Pinto, Peggy Fizpatrick, Rebecca Lieb, Ric Dragon, Sally Falkow, Sam Decker
Steve Jobs’s Marketing Lessons
With great sorrow and sense of loss we acknowledge Steve Jobs passing. In his words, “… death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” Yet for us who know him through his products, it’s hard to imagine a world where his creative force won’t be driving the next technological advancement.
Tags: Apple, Marketing, product design, Steve Jobs
34 Ways to Raise Blog Readership Without Social Media
What marketer isn’t looking to expand his reader base? Most bloggers just concentrate their audience building efforts on social media. While this is effective, it overlooks a broad range of opportunities where you’re already connecting with people.
To help you raise your blog readership, here are 34 non-social blog promotion suggestions. Regardless of which options you choose, don’t forget to include a call-to-action!
Tags: Audience, blog reader, Marketing
12 Classic Back-to-School Topics for Blogs and Content Marketing
Labor Day signals a return to school the inevitable “What I Did For My Summer Vacation” composition. Of course, this can be rather painful if you’ve got a bad case of Blank Blog Post Syndrome. To help you, here are twelve classic topics for blogs and content marketing grounded in school-related themes to get your creative juices flowing.
Tags: Lion Brand Yarn, Margie Clayman, Marketing
Listen to the Godfather: Watch Your Competitors
Are you providing opportunities for your competitors without realizing it? Marketers can learn from Sonny Corleone’s illegitimate son, Vincent Mancini, played by Andy Garcia, who says, “Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.” in Godfather III. Here are sixteen major categories of competitive information to collect and analyze to ensure that your competitors don’t get strong on business opportunities that you’ve overlooked.
30 Branding Definitions
Brands have a wide range of uses for businesses, products and individuals in today’s dynamic marketing landscape where publishing and message distribution are no longer limited to media entities. Through the use of social media platforms, every consumer is a publisher and has his own brand to promote. Each brand is competing for time and attention—today’s scarce resources—to break though the message clutter in order to build relationships with their target audience(s). By itself, a brand isn’t a marketing strategy. In their own words, here are thirty (30) branding definitions from marketers and visionary leaders (aka the original Mad Men) to help you understand what branding entails.
Tags: Al Ries, American Marketing Association, Ann Handley, Ashley Friedlein, Augustine Fou, Becky McCray, Brand, Brand strategy, Bryan Eisenberg, Cheryl Burgess, Dave Kerpen, David Meerman Scott, David Ogilvy, Donna Antonucci, Gini Dietrich, Heidi Cohen, Jay Baer, Jeffrey Harmon, Jim Siegel, Josh Moritz, Leo BUrnett, Lester Wunderman, Lisa Buyer, Lois Geller, Margie Clayman, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Michael Pinto, Neil Feinstein, Paul Biedermann, Phillip Kotler, Rebecca Lieb, Sergio Zyman, Seth Godin
7 Competitors Every Marketer Has
According to Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, “Never hate your enemies — it affects your judgment.” This is useful marketing advise. You must monitor your competitors to be able to develop effective strategies that weaken their ability to attract profitable sales. The hardest part is determining who your competitors are since it’s not always obvious. Here are seven competitors every marketer has.
How Actionable Marketing Stacks Up (against other forms of marketing)
How does actionable marketing compare to other forms of marketing?Actionable marketing refers the ability to persuade prospects, customers and the public to engage with your brand, product and/or firm. These three elements distinguish actionable marketing from other types of marketing. Read further for comparison chart.
Do Your Corporate Communications Miss the Mark?
Today’s corporate communications are complex. They’re no longer just broadcast messages from your organization to your customers and the public. Instead they’reone-to-many, one-to-one or many-to-many. These messages may be distributed via your internal media (such as your website, blog and print communications), third party media (such as television, newspapers and magazines) or user-generated media (such as social media networks). These exchanges may be created and disseminated by different departments and resources without centralized accountability. As a result, your corporate communications may lack a unified perspective, voice and/or branding. Even worse, there may be areas where you’ve no coverage leaving your organization vulnerable in today’s 24/7 always-on world. Here’s a 15 point corporate communications checklist.
