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Top Influencers Weigh In: Social Media's (Measurable) Impact on Sales

Top Influencers Weigh In: Social Media's (Measurable) Impact on Sales
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Create the Best Social Media Marketing Plan for Your Business Social media became one of the most basic platforms to engage with present customers as well as reach new clients. Using a social media account for your company is essential. Making a social media marketing plan to reach your small business goals can be tough. Established a GoalExactly what do you plan to completeEvaluate your goal. Here you will be more certain and explain more in depth what your objectives are.Quantify your goals. Who’s your main Audience? Your social media marketing plan shouldn’t be longer than one web page. Exactly what should my personal social media calendar currently have? Produce diverse columnsDateSocial Media Marketing platform (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)Post/ContentEngagement (%)Build a whole month ahead of time.Set the images you are likely to use.What exactly are you likely to write every day? Evaluate your data and your posts. Image resource — geralt, animatedheaven, Photo-Mix, geralt Content Resource — Niume

Content Marketing Statistics and Trends 2017 Although we’re well into 2017 by now, it’s never too late to start working on improving your marketing for this year but also for future. Content marketing has been on the rise for a while and it’s definitely here to stay, as one of the key parts in every online marketing campaign. Content is everywhere around us and it’s one of the rare parts of online marketing that is continuously important. These days when ad blockers are being used every day by millions of people. Traditional online advertising might not get marketers the results they want and expect. If you look at the stats, you can see that online marketers recognized that 75% of them are planning to increase their budget for content marketing in 2017. As for what types of content are popular, marketers predict blogging is the best way to do content marketing in 2017, but anyone who is serious about it should try more than one tactic. Read more marketing and tech news today!

Callbox Solves Software Company’s Marketing Conundrum The Client is known in the cloud-based communications and security software industry in the continental US. It plans to increase its market share by targeting all industries, offering high-availability global communications, collaboration, secured services, and advanced analytics. It asked the help of Callbox in finding interested companies to engage with their services for the long term. The Client wanted Callbox to provide them with a list of accurate contacts and quality appointments with interested prospects whose pain points it can thoroughly address, and who would consider a long-term partnership.Callbox started by updating existing data to improve its quality, and then rolled out the trusted Callbox Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool to automate the other tasks that followed. Find out how Callbox took full advantage of its multi channel marketing program to produce positive results for the The Client and win for itself a new contract.

SEO Isn't Dead. It's Just Different Over the last few years, search engine optimization has become one of the most misunderstood terms in the world of publishing. Ask marketers about SEO and some will probably tell you it’s a chore, a nuisance meant to promote spam. Others might nod vigorously like the term is important, even if they don’t really know why. For those who are still unsure or unconvinced, know this: SEO remains incredibly important. Starting in the late ’90s, publishers and marketers alike started to taint SEO with the ugly of practice of keyword stuffing. To see how keyword stuffing might look on an article page, Google gives an example about humidors: We sell custom cigar humidors. But Google stopped all this by changing their search algorithm so it would penalize content creators who tried to rely on cheap tricks like keyword stuffing by pushing them down search rankings. But as search engine algorithms have gotten more sophisticated, experts say we need to get more sophisticated as well.

The Search Evolution: Link Building to Link Earning Way back 2000 to 2006, SEO was all about exchanging and buying links and directory submissions. As Google aims to provide the best and relevant search results for its users, SEO strategies must conform to certain guidelines. However Google spammers didn’t stop to exploit the algorithm, formulating tricks to manipulate the king of all the search engines. It didn’t take long when manual penalties were passed and had affected many websites. It was just the latter that SEO peeps realized that link building was actually about ‘earning‘ and only those who keep up with the changes stays. A nicely crafted infographic from globe runner illustrates the evolution. Related: How to Make Friends with Search Engines: Tips for Greater Online Visibility and Better IT Sales Leads Aside from search marketing, find other ways to generate IT leads!

5 New (And Effective) Ways To Measure Event ROI Events drive leads for sales and are a powerful networking tool that enables companies and brands to connect with their audiences and clients face to face. At least, that’s what we know. But as any marketer, sales rep and event organizer will tell you, qualifying those collected leads is anything but certain. Why? Because not all leads are created equal, and every individual at your event has their own unique journey to the final sale. According to Statista, only 14% of B2B marketers’ budgets are being allocated for in-person trade shows in 2015. Traditionally most event organizers and sales reps have focused on the data that is generated before and after an event, which gives a good picture of who showed up, but not much else. Here are 5 ways that event marketers can use the data that is being generated before, during, and after their events to create a richer experience for their attendees, while providing insights into the value of their show. 1. 2. 3. Image Source 4. 5. Conclusion

30 Most Important Google Ranking Factors A Beginner Should Know | Unamo Blog Google uses about 200 various factors to rank a site. Apparently. It doesn’t matter how accurate this number is. But here is the catch. If you just launched your site and try to find out what aspects of SEO you should focus on first, here’s a treat for you. On-Page factors: The way your page is optimized has the most profound effect on its rankings. Keyword in the title tag. Site factors: There are certain site-wide factors that can affect your site’s search visibility as well: Sitemap. Off Page factors: When ranking your pages, Google looks at factors outside of your site as well. The number of linking domains. Domain factors: Lastly, your domain can affect your rankings as well. Domain registration length. The following two tabs change content below. Pawel Grabowski is a copywriter and content marketer obsessed with helping SaaS startups attract new users, build engaged audience & drive more signups.

30 Tech Influencers You Should Know by Now Today, there’s a thin line that separates the tech market and commodities in terms of purchasing volume. No wonder vendors are like mushroom sprouting every where. Every new stuff has unique features to brag and to compete with the other. Correlated to this, a few tech savvy and marketing experts had made their honest opinion when reviewing IT products. “My goal is to explore the best that technology has to offer, and share those experiences with the world.” says Lewis Hilsenteger on Inc.com “I hope my reviews and analysis of consumer tech can help shine the spotlight on companies doing things right, and get everyone to step up their game.” says Marques Brownlee on Inc.com Follow these tech influencers on social media and get a heck of their viewpoints towards premier products and devices. Paying attention will somehow refresh IT and Software businesses with tech trends, market competition as well as on how to improve one’s product, after all that’s where the main focus should be.

How Marketing Automation Helps You Outgrow Your Competitors B2B enterprises are focused mainly on one thing: Increase the amount of B2B leads they can generate. But more important than that, they want to make sure these leads can translate to actual sales. This explains why B2B companies across various industries are hard-pressed to find ways to increase their marketing gains. Marketing automation is a new concept. If you belong to a highly contested industry, look no further than marketing automation to streamline how you manage your audience engagement. #1: Efficient lead nurturing Implementing a system to oversee the journey of B2B leads through the sales cycle can be daunting. #2: Shortened sales cycle These help by allowing you to score your leads better so you can have a better view of what they want to hear from you. #3: Accurate and cost-saving marketing Marketing automation also provides B2B vendors power over how much they spend in their marketing campaigns by doing just that: focusing on high-potential leads.

Proof that Email Marketing is Not DEAD | ITSalesLeads For years, the existence of email marketing as an effective lead generation channel has been questioned. It is one of the most debated topic on online marketing forums. While marketing philosophers discuss their views on comment boxes and forum sites, I prefer to present my argument in this post. So is email marketing really dead or alive? The answer is in this analogy: to believe that email marketing is dead is to believe that no business is using emails today. Those who claim of its premature death must have failed to perform the right email strategies to have a successful campaign and though we know that the spotlight is now focused on social media marketing, we can’t obliterate the fact that email marketing usage will never come to the point of obsoleteness. Related: The 4 Worst Things You’ll Do in an Email Marketing Campaign In an article by Daniel Newman, he said that: It’s too soon to contemplate the demise of email marketing. Infographic originally posted on Callbox

Marketing Technology Products: Things You Need to Know It is not always a simple matter marketing technology products. IT firms with ideas to sell have a lot to understand about their industry. Because with the way things are right now, making an impact in the IT services market can take on brutal proportions. Consider the main challenges that presently grip the technology marketing landscape. As the marketplace grows more hypercompetitive than ever before, effective IT marketing becomes absolutely essential. To truly succeed in this highly contested arena, firms may have to bypass several urgent issues. Attracting and developing new business – 63.8% Finding/keeping good people – 42.6% Innovation/new ideas – 29.8% Dealing with a difficult economy/competitive marketplace – 27.7% Dealing with client demands/expectations – 27.7% According to Harr, these challenges are influenced by transformative trends that are currently shaping the way products are promoted. Featured Blog of the Week: 4 Effective Ways to Make your Brand Standout Social media

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