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Why You Should Care About Customer Journeys

(CMSWire) A customer journey shows how a customer progresses through buying stages—or emotions, states of mind or sentiments—toward you, your brand, or your product or service. Caring about those customer journeys helps to take a bigger perspective beyond just a transaction or conversion, helps you to focus on various segments and their particular needs, to […]

How to Build Links Without Traditional Content Marketing

(Search Engine Journal) Content marketing is a great way to get links but it’s not the only way to do it. In fact, placing too much emphasis on content can actually distract from what we should be doing most—approaching the unique needs of each client and niche. This author shares five link-building tactics that aren’t […]

Data & Analytics

5 Key Reports for Measuring B2B Marketing

(Search Engine Land) B2B marketers love data, but their biggest challenge is acting on all the data they have to improve their marketing efforts. This article highlights five essential reports for B2B marketers looking for actionable insights. Lots of research, stats and charts here. And once you get the hang hang of marketing analytics, the […]

Digital

Dodge Role in ‘Fast & Furious 6’ Adds the Dart: Video

(Wall Street Journal) Dodge is expanding its role in the “Fast and Furious” franchise to include the SRT Challenger, a vintage Charger Daytona—and the Dart compact economy car. The brand has a video out tied to the upcoming “Fast & Furious 6,” which opens May 24, titled “How to Make Your Car Fast and Furious.” Watch […]

Social

8 Ways to Expand Your Pinterest Presence

(Search Engine Watch) We’ve all heard the impressive stat that 47% of U.S. online consumers have made a purchase based on recommendations from Pinterest. What can marketers do to boost that number and more effectively engage consumers on the site? Pinterest is doing its share by introducing new services for companies like business accounts. Here’s eight […]

Mobile

8 Mobile Apps for Marketers

(Marketing Dive) As marketing professionals progressively spend more time on the road or commuting and the functionality of mobile devices keeps increasing, it makes sense that more work is being performed on mobile devices. To keep things simple, and to keep work effective, mobile app developers have come up with some impressive solutions to common problems of mobile […]

Engagement

Target Builds ‘Dollhouse’ In Grand Central

(Ad Age) The glory of Grand Central Terminal got a little touch of Target this weekend when the retailer built a life-size dollhouse in the middle of the station to promote its Threshold home décor line. There are somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000 products on display in the house. Check it out.

Social

5 Questions to Keep Your Social Campaign on Track

(memeburn) What can you do to make sure you can complete your social media marketing strategy without running out of steam? Here are five questions you can ask yourself to put your social media strategy into perspective and keep your social media campaign on track.

Engagement

Coca-Cola to Stop Marketing to Kids

(Wall Street Journal) Coca-Cola plans to offer low- and no-calorie drinks in every market in the world and put calorie counts on the front of all drinks it sells. It also said it would stop marketing to children under 12 will work to encourage more physical activity programs in every country it operates. Get the […]

Infographic: The 7 Kinds of Digital Marketers

(Optify) This infographic from Optify offers an amusing and educational overview of the digital marketing realm. In it, the company describes seven types of digital marketers, including The Data Whiz (loves testing email campaigns and The E-Artiste (favorite social network is Pinterest).