How many company sponsored newsletters are regularly read? Since most are promotional content packaged in newsletter form, not many. These, "all about us" newsletters contain news about the marketer’s new products and new sales as well as stories about company personnel, testimonials, and user stories.
The Josh Gordon Group blog
Topics: marketing, newsletters, promotional tool, subscription
User stories: great for sales support, poor for SEO or converting sales leads
Of all the content that companies create for marketing, “user stories” confuse the most. The confusion comes from its extremely uneven performance at different marketing functions.
Topics: content, content marketing, problem solving, marketing, seo, sales, user stories, case studies, content usage
Which content is most persuasive? Free on demand webinar
Topics: webinar, marketing, digital media, marketing effectiveness, marketing content, educational content, BrightTALK, consumer habits, marketing campaigns
This article ran on the Broadcast Engineering magazine website August 8, 2013 as the editor’s pick of the week:
Topics: marketing, metrics, security study, polls, apps, promotional information, security industry, SIA, digital magazines, advertising, trade magazines, print media, educational information
A marketing manager's incomplete guide to sidewalk signs
I love sidewalk signs! They are the purest from of marketing. Write a good one you can literally motivate customers to walk in you door. Where I live in Brooklyn I walk by many every day. Here are some quick marketing reviews of several I've passed recently.
Topics: marketing, Brooklyn, Valentines, humor, marketing plan, motivating customers, marketing effectiveness, Smith St., Super Bowl, sidewalk signs