INBOUND ACCELERATOR

Too often, marketers and corporate communications leaders have the tendency to believe that a strategy or campaign has to have a singular goal and focus: either brand awareness or demand gen. One or the other.

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Topics: Branding, Lead Generation, Campaign Planning, Integrated Marketing & PR

When multiple departments involved in a brand’s messaging operate in silos, opportunities are lost because competition—for results, for budget, and for other resources—squeezes out cooperation.

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Topics: Public Relations, Campaign Planning, Integrated Marketing & PR

How many different kinds of content marketing materials did you include in your last B2B marketing campaign? Which channels did you use to reach your target audience?

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Topics: Website, Content Creation, Campaign Planning, Content Strategy

Choosing a name isn’t always easy. Just ask any parent—while some have known what they would name their kids since they were kids themselves, others like a friend of mine almost end up bringing home “Baby Boy Lastname” from the hospital because they just can’t decide.

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Topics: Branding, Campaign Planning

There are many reasons a business blog should be a part of your content marketing strategy. Business blogs improve your website’s SEO and search rankings. They establish authority and thought leadership in your industry. Blogging provides opportunities to engage with readers and can be used in conjunction with other marketing strategies for lead generation. (More on why you should, or shouldn’t, use a business blog: 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Have a Business Blog.)

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Topics: Business Blog, Planning, Campaign Planning

As I recently reviewed our website, blog and lead generation metrics, it was interesting to note how most of our most popular downloads from the Inbound Marketing Learning Library are templates. It’s easy to see that our readers are looking for tools that can make their marketing and PR tasks simpler, and I’m glad we are able to provide those tools.

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Topics: Strategy, Campaign Planning

 

Effective marketing and PR strategies need to be designed, from the beginning, to reach prospects and customers at every point along the buyers’ journey. If you miss stages along the way, you’ll know it because conversion rates will suffer.

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Topics: Campaign Planning, Integrated Marketing & PR, Content Strategy, Video blog posts

Successful content or inbound marketing requires working from an established strategy to create comprehensive campaigns that touch on all content distribution channels to reach the most potential sales prospects and engage them in ways that generate qualified leads and closed deals.

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Topics: Planning, Public Relations, Content, Campaign Planning, Integrated Marketing & PR, Video blog posts

If you have been following my 15 Lessons From 15 Years series of blog posts (this is post #11), you may remember that when I discussed the key steps to successful marketing in the healthcare IT arena, I said that integrating PR and marketing was essential.

In fact, it is so important for all industries, not just that one, that I felt I needed to revisit the concept and walk you through the steps we follow to ensure that all communications create a cohesive message and focus on reaching the same corporate goals.

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Topics: Sales Funnel, Public Relations, Content Creation, Campaign Planning, Marketing Lessons, Integrated Marketing & PR, Thought Leadership

In my last two articles in this series of lessons in marketing, I’ve talked about the importance of trust when dealing with finances and money, and the importance of understanding the science when marketing in the life sciences industry. Healthcare IT is another field in which decisions are made slowly, based on data and authority.

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Topics: Healthcare Marketing, Campaign Planning, Marketing Lessons