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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Inbound Hub | Marketing
As marketers, we typically send and receive hundreds of emails a week. Occasionally, those emails are sent to people we don’t really know that well -- or don't know at all. This is cold outreach, and, for better or for worse, it has its...-
Friday, October 23, 2015 from TechCrunch » SocialMatt: Hey, let’s talk about earnings on CrunchWeek. Megan: Drew: Can you please say that on the show, Megan? ——————– Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsFacebook updates its iOS app to help with battery drain issues, and the social network lets you search through everyone's public posts. Also, no address needed to ship packages with the Shyp app.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media newsJust because you're struggling to keep up with us and the internet doesn't give you the right to say that the way we're learning and socialising is wrong
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaOne politician takes his nation’s highest office, and another announces that he won’t run for his. Larry David is funny as hell — in case you needed a reminder (which you did) — and emojis are steadily taking over all forms of...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsTwitter Inc Chief Executive and co-founder Jack Dorsey said he is giving a third of his stock in the company, about 1 percent, to the employee equity pool. The move, worth $197 million as of July 28, is to "reinvest directly in our...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsTime for your daily dose of trending tickers, the stocks you're following based on your Yahoo Finance ticker searches.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social media$1 trillion of the U.S. GDP is accounted for by 9 tech companies that barely existed 15 years ago: Apple, Amazon, Google, Salesforce, VMware, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, and Zynga. These companies started as startups.
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Sunday, October 25, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaAs companies go digital, many of our job titles are becoming more specialized, difficult to understand and yes, in some cases, absurd.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media | Digital TrendsGoogle's Crisis Info Hub leverages the search giant's technical prowess to provide migrants with crucial data including travel conditions, lodging options, danger warnings, and the all-important registration information. The post...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Growing Social Media
Here are this month’s accounts to follow on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Click the images to follow the featured Twitter and Instagram accounts. For Snapchat, open the app and scan the Snapcode to add the user automatically.... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaIn the past two years, the LGBTQ community in the US has had cause for celebration. And if you live in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, chances are you have witnessed the celebration. Still, most of the world is so far behind,...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from HootSuite Social Media Management
... Read More The post Are Infographics Still Relevant? appeared first on Hootsuite Social Media Management . -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Twitter - News and ReviewsCompany's founder hands a third of his shares, or 1pc of the company, to employees, saying he wanted to 'have a smaller part of something big'
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsFacebook shares lifted Friday to an all-time high, crossing $100 for the first time, during a rally in the technology sector on Wall Street. Shares in Facebook rallied 2.5 percent to close at a record $102.19, to give the world's...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsAmazon, Google and Microsoft all trading at new highs, as the three tech titans get a big lift from the cloud. Plus, Facebook fires back at Google and Twitter by adding more power to its search tools. And Skechers shares get crushed.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from TechCrunch » SocialAnother big change for DataSift — the UK startup that applies analytics to social network data firehoses to surface trends, which had a notable break up with Twitter earlier this year. Nick Halstead, who founded the company...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsChristmas is coming early for what’s left of Twitter’s workforce — those who survived the slashing of 8 percent of the employee base have now been rewarded with a third of CEO Jack Dorsey’s stock, valued at around $200 million. Talk...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from AllFacebook
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaAccording to reports from multiple news sources, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is giving approximately 33% of his Twitter stock, valued at $197 million, back to his employees.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialThis week brought even more evidence that excessive social media use is correlated with mental health problems in children and teenagers, although (as always) it's worth point out that correlation doesn't prove causation.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaThere's a new reason to be careful when updating your Facebook status. As reported on Investors.com, talking about a weekend of debauchery might lower your credit score. The Fair Isaac Corporation (or FICO), a credit rating agency, is...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialNarrative_, a New York-based agency founded by Russell Simmons, and Tricia Clarke-Stone, was named digital and social media agency of record for JCPenney. The agency has created campaigns for brands like Under Armour, DeLeon Tequila,...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsIn a further step to increase its reach, Twitter has expanded its Moments format and introduced Promoted Moments on a trial basis. In a blogpost on Friday, October 23, Twitter announced that it had started testing Promoted Moments in the...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from MarketingProfs Daily: Social MediaThis was a big week for extending your capabilities: Twitter launched native video ads and opened polls to everyone (it's that much easier to check your consumers' pulse), Facebook opened GIFs to brand pages, and Giphy--with perfect...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsAs drones become part of business, a host of questions have emerged about where and how they can be used and regulated. Follow these nine Twitter accounts for the latest in drone news.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaTurns out, though, Zuckerberg’s soft announcement may have just been a head-fake. A couple weeks later, Facebook announced “Reactions,” a set of seven emoticons ranging from “like” to “love” to “sad” to “anger.” And: there’s no...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from TechCrunch » SocialThis has been quite a few past couple of weeks for Twitter, with a new CEO, a renewed double-down promise to developers, love to its employees (after some “tough love” by way of layoffs), Ballmer being in for...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social MediaFacebook has bolstered its search function in a move designed to attack Google's core business and challenge Twitter's news product.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from HootSuite Social Media Management
... Read More The post How a Global Brand Connects with Customers Using Hyperlocal Social appeared first on Hootsuite Social Media Management . -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Ignite Social MediaAs social media sites like Pinterest and Twitter begin to make product purchases as easy as a few clicks, brands […] The post Why Social E-commerce Is a Game Changer for Retailers This Holiday Season appeared first on Ignite Social...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaTwitter's CEO is giving back stock in a rare move that the tax system doesn't seem to recognize. Will company stock grants be replaced by generous CEOs?
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from WebProNews » Social MediaTwitter’s been running a test that allows users to create simple, two-choice polls inside tweets. Now, the company says its rolling the feature out to all users. Any time now, you should get access to Polls. An icon will appear in...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialSo you're ready to start advertising on Instagram? Great. Where do you start? This is new territory for everyone, including display advertising veterans. Here's a strategy to get your brand into the water and swimming in this new, highly...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media | Digital TrendsA language survey, part of a British Airways promotion, determined which accents we can identify and which are the sexiest. It also determined whether Brits or Americans are better at identifying the other side's dialects. The post...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from MarketingProfs Daily: Social MediaSome 38 million users have saved holiday-related pins on Pinterest, according to a recent report from the social network. Read the full article at MarketingProfs
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media | Digital TrendsThousands of professionals on LinkedIn list college degrees and credentials purchased for just hundreds of dollars from educational institutions known as degree mills or diploma mills. The post Thousands of pros on LinkedIn have fake...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaThe “Hotline Bling” video confirms that Drake understands Internet obsession better than any other artist — and is creating work to feed it.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from VentureBeat » social
Facebook has hit a milestone today as its stock price has topped $100 per share in current market trading hours. The company now has a market cap of over $280 billion. Since July 16, Facebook’s stock price had hovered within the... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Social Media newsA look at how some of the worst self portrait photographs could have been better
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Sunday, October 25, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaCurtis Granderson, a teammate, has been posting photos and video clips showing Duda, a quiet slugger who ended a slump with five R.B.I. in Game 4 of the N.L.C.S., at unguarded moments.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Branded3
Today I’m going to talk about Content Groupings and why you should be using them, starting now. What are Content... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Latest articles from Direct Marketing NewsIs email's continued success lulling marketers into remaining in a single-channel world?
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Search Engine JournalYou can track all of your social media traffic, and you can track it for free: all you need are Google Analytics and a little bit of UTM codes. The post The Complete Guide to UTM Codes: How to Track Every Link and All the Traffic From...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineWith more and more visitors arriving at a website “through the side door”, namely via search, social or a referring link, the days of homepage are gone. Say Media’s Lawrence Horne says articles are the new homepage and...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineThe American Customer Satisfaction Index, which looks at various sectors and industries, shows only modest improvement from its inception in 1994 at 74.8 to its current standing of 75.6 for the same period in 2014 for overall...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZFrom Google’s new logo to the Tropicana branding debacle, brand marketers can learn a lot about logo design.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Rakuten Marketing Blog
Symposium Toronto is right around the corner and now is your last chance to register for the event. Check out these top three reasons others are attending.
Meet Face to Face Meeting in person is always more productive. Whether you are... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Online Marketing Blog
How to Write a Perfect Blog Post [INFOGRAPHIC] – Once upon a time, not too long ago, I wanted to write the perfect blog post. I wanted to write the most shareable, clickable, readable, memorable post that I could. But how? The... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from HubSpot Sales Blog
There are a lot of different ideas out there about how to get the most out of each sales rep on your team. But regardless of the specific tactics sales teams adhere to, every sales process has one thing in common: Goals. Most every sales... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Magazine Home RSS FeedAs Channel 4's expose into the dire working conditions of migrants packing fruit for supermarkets shows, retailers need to go further than "we are investigating", to stamp out these practices, argues Anthony Edwards, director of strategy...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Digital Marketing Blog by AdobeData-driven marketing is shaping the way we do business, enabling marketers to deliver sky-high consumer-centric experiences that benefit everyone. But where’s DDM heading—and how can brands start integrating those trends today? The post...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Practical EcommerceShoppers will be looking for discounts on holiday items in the next few weeks. If designed right, a promo code can offer the discounts shoppers ...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Search Engine JournalIn this episode of Marketing Nerds, SEJ's Kelsey Jones and Danielle Antosz talk about long form content and how it can benefit your business. The post New #MarketingNerds Podcast: Why Ebooks, White Papers and Other Long Form Content can...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Forbes - Sales & MarketingCustomers are loyal to their own success, instead of a brand or product. Help them achieve success and your company will grow.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZBrands can use consumer expectations to dictate campaign strategy. Here's how targeting with special promotions can help marketers gain a competitive edge during the holiday season.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Latest articles from Direct Marketing NewsMost professionals agree that social helps their marketing take flight.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Inbound Hub | Marketing
Between the changing leaves, pumpkin spice everything, and football season, fall is here. This also means that the holidays will be here before you know it! As ecommerce marketers head into the busiest time of the year, there are a lot... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Magazine Home RSS FeedMTV will be showcasing backstage shots from the Europe Music Awards through Boomerang, Instagram's new app.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineEverything is Connected Cisco recently projected that the Internet of Things (IoT) is a $14 trillion revenue opportunity, while "Gartner estimates that, by 2020, there will be 25 billion connected things." Clearly, smart, connected...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Forbes - Sales & MarketingA Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Ajaz Ahmed, Founder and CEO, AKQA. AKQA is a global, 2,000+ person digital agency that specializes in creating digital services and products. Yet...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Mobile Marketing Watch
The following is a guest contributed post from Kim Staflund, the founder and publisher at Polished Publishing Group (PPG). What an amazing world we live in nowadays. You can quite easily promote yourself and your business without leaving... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from MarketingProfs DailyThis was a big week for extending your capabilities: Twitter launched native video ads and opened polls to everyone (it's that much easier to check your consumers' pulse), Facebook opened GIFs to brand pages, and Giphy--with perfect...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Inbound Hub | MarketingAs marketers, we typically send and receive hundreds of emails a week. Occasionally, those emails are sent to people we don’t really know that well -- or don't know at all. This is cold outreach, and, for better or for worse, it has its...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing WeekBritish companies are increasingly turning to marketers when it comes to filling the top job, with 21% of all FTSE 100 CEOs now coming from a sales or marketing background.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Week
The heart of the Vestel business is our factory. Based in Manisa near Istanbul, Turkey, it produces approximately 21% of Europe’s flatscreen TVs and a huge proportion of other household items such as washing machines and dishwashers. -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from News
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Mobile Marketing Watch
According to the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), a majority of advertisers (78 percent) have already leveraged some form of advanced TV in their marketing efforts — and 70 percent of advertisers anticipate spending more on the... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
Apple chief executive Tim Cook shared a snap of his visit to the Great Wall of China Wednesday — on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, where he maintains an active account. Yes, it is just one picture, but the choice to broadcast it... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing WeekAlphabet, the new parent company of Google, has reported profits up almost 50% to $4.7bn for the third quarter as it credited improvements in its mobile search and video advertising platforms.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Latest articles from Direct Marketing NewsThe University of Wisconsin Athletics department relies on beacons and geo-fencing to enhance fan engagement.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZPeople are instinctively drawn to brands that are considered more authentic than their competitors. How can your brand win?
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Week
From an evening menu served up by Starbucks to Pixar's advice for brands, catch up on all the most important news in marketing this week. -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Magazine Home RSS FeedWhisky brand Glenfiddich partnered with Caribbean vocalist Calma Carmona and the Co-Operative Orchestra Scotland in a 12 month project exploring the effects of live music on single malt.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Branded3
What a week for PR, as brands all over the world celebrated the ‘Back to the Future day’ of October 21st 2015 in... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
VB WEBINAR: That useful little blue dot on your smartphone’s map is like a flame to a moth for location-based marketers. But as I found out from Mike Schneider, VP of marketing at Skyhook, during our webinar “Drive ad revenue... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Forbes - Sales & MarketingThis year, Bill Broadbent and his sister Susan will be giving out edible bugs for Halloween, and they want you to do the same. Yup, you heard right, they want you to give out bugs.
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from News
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from VR Marketing Blog
![New Feature: Email List Segmentation [Phase 2]](http://www.verticalresponse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/contacts_page2.png)
This update allows for contact-based segmentation, which means, you can segment your contact list based on a set of predetermined parameters related to name, phone number, age, custom fields, and more The post New Feature: Email List... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from HubSpot Sales Blog
It's the second-to-last day of the month, and quota is nowhere within sight. As you leave the office for the day, you can't help but feel defeated. What's even the point of showing up tomorrow? Might as well call in sick and take your loss. -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Online Marketing Blog
The bar for great B2B content marketing is being raised since brands have become publishers and no longer need to rely on traditional media sources for exposure. Unfortunately, budgets and resources don’t always match the required... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Mobile Marketing Watch
BlackBerry recently announced that St. Louis County Emergency Management has selected AtHoc, a division of BlackBerry, to provide a “highly secure alerting and personnel accountability solution.” All told, it’s further... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from Modern B2B Marketing | Marketo Blog
Author: Kylie Ora Lobell In this blog, I'll give you four tips for enriching your content. By integrating them into your content marketing strategy, your customers will react positively to your content and show more interest in your... -
Friday, October 23, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineBrand marketers are not taking full advantage of opportunities to execute integrated digital video marketing campaigns. Out of 4,000 advertisers that served in-stream video ads or rich media video ads over a three-year period, only 18%...
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Friday, October 23, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
VB INSIGHT: We’ve tracked nearly $3.8 billion in funding, acquisitions, and IPOs for over 80 tech startups and over 250 VCs in Q3 of 2015 and want to share the findings. It’s the most comprehensive data and insights available...
