Marketing Update : visual content, QR codes, email etiquette and Facebook is Throttling Marketers

Now we're on the marketing path to summer, travel, vacations and guess what: back to school! Most marketers are looking at least 6-months to a year ahead. Some, are looking a year or more ahead. Let's take a look at this week's marketing update :
[*] Lights, Camera, Action: 9 Tips for Creating a Compelling Online Video
[*] Proper and Improper Use of QR Codes: 10 Great Examples of Each
[*] The 5 most important elements of your association's brand
[*] Don’t learn email etiquette the hard way - Suzanne Mason
[*] 5 Tips for Working KPIs Into Your Measurement Strategy
[*] Facebook is Throttling Marketers for Their Own Good
[*] You and the Buzzword de Jour: Content Marketing
[*] Creating visual content for social marketing
... and more May 7, 2014

Marketing Update : Mobile Trends, Understand Buyers, LinkedIn Success Secrets, Big Data and more

Ramping up for May and Mother's Day -- a huge opportunity to lock in client loyalty! Don't forget to send in your Mother's Day promos! Let's take a look at this week's marketing update :
[*] Take Advantage of the Biggest Mobile Trends in 2014 to Engage Your Audience
[*] Understand How Buyers Buy: Marketing With the 'Buying Center' Concept
[*] Facebook pulls the rug on business: We will return the favor soon
[*] How to target communications to conference attendees
[*] Eight Secrets of Success With LinkedIn PPC Ads
[*] RFP for Ad Sales? Not Necessarily a Good Idea
[*] Making Sense of Data: What Marketers Can Do
[*] The 16 best lines in marketing
and more! April 29, 2014

Marketing Update : Changing Trends, Rebranding, Marketing Budgets, Effective Video and the perfect email subject line

Let's start fine-tuning our efforts, and learn more so we can be more effective for our clients! Last week got us off to a good start into the spring market push, let's continue on that path! Let's take a look at this week's marketing update :
[*] Seven Trends Changing the Ways Brands Market to Consumers
[*] Rebranding without losing your hard-earned rankings
[*] Infographic: Digital Marketing Budgets Getting a Boost
[*] Roadblocks to Epic Customer Experiences: Marketers
[*] Four Rules for Telling an Effective Video Story
[*] How to craft the perfect email subject line
[*] Make your brand more relatable
and more! April 22, 2014

Marketing Update : March Madness, Spring promos, looking ahead to the future, Twitter tactics

Springtime usually marks the beginning of many marketing and PR campaigns -- it's the biggest time of year for launching promos, second only to the holidays! Let's take a look at this week's marketing update :
[*] 10 Simple Twitter Tactics That Will Get You More Traffic Today
[*] Marketing Lessons From March Madness: Go Deep Young Team!
[*] 3 ways to sabotage your PR pitch (and 3 tips to save it)
[*] Get more links from every piece of content you produce
[*] The Most Commonly Used Email Marketing Tactics
[*] Your Five-Point Mobile Marketing Checklist
[*] The 25 Most Powerful Corporate Brands
[*] 6 key advertising platforms for 2017?
and more! April 18, 2014

Marketing Update : New year, new game, another chance at Marketing, and Advertising success

Don't be fooled by the business doldrums of the winter months! There are real opportunities for January, February and March. Here's our first marketing, public relations and advertising update for the year ... go for it :
* Ask yourself these questions before posting about the news
* Mobile ad spending is through the roof. That’s a big deal.
* Top Tips for Writing Successful SMS Marketing Messages
* 9 steps to effective business emails
* 3 Media Kit Must-Haves
... and more December 30, 2013

Marketing Update : Marketing, Public Relations and Advertising into 2014

Closing out 2013 sets us up to launch our marketing programs for 2014, and it's not a moment too early ... here we go :
* How Social Data Changes Everything We Know About Marketing
* Understanding and utilizing digital marketing
* How to Frame Your Visual Storytelling Strategy
* Are You Posting Without a Plan?
* Stop Losing Leads
... and more December 16, 2013

Marketing Update : infographics, mobile mindsets, digital engagement and more

Mr Ragan brings us back to the basic craft of writing press releases, touch on infographics and finding a new mobile market. Get ready for November ... here we go :
* Study: The state of social marketing — vision, purpose, value drive a new era of digital engagement
* Content Marketing Sweetens the Mix [Infographic]
* Design Emails With a Mobile Mindset: Five Tips
* If content is king, what would be queen?
* Measuring PR: Indicators of quality
* 6 AP Style rules for press releases
* Go Boldly Where Your Members Are
... and more October 28, 2013

Marketing Update : Direct marketing, social media, Infographics and Retargeting

October continues into the holiday season and marketing reaches a fevered pitch. Come on along with our latest marketing update :
* What Content Marketing Means to PR and Traditional Media (and Traditional Journalists, Too)
* How Search Retargeting Kick Started The Programmatic Marketing Revolution
* 5 Tips for Creating Successful Data-Driven Infographics
* Direct marketing and social media — A perfect match
* How to measure your content marketing campaign
* 10 Marketing Roles for the Next 10 Years
* Is the traditional PR pitch dead?
* Who do you think you are?
... and more October 22, 2013

Marketing Update : Going Social, jumping infographics, push mobile, content is king

Our last edition expanded marketing report pushed the ground work for this week, as we launch into October with moves toward social network marketing and infographic marketing ! Come on along with our latest marketing update :
* Study: The state of social marketing — vision, purpose, value drive a new era of digital engagement
* Content Marketing Sweetens the Mix [Infographic]
* Design Emails With a Mobile Mindset: Five Tips
* If content is king, what would be queen?
* Measuring PR: Indicators of quality
* 6 AP Style rules for press releases
* Go Boldly Where Your Members Are
... and more October 14, 2013

Marketing Update : baseball, apple pie, and marketing

Is there anything that is more American than Marketing? How are your July 4th marketing activities going? Summer's hot, people are in a spending mood, they're traveling and you're in the driver's seat, here is the latest marketing update :
* Three Powerful Ways to Measure the Impact of Your Email Marketing
* 7 steps to better communicating your brand's story
* The mindset that makes online marketing work
* Q&A: Paul Holmes and the future of PR
* 7 traits of a solid PR professional
* Can Marketers and Data Get Along?
* Beef up your boilerplate
... and more June 24, 2013