New research highlights top performers’ email methods

Because of its central role in the online marketing efforts of so many of our clients, we return to the topic of email marketing fairly often …most recently, exploring the potential synergy between email and social media.

Today, I wanted to alert you to some significant new research on the subject – Marketo’s Email Marketing Benchmark – recapped by Jon Miller on [Read more...]

Pointers for using social media for lead generation

Many B2Bs still think of social media as merely an image/awareness-building vehicle.  But an increasing number are starting to aim at least part of their social-media effort straight at lead generation, as we noted in this earlier post …and you can, too.

Any time we embark on a new journey, some guideposts come in handy;  and that’s just what we found [Read more...]

Done right, press releases are still a great marketing weapon

With the variety of channels for getting business information directly to (prospective) customers, it’s understandable that more than a few marketers have questioned why anyone uses press releases anymore.  We still generate them here at eMagine, so clearly we believe they’re still useful.

But we thought it might help to consult a higher authority;  and we found one in [Read more...]

Using LinkedIn for business: best practices – III

This is the third of a four-part series aimed at helping our readers understand how best to use LinkedIn for their companies’ benefit.  It assumes some beginning familiarity with LinkedIn, but nothing approaching proficiency.  The final part will appear here within 2 weeks.

In the second installment of this series, I showed you how to leverage LinkedIn Groups, and how to augment your personal Profile so as to build up your perceived authority.  Today, let’s look at perhaps the most critical LinkedIn feature… [Read more...]

Want great posts on your business blog? …read this

By now, I’m betting that your B2B has taken our advice (along with that of most of the known marketing universe) and started a company blog.  If so, that’s a great start!  But now comes the challenge of making it good …or at least good enough to [Read more...]

The why and how of integrating email with social media

In one of our recent posts, we identified email and social media as two of the three things that B2Bs need to get right for successful online marketing (the third being search engine optimization, or SEO).  It seems reasonable that email and social working together would be more effective than pursuing both in isolation, and recent research bears that out:  in fact, [Read more...]

Using LinkedIn for business: best practices – II

This is the second of a four-part series aimed at helping our readers understand how best to use LinkedIn for their companies’ benefit.  It assumes some beginning familiarity with LinkedIn, but nothing approaching proficiency.  The next part will appear here in 2 weeks.

In the first installment of this series, I showed you how to use LinkedIn Company Search to expand your professional network;  and discussed using LinkedIn Answers to build up your perceived authority.  Let’s look at two more LinkedIn features today… [Read more...]