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Inaction is the single biggest enemy to association membership marketing success. Over the years, I have been in more meetings than I care to count where statements like, “we cannot do that because,” “we need approval,” or “we need more research” has shut down the marketing process. MORE
Adobe’s recent study about email marketing revealed more about these reactions to personalization. In Adobe’s survey, e mployees said that the most annoying thing when receiving an email offer from a marketer was: “An offer that makes it clear that the marketer’s data about me is wrong” (22%). MORE
It’s a valid fear – as marketing automation adoption increases, many seasoned marketers are wondering if they’re automating themselves out of a job. When you use marketing automation, you can improve all these scenarios, saving time on the manual tasks. MORE
In recent years, digital marketing strategies like search engine optimization, paid advertising, social media marketing, and blogging, have replaced traditional marketing tactics as the preferred methods for promoting products and attracting potential customers. MORE
I may be biased, but I don’t consider most marketers to be inherently “shady.” The downfall of advertising might be part of marketing evolution, but let’s not make it the underlying narrative. Let’s refocus on marketing for people, not at them. Why haven’t we embraced marketing automation as a true opportunity to market with a conscience? Marketing Automation with a Conscience. Let’s return to our original goal: marketing with a conscience. MORE
Learn how to create the ultimate nonprofit video marketing strategy with our guide, as well as getting inspired with the five best nonprofit videos we've seen. video-marketing-strategy video-marketing nonprofit-video-marketing-strategy nonprofit-video-marketing nonprofit-video MORE
According to The State of Inbound 2016 report, only 18% of outbound marketers consider their strategy effective. Compare that to 81% of inbound marketers and you have a compelling idea of just how well inbound works. Customer Experience Customer Marketing Sales MORE
Can we talk about how glamorous the life of a marketer is for a moment? …I While the role of a marketer can be incredibly interesting and rewarding, it doesn’t come without challenges. You’re not alone, you hardworking marketer, you! Video Content Marketing. MORE
Research is an absolute truth if you’re shopping around for a new marketing automation platform. If you are still shopping around for a new marketing automation platform, one of the best ways to serve yourself and your team is to learn about that platform before you seal the deal. MORE
In my quest to educate on marketing automation, I run across a lot of misconceptions. Someone always has a story about some other marketer, from some other organization, that had some sort of major difficulty or near catastrophe, caused by a malfunction of an automated campaign. More often than not, these issues are over-exaggerated marketing urban legends. Myth #1: Marketing Automation Is Far Too Difficult. Myth #2: Our Data Is Too Messy for Marketing Automation. MORE
The start of a new year is a great time to reevaluate your current marketing strategy and decide which tools and changes you can implement to drive maximum success in the months ahead. Marketing to Make Change Happen. Resource: Transform Your Customer Marketing with Online Community. MORE
Customer Relationship Management Customer Marketing HubSpot TipsGary Vaynerchuk. Anna Kendrick. Alec Baldwin. 4 days, a dozen high-profile headliners, and so many sessions it will make your head spin. MORE
These gaps of time are known as micro-moments, and have become the newest frontier for marketers. So how do we take advantage of these micro-moments in our marketing strategy? This prompted the Target marketing team to shift their shopping experience to a mobile-first approach. MORE
Recently, on ASAE’s Collaborate Community, someone asked for examples of other associations’ marketing plans. What are you trying to market to them? marketing strategy MORE
Lesson here: People are suffering from email fatigue, so as an association marketer, your job is tough. The “ 2015 Association Email Benchmarking Report ” summarizes email marketing metrics from more than 1 billion emails associations sent in 2014. MORE
Marketing encompasses everything your association does. Here are some tips to break marketing down into bite-sized pieces. MORE
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: marketing automation will save you time and increase your engagement and efficiency. The problem is you may not be getting to the biggest benefit that marketing automation has to offer: time. This is where marketing automation comes back in. MORE
In the survey we did for our recent State of Marketing Automation: Association Benchmark Report , we asked associations what additional marketing automation features they’re using. If you pair this with our finding that one of the biggest marketing automation challenges for associations is a lack of platform knowledge, it starts to look like associations might not be making use of these essential features because they don’t realize what they can do. MORE
Since there are so many tools out there, our marketing team came together to compile a list of our favorites to share with you. We like having Evernote’s web extension on Chrome to easily save articles, snippets, or images for a marketing swipe file. What are other marketers up to? MORE
Marketing is much more difficult than most people think. Marketers have a vast skill set, and that’s why they should have a seat at the decision-making table. That’s according to a new benchmarking study on association marketing by Demand Metric and HighRoad Solution. “ MORE
Turns out, it’s not Big Brother spying on you – it’s just marketing automation at work. An abandoned cart campaign is a perfect example of how marketing automation can be used to create a great user experience. And it’s left traditional email marketing tactics in the dust. MORE
Web tracking may not be the first thing that leaps to mind when you think about marketing automation, but it should be. Like perfecting a golf swing, marketing automation is all about the follow-through, and combining web tracking with automated campaigns is exactly the prep you need before stepping out on the green. Modern digital marketing is all about data. This unlocks a plethora of options for the modern marketer. Communications Marketing Marketing Automation MORE
Modern marketing is complicated. But when you break down the components of a strong marketing program, it suddenly feels familiar and approachable. Still, there is an overwhelming amount of technology and techniques marketing teams need to sift through. Email Marketing. MORE
Bernadette Jiwa, storytelling guru wrote that good marketing, “empowers people to make decisions now that they won’t regret later, and, “helps people to do the things they want to do.” Just because we manage non-profit associations does not make us immune to lousy marketing. MORE
Once considered a fad, content marketing has proven it’s “King” and shows no signs of slowing down. With 2017 coming to a close, now is a great time to revisit your marketing plan and amp up your content initiatives. What Is Content Marketing and How Do I Get Started? MORE
Selfish marketing creates customers who count on sales, coupons, and tricks to make purchases. The short-term tricks of corporate marketers will not work for the long-game of association marketing. Instead, our marketing messaging must offer value in the messaging itself. MORE
Choosing imagery for your content marketing campaigns is really hard. For example, if you were marketing a hair salon for zoo animals…Sadly, most of us will never have the chance to write content where this type of humor/photo would be relevant. Looking for more marketing tips? MORE
The secret lies in telling a great story, which is the foundation of great marketing. The scene: Nike wanted to create something that could help those in the UK identify with their brand, since they tend to market for the US. Engagement Marketing MORE
That being said, it’s time to take a closer look at your marketing automation strategy to see if you’re making any of these common mistakes. But a great strategy needs to be the foundation of your marketing automation campaigns. MORE
I've been thinking this week about metrics for the marketing and communications function of my organization. Specifically, what's the best way to measure the contribution of our marketing efforts in the achievement of our program goals? In order to help achieve those goals, we engage in a variety of different marketing activities. Holding these marketing activities up to the metric of the program goal seems wrong. MORE
Years ago, PR (which used to be more focused on media relations) and marketing didn’t always mix well. Now, marketing is very much about content. But not just anyone can do marketing. Marketing Tip No. As for tactics, email marketing again took the No. MORE
The post Marketing 101: The Importance of Storytelling appeared first on The Moery Company. Business Development Business Practices Marketing MORE
Years ago, PR (which used to be more focused on media relations) and marketing didn’t always mix well. Now, marketing is very much about content. But not just anyone can do marketing. Marketing Tip No. As for tactics, email marketing again took the No. MORE
How can marketing and sales teams work more efficiently ? If these types of marketing strategy questions are floating around in your mind as we enter the new year, keep reading. As always, marketing is evolving. As AI advances, so will our marketing capabilities. MORE
Email is an important component of any modern marketing strategy. But, email marketing on its own can only do so much. Trying to look at your members’ engagement using email marketing is like seeing the world without glasses. Marketing Automation Gets RESULTS. MORE
Email is an important component of any modern marketing strategy. But, email is just one piece of the modern marketing puzzle. That's where marketing automation comes in. The first step is understanding the differences between email marketing and marketing automation tools. MORE
But marketing? True, we launched our first official marketing campaign a couple years into the job. But with too few hours in the day and a never-ending list of priorities, marketing just wasn’t at the top of the list. So where does marketing fit in? MORE
According to The State of Inbound 2016 report, only 18% of outbound marketers consider their strategy effective. Compare that to 81% of inbound marketers and you have a compelling idea of just how well inbound works. Those statistics represented marketers from over 130 countries. MORE
In an increasingly competitive landscape, purpose-driven marketing is about more than building your brand or boosting your revenue. Your Guide to Effective [Not Annoying] Marketing Personalization. Marketing Automation: Creepy? Purpose – what is it? MORE
Marketing Related Topics Higher Logic
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Email is an important component of any modern marketing strategy. But, email marketing on its own can only do so much. Trying to look at your members’ engagement using email marketing is like seeing the world without glasses. Marketing Automation Gets RESULTS.
Socious
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
According to The State of Inbound 2016 report, only 18% of outbound marketers consider their strategy effective. Compare that to 81% of inbound marketers and you have a compelling idea of just how well inbound works. Customer Experience Customer Marketing Sales
Higher Logic
JANUARY 18, 2018
Email is an important component of any modern marketing strategy. But, email is just one piece of the modern marketing puzzle. That's where marketing automation comes in. The first step is understanding the differences between email marketing and marketing automation tools.
Moery Company
APRIL 22, 2019
The post Marketing 101: The Importance of Storytelling appeared first on The Moery Company. Business Development Business Practices Marketing
Smooth The Path
MAY 14, 2019
Selfish marketing creates customers who count on sales, coupons, and tricks to make purchases. The short-term tricks of corporate marketers will not work for the long-game of association marketing. Instead, our marketing messaging must offer value in the messaging itself.
Higher Logic
JANUARY 16, 2019
The start of a new year is a great time to reevaluate your current marketing strategy and decide which tools and changes you can implement to drive maximum success in the months ahead. Marketing to Make Change Happen. Resource: Transform Your Customer Marketing with Online Community.
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Higher Logic
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Since there are so many tools out there, our marketing team came together to compile a list of our favorites to share with you. We like having Evernote’s web extension on Chrome to easily save articles, snippets, or images for a marketing swipe file. What are other marketers up to?
Higher Logic
MARCH 15, 2018
In my quest to educate on marketing automation, I run across a lot of misconceptions. Someone always has a story about some other marketer, from some other organization, that had some sort of major difficulty or near catastrophe, caused by a malfunction of an automated campaign. More often than not, these issues are over-exaggerated marketing urban legends. Myth #1: Marketing Automation Is Far Too Difficult. Myth #2: Our Data Is Too Messy for Marketing Automation.
Higher Logic
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: marketing automation will save you time and increase your engagement and efficiency. The problem is you may not be getting to the biggest benefit that marketing automation has to offer: time. This is where marketing automation comes back in.
CommPartners
MAY 9, 2019
Marketing encompasses everything your association does. Here are some tips to break marketing down into bite-sized pieces.
Higher Logic
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Can we talk about how glamorous the life of a marketer is for a moment? …I While the role of a marketer can be incredibly interesting and rewarding, it doesn’t come without challenges. You’re not alone, you hardworking marketer, you! Video Content Marketing.
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Higher Logic
MARCH 1, 2018
I may be biased, but I don’t consider most marketers to be inherently “shady.” The downfall of advertising might be part of marketing evolution, but let’s not make it the underlying narrative. Let’s refocus on marketing for people, not at them. Why haven’t we embraced marketing automation as a true opportunity to market with a conscience? Marketing Automation with a Conscience. Let’s return to our original goal: marketing with a conscience.
Higher Logic
APRIL 18, 2019
In an increasingly competitive landscape, purpose-driven marketing is about more than building your brand or boosting your revenue. Your Guide to Effective [Not Annoying] Marketing Personalization. Marketing Automation: Creepy? Purpose – what is it?
Higher Logic
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
In recent years, digital marketing strategies like search engine optimization, paid advertising, social media marketing, and blogging, have replaced traditional marketing tactics as the preferred methods for promoting products and attracting potential customers.
Aaron Wolowiec
DECEMBER 16, 2014
But marketing? True, we launched our first official marketing campaign a couple years into the job. But with too few hours in the day and a never-ending list of priorities, marketing just wasn’t at the top of the list. So where does marketing fit in?
Higher Logic
JANUARY 25, 2018
These gaps of time are known as micro-moments, and have become the newest frontier for marketers. So how do we take advantage of these micro-moments in our marketing strategy? This prompted the Target marketing team to shift their shopping experience to a mobile-first approach.
Higher Logic
JANUARY 2, 2019
How can marketing and sales teams work more efficiently ? If these types of marketing strategy questions are floating around in your mind as we enter the new year, keep reading. As always, marketing is evolving. As AI advances, so will our marketing capabilities.
Wild Apricot
JULY 20, 2018
Learn how to create the ultimate nonprofit video marketing strategy with our guide, as well as getting inspired with the five best nonprofit videos we've seen. video-marketing-strategy video-marketing nonprofit-video-marketing-strategy nonprofit-video-marketing nonprofit-video
Smooth The Path
APRIL 11, 2019
Bernadette Jiwa, storytelling guru wrote that good marketing, “empowers people to make decisions now that they won’t regret later, and, “helps people to do the things they want to do.” Just because we manage non-profit associations does not make us immune to lousy marketing.
Higher Logic
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
That being said, it’s time to take a closer look at your marketing automation strategy to see if you’re making any of these common mistakes. But a great strategy needs to be the foundation of your marketing automation campaigns.
Socious
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
According to The State of Inbound 2016 report, only 18% of outbound marketers consider their strategy effective. Compare that to 81% of inbound marketers and you have a compelling idea of just how well inbound works. Those statistics represented marketers from over 130 countries.
Higher Logic
APRIL 9, 2019
Choosing imagery for your content marketing campaigns is really hard. For example, if you were marketing a hair salon for zoo animals…Sadly, most of us will never have the chance to write content where this type of humor/photo would be relevant. Looking for more marketing tips?
Higher Logic
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Adobe’s recent study about email marketing revealed more about these reactions to personalization. In Adobe’s survey, e mployees said that the most annoying thing when receiving an email offer from a marketer was: “An offer that makes it clear that the marketer’s data about me is wrong” (22%).
Membership Marketing
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Inaction is the single biggest enemy to association membership marketing success. Over the years, I have been in more meetings than I care to count where statements like, “we cannot do that because,” “we need approval,” or “we need more research” has shut down the marketing process.
Higher Logic
AUGUST 2, 2018
Turns out, it’s not Big Brother spying on you – it’s just marketing automation at work. An abandoned cart campaign is a perfect example of how marketing automation can be used to create a great user experience. And it’s left traditional email marketing tactics in the dust.
Aaron Wolowiec
AUGUST 16, 2016
Years ago, PR (which used to be more focused on media relations) and marketing didn’t always mix well. Now, marketing is very much about content. But not just anyone can do marketing. Marketing Tip No. As for tactics, email marketing again took the No.
Aaron Wolowiec
AUGUST 16, 2016
Years ago, PR (which used to be more focused on media relations) and marketing didn’t always mix well. Now, marketing is very much about content. But not just anyone can do marketing. Marketing Tip No. As for tactics, email marketing again took the No.
Aaron Wolowiec
AUGUST 10, 2015
Marketing is much more difficult than most people think. Marketers have a vast skill set, and that’s why they should have a seat at the decision-making table. That’s according to a new benchmarking study on association marketing by Demand Metric and HighRoad Solution. “
Spark Consulting
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Recently, on ASAE’s Collaborate Community, someone asked for examples of other associations’ marketing plans. What are you trying to market to them? marketing strategy
Aaron Wolowiec
JULY 28, 2015
Lesson here: People are suffering from email fatigue, so as an association marketer, your job is tough. The “ 2015 Association Email Benchmarking Report ” summarizes email marketing metrics from more than 1 billion emails associations sent in 2014.
Higher Logic
AUGUST 23, 2018
It’s a valid fear – as marketing automation adoption increases, many seasoned marketers are wondering if they’re automating themselves out of a job. When you use marketing automation, you can improve all these scenarios, saving time on the manual tasks.
Spark Consulting
DECEMBER 9, 2014
How do you write good marketing copy? marketing In a nutshell: Think about your audience. Who are they? What do you know about them? Use that information to craft a personalized message. Talk like a real person, and write like you speak.
Socious
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Customer Relationship Management Customer Marketing HubSpot TipsGary Vaynerchuk. Anna Kendrick. Alec Baldwin. 4 days, a dozen high-profile headliners, and so many sessions it will make your head spin.
Higher Logic
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Once considered a fad, content marketing has proven it’s “King” and shows no signs of slowing down. With 2017 coming to a close, now is a great time to revisit your marketing plan and amp up your content initiatives. What Is Content Marketing and How Do I Get Started?
Socious
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
That’s because the majority of marketing and sales efforts (and executive focus) go toward attracting and winning new customers. Every day, marketers are becoming more and more efficient at winning new business through digital relationship-building approaches like inbound.
Higher Logic
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Web tracking may not be the first thing that leaps to mind when you think about marketing automation, but it should be. Like perfecting a golf swing, marketing automation is all about the follow-through, and combining web tracking with automated campaigns is exactly the prep you need before stepping out on the green. Modern digital marketing is all about data. This unlocks a plethora of options for the modern marketer. Communications Marketing Marketing Automation
Higher Logic
JULY 12, 2018
In the survey we did for our recent State of Marketing Automation: Association Benchmark Report , we asked associations what additional marketing automation features they’re using. If you pair this with our finding that one of the biggest marketing automation challenges for associations is a lack of platform knowledge, it starts to look like associations might not be making use of these essential features because they don’t realize what they can do.
Eric Lanke
DECEMBER 17, 2018
I've been thinking this week about metrics for the marketing and communications function of my organization. Specifically, what's the best way to measure the contribution of our marketing efforts in the achievement of our program goals? In order to help achieve those goals, we engage in a variety of different marketing activities. Holding these marketing activities up to the metric of the program goal seems wrong.
Higher Logic
APRIL 26, 2018
Research is an absolute truth if you’re shopping around for a new marketing automation platform. If you are still shopping around for a new marketing automation platform, one of the best ways to serve yourself and your team is to learn about that platform before you seal the deal.
Higher Logic
JULY 26, 2018
The secret lies in telling a great story, which is the foundation of great marketing. The scene: Nike wanted to create something that could help those in the UK identify with their brand, since they tend to market for the US. Engagement Marketing
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