Lead Generation

How to “Kondo” Your Marketing: Declutter, Refresh & Reenergize

What do New Year’s and spring have in common? They’re both times when we think about starting off with a fresh, clean slate. This is why we’re revisiting one of our most popular posts from earlier this year, which relies on wisdom from organizing consultant Marie Kondo to help marketers re-energize their marketing toolbox. Good reading before the new year.

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How to “Kondo” Your Marketing: Declutter, Refresh & Reenergize

Tidying expert Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, Netflix star and author, developed the KonMari Method™, a way to transform your home by gathering possessions by category and keeping only those items that “spark joy.” Kondo’s advice is taking the world by storm. But what does all this have to do with marketing?

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Is the Marketing Pendulum Swinging? (Part 2 of 2)

In Part One of this series, we looked at the rise and possibly the decline of email marketing due to the sheer overload of business emails currently being sent and received each day. Is one quaint tactic – which gives marketers the ability to stand out from the competition – making a comeback?

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Is the Marketing Pendulum Swinging?

Is the Marketing Pendulum Swinging? (Part I of 2)

According to a survey of 244 marketers, 45 percent of respondents said email was one of the most effective online tactics for lead generation. But, with the average office worker receiving more than 120 emails a day, has email marketing plateaued? Is the marketing pendulum swinging away from email, and its total reliance on hard data?

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The (Unrequited) Love Affair Between PR and Sales

It’s the same old love song popularized by Janet Jackson in 1986: “What have you done for me lately?” Sometimes it feels to those in the PR world that they’re consistently trying to prove value in a monetary, quantitative way. But because they’re in the business of credibility and trust – they are balancing two things that cannot be directly measured with a solid line to sales growth. Or can they?

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