Email by itself is kind of like… a one legged stool. It can’t stand on its own. To be effective and useful, combine email marketing with search, social marketing and blogging. Most Business-to-Business (B2B) marketers are still trying to figure our how to apply social marketing techniques to their business. Here are 5 tips to get started. We’ll dive into more detail on each of these in coming weeks. Best tip? Just start! Don’t worry if you don’t have a ton of content for a blog, or bzillions of prospective subscribers. Take the first steps: Write like you talk Write like a real person and write the way you would talk in every day conversation. Try to avoid ‘marketeer / [...]
Use RSS to Keep Email Subscribers Informed
RSS (“Really Simple Syndication”) is an excellent tool to help you ‘push’ relevant content to subscribers who want to keep up with your latest blog entries. For example you can subscribe to Pinpointe’s Blog RSS feed here. Why should you care about RSS and how can you use it? Keep you pulse on your market. Say you stumble across a website or blog that’s interesting and relevant to you. You can bookmark the site, and stumble back onto the site every now and then. Or, you can subscribe to the site’s RSS feed and get the latest updates ‘pushed’ into your RSS reader, real-time. Keep your customers / prospects informed. Get ‘em to subscribe to your RSS feeds and your [...]
Create “Ambient Awareness” with Twitter
We just started using Twitter – our page isn’t too impressive yet, but you can find us at www.twitter.com/Pinpointe.
Twitter is among the fastest growing social networks. Nearly 4 million times a day, the 140-character limit “tweet” attracts some percentage of Twitter’s 200,000+ weekly users. According to TechCrunch, Twitter has 1 million total users. And Popacular.com runs a GigaTweet counter, claiming over a billion tweets and counting since Twitter launched in 2006.
Here are a few Twitter tools you might find useful:…
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