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Create a Culture of Innovation With This Professional Development Plan for B2B Marketers

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The pandemic has given B2B marketing leaders a golden opportunity to rethink the culture of their marketing teams. Rather than worrying about how to recover , the best B2B marketers are thinking about how to get stronger. This post originally appeared on MarketingProfs. Do you have a development plan? Do your employees?

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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In 1999, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger said the Internet would turn markets into conversations, audiences were actual human beings, and companies would come down from their ivory towers to create meaningful relationships. This article originally appeared in MediaPost.

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Brand Marketing and the Fair Pay to Play Act

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No matter what happens between now and then, there are also going to be some fundamental PR, communications, and marketing issues that need to be ironed out. And colleges and universities are incredibly naive if they think this is only going to impact a small % of their student-athletes.

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Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers AND Google Happy

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Scott Smith , Nick Papagiannis and I had the opportunity to kick off Social Media Week Chicago with a presentation titled “Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers, AND Google Happy ” to a packed house at Morningstar in Chicago. Seemingly everywhere you look, there’s content marketing tips, tricks, and hacks.

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Who Owns Content Marketing?

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Rather than rushing to plant your flag in content marketing, invite others to participate. For more than 12 years now, I’ve worked at companies that have been committed to integrated marketing. I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate on really big integrated marketing campaigns and to tap into industry-leading expertise and experience.

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Omnichannel Marketing is the First Step, Not the End Game

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True omnichannel marketing is about understanding how the dominoes fall across the entire organization, not just in marketing. Congratulations on your integrated marketing plan, your omnichannel marketing strategy, your paid-earned-shared-owned media strategy — you’ve now completed the bare minimum of what customers expect.

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. The traditional buckets of marketing, advertising, and public relations seem so quaint now. Weber Shandwick created MediaCo , a new unit focused on content marketing, native advertising, and digital media buying.