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12 Marketing Automation Hacks That Will Surprise You

12 Marketing Automation Hacks That Will Surprise You | Must Market | Scoop.it

Marketing Automation

Is your Sales Force hooked up to your content curation, blogging and tracking tool like Marketo? For most digital marketers the answer to at least one of those questions is no, and even if you are an uber-mensch at marketing auto this post still shares come cool "new to us" tool. We were surprised. 

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Marketing automation isn't dead it's just waiting for cool new tools like this. 

malek's curator insight, June 28, 2017 11:00 AM

Cool tip: 

3. Send personalized discount emails

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2M Views On G+: Why Google+ Helps Online Davids Slay Giants

2M Views On G+: Why Google+ Helps Online Davids Slay Giants | Must Market | Scoop.it

2M Views On GooglePlus
You may think, "2M views so what, many have more than that," and you would be right and wrong. Right because many friends including @Mark Traphagenand @Neil Ferree(to name just two) have many more G+ followers and views than little ole me.

The point of Social Media Marketing is not to win a horse race. The point is to communicate YOUR message in order to create scaled online community. Once your community more than pays for itself your "degrees of freedom" open up.

If you know of another "moderate effort, HUGE return" tool please share and I will use that one too. In the meantime G+ may be the best "do less, get more" online marketing tool ever created. G+ is Davids stone helping to slay giants - how else can a tribe the 4500 generate views of more than 2M?

So get out your sling and load up some G+ rocks today and your digital marketing will be slaying giants soon too :). M

Marijo's curator insight, February 24, 2015 3:14 AM

Must read if you are using G+...

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6 Free Visual Marketing Revolution Tools

6 Free Visual Marketing Revolution Tools | Must Market | Scoop.it

This lack of artistic ability poses a threat to my marketing career, especially now that visual content marketing is the ticket to success. Even though I have other creative traits, I'm worried I'll get left in the visual storytelling dust.


I know I'm not alone.

 

Luckily, we non-artists have a few tools to mask our lack of design talent.

 

These tools are free, but often have advanced paid features for when you're ready to step up your game. They don't replace a designer's expertise, but you can use them for smaller projects, like blogs, social media graphics, or Slideshare templates....



Via Jeff Domansky, aanve
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Great share from Jeff and all new to me. Don't let Jeff fool you, if his artistic abilities are failing then I hope I can fail that good (he just past me the other day like a bullet on Scoop.it views). Great share here of new cool tools. 


Jeff Domansky's curator insight, September 15, 2014 11:47 PM

Looking for a way to make charts more appealing? Wish you knew what font was on your competitor's ad? Here's help.

Two Pens's curator insight, September 18, 2014 2:27 PM

My fave is Recite:  let's you make any quote look art directed. Given Twitter's predilection for quotes, it's a no-brainer.

lepidopt's curator insight, September 23, 2014 3:51 AM

confirmo la buena selección

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Tuning Scoop.it With Their Amazing New Content Curation Tools

Tuning Scoop.it With Their Amazing New Content Curation Tools | Must Market | Scoop.it

Here are cool things I did TODAY thanks to recent Scoop.it revisions:

* Changed Design Revolution Template: http://www.scoop.it/t/design-revolution.
* Added a subscription form to Design Revolution.
* Changed Design Revolution "SEO Boost".
* Changed Social Shares for Profile & my 10 feeds (easily adaptable to each feed so can be selective with what Twitter / Facebook and G+ pages are connected).

New tools are amazing. What about you? What have you been playing with on the new Scoop.it?

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Experience the Zen Of Curagami

Experience the Zen Of Curagami | Must Market | Scoop.it
The Startup Factory funded startup Curagami launches its new content marketing roi tools into "friends beta". What's your Curagami Score? #helpastartup
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Red Bull Branding 2: Friends of Friends Marketing via Curatti

Red Bull Branding 2: Friends of Friends Marketing via Curatti | Must Market | Scoop.it
Red Bull Branding shared how we are all media companies now. Red Bull Branding 2 is about how to build online community via Friends of Friends. Marketing.
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Think the core of the book we are going to write / edit is in this post - Marty

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The WordPress Guide For Small Businesses

The WordPress Guide For Small Businesses | Must Market | Scoop.it
We’ve pulled together a resource which rather than aiming to tell you everything, instead tells you exactly what you need to know to get your own website up and running in no time.

 

Business owners are aware of the increasing importance of having an online presence; regardless of whether their key objective is using their website to sell online, to generate enquiries, or act as a branding tool. However the costs associated with building and particularly maintaining a website can quickly become a drain on business owners.


WordPress is a platform that appeals to many, as even if you have no coding experience you can set up a website and manage it yourself.

This step-by-step guide takes the guesswork out, so you'll be up and running in no time.

 

By Jasper Martens / Hannah Smith. http://bit.ly/UGsxHk

Source. http://bit.ly/S6x6XC


Via maxOz, Yann De Tod
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Interesting way to organize an "Ultimate Guide".

France Lafleur's curator insight, March 6, 2014 10:03 AM

Ce tableau pourrait vous aiguiller et vous permettre de commencer sur le bon pied avec WordPress.

Alain Theriault MBA's curator insight, March 11, 2014 9:49 AM

a step-by-step approach to a WordPress site for a small business

Social Globe's curator insight, April 7, 2014 8:06 AM

Pour ne rien oublier des étapes clés

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Searchlight Is A Great Enterprise SEO Tool from NY based Conductor

Searchlight Is A Great Enterprise SEO Tool from NY based Conductor | Must Market | Scoop.it

Enterprise SEO with Conductor Searchlight the world's leading natural search platform. Benchmark your performance against competitors, find the best keywords to target, uncover your competitors backlink strategies and more.

Marty Note
This is one of the best #SEO tools I've seen combining the best elements of other tools such as SpyFu and SEOmoz. Searchlight by Conductor creates an SEO tool for content marketers and curators and who isn't a content marketer these days? The tool is agency friendly too!

Strengths of this impressive tool include:

* Keyword management (for you and competitors). 
* Paid and organic search data.

* Templated and easy to private label "work spaces" to share reporting with clients.

* Reasonable price / value.

* Sliders to manage prioritization based on dimensions such as difficulty of the task or ROI. 

Searchlight by Conductor is a great SEO tool built for content marketers and curators.  

Will write more about why this tool should be a MUST for any Internet marketing team on http://www.scenttrail.com  over the weekend. 

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The Stengel Brand Ideals & Sentiment Analysis of Keywords

The Stengel Brand Ideals & Sentiment Analysis of Keywords | Must Market | Scoop.it

How aligned is yoru brand to its "ideals"? When former P&G Marketing Director Jim Stengel wrote Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profits at the World's Greatest comanies he may have created the most important branding checkliss.


Stengel defined 5 Brand Ideals:

  • Eliciting Joy: Activating experiences of happiness, wonder, and limitless possibility.
  • Enabling Connection: Enhancing the ability of people to connect with each other and the world in meaningful ways.
  • Inspiring Exploration: Helping people explore new horizons and new experiences.
  • Evoking Pride: Giving people increased confidence, strength, security, and vitality.
  • Impacting Society: Affecting society broadly, including by challenging the status quo and redefining categories.
How do your band ideals map? What is your bran's main benefit? 

 

Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Thinking about how to use these 5 basic "brand ideals" to create a sentiment analysis tool for Curagami (http://www.curagami.com ):

* Joy.

* Connection.

* Exploration.
* Pride.
* Society (change the world).

Imagine a spider graph showing sentiment on each of those poles based on keyword usage. Trying to make reviews meaningful, social and visual.

Ferananda's curator insight, March 31, 2013 6:06 PM

For those who are authentically looking towards creating brands which are Good, True and Beautiful 

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New @Medium Publishing Tools ROCK - Scoop.it Take Note! 

New @Medium Publishing Tools ROCK - Scoop.it Take Note!  | Must Market | Scoop.it

Love New Medium Publishing Tools
Wow! We love the new Medium.com publishing tools. You can see our first publication here: https://medium.com/curagami 

@Scoopit and others should take notes. Medium's publishing tool, after a little confusion, integrates to make COPE (Create Once Publish Everywhere) easier. Too Good! 

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Content Strategy In An Age Of Semantic Search - @HaikuDeck by Harris Schachter

Content Strategy In An Age Of Semantic Search - @HaikuDeck by Harris Schachter | Must Market | Scoop.it
As semantic technology ramps up, how can marketers take advantage of this new age of content discovery? This deck touches on recent advances in semantic search and five disciplines to focus on for more effective SEO and Content Strategy. Full write-up & presentation notes: http://optimizepri.me/content-strategy-in-the-age-of-semantic-search

Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

GREAT Haiku Deck by Harris (@OptimizePrime). So good its no wonder it has over 50,000 views. What makes it great is how well it understands the "we are all media companies" now riff I laid down in Red Bull Branding Lessons on Curatti (http://curatti.com/red-bulls-branding-lesson-media-companies-now/ ).

The "new seo" and "everyone is a media company" work nicely together. Great and INSIGHTFUL deck by a new trusted SEO source for me.

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Redesigning Scoopit and Your Web Design Too - via @Curagami

Redesigning Scoopit and Your Web Design Too - via @Curagami | Must Market | Scoop.it

Scoop.it Redesign Suggestions
Redesigning Scoopit sets a new stage for a favorite content marketing tool. Making Scoopit to be social & to createscommunity can help your web design too.


Things every website design can improve discussed in our Curagami post (www.curagami.com/featured/redesigning-scoopit-web-design/ )::


* Set your “stage” (webpages) to be aligned in a “hierarchy” of need.
* Create feedback loops and expose them (like nonprofits use thermometers to track donations).

* Don’t hide your analytics SHARE THEM.

* Double down on winners, leave laggards behind.
* KNOW what is winning so you can double down.
* Ask for and prize User Generated Content.
* Share MORE and then SHARE MORE.

@Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
Brian is a great web marketer and one of the POWER users of Scoop.it. Here is a great comment he left on Curagami about this post:

Marty I agree, I never promote my Scoopit homepage as it has no real value for my visitor. My Google analytics show I get very few visitors to the homepage which makes since because most visitors to Scoop.it are not members so can’t follow us via Scoop.it, but they are following other ways because 48% of them are return visitors.

Looking further into the analytics not many go to the topic homepage either, so I’m testing new ways within my marketing strategy for Scoop.it to engage.

Eg. Pop up and slide up call-to-actions as seen on my hhttp://www.scoop.it/t/marketinghits topic. This pop up also show when someone is coming to a shared post on my topic not just the homepage. Right now it a newsletter sign up, I’m thinking of doing polls, follow me, and maybe even a context are two. On my newsletter sign up is see a 1.4 ctr%


It sure would be nice to have some customization options for the homepage.


** Brian is the MASTER of organization. Check out his Scoop.it presentation (@Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com ). That is a PR6 webpage using OPT (Other People's Templates) and tool (so impressive). Team at Scoop.it really listens to Brian because he has accomplished a lot with their tool. The Scoop.it team is responsive in general, so, thanks to BY and others, we may get a "homepage" we can use.





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Crowdfunding Million Dollar Water Balloons @Curagami & @MajesticSEO

Crowdfunding Million Dollar Water Balloons @Curagami & @MajesticSEO | Must Market | Scoop.it

Bunch O Balloons Featured on TODAY Show This morning!

Bunch O Balloons, an easy to use time saving water balloon invention, may make $1M on Kickstsarter thanks to great crowdfunding marketing and the new SEO. Team Curagami is in Charlotte at the Search Exchange Conference.

This Curatti post combines a fascinating new tool set capable of making "Editors of Chaos" come true and the story of how a crowdfunding project goes "mega-viral".





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malek's curator insight, July 31, 2014 11:39 AM

Curagami helps form the “Ambassador Layer” every website and brand needs these days. Ambassadors, people who’ve “bought in” to a brand’s mission and want to help, need to be given contextually appropriate “jobs”.

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Once Upon A Time: Overwhelmed By Digital Marketing? Curagami Can Help

Once Upon A Time: Overwhelmed By Digital Marketing? Curagami Can Help | Must Market | Scoop.it

The New New Marketing
There was a time before the web when "digital marketing" was somethign you did with your fingers. Then everything changed. Change came fast and furious thanks to Moore's Law - Integrated circuit POWER goes up exponentially even as costs plummet.

Once our digital world got to a certain point, let's call that point X, acceleration accelerates. Mobile throws gasoline on the social fire and gets answered by social media marketing with rocket fuel on the fire.

The resulting explosion in a kingdom called BRANDING in a land far, far away once upon a time...

Read the Curagami Story and worry less :). M

Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's curator insight, June 20, 2014 11:53 PM

You gotta read this, Marty's done it again!!!

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7 Tools for Lean Content Marketing via @Scoopit team

Recently, Scoop.it released the official #leancontent framework. The lean content ideology addresses the issue of knowing a content strategy is necessary but...
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Yeah this deck from Ally rocks. 3 "new to me" content curation tools and love the lean content overlay. #toogood #mustread

Craig Stark's curator insight, May 16, 2014 10:45 AM

Good summary- useful tools.

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20 Favorite Content Curators on Scoop.it Are #MustFollows

20 Favorite Content Curators on Scoop.it Are #MustFollows | Must Market | Scoop.it

20 Scoopiteers who've taught me more than I can repay in one lifetime about #contentmarketing and #contentcuration are #MustFollows :

@Robin Good

@maxOz(Michele)
@Ally Greer

@Ana Cristina Pratas

@ janlgordon

@Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com

@Dr. Karen Dietz

@malek

@Thomas Faltin

@Jeff Domansky

@Alex Butler

@The Fish Firm

@massimo facchinetti

@Giuseppe Mauriello

@Mariano Pallottini

@Jesús Hernández

@Guillaume Decugis

@Cendrine Marrouat - https://www.cendrinemedia.com

@Neil Ferree

@Jesús Hernández

@Peg Corwin


Congratulations to Scoop.it on reaching 1M users. I wrote this post about my favorite 20 Scoopers a few months ago. It seems to be having a  REDUX moment today as Scoop.it reaches a major milestone. There are several people such as @Therese Torris@Beth Kanter and others I would add now (such is the danger of making a list like this). But you can't go wrong following any of these great, kind, smart, creative and generous content curators on Scoop.it. Marty

malek's curator insight, June 24, 2014 11:18 AM

@Neil Ferree You made my day again.

massimo scalzo's curator insight, June 25, 2014 3:56 AM

Marty Smith gives us a list of persons who know HOW....We can take a look at thema and see how they curate Content. Thank you Marty!

Rémy Ginoux's curator insight, July 10, 2014 6:21 PM

Possible Inspiring readings for Summer Vacation...

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Birth of the Cool: 9 Easy To Use Animation Tools

Birth of the Cool: 9 Easy To Use Animation Tools | Must Market | Scoop.it
These web-based applications will have you creating animations in no time.

Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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Cool tools that seem moderate on the time invested to cool output equation. 

malek's curator insight, October 11, 2013 9:20 AM

Aspire to inspire in 30 min or less

Marie Gillet's curator insight, October 13, 2013 6:37 AM

Sounds useful for small companies and self-trained people...