Marketing Next Practices Blog
Virtual Events – Planning, Frequency, and Promotion
Virtual events, including webcasts are gaining popularity due to cost efficiencies and lead generation. Whether webcasts, webinars, web conferences, or virtual trade shows, managing virtual events requires both careful planning and ongoing execution. Below we will...
Advanced Link Building – Submission Tips
Our previous blog discussed 5 basic link building techniques that can improve your search authority and rank in search engine results pages (SERPs). Link building, also called inbound links or backlinks, relates to having other, authoritative websites, blogs, or...
5 Basic Link Building Techniques
Linking building can improve your search authority and rank in search engine results pages (SERPs). Link building, also called inbound links or backlinks, relates to having other, authoritative websites, blogs, or directories link to your blog. Some basic link...
Modern Marketing Resolutions
In this time of New Year’s resolutions, why not set some resolutions for achieving marketing success? Following are 5 key initiatives that can help marketers crush the competition and get that promotion. Commit to these modern marketing new year's resolutions to...
A Guide to Modern B2B Content Marketing
With the rapid increase in the use and discussion of content marketing, it’s time to address how modern B2B companies can leverage content marketing to build awareness, traffic, and leads. How can you plan your content marketing initiatives? What types of content are...
How to Reduce Marketing Expense While Increasing Marketing Results
Many so-called traditional marketing tactics like advertising, trade shows and print literature are huge cost-drivers in the marketing budget. Good news is that many of these often cost-prohibitive tactics can be reduced and replaced with more cost-efficient...
Channel Partner Marketing – Top 10 Best Practices
In the not so distant past, marketing of software systems, hardware or IT services by channel partners or value-added resellers (VARs), was secondary in importance to sales and business development. Today, changing marketing dynamics have forced channel partners,...
Measuring Marketing: Social Media Measures
With the explosive growth of social media, we are pleased to share some of the features and tools for measurement that are now available, and extremely useful. This section will identify those tools for each of the top platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn),...
Measuring Marketing: Internet Measures
With marketing increasingly moving toward Internet programs, it’s no surprise that the Internet will offer many of the tools for results measurement. Below we will identify Internet measures including website statistics, Urchin Tracking Modules or UTMs, and other...
Measuring Marketing: Traditional Measures
Frequently called marketing metrics, depending on the scale of your company or program, measuring marketing results can range from simple to a variety of complex methods and approaches. In fact, some of the traditional methods of measuring results are still some of...
Mobile Website Marketing Checklist
Mobile web is the next big marketing challenge, driven by meteoric growth in smart phones and tablets. According to current predictions, one in two Americans now own a “smart phone” device. Mobile website conversions are the future for content delivery. Therefore, we...
Market Research – Types And Tips
Market research is the systematic process of data gathering and analysis to gain more information about customers and market competition. The information is then used to plan campaign strategies, improve current products, or diversify products within the brand. ...
Pro Bono Marketing for DuPage ReStore Taken On by MMP
Modern Marketing Partners has entered into a partnership with the Habitat for Humanity ReStore of DuPage county to provide marketing, internet, publicity, and social media services on a pro bono basis. Habitat for Humanity ReStore sells donated, new, and used building...
Direct Mail for B2B – 5 Tips!
Direct mail is still a top marketing tactic for B2B Companies. Why is direct mail still important? It can get delivered to decision makers that might not open email, it can be personalized, it can break through the “clutter”, and it can now be easily integrated with...
Content Marketing—Survey Results!
The results are in! The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and MarketingProfs have published the third annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends – North America and an overwhelming 91% of B2B Marketers are using content marketing! Below we will share...
Content Marketing Measurement
How can you measure content marketing? A new eBook entitled, "A Field Guide to the Four Types of Content Marketing Metrics" is now available from the Content Marketing Institute and Convince&Convert. It is all too common that content marketers believe they can't...
Content Marketing Types
How can you connect with your customers? This question is answered in the Content Marketing Playbook by Junta42. The playbook provides an astounding 42 options to connect with your customers through content marketing. Below we will share 6 of our favorite pieces of...
Content Marketing Definitions, Tips, and Strategies
Content marketing is a critical element to marketing firms. There is a lot of hype around the subject, and also varying definitions. This post will share some content marketing definitions from around the web. Then, we will provide 5 content marketing tips and 7...
Social Media Marketing Agency Launches–Hot Potato
Modern Marketing Partners is launching a new agency called Hot Potato™ Social Media that specializes in social media marketing (SMM) and related marketing for companies and brands. The BIG 5 social networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+) are...
Blogging For Success (Part 2): Content & Promotion
Despite the numerous benefits of blogging, the daunting task of creating and managing a blog can be a deterrent. However, blogging can be manageable and extremely effective! This is the second part in a two part series on blogging for success. If you are new to...
