A list of 40 awesome things about marketing in honor of the 40 awesome winners of the 2013 40 Under 40 Awards.
Marketing’s awesome. Here’s why.
| 1. Memes: Savvy marketers know how to milk Internet buzz. |
| 2. Targeting: Direct marketers do it best.
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| 3. Data: It’s big, it’s bad, it’s coming to your town. |
| 4.Social media: Let’s pin that new promo on the TwitterTubeFace+ machine.
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| 5. Storytelling: And we’re sticking to it. |
| 6. Creative agencies: Workin’ it.
Via www.moroch.com
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| 7. Word-of-mouth: To err is human; to earn media is divine.
Via memecrunch.com
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| 8. Strategy: Content isn’t marketing without it.
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| 9. Tracking: We’d marry analytics…if that was possible.
Via http://pinterest.com/hubspot/meme-tastic-marketing/
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| 10. CRM: The tools to love your customers the way they deserve to be loved.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 11. Automation: Automatically awesome. |
| 12. Infographics: Never enough.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 13. Customer service: When it’s good, it’s good; when it’s bad it’s…
Via www.business2community.com
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| 14. Brand advocates: When the love is mutual.
Via blog.zuberance.com
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| 15. Loyalty: Brands + fans = best friends forever and ever.
Via humor.about.com
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| 16. Cats: The stars of consumer meme madness.
Via heidicullinan.wordpress.com
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| 17. Blogs: We blog, therefore we are.
Via blueprintds.com
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| 18. Gamification: Games are the name of the…uh, game.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 19. Apps: For everything.
Via www.quickmeme.com |
| 20. Startups: If you start us up, we’ll never stop. Via www.quickmeme.com |
| 21. SEO: S-E-Oh yeah.
Via http://seomemes.com/
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| 22. Email marketing: So in-box right now.
Via diylol.com
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| 23. Lead gen: Where there are leads, we follow.
Via blog.marketo.com
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| 24. Integration: ‘nuff said.
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| 25. E-commerce: E-comm is da bomb.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 26. ROI: Our favorite acronym.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 27. Facebook ads: Jury’s out.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 28. Copywriting: Just make sure your call-to-action doesn’t give someone an allergic reaction.
Via www.quickmeme.com
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| 29. Global perspective: Having one makes a world of difference.
Via www.whatsyourdigitaliq.com
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| 30. Banner ads: With an average click-through rate of .08%, they should maybe be renamed ‘banner sads.’
Via www.quickmeme.com
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| 31. Mailing lists: Keep it clean, folks.
Via weknowmemes.com
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| 32. Postal regulations: The saga continues.
Via memegenerator.net
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| 33. Events: No one ever minds an open bar.
Via diylol.com
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| 34. DRTV: One of our favorite channels.
Via popshifter.com |
| 35. Infomercials: So passé; today it’s all about brand response.
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| 36. Privacy: It’s on consumers’ minds, big time. |
| 37. Data collection: It’s what we do.
Via server2.itsuv.net
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| 38. Coupons: Invented by Coke in 1888.
39. Clickthrough: Please? Thanks. |
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