
The ExactTarget Nexus team invites you to participate in our
#NexusCafe Twitter chat this Thursday and every Thursday from
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET, where we discuss emerging topics and trends
from across the interactive marketing world. The virtual coffee
chat is hosted directly on Twitter, hosted by @ETNexus. Follow the #NexusCafe hashtag and be
sure and add the hashtag to your tweet to participate. The person
with the best tweets wins a Starbucks gift card!
We're excited to host Rachel
Modiano, Director of Marketingt for iGoDigital, the leading provider
of personalization services that guide...
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On
the heals of our
Facebook Marketing Guide announcement last month, we wanted to
give as much help as possible jumpstarting your Email + Facebook
marketing efforts. We worked with renowned social media expert
Jay Baer to create
a free eBook for you called: Email + Facebook: Better
Together: Transform your email marketing know-how
into Facebook marketing success.
We’ve packaged up the latest eBook and recorded
webinar to show you how Facebook and email are more alike than
different. In this toolkit you will receive:
- Email + Facebook: Better Together Recorded
Webinar
- Facebook Marketing:...
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Each Thursday at 11 a.m. EDT, marketers from around the world
join the ExactTarget
Nexus partner ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation
about trends and campaign ideas across the interactive marketing
industry. We call the virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
Our guest for a recent #NexusCafe chat
was Joanna Milliken, Director Product Management for
ExactTarget Email. Joanna was one of ExactTarget's first
employees and has contributed to building the organization and has
served many roles throughout her tenure. She is passionate about
email marketing and working with clients. In the chat...
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Each Thursday at 11 a.m. EDT, marketers from around the world
join the ExactTarget
Nexus partner ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation about
trends and campaign ideas across the interactive marketing
industry. We call the virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
Our guest for a recent
#NexusCafe chat was
Rob Massa, Vice President of Sales & Partnerships at
Opt
Intelligence. Rob manages the company's growing direct
sales teams and is responsible for all revenue in the direct sales
division. In the chat we discussed challenges and sercrets to
success with email list growth. Here's a summary of...
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Marketing automation is term that is gaining momentum whether
you are a B2B or a B2C marketer. But what does it mean and
what impact will have on your email and cross-channel marketing
efforts?
Marketing Automation is using a technology platform that
enables you to build content assets such as landing pages, emails,
Facebook tabs, web events, etc. and deliver them to a prospect
and/or customer at a time when it is most relevant to them in their
buying cycle. This "right time" is based on knowing your potential
customer by capturing demographic information, capturing their
interactions with...
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Each Thursday
at 11am EDT, marketers from around the world join the ExactTarget Nexus partner
ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation about trends and campaign
ideas across the interactive marketing industry. We call the
virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
During a recent #NexusCafe chat, we focused on email marketing tips
that are often overlooked or missed. Our guest for the chat was
Jody
Freshwater, account director at MarketNet. Jody has spent
many years working with ExactTarget for her client's interactive
marketing campaigns. She has also volunteered help lead our 3sixty
Live Dallas...
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The ExactTarget Nexus team invites you to participate in our
#NexusCafe Twitter chat this Thursday and every Thursday from
11am-12pm ET, where we discuss emerging topics and trends from
across the interactive marketing world. The virtual coffee chat is
hosted directly on Twitter, hosted by @ETNexus. Follow the
#NexusCafe hashtag and be sure and add the hashtag to your tweet to
participate. The person with the best tweets wins a Starbucks gift
card!
Our guest for the #NexusCafe chat this week is Nate Riggs, director Social Business
at The Karcher Group, a digital
marketing agency that bought...
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What is the difference between a Tab
and a Fan Page? How
is the Social Graph different from Open Graph? Marketers ask us these questions all the time and with
help from folks at Facebook, we put together a Glossary to help you
master the newest Facebook marketing concepts. We hope you find it
useful!
Glossary
Actions and Action Response “AR”
There are a variety of actions within Facebook Ads or Pages
including when a user clicks “Like”, “RSVP” or selects a custom
action. Another way to think of actions is to think of the
traditional “Call-to-Action” like click, call or download. AR
stands for...
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Each Thursday at 11am EDT, marketers from around the world join
theExactTarget
Nexus partner ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation
about trends and campaign ideas across the interactive marketing
industry. We call the virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
Our guest for a recent #NexusCafe chat was Elizabeth Music Industry
Marketing Manager, Retail here at ExactTarget. Elizabeth has
over 7 years of experience in the retail industry with a passion
for helping retailers improve their digital marketing
programs. We discussed how to meet the demands of a
hyper-connected consumer. Here's a summary...
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Each Thursday
at 11am EDT, marketers from around the world join the ExactTarget Nexus partner
ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation about trends and campaign
ideas across the interactive marketing industry. We call the
virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
Our guest for a recent #NexusCafe chat was Jeremy Mayes, account
executive at PPC
Associates. Jeremy has over 15 years of direct marketing
experience with a passion for search engine marketing. We discussed
fundamentals and insights for maximizing your pay-per-click
campaigns. Here's a summary of our discussion:
@ETNexus Q1: What
are some...
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Each Thursday
at 11am EDT, marketers from around the world join the ExactTarget Nexus partner
ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation about trends and campaign
ideas across the interactive marketing industry. We call the
virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
Our guest for a recent #NexusCafe chat was Brian Shelton,
eCommerce & Special Projects Manager at Gilchrist & Soames. Brian
just completed a major website project at his company so content
automation was top of mind. Brian is involved in the 3sixty Live
Indianapolis user community and is a regular contributor to the
weekly #NexusCafe chat.
He...
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Each Thursday at 11am EDT, marketers from around the world join
the ExactTarget Nexus
partner ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation about trends and
campaign ideas across the interactive marketing industry. We
call the virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
During a recent #NexusCafe chat, we discussed the importance of
data in powering interactive marketing. Marketers are under
pressure from tight timelines, working across teams to execute
campaigns. And marketers need accurate, accessible data to segment
relevant, engaging messages to subscribers. During our chat, we
explored the importance...
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The
ExactTarget Nexus team invites you to participate in our #NexusCafe
Twitter chat tomorrow and every Thursday from 11am-12pm ET, where
we discuss emerging topics and trends from across the interactive
marketing world. The virtual coffee chat is hosted directly on
Twitter, hosted by @ETNexus. Follow the #NexusCafe
hashtag and be sure and add the hashtag to your tweet to
participate. The person with the best tweets wins a Starbucks gift
card!
For our upcoming #NexusCafe chat this week, our featured guests
will be the folks from Crown Partners. The team will
join us to talk about how to...
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The
ExactTarget Nexus team invites you to participate in our #NexusCafe
Twitter chat tomorrow and every Thursday from 11am-12pm ET, where
we discuss emerging topics and trends from across the interactive
marketing world. The virtual coffee chat is hosted directly on
Twitter, hosted by @ETNexus. Follow the #NexusCafe
hashtag and be sure and add the hashtag to your tweet to
participate. The person with the best tweets wins a Starbucks gift
card!
This week our #NexusCafe chat will focus on email marketing tips
that are often overlooked. Our guest for the chat is Jody Freshwater,
account director...
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Thanks for the interest and excitement around the launch of
SocialEngage. Hundreds of CoTweet users have already signed
up for the free trial and are up and running. As we get
closer to the Feb. 15 sunset date of the free edition of CoTweet, I
wanted to answer some of the four most commonly asked questions
that have come up about the differences between CoTweet and
SocialEngage. Here’s a quick recap:
What happened to CoTweet?
SocialEngage is the Enterprise Edition of CoTweet with a bunch of
new features. We are sunsetting the free edition of CoTweet.
How is SocialEngage different from the...
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Each Thursday at
11am Eastern, marketers from around the world join the ExactTarget
Nexus partner ecosystem
on Twitter for a conversation about trends and campaign ideas
across the interactive marketing industry. We call the
virtual coffee chat the
Nexus Café.
A recent #NexusCafe chat explored mobile marketing campaigns trends
and technology. We featured two guests from ExactTarget team who
love everything mobile.
R.J. Talyor,
senior director of mobile products, has worked at ExactTarget for
more than 7 years and is focused on mobile campaign offerings.
Melinda
Krueger, senior marketing...
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The
ExactTarget Nexus team invites you to participate in our #NexusCafe
Twitter chat tomorrow and every Thursday from 11am-12pm ET, where
we discuss emerging topics and trends from across the interactive
marketing world. The virtual coffee chat is hosted directly on
Twitter, hosted by
@ETNexus. Follow the #NexusCafe
hashtag and be sure and add the hashtag to your tweet to
participate. The person with the best tweets wins a Starbucks gift
card!
Our guest for this week's #NexusCafe chat is
Stephanie DeWitt,
Database Marketing Strategist at
EmbanetCompass. Having spent many
years in interactive...
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The

ExactTarget Nexus team invites you to participate in our #NexusCafe
Twitter chat tomorrow and every Thursday from 11am-12pm ET, where
we discuss emerging topics and trends from across the interactive
marketing world. The virtual coffee chat is hosted directly on
Twitter, hosted by
@ETNexus. Follow the #NexusCafe
hashtag and be sure and add the hashtag to your tweet to
participate. The person with the best tweets wins a Starbucks gift
card!
Our guest for this week's #NexusCafe chat is Jeremy Mayes, account
executive at
PPC
Associates. Jeremy has over 15 years of direct marketing
experience...
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Recent
legislation passed in
Brazil could result in employers being required
to pay overtime to employees checking email or taking phone calls
after work hours. This law seems to follow some global employers'
efforts to limit the time spent on email while not at work--going
to such extremes as shutting off email servers during non-work
hours. You can read more of the original Mobiledia article that
reported this data
here.
Since much of the non-work email checking takes place on
smartphones, this news feels like a potentail speedbump in the
global acceleration path of mobile email--with many...
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