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Trick or treating took an Orange twist at ExactTarget on Wednesday for Halloween. The ExactFun team hosted its first annual FaceBOOk Costume Contest. It wasn’t just about the costumes, though. It wouldn’t be Halloween without treats, so ExactFun invited Scout’s Treats to join us at all three downtown Indianapolis offices.
The offices were filled with everything from superheroes to Scott Dorsey impersonators – or are they the same thing? Marty McFly even traveled ahead in time to join us for our celebration as well. To top it all off, we found out that The Most Interesting Man in the World...
Read More »Last week we had the opportunity to speak with Tim Kopp, ExactTarget’s Chief Marketing Officer, on corporate marketing strategy. In an ever-changing digital marketing environment, Tim shared his thoughts on developing an effective marketing strategy and making adaptations to position for changes in the marketplace. A summary of the conversation is below:
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Each
week, marketers from around the world join the
ExactTarget Nexus partner ecosystem on Twitter for a
conversation about trends and best practices in the interactive
marketing industry. We call the virtual coffee chat the
Nexus
Café.Recently we chatted with Eric Hannon, Product Manager, and R.J. Talyor, Product Marketing Director, about cross-channel marketing. With an ever changing digital marketing environment, it’s no longer possible to operate marketing campaigns in silos. Our chat focused on how to best engage customers through integrated communication channels. Below is a summary...Read More »
Last week we chatted with Kyle Lacy, Principle at Mindframe and author of Twitter Marketing for Dummies and Branding Yourself. Our discussion focused on brand storytelling, and how companies can better communicate with their customers through use of stories. A summary of our conversation is included below:
@ETNexus: Storytelling is an art. Do you agree?
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Each
week, marketers from around the world join the
ExactTarget Nexus partner ecosystem on Twitter for a
conversation about trends and best practices in the interactive
marketing industry. We call the virtual coffee chat the
Nexus
Café.On July 14th, we had the opportunity to chat with a team of marketers from Brand Muscle, an ExactTarget partner, that helps companies that sell their products or services through a distributed network of local stakeholders, field marketing professionals, or channel partners achieve extraordinary enterprise-wide marketing performance and accelerated revenue...Read More »
The ExactTarget Nexus team would like to invite you to participate in our #NexusCafe chat tomorrow and every Thursday from 11am-12pm ET, where we discuss emerging topics and trends from across the digital marketing world. Tomorrow we’ll be chatting with Kyle Lacy, Principal at Mindframe and author of “Twitter Marketing for Dummies.” Our discussion will focus on the art of storytelling, and how marketers can best convey their story through social media. In this chat we’ll explore how brands can tell an effective story through their marketing efforts.
Last week we had the opportunity to chat with Jay Jhun (@emailrocks), Director of Email Services at Engauge, an ExactTargetpartner. With 16% of smartphone users saying they’ve made a purchase as the result of a marketing message they received on their phone, we wanted to discuss how to capture that momentum to drive purchase behavior through innovative...Read More »
Each
week, marketers from around the world join the
ExactTarget Nexus partner ecosystem on Twitter for a
conversation about trends and best practices in the interactive
marketing industry. We call the virtual coffee chat the
Nexus
Café.On Thursday, June 30th, we had the opportunity to chat with Chris Timman and Ali Margello from HyperDrive Interactive, an interactive marketing and consulting firm, and an ExactTarget partner. The topic of our discussion was “The Death of Batch and Blast,” which focused on how leveraging relevant and personalized content can drive engagement with customers...Read More »
Last Thursday’s chat featured Caleb Williams, a Technical Marketer from Zondervan Publishers, an ExactTarget client. Caleb shared some insights on marketing automation and the ability to enable automated comprehensive user experiences through marketing platforms. A summary of the conversation is below:
@ETNexus: What is your process for improving emails... Read More »
Jay Baer, a social media strategy consultant from Convince & Convert, joined us for our most highly-attended #NexusCafe chat last week to discuss social media measurement. Jay is a renowned speaker and social media expert, having written several books, including The NOW Revolution. A signed copy of his book was given to 6 of this week’s most active #NexusCaf... Read More »
Our most recent chat centered around corporate blogging. With so many areas to touch upon (content, frequency, readers, RSS, mobile optimization), the discussion was very informative for any marketer looking to expand the relevancy and popularity of their blog. Below is a summary of the discussion:
@ETNexus: Which corporate blogs do you follow and why?... Read More »
Each
week, marketers from around the world join the ExactTarget Nexus
partner ecosystem on Twitter for a conversation about trends and
best practices in the interactive marketing industry. We call
the virtual coffee chat the Nexus Café.
Our recent chat focused on summer interactive marketing campaigns and how to reengage subscribers as they spend more time outside and less time in front of their televisions or computers. With consumers busy with summer vacations, sports, concerts, and festivals, many brands are choosing to take their message to the streets, attempting to shift their messages...
Read More »Josh Plaskoff is a learning and organizational strategist with 20 years of experience working with cultivating communities in the workplace. He joined ExactTarget last summer as a Senior Manager of User Community Enablement. In that role he focuses on nurturing participation and connection through development of the 3Sixty platform, 3Sixty Live, and other...Read More »
John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing, recently wrote about “Color as a Branding Element.” Included is a podcast interview with Kate Smith, the editor of Sensational Color, which discusses the role color plays in the corporate world, and the meanings consumers associate with them. During the interview she stated, “Color is the most powerful non-verbal element that a business has available to visually and emotionally connect with their customers.”
Here are Kate’s five basic steps to identifying the right color(s) for your business:
- Start by selecting a palette of colors. Keep in mind...
Tasks like these are by and large my favorites, because they provide me great insight into what makes...Read More »
My inaugural blog post
is a follow-up of
Katie Lindahl's recent post highlighting some quotes from
ExactTarget's summer interns. I have only been working at ET
for five weeks now, but I wanted to expand upon of few of the
things that make ExactTarget THE place to start/enhance your
career. Here are my top five highlights thus far:
5. Downtown Indy- ET Headquarters is right in the heart of Indianapolis, with Monument Circle always buzzing with different activities almost every day. With lots of restaurants to choose from, I couldn’t imagine a better setting for a positive, exciting work...
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