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Announcing the Competitive Summit

Being a marketer ain’t easy. Tasked with generating demand, marketers have an increasingly fragmented path to success. Whether it’s new ad products, new social channels, or new types of content marketing, CMOs and execs have to understand and execute in a complicated marketing environment. Over the last few years, top tier marketers have reacted to this by relying more heavily than ever on using competitive data to benchmark, track, and optimize their efforts.

As we’ve worked with marketers across the country, we realized that there weren’t any efforts underway to bring forward best practices in how marketers are using competitive intelligence. As a result, we’re excited to announce the first annual Competitive Summit on September 9th in New York City. This one-day summit is bringing together the best minds in marketing to discuss the tools, tips, and tactics to improve marketing across channels from competitive data.

Some of the speakers include Joe Payne (the former CEO of Eloqua), Eric Kuhn (UTA’s Head of Social Media), Darren Herman (the Chief Digital Officer of KBS+P), Jon Brod (the co-founder of Patch.com), and many more. You can check out the full list and all of the details at http://competitivesummit.com/.

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Happy Corgi Friday: Corgis and Ice Cream

Whew. What a hot week! Did anyone else feel like they were constantly wrapped in a uncomfortably warm sweater?

To cool off at the end of this week, we’re probably going to try and hail the Uber Ice Cream truck today too, we’ve dedicated this entire corgi friday post to our furry friends and a cold treat.

Sit back and cool down!

Sometimes you just really need to get every last bit…

Every last bit….

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3 Tricks To Competitively Position Your Brand on Twitter

Coming in with over 400 million users and so many tweets sent out through the day, it’s almost become a standard across all industries to be on Twitter. Whether you are a B2B, B2C, SMB or large enterprise, many of your customers and potential opportunities reside on Twitter. And if your customers and potential opportunities are on Twitter, your competitors are probably in the center of it all with you too. In order to maintain the competitive advantage, your Twitter strategy to conquer the competitors can’t just be to maintain consistant 140 characters there are a few tricks to competitively position your brand to the top.

Creative Voice

Establishing your voice on Twitter is essential and having it remain fluid with your brand is a requirement as well. However, no one wants to listen or talk with someone who is just bland. Take a look at MailChimp, they are champions behind email marketing, a subject that doesn’t necessarily drum up much interest unless you are in marketing. However, who doesn’t like interacting with a funny chimp that will make you smile? People relate to people (or animals) not a brand or company, so making sure you establish a unique or friendly face to your tweets will help improve interactions past your competitors who are stuck focusing on what they are trying to say rather than who they want to speak as.

Check out their Voice & Tone Guide

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Webinar: How To Set Up A Killer Competitive Analysis

It’s becoming increasingly clear that you have to track your competitors as marketers. How do you know how you stack up in your own business landscape? What is working for you vs. your competitors? Are you allocating your marketing efforts and budget in the right channels?

All of these questions are just the start in competitive intelligence, but let’s say you’ve answered all the questions by taking a smart marketing leap in tracking your competitors. What’s next?

After tracking your competitors and obviously monitoring what you are doing yourself, where do you put all of that valuable data you’ve found? How do you make decisions with it? Confused?

Don’t worry we’re here for you and really, the only answer is to set up competitive analysis!

Join us for our webinar on July 24, 2013 at 1pm EST and you’ll learn How To Set Up a Killer Competitive Analysis!