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What is the best day of the week / time of day to send an email? How often should the company send email to its subscribers?

How do you know what to focus on with a company that sells multiple products in different categories? Do you market your brand or your product? 

Are there any specific websites or outside agencies that you recommend for measuring email metrics? I've used constant contact with my current job but was wondering what else was out there or if there is a better one to use.

How we use brand persona on social media to benefit in marketing?

How do you get potential customers to keep going to your site without being an annoyance?

How do businesses determine what the best key words are and what isn't already being used to achieve the biggest audience?

What do you consider to be the best form of inbound marketing? What is the best content?

Is there an easy or possible way a brand could target a large audience with different interests while sticking to a theme in their online advertising?

My company is GE and the trouble I'm finding with them is that they are involved in more than 60 different services and products. How does a company that large narrow down advertising? Do big compaines like them typically have in-house advertising, or do they advertise their most profitable businesses?

What are the best ways for identifying key words that my brand should be targeting?

about choose sites for my brand, i confuse wich sites fit best buy

How do I get potential customers to keep visiting my site without being an annoyance?

How do I get potential customers to keep visiting my site without being an annoyance?

Do you think that social media marketing can get too personalized and/or intrusive? In an article called, "10 Laws of Social Media marketing," one of them is doing a lot of listening to your audience, and payign attention to what they post. But I have gone nto stores, give them my email address for a coupon, and next thing you know I'm on YouTube on my phone, and an ad pops up for the store I was just in. So where is that line of being too exact for your target audience of giving them personalized marketing?

What are good tactics to get people to open emails from companies trying to market their products and services without it being seen as spam and annoying?

I know we should post stuff about our class in our Pintrest board, but what exactly should we put?

On FedEx website, they give lots of advice about small business. However, how to track FedEx users to read these posts?

How do you suggest successfully using online advertising for my company? I have Boeing and they are not exaclty trying to sell airplanes to the every day consumer so I find it hard to believe that online advertising would be beneficial.

I work for a small business and am building a simple website using Wix. How do I know if I am using optimal SEO and how long does it usually take to show up in search results?

What is the most difficult aspect of targeting your audience and how can one successfully overcome this obstacle?

What do you think the best way to get people to actually stay on your website and browse your products/services is?

I got question about this week's assignment, when I enter my email at Persona, I can't recieve any document. So I can get the provement of my Persona. Can I get a screen shot to replace it?

My brand is Baidu. It is original a search engine website. So how can I write particular content in the SEO part of the assignment?

My company Morgan Stanley doesn’t really fall into the conventional pinterest page category because it doesn’t have a ton of pictures to re-pin about it. Granted I’m still getting acclimatized and working out some final bugs, but are wordy pins about finance tips mixed in with pictures I can find ok to have as the meat and potatoes of my page or will those be looked down on and should I focus on pictures?  

My brand is the Home Depot and they seem to utilize online social media pretty successfully. However, I have been signed up on their email marketing list and have created an online account. I've even made purchases online, yet the emails I receive are still relatively generic. Is there a way to make these more customized for consumers? Is this costly and time consuming that bigger companies disregard personlizing content? 

How can I attract customers to my place of business, without being pushy and annoying?

I find that a lot of times when I'm checking my email I will just go through and delete the emails I have from unknown senders especially if it is from a company doing email marketing. What are some good methods for actually getting people to open and read these emails rather than sending them straight into the junk bin? What are good techniques to differentiate your emails from another company's email marketing?

For company such as Lockheed Martin who specialized in global defense and areospace. How can you expand the target audience to be nore involved in the company rather than the small target audience such as commericial agencies, governments and informational technology company?

My company is Staples a store with mainly office supplies. Staples sells more than office supplies though and their target audience probably already receives enough traffic from natural search and TV commercials. Why would a company consider paying for Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads? Also, if someone has a small business, nothing like the size of Staples, in a specific geographic area, can PPC advertising bring them business? Is Geo-targeting the best way to go about it?

I believe that hiring out a website is always better visually whether it be for a protfilio or for a corporation. These premade websites are, however, are very nice for people that do not have the knowledge for creating a website. Sites like Word press have a very nice selections of designs, layouts, and other features people will look for. Along with these it is predesigned to fit on multiple devices and loyouts which is very nice fr people without knowledge of webdesign.  

What is effective way to attract people's attention?

Can I get more clarification about the difference between inbound marketing and content marketing?

how can you make your customers become your promoter?

With inbound marketing, you are pushing out content that potentially may attract strangers into leads in a certain target market. Would you reccomend for brands who are in competition with similar brands to push out content that only promotes their own brand, or does it help to write content that talks about the negatives of the competing brand? Would these "strangers" who view your content turn away from your marketing? 

Whats the main differences between inbound marketing and content marketing. I know they both involve different levels of interaction with the audiences. But can they be differenciated by other metrics?

Is it feasible for any company to have a popular blog? It seems like certain companies would have a hard time writing a blog that is interesting and relevant to the company itself, such as an insurance company. Also with all the blogs and articles out there it seems like it would get lost in the mix. How do you advertise for a blog?

I've noticed that a recent trend for websites that publish articles composed of short lists, such as buzzfeed, is having companies sponsor an article that they've published.  With this being said, do you think that as time goes on, companies will try make their content as short as possible just so their audience doesn't get bored?

All of the brands that our class is working on are part of huge companies, which usually indicates a large digital media budget. While big budgets are great, we won't always get to work with them. Do you have any tips for a local brand with a small budget? How can someone with just a few hundred or thousand dollars really stretch their money?

If I wanted to get certified with Google Adwords, would I need to find an agency that is a Google Partner to conduct it through?

My company is Delta airlines, they rarely use their blog. It's only updated about monthly, or even just every few months. How can they start to build a base on their blog? Blog's are not commonly followed like how Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are. In what way can they attract more consumers to their blog, but still keeping their blog, simple and easy to search. 

How can one incorporate images from image based websites  (Imgur, Flikr, Tumblr, etc.) into effective marketing strategies? Can we use their images in our marketing approaches, if cited correctly, to appeal to a different audience? 

if a brand did not have a lot of money to public thire adv, how can track peoples eyes?

how can people created thire  fan page and let people follow you a lot?

Should we still build facebook fan page?

People right now are into images and they are quick readers, for example, they like Instagram, Flicker, they always twit a short message, what changes we need to make in creating good contents?

My company is ALDI. They have a very strong website blog. I shop at ALDI quite frequently (as do my friends and family members). Up until I started doing indepth research on the company's website this semester I had no idea that the blog even existed- nor did any of my friends or family. How necessary is it that a company (particularly grocery stores/restaurants) has a blog? I feel as if not many people know they exist.

One of the questions you answered this week pertained to premade templates, such as Squarespace and IWeb. What are these two things and what should we know about them in regard to this class?

Is there any way to avoid those big price key words for search engine marketing while still using efficient phrases? If not, Is there any way to determine whether or not these words may be a good investment? Does Google offer resources that show effectiveness of particular phrases?

For email marketing, I think customers only care about special deals and always consider most of emails are junk. How can you avoid that？