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Become a Master Marketer.
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When Bad Drawings are Good Design
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EMM Director of Content Jesse Webb shares a recent realization he had during a classic game of "Skribbl-io" that sheds meaningful light on the difference between good design...and effective design.
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What I learned from our clients in 2021
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EMM Founder and CEO Lori Stutsman reflects on 2021 and flips the script, sharing what she learned from her clients and not the other way around.
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Finastra Thought Leadership
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Finastra showcased their services and expertise by using EMM's Thought Leadership Package consisting of an eBook, video, infographic and three blog posts.
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3 things I taught my Dad about LinkedIn over the holidays
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LinkedIn has changed nearly every aspect of the modern business landscape. Read more to understand how.
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4 Phrases That Make Us Scream, and How to Rewrite Them
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We've all grown tired of some of the repetitive language that we've heard over and over during the pandemic. Read a few tips on how to move on from a few phrases that have overstayed their welcome!
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Cultivating Luck With a Meticulous Marketing Strategy
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Good marketing requires a pattern of strategic decision making that creates luck. Marketing is both an art form and a science. It requires both creativity and organization - a sense of freshness where innovat…
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QorusDocs Website Revamp
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QorusDocs, a proposal management software company, had recently completed a brand refresh and sought to make their website and internal messaging match to present a solid, unified brand.
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eBooks and Infographics for Microsoft Partner Network
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Tech companies often find it difficult to convey complex and abstract technical solutions, like cloud-based retail execution and other SaaS products, in a way that's interesting and engaging. Finding a solution…
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Launching a Healthcare Network
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EMM partnered with Eastside Health Network to spread awareness and understanding of the services they provide through social media posts, a short video, and a messaging framework.
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6 Things You Need to Know About Product Marketing a New Brand
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Don’t start building your brand until you’ve considered these six essential steps.
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Video Series and Social Campaign for Microsoft USPG
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EMM drafted a messaging framework for each of the 4 technologies promoted in the campaign: Azure, Dynamics 365, Customers for Life, and Modern Workplace. Then, we crafted a set of animated videos, along with s…
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Producing an Attention-Grabbing Video Series: QorusDocs
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EMM produced a series of 5 thought leadership videos featuring QorusDocs CEO Ray Meiring.
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Protecting Your Professional Peace in 2021
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It’s officially been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Even for those of us privileged enough to work from home, things have changed immensely. So how exactly do you keep your professional peace in 2021…
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Avoiding work-from-home burnout in the New Year
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As we all look back on this wild year, let's take with us some helpful habits picked up in 2020 that will us all be successful in 2021:
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The ‘A-ha!’ moment is the key to great thought leadership
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When’s the last time you had an ‘a-ha!’ moment?
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Reach New Customers With Video
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Your next amazing video is right around the corner. Here's how to make the most of it.
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Microsoft and Cloudera Virtual Messaging Workshop
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Cloudera is launching a new public cloud version of its data & analytics platform built on Microsoft Azure.
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Friends of Youth Virtual Fundraiser
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After extensive planning for the 15th annual Celebration of Youth, their biggest fundraising event of the year, Friends of Youth was forced to go virtual in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Marketing in a COVID-19 World: 5 Ways to Build Your Business in Today’s Environment.
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Learn 5 ways to build your business in today's environment.
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Racism and a Feeling of Helplessness
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A Message from our CEO, Lori Stutsman.
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Building Your Marketing Foundation with a Comprehensive Messaging Framework
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When we think of strong marketing, we think of a well-built house. And the most critical component of every house is the foundation, just as every marketing campaign relies on the Messaging Framework.
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HPE Thought Leadership Blogs
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To help buyers understand the solutions that drive business growth, HPE engaged Extra Mile Marketing to compose a series of blogs that make the complicated technology of server storage accessible to decision ma…
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Enrich Your Pitch
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Pitch decks are one of your most important business development tools--so why do they always look the same? Learn some tips and ticks to make stand out pitch decks from Jessica Stevenson, Project Manager.
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Lost in Translation
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Marketing can be a game of telephone—especially if you’re marketing through a channel.
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TierPoint Healthcare Campaign
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As a leader for secure, cloud-based solutions, TierPoint wanted to expand their digital transformation services to include Healthcare. The team was looking for a creative and fresh way to market themselves and …
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Thought Leadership Campaign For Insurance Solutions
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Pyramid Solutions was set to launch a new insurance offering, and engaged Extra Mile Marketing to build and awareness in market through a diverse collection of thought leadership content.
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Speaking in Gobbledygook - How Jargon Affects Relationships With Your Clients
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C-level audience members are accustomed to feeling like the smartest person in the room. You can easily alienate them if you use language that they don’t understand. There is no quicker way to ensure you will n…
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Winning the Internet: 3 Essential Steps to Nailing Your Next Social Media Campaign
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Social media is also a modern language for companies around the world—it’s a way to communicate and bond with customers, on a local and global scale. Because of this, strong social campaigns have the power to t…
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TierPoint Managed Office 365 + EMS
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TierPoint wanted to promote their managed Office 365 service while highlighting the new Enterprise Mobiliy + Security feature included in the Microsoft product. Extra Mile Marketing developed a content marketin…
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Microsoft 365 Website & Customer Journey
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Microsoft needed to simplify and refine their direct-to-customer (DTC) web experience for Microsoft 365, a solution that brings together Office 365, Enterprise Mobility & Security and Windows 10.
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Cedar View Dental Social Media
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Cedar View Dental, with over a decade of dental expertise under their belt, had a substantial following on social media, but gaps in engagement and reviews on various platforms. Dr. Brad Jonnes, D.D.S. present…
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Vary the Lede: The First Rule of Content Marketing
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The skill of condensing your message into an addicting morsel of information is crucial in content marketing. You’ve got 8 seconds to grab a reader’s attention online. That’s 8 seconds to convince your audience…
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Think Like A Dinosaur
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Modern companies should remember the dinosaurs and the unique traits that allowed them to survive—and thrive—even as the world rapidly changed around them. That means being adaptable, global, multi-faceted, div…
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Cedar View Dental Reaches New Patients with an Enhanced Website Experience and Social Media Campaign
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Cedar View Dental sought to take their practice to the next level, generate new patients, and achieve an enhanced online patient experience. Extra Mile Marketing helped achieve this goal with a state-of-the-art…
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CherrCo Raises Brand Awareness with Website Revamp and Go-to-Market Strategy
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CherrCo engaged Extra Mile Marketing to develop new branding, design a new website, and execute a comprehensive marketing and sales plan targeted towards commercial markets and end-consumers.
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5 Must-Have Elements for Your B2B Blog
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If you're writing a blog for your company, be sure it incorporates these crucial elements to expand your readership and to leverage the content to achieve your unique goals.
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9 Questions to Ask Your Website Developer
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Do you know the true cost of an inexpensive website? Before you hire an agency to create or rebuild your number one marketing tool, consider these 9 questions to ensure everything is firing on all cylinders "un…
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4 Lead Gen Tactics For B2B Success
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How B2B companies can take a lesson from the consumer side of business to fix their customer journey, generate qualified leads, and close more sales.
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The Rise of Influencer Marketing
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It started with word-of-mouth. Then came brand ambassadors. Today, it’s known as influencer marketing. But what does that really mean? It boils down to a simple concept: people trust people. Here's some tips fo…
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What's New in Partner Marketing?
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How top performing channel partners are adapting their marketing to speak to the new owner of the tech budget: the Line-of-Business executive.
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Avanade Thought Leadership Blogs
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As a leader in several industries, Avanade wanted to show their thought leadership and engaged Extra Mile Marketing to ghostwrite a series of blogs on the future of technology in the insurance, banking, and hea…
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Strata Law Group Launches a new website, with a focus on content marketing
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Strata Law Group, one of Seattle’s leading family law firms engaged EMM to build content to enhance their website. They also had us move their site from a difficult platform to an easy-to-use platform with a bu…
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Revamping our website to reach today's businesses
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Extra Mile Marketing launches a brand new website with interactive features and best practices in web design.
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The Experimental Mindset: Turn Analytics into Strategy
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How to paint a complete picture of your marketing campaigns through data analytics.
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Add Oomph To Your Office 365 Landing Page
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4 must-have elements for your O365 Landing Page
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Microsoft Facebook Campaign Exceeds Benchmarks
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Microsoft Community Connections engaged EMM to conduct a paid media campaign on Facebook targeting Microsoft partners.
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Building Brand Loyalty: Digital Marketing or Live Events?
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With increasingly fierce competition in almost every industry, differentiating yourself is crucial. One of the biggest benefits to participating in, or hosting, an event is that you can share your story and cre…
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Connect and Engage: Tips for a Successful B2B Facebook Campaign
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Creating an effective Facebook campaign takes more than writing copy and designing compelling images. Learn how to strategize the Extra Mile Way with Abbie's easy-to-follow checklist.
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TierPoint Omaha Event
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TierPoint partners with Extra Mile Marketing to create a memorable 2016 Security Summit
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HPE Launches Rack and Power Infrastructure Tool
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise engaged EMM to develop a tool that would increase rack and power infrastructure sales.
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Infographic on Infographics
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Communicating visually with your audience with infographics.
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What are These Marketing Personas Anyway?
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If someone were to ask you to describe your target audience, what would you say? Would you be specific or broad?
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TierPoint Launches Office 365 with an Engaging Email Campaign
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Extra Mile Marketing worked with TierPoint to develop engaging materials for the launch of their Office 365 offering.
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Tips for Creating an Effective Omni-Channel Marketing Strategy
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Personalize your marketing experience for your customers and prospects with omni-channel marketing.
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Capitalizing on Each Generation's Strengths for Effective Marketing
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One big challenge facing most organizations today is the diversity of generations in the workforce (Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials) and how each generation views and consumes technology.
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Dell Launches its Second Microsoft Azure Service Offering
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Dell reached out to EMM, who was part of the original launch, to create sales materials for Dell’s internal sales teams and customers for their Microsoft Azure Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) offer…
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Dell's Microsoft Office 365 goes worldwide
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Solution Sheets and Battlecards in multiple languages offered through Microsoft Office 365.
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1 in 20,000: A Simple Test to See if your Company Stands Out From the Crowd
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In marketing, your value proposition should be at the heart of all your storytelling and the theme that guides all of your sales and marketing efforts.
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Is Your Website Content Up-To-Date?
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Having an outdated, cluttered, hard to read, or overwhelming site makes for a poor customer experience and possibly a loss in business. In addition, broken links and missing pages can leave a bad impression.
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Creating a Compelling Landing Page
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A well-crafted landing page should also generate more qualified leads than your generic website, while also improving your search page ranking and increasing organic traffic.
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Take a Customer Journey to Accelerate Your Sales
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The cloud services customer journey is complex, so it’s important to focus on the key moments that can help inspire people to buy your product or service.
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Building a Better Target Audience
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As the marketing field matures, there is a need to drive not just leads, but strong, qualified leads. To help with this, the EMM team has been working with our clients to create full marketing personas, so we m…
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Best Practices in Marketing Webinar Series for Microsoft Partners
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EMM created a series of content and instructional videos to help Microsoft partners with SEO/SEM, nurture marketing, hosting events, increasing ROI, social, and digital marketing. Assets included sales tools, w…
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Microsoft Supports Partners with Azure Scenarios
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Understanding Azure scenarios make for better sales materials.
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Sales Training Materials Help Datapipe's Sales Team Prepare for Microsoft Azure Launch
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EMM creates strong sales materials leading to successful product launch.
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Dell Initiates Microsoft Azure Services Offerings
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Solution sheets, battlecards, and a unique customer giveaway helped Dell with a successful product launch.
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Rackspace launches Fanatical Support® for Microsoft® Azure™
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Rackspace hired Extra Mile Marketing (EMM) to help with their launch, focusing on the selling strategy and sales materials for the new service offering with Fanatical Support® for Microsoft® Azure™.
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Office 365 Partner Marketing Assets for New Features
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Office 365 sales and marketing materials help Microsoft Partners promote new features for E5 SKU.
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Microsoft Launches Online Marketing Planner for Partners
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Microsoft partners can create a comprehensive marketing plan with an online tool created by the EMM team.
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Right Networks Promotes Office 365 Ad to 22,000 QuickBooks Users
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Right Networks markets Office 365 in the first non-Intuit affiliated ad, sending to 22,000 QuickBooks check users.
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Telmex Launches Office 365
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Wanting guidance on creating an industry leading Office 365 microsite, Telmex asked EMM to review their landing site, provide insights on industry standards and best practices, and help them design a new landin…
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SherWeb Customer Journey Assessment
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EMM performed an Office 365 Customer Journey Assessment, reviewing SherWeb’s CSP reseller and direct-to-consumer programs.
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EMM Creates Office 365 Sales Materials for a Spanish-speaking Audience
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EMM creates Office 365 sales materials for Wingu Networks, targeting a Spanish-speaking audience.
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Giacom Customer Journey Assessment for Office 365
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EMM finds new ways to maximize the Giacom website and re-seller journey.
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Microsoft Office 365 Partner Marketing Handbook
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Microsoft’s hosting team commissioned EMM to develop a marketing handbook to help Microsoft CSP hosting partners sell Office 365.
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EMM Trains Partners For Microsoft’s SMB Live
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EMM creates an interactive marketing workshop, along with an instructor guidebook and event kit for Microsoft's SMB Live roadshow.
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Rackspace Windows Infrastructure Widget
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EMM partners to design and build a widget tool for Windows infrastructure