Ben Cotton

Marketing Manager with a passion for inbound at HubSpot, Founder of Growth Hack Talks, Blogger at Ben-Cotton.com and Chief Quaffer at CraftySwine.org .

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
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Establishing an Influencer Engagement Scorecard

During my career I’ve been tasked with developing and implementing many influencer engagement programmes across a range of industries including alcohol, energy and computer software. One of the commonalities More...

Creative Students
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, October 27th, 2012
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Tips for PR Students: Creativity [PART 4]

This is the fourth and final ‘Tips for PR Students’ post and looks at people who have done something a little out of the ordinary in order to land a job. I’m a firm believer that the CV will not die anytime More...

Tips for Students
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, October 20th, 2012
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Tips for PR Students: Digital & Social Media Knowledge [PART 3]

From my experience a good working knowledge of digital and social media is not only desirable, but increasingly a ‘must have’ for new recruits. It’s importance has grown hugely over the last decade and this More...

By Ben Cotton On Thursday, October 18th, 2012
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Day Two #WebSummit Reflections

So that’s it for this year; the Dublin Web Summit has now closed. I had a great time at the RDS today and was busy networking, observing and learning. The highlights for me were Victoria Ransom, Founder and CEO More...

Dublin Web Summit pass
By Ben Cotton On Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
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First Day Reflections from #WebSummit

I’ve just got home from day one of the Dublin Web Summit and thought it would be a good idea to record some of my reflections whilst they are still fresh in my mind. My initial impression of DWS was very strong More...

PR Students
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, October 13th, 2012
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Tips for PR Students: Personal SEO [PART 2]

The modern day job interview no longer begins with a handshake. Instead, it now starts way before that with a Google search. Typically, potential employers will type in your name and ‘PR’ or related areas, see More...

PR
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, October 6th, 2012
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Tips for PR Students: Work Experience [PART 1]

Anecdotally, I know this blog receives a lot of traffic from PR students and the most popular posts typically have a student or employability angle; so I’ve decided to dedicate the whole of October on SWT to PR More...

Eloqua
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, September 29th, 2012
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Anatomy of a Perfect B2B Blog Post [INFOGRAPHIC]

Anyone who reads this blog will know I’m a big fan of Eloqua and the great work they do, and that I have a huge interest in the value businesses can gain from blogging; so I was delighted to receive this infographic More...

Communications Measurement
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
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Measuring Outputs, Outtakes & Outcomes

I’ve been working in Communications for several years now and during this period I have helped develop and implement many programmes across a range of industries, but amongst all the excitement around creative More...

Sales
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, September 15th, 2012
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Why Blogging Boosts Lead Generation

I’m currently on holiday in Seattle for two weeks, so here’s a great blog post by Jesse Noyes, who is Managing Editor at the excellent Eloqua, a company providing modern marketing expertise. There’s More...

Chill Insurance HQ
By Ben Cotton On Saturday, September 1st, 2012
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A New Challenge @Chill_Insurance

I’m delighted to say that I’ve now begun my role as Digital & Social Media Marketing Manager at Chill Insurance. After 2 ½ great years at Edelman Digital I’m eager to get cracking on this new More...

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