In this episode of "TM Top 3," Taylor Knight reviews the top marketing tips, tools and news from Target Marketing posts this week, including B2B marketing jokes; Google's firing of an engineer who authored a sexist viral memo; and the success of billboards.

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Are social marketing strategies in the B2B and B2C worlds converging? In some ways, yes, according to today's infographic. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

You should avoid using acronyms, emojis, memes, GIFs, and all-caps in your work emails if you want to come across as serious, intelligent, trustworthy, and professional to your co-workers, according to recent research from Fundera. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

Drawing inspiration from some of the brightest B2B content marketers, here are five ways to help solve the problem of planning your content marketing and elevating the content experience of your customers to meet their evolving expectations. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

Want to up your productivity at work? Look around you. Your environment and work habits have a big impact on how efficient you are. Check out this infographic for some easy-to-implement tips to boost productivity. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

Unclear about what transparent SSL and HTTPS are, how they affect your website, and why you should think about them before October this year? Check out this infographic for the details. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

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Imagine graduating from college with a marketing degree and being able to immediately function as a marketer in most any company or situation. Education has forever grappled with the the "theory vs. practice" problem. Here's how to balance the two approaches. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

The Millennial market: such a tempting conquest, yet so frustrating to conquer. Connecting with this elusive and lucrative demographic is not easy. Here are four major insights to help you market to--and win over--this tough crowd. Read the full article at MarketingProfs

The new ABM order consolidates your more conventional marketing segments (industry, product/solution, marketing channels, etc.) into one living and breathing target of focus. In essence, each one of your accounts is a nation on its own, made up of individual citizens available to you in the form of company contacts. From here on, we marketers know that to get ahead of our competition and target these accounts and contacts effectively, we must “obsess” about the language of our customers. So let's get down to business.

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