Sat.Mar 17, 2012 - Fri.Mar 23, 2012

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The Death of Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC)

Tomorrow People

Is PPC past its Sell By date? For something that’s been around for just a few years, PayPer Click advertising , or PPC has become an established part of online marketing for many companies. Put simply, “Paid search marketing is the process of gaining traffic by purchasing ads on search engines. It is sometimes referred to as CPC (cost-per-click) or PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because most search ads are sold on a CPC / PPC basis.

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Webinar Invitations: Sell the Event, Not the Product

The Point

Easily the #1 mistake that tech companies make when promoting Webinars is that they forget that they’re selling an event. In order for a prospect or customer to register for your event, it’s critical that your email invitation convince him/her that the benefits of attending the Webinar make the investment in time worthwhile. Unfortunately, many tech marketers use Webinar invitations as simply a vehicle to preach the virtues of their product, whilst the actual offer (the Webinar) is an afterthoug

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New Infographic: B2B Lead Generation & Content Marketing Trends

NuSpark Consulting

Presenting my first infographic. The infographic summarizes key data from a variety of research reports covering B2B and technology lead generation, media strategy, and content marketing trends, from initial solution research to lead nurturing. The research was comprehensive; and all had varying respondent demographics. My goal was to seek out the best of the best, repurpose each research chart into a custom chart using the tool located at www.icharts.net , and present the trends in an orderly

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The State of Demand Generation

The Effective Marketer

If you missed the DemandCon Conference hosted earlier this month in San Francisco, the online recording of the sessions is worth checking out. BrightTalk did an excellent job with the recordings and is making all of them available for free on their website. There are over 20 presentations available, ranging from Social CRM and Lead Generation, to Case Studies and Sales Enablement.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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The Death of Website Design

Tomorrow People

Is this the end for website design? Recent research revealed that more than half of UK businesses with fewer than 50 employees do not have a website. Of these, 58% believe that they don’t need one (Source: Serif). This is surprising at a time when £1 in every £10 is spent online (Source: Office of National Statistics) and when 78% of internet users conduct product research on the internet (Source: Hubspot).

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3 Easy Questions To Answer For Your First Blog Post

Marketing Insider Group

Last week I wrote about the biggest reasons people don’t do social media. The majority of respondents to my highly unscientific poll stated lack of time, uncertainty of the value and not being sure what to say. Now I’ve written before about the business value of blogging and how marketers need to get social , find the time for blogging , twitter and other social tools.

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Your Top Priority Is Growing The SMB Revenue Base – Now What?

Tony Zambito

Do Your Research Before You Pick Up The Phone © All Rights Reserved Kenny Madden. This is part 1 of a series on the challenge of targeting SMB markets and how the use of target buyer modeling and buyer-based marketing help organizations to grow their SMB customer base. . As we continue to come out of the deep freeze over the last few years, we are beginning to see encouraging signs of an economic recovery.

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Extended Video “How To Use Google+ For Business” Tutorial

Biznology

Google Plus (Photo credit: ivanpw). I really felt like I needed to rush it through our recent free 30-minute How to Use Google+ for Business Webinar and that made me sad–there is so much there–so I sat down and used my trusty copy of Camtasia to record just about everything I know to the tune of 80-minutes of (obviously unscripted) tutorial on how to use Google+ for business, because there is so much depth to what can be done that I couldn’t get into a 30-minute Webinar.

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How to write blog posts from a white paper

Chris Koch

If you’re a corporate marketer like me, no doubt you’ve been put in the situation I faced this week: you have a white paper that an external content person created for the company and now you need to make that content social. It’s an important part of social media management. Let’s face it, there are some B2B executives who wouldn’t read a white paper even if you threatened them with lima beans (what, you like lima beans?

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Sales and Marketing Alignment: How to Sell To A Sales Person

Marketing Insider Group

Sales and Marketing alignment continues to be a major issue for both sides. Marketing often seeks to drive long term while also helping sales has to hit their quarterly numbers. But the balance can be delicate at times, to say the least. At some point, we need to sit down and have a conversation about how we are going to help each other sell more stuff, to more buyers, at a higher price in a way that helps our customers.

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Online Persuasion: Seeing Through the Eyes of Customers

Writing on the Web

There’s an important shift in content marketing tactics that affects professionals who want to get found, get known and get clients online. And that shift means a different mindset. Not too long ago I came across a great blog post. There was a picture of a pair of glasses lying on a bench with this caption: Don’t you wish you could see through your customers’ glasses?

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Don’t Blame Me!

ANNUITAS

I just got done reading a Net-Results blog post that quoted John Common , CEO of Intelligent Demand who stated the following about marketing automation: “It is a disruptive technology in that it forces a company to think differently about its most important process: revenue creation. This is a good thing! At most companies today, marketing and sales are working from an outdated playbook that was written back when interruptive, batch-and-blast, product-focused, hunch-based marketing actually work

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What Will Marketing Look Like in 2030?

Digital B2B Marketing

We just welcomed our third son, Caleb, into our family. Over the last few months, I have been thinking about the world he is coming in to, how it is changing and what marketing, one of my focuses, will look like as grows up. Innovation is happening so quickly that predictions like this are a fool’s errand, but for the sake of Caleb and discussion, here are trends I see that I believe will continue to carry through the next 18 years.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Why Create Content Like a Publisher?

Avitage

When you hear the phrase “think like a publisher,” what does this mean to you? Why do you think you should think like a publisher? How would you explain this concept to your colleagues or managers? Perhaps most importantly, what would you do differently if you and your organization were to create content like publishers? For most people I speak with, they have a good, level one understanding: They can “become the media” and leverage the internet to “publish” c

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Marketing is so much more than advertising

Biznology

(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife). My wife and I had dinner with a couple we know not long ago and during the meal, the topic shifted to our respective jobs. The folks we were with are both successful business people; he runs a small business, she’s an operations executive. And both talked about how successful their respective companies performed, “without marketing.” Without marketing?

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Did The New York Times Purposely Fuel the Goldman Controversy?

Marketing Craftmanship

A Compromised Value Proposition? If the biggest loser in disgruntled employee Greg Smith’s recent OpEd piece was Goldman Sachs, then the apparent winner in this high-profile media sideshow was The New York Times. Rarely has an opinion piece on any topic, published in any major newspaper or periodical, attracted so much attention and controversy. The veracity of Mr.

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Inbound Marketing for B2B: Discussion Recap

Digital B2B Marketing

Inbound marketing is a clear trend in B2B marketing. In fact, Sirius Decisions, a research firm focused on B2B markets, predicts more than 75% of leads will be sourced through inbound channels by 2015. What are the key challenges to B2B inbound marketing, how does inbound marketing change the type of content B2B marketers need to create and what tools are critical to inbound marketing?

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How to Blog: How Often Should I Blog?

B2B Marketing Traction

How often should you write and publish blog posts to get results from your blog? The answer depends on how competitive your industry is, what kind of results you want, and how much time resource you have to devote to blogging. What results do you want from your blog? If you are writing your blog to establish yourself as an expert in your industry, you have some leeway as to how many blog posts you publish each month.

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Additional On Site SEO Factors to Consider

Biznology

(Photo credit: Wikipedia). Search engine optimization is a complex process that is ongoing. As a business changes, its industry changes, and its competitive environment online changes, an SEO campaign needs to be updated along with it. SEO is typically broken up into phases, the first of which is on site optimization which involves making changes to the actual website in order to appeal to the search engine spiders for specific keyword searches and provide target audience members with relevant i

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The Guide to Facebook Timeline for Businesses [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller It’s been called the most important development for business in social media this year and it’s just a week away from rolling out universally. In this infographic we explore the anatomy of a timeline page for business while detailing the important new features B2B marketing professionals need to know about. Have you switched your business’s Facebook page over to the new timeline yet?

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4 Ways to Plan for Unexpected Changes

Digital B2B Marketing

As a marketer, you have carefully established plans. But are you ready for when things don’t go as planned? Our son, Caleb, was born last weekend, but we expected him more than a week earlier. Although births are rarely predictable, we had attempted to plan, and our plans were completely thrown off. As marketers, things often don’t go as we expect.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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B2B Marketer: You Paid for TOFU. Do you have MOFU?

B2B Marketing Traction

For a long time marketing departments have focused on TOFU, or top of the funnel lead generation. Now it’s time to also focus on MOFU, middle of the funnel qualified lead nurturing and development. You paid for search engine optimization (SEO), email and direct mail campaigns, trade shows, perhaps even advertising campaigns to get leads for your sales department.

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Google Analytics Upgrade Could Bode Well for Google Plus

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. This week Google introduced some significant changes to its widely used analytics offering. In a nutshell, the company is now providing a more in-depth look at the impact of social channels beyond the usual checking off of likes, followers, friends or whatever else online connections are called these days. The Google Analytics blog tells us “The new reports bridge the gap between social media and the business metrics you care about – allowing you to better measu

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How to Build a Better Inbound Marketing Machine – A Blueprint for Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Inbound marketing is a highly effective strategy, but in isolation it will fail for most companies. To be successful and maximize the impact of your inbound marketing efforts, you need to combine it with other elements in your overall marketing mix. With help from our friends over at Column Five Media we have taken a visual approach to this challenge.

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Content Marketing Showcase Series # 2 HubSpot

Ambal's Amusings

HubSpot, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is into providing marketing application and advice to businesses of all sizes enab. sap. Normal. sap. 1. 0. 2012-03-20T16:18:00Z. 2012-03-20T16:18:00Z. 1. 143. 816. personal. 6. 1. 958. 10.2625. Clean. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. HubSpot, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is into providing marketing application and advice to businesses of all sizes enabling them to leverage disruptive effects of the internet to "get found" by more prospects

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Don’t Waste B2B Marketing Dollars on PPC

B2B Marketing Traction

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is a waste of marketing dollars. It’s expensive, and it’s so ten years ago. I think the only reason Pay-Per-Click advertising still exists is because there are so many certified PPC re-sellers who convince businesses it works. Go ahead – do a search – such as “Does PPC work?” Most of the answers you will find are from the service-providers who make money on PPC.

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Are you constantly removing “conversion friction”?

Biznology

indecision dice (Photo credit: snigl3t). You can’t underestimate the difficulty of actually persuading someone to do something. We all walk through our days being bombarded by pitches to buy things and we develop a king of “default no” for everything that comes our way. Studies show that each person has only a certain amount of energy for making decisions each day, and once that energy is depleted, we each tend to retreat to minimalist, low-risk responses, which for a buying de

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SXSW Interactive Session Recap: The Social Organization

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller One of my favorite sessions from SXSW Interactive last week was Gartner analyst Mark McDonald’s session discussing his book The Social Organization. McDonald discussed building a cross-functional collaborative environment within an organization using social media as the catalyst. In order to do so successfully, a company needs to understand the energy, potential, and innovation that’s possible through social collaboration.