Sat.Nov 27, 2010 - Fri.Dec 03, 2010

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HubSpot Expands Its Services But Stays Focused on Small Business

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: HubSpot has continued to grow its customer base and expand its product. It's looking more like a conventional small-business marketing automation system every day. You have to admire a company that defines a clear strategy and methodically executes it. HubSpot has always aimed to provide small businesses with one easy-to-use system for all their marketing needs.

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An Introduction to Lead Scoring

NuSpark Consulting

Lead Scoring for B2B companies can be a very valuable method to ensure that sales people in your organization are spending time with quality sales-ready leads. As potential buyers navigate through their own personal purchase funnels, their level of engagement typically increases as they get closer to their first contact with your sales people. Research supports that companies that have a sound lead scoring process in place, their win rates increase as well as their … [ visit site to read m

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10 Ways to Use Facebook as a List Building Tool

Writing on the Web

( Annalaura Brown is guest blogging this week, while Patsi’s on vacation.). Facebook can be a powerful list building tool if you know how to use it properly as such. Here are ten ways you can use FB to build your email list and increase your online business income. Share your blog posts. You can do this automatically by using one of several tools such as ping.fm or networked blogs.

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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ). The summary reveals no shocking surprises but a few interesting trends: 78% of marketers identified “generating high-quality leads&# as their top priority, while 44% said the same for “generating a high volume of leads&# (so generating low-quality leads is a priority for some marketers?

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Top-10 B2B Marketing Topics of 2010

Everything Technology Marketing

With 2010 coming to an end, it is time for a quick review of the most popular B2B marketing posts on the Everything Technology Marketing blog. The 10 Most Popular Blog Posts (by number of re-tweets) 1 - 5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success (100) 2 - The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready? (98) 3 - Is Traditional B2B Marketing Dead? (87) 4 - What B2B Marekting tactics are Up, Down, Flat?

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7 Mistakes Speakers Make with Presentations

Writing on the Web

We’ve often heard the brain can only hold seven things in mind. The brain research behind this is valid, and in everyday life we experience it with 7-digit phone numbers. This week in Las Vegas, at Chris Farrell’s and Mike Filsaime’s Affiliatedotcom.com event , many speakers presented “7 Steps&# to better internet marketing. But I think there’s a perception that an audience will listen and remember 7 things from a presentation which is wrong.

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How Social Media is Transforming the B2B Buying Experience

Tony Zambito

Image by dusan.writer via Flickr. This past year we’ve witness a meteoric explosion of social media, social business, and many other peripheral digital communications channels.  Without question, social media has dominated the business news in terms of conventional media channels as well as digital media channels.   B2B organizations are either dipping their toes in the social media waters while some have dived in nose first with elaborate presence.  One thing is clear, m

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Event Marketing Works, but ONLY if Vendors Add Value

Smashmouth Marketing

I've recently been on the conference circuit, speaking and tweeting whatever sales and marketing goodness I can find. One topic that came up at each conference was the quality of the content presented by the various speakers. Some sessions were brilliant; some were nothing more than veiled commercials. The key as an attendee is to be able to pull the brilliant content out of the commercials.

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Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Summit

Marketing Insider Group

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy November 30, 2010 Subscribe Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Summit Share The 7th Annual Web 2.0 Summit was held on November 15th, 16th and 17th.

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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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Are You A Player?

ViewPoint

We're pleased to have a new guest blogger with this post. James Obermayer is Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting. He can be reached at JObermayer@salesleadmgmtassn.com. The coach gave his pep talk and the team was ready to take the track. One of the players hung back and was quiet.

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How’s Your LinkedIn Profile?

Writing on the Web

( Note from Patsi who is on vacation: This week I asked Phyllis Miller to write a guest post on social media resources. This is excellent advice you need to know and act on. And, if you haven’t already, connect with me on LinkedIn …). I will be the first to admit that, when three years ago I received an invitation to LinkedIn.com , I joined without a clue as to what I was joining or doing.

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An Open Letter to Jimmy Wales

Webbiquity

Hi Jimmy. Got your fundraising appeal for Wikipedia. Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of Wikipedia; it is a truly amazing tool and a tremendous accomplishment. It’s a phenomenally time-saving research tool. I believe in what you are doing, I’ve contributed financially in the past, and I’d love to do so again. However, a few changes really need to be made.

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Marketing By Objectives « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing By Objectives Objective-Action-Budget In a recent article for the CMO Council’s Newsletter, Nicolas Watkis argues “ Marketers won’t succeed if they don’t have objectives ”. Right on, my friend! As we have all heard before, marketers are now more than in any other time being measured and challenged to produce measurable results.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Are B2B marketers neglecting their brands?

Savanta

Every so often it’s healthy to reflect. To identify learnings in success and take a pat on the back; to re-classify disappointments as valuable experience; then to focus on future ambitions with renewed energy. In doing so it’s sometimes useful to have a catalyst which supports the thought process. That’s why in early 2009 Circle Research, in conjunction with ABBA and The IDM, launched The B2B Barometer. .

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Location Marketing for the SMB

Biznology

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr. Local Internet marketing is getting a fair amount of attention these days, and for good reason. People search for stuff to do, places to go, and things to buy on a local level, and they are increasingly turning to the Internet for the information they need. As a result, the SMB (small and medium business) is now having more pressure than ever placed on them to make sure that their local Internet presence is well thought-out and executed.

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Marketing Automation Monday – NYC & SF – Dec 6th

LeadSloth

The last two Marketing Automation meetups were well received by the attendees, so we’ve been working on an encore. This time not just in the Bay Area, but also in New York City (Austin, TX coming in January): Info & Registration for New York City. Info & Registration for San Francisco. The event in San Francisco is during Dreamforce, so we’re hoping some out-of-town attendees can also make it.

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Throw Away Your Slides! (Maybe.)

B2B Memes

Whenever I attend a webinar, I find myself getting frustrated with the format’s limitations, occasionally to the point where I complain about it in this blog. Someone, somewhere has probably put together the perfect webinar, but I haven’t seen it. Though the causes will vary from one webinar to another, whether it’s a lack of interactivity or the failure to show the speaker, there always seems to be one insurmountable problem: the slides.

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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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Help Me Connect the Social Media Economy

Convince & Convert

Tweet As more and more businesses come to the realization that social adoption isn’t a matter of it, but when, the next question is invariably about resources: “Who should be in charge of this in my company?&#. “How many people do I need doing this?&#. “Do I need to be listening 24×7?&#. “Can we create compelling content with our current staff?

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Are you counting on magical marketing?

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. I'm old enough to remember when all you needed to do to persuade an executive about an issue was to show him some data in a spreadsheet. "The computer is always right," they thought, so they went along with whatever you presented. (OK, I am older than dirt.) Now people quickly started to realize that you could manipulate a spreadsheet in a million ways to make the calculations come out your way, but there is still plenty of magical thinking going on, where we believe whateve

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

I had a chance to attend the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and hear from some of the business leaders of the new Internet, including the CEOs of Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and Twitter. Here are five key insights I took away. 1. Make Marketing a Service to Customers - I didn’t write down who said this, but the comment stuck with me long after the conference was over.

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Your Content May Be a Commodity, But You’re Not

B2B Memes

Of all the reasons not to update your blog, post a Tweet, or take part in an online conversation, the most powerful may be the fear that you have nothing new or unique to offer. In a world where everyone’s a publisher, content is a commodity. Any information you have to share has most likely been published elsewhere, and more than once. But so what?

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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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Threadless Shares 10 Years of Insights and Inspiration

Convince & Convert

Tweet Threadless – everyone’s favorite T-shirt purveyor and example of crowdsourcing and customer community success – recently published a terrific 10th anniversary book that combines company history with dozens of its best designs. It makes for very interesting reading, and the production values and design elements make it a suitable coffee table book, and an excellent gift.

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Are You Ready for Auto SEO?

Biznology

Image by K. Todd Storch via Flickr. There's lots of talk about mobile marketing, and rightly so. Although we see some use of the term mobile marketing for things that aren't mobile , we are still seeing tremendous increases in usage. And some businesses benefit from that mobile usage more than others. Just when you have started to adjust to people searching from their phones, I am here to ask you to get your heads around people searching from their cars.

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12 Social Media Tools for B2B Pre-Event Marketing

Online Marketing Institute

Home About Archive Advertise B2B Social Media Lead Generation Business Blogging Resources Have Us Speak Subscribe to our Newsletter A A Social Media B2B Blogging Communications Marketing Monitoring Public Relations Conferences Examples Interviews Mobile BlackBerry iPad iPhone Sales CRM Lead Generation Social Media 101 Social Networks Facebook LinkedIn SlideShare Social Bookmarking Twitter Video 12 Social Media Tools for B2B Pre-Event Marketing By Adam Holden-Bache Mon, Nov 29, 2010 Conferences ,

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3 DiY SEO Mistakes to Avoid When Optimizing Industrial Websites

Industrial Marketing Today

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend (here in the U.S.) with your family. Now, back to work. Attempting do-it-yourself (DiY) search engine optimization (SEO) is common among industrial companies since they tend to have dedicated IT departments. Can DiY SEO be just as effective as hiring an outside expert? Should IT be handling this task? Those are two very debatable questions but that is a topic for another post.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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In B2B Inbound Marketing, Don't Be a Jerk

MLT Creative

I remember cracking up at the naiveté of Steve Martin’s character, Navin R. Johnson, in the classic comedy movie “The Jerk” as he declared, “I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book every day!” Recently, I was reminded of that scene as I watched a friend (just as naïve as Navin, but with the Internet) find himself on Google for the first time.

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What if my competitor is fabricating bad reviews?

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. I made my annual visit to the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business yesterday and presented my talk, " Web Marketing is Marketing " (if you are interested in the slides). But, as usual, my favorite part was the questions from the students. I got one yesterday that I have gotten many times before, but that I haven't ever answered on this blog, "What if my competitor is fabricating bad reviews?".

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 4: Dedicate Qualifying Resources

ViewPoint