Sat.Oct 01, 2011 - Fri.Oct 07, 2011

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How to Increase Your Revenue Performance in 2012?

Tomorrow People

Know your customers. Positioning yourself as the solution to your customer’s needs is central to effective revenue performance management. To achieve this you need to understand your particular customer-base completely. This vital insight covers several key aspects: A specifically identified target market. An understanding of that market's prioritie s and levels of discretionary income.

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Create Performance Combustion to Get the Sale

ViewPoint

Angela DeFinis is an industry expert in professional public speaking. As an author, executive speech coach, and founder of DeFinis Communications , she has spent over twenty years helping business professionals communicate with greater poise, power, and passion. Using her signature Line by Line Coaching™ process, Angela and her talented staff have trained business leaders and other professionals to speak with increased skill and confidence in engaging any audience.

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Steal a Chapter from the Sales Strategy Playbook to Improve Marketing ROI

markempa

Tweet A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to combine sales and marketing knowledge to improve lead generation. Let me be more specific about one strategy that the best sales organizations do that marketers should replicate in their demand-generation and lead-nurturing campaigns: Stratify resources as part of a coverage model. The idea is simple: The best sales people call on the most lucrative accounts and handle the largest deals. .

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More Systems for Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent yesterday prowling the exhibit hall at the Direct Marketing Association annual conference in Boston. This uncovered several additional candidates for mid-tier business-to-consumer marketing automation. I’ll list them here and also add them to my previous list of mid-tier marketing automation systems so that future visitors will find the complete set in one place.

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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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Why SEO Is The Key To Successful Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Everyone uses a search engine! And yet, not everyone in marketing understands the difference between SEO, PPC, metatags and keywords. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click. In know it can be confusing but… To be a successful marketer today, you need to understand how to show up in the search results of your buyers’ search engine activity.

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Buyer Perceived Value (BPV) Scorecard: Qualifying and Quantifying Value

Tony Zambito

Image by J. McPherskesen via Flickr As a follow-up to the article Influence of Buyer Perceived Value (BPV) on Buyer Behaviors and Decisions, offered is a perspective on how to implement a scorecard approach.

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Why Your Marketing Needs Real-Time Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Another Advertising Week in New York is upon us and so far I have seen some great presentations from companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quantcast, comScore, and even Yahoo! However, if there is one thing that is becoming painfully clear to me is the need to be relevant to your audience – whether you are advertising to them, being social with them, or just creating the right kind of conversations about your brand.

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Welcome Luke – To A Social World

Marketing Insider Group

My son, Luke William Brenner, was born on Wednesday October 5th at 4:25am. He weighed in at 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 22 inches long. My wife Elizabeth and the baby are both doing great as we plan to return home from the hospital today. Although we have 3 other children (ages 8, 5 and 3) this was our first baby born since social media has taken such a huge role in our lives.

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The Long Tail of Blogger Outreach

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. I had breakfast with John Bell of Ogilvy a number of years ago. He didn’t see the value of investing limited budget, time, and resources on the long tail when those treasures would better be used to woo the high-fliers, professionals, top-cows, and A-listers. That’s fair enough, and surely a common question, and a question we must address close to the beginning of every sales call we make at Abraham Harrison , when we propose blogger outreach to a prospective cl

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Understanding Buyer Priorities and Goals in an Uncertain and Chaotic World

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. We are living in a world that is fraught with uncertainty.  The degree of uncertainty for businesses today probably is at the highest level in decades.  Resulting in a chaotic world for sellers and buyers looking to make sense of what the future may hold.  This high degree of uncertainty and chaotic environment is showing up in many forms for both buyers and sellers.  Whether it is sellers suffering from significant skill gaps as recently pointed out&

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Coupons and Offers Slowly Shifting to Digital: Notes from LEADS Marketing Conference

Customer Experience Matrix

My colleague Michael Darviche covered the LEAD Marketing Conference in Chicago last week. Here’s his report. One fascinating area for the past few years has been the coupon and offers space. In a traditionally a paper-based medium, Groupon (and its controversial IPO) have stimulated the question of whether digital couponing can take hold, and in what form.

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5 Content Marketing Questions: #3 What’s Possible?

Writing on the Web

#3 Whats Possible?" alt=" 5 Content Marketing Questions: #3 Whats Possible?" />. #3 Whats Possible?" width="110" height="73" /> In Maria Velosa’s Web Copy That Sells book, there is a 5-step blueprint for writing on the Web. This is really what content marketing is all about. When you answer the following 5 questions, your writing tasks are simplified and your copy becomes clear.

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What’s next? Social Media and the Information Life Cycle

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. Back in the days when “Web 2.0″ was a hot buzzword, many people asked what “Web 3.0″ would look like. Even though that question sounds now as outdated as an X-Files re-run episode, the quest for “what’s next?” is always in our minds. I’m no better prognosticator than anybody else, but my best answer would be: look at where the inefficiencies are.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Buyer Perceived Value (BPV) Scorecard: Qualifying and Quantifying Value

Tony Zambito

Image by J. McPherskesen via Flickr. As a follow-up to the article Influence of Buyer Perceived Value (BPV) on Buyer Behaviors and Decisions , offered is a perspective on how to implement a scorecard approach.  The Buyer Perceived Value (BPV) Scorecard combines both a qualitative as well as a quantitative approach to understanding the influence of buyer values.  An important disclaimer here is that there have been many scorecard approaches for measuring customer value over the past t

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Is Your Topic Worthy of a White Paper?

WriteSpark

Because white papers have such high levels of proven marketing value, it's tempting to consider every potential topic about a product to be worthy of a white paper. But of course, not every topic is suitable.or even best presented in a white paper format. How do you choose which topics should be covered in a technical white paper? The following criteria can help you decide; consider a white paper for a topic that: Explains the design, implementation, or application concepts built into the produc

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

B2B Memes

They are not going away. After a flurry of attention last year , we hadn’t heard too much in the interim about the robots that were going to displace humans as content creators. Then last month, Steve Lohr of the New York Times revived the issue. Although the natural reaction of writers and editors might be fear, I think that’s the wrong reaction. The robots aren’t going to replace us, they’re going to free us.

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You DO know what to say in social media

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. I talk to folks about social media all the time. One of the things that I notice right away is the fear. Most people are worried that they don’t know what to do in social media. They are afraid that they will make a mistake. That they will say the wrong thing. Or, they fear that they don’t know what to say at all–even that they have nothing to say.

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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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Modern Media Buying and Enterprise B2B Demand Generation

Digital B2B Marketing

The current trend in digital media is to move online advertising to trading desks, ad exchanges or real time bidding platforms. These platforms provide access to enormous pools of advertising inventory and allow media buyers to cherry pick their exact target audience , based on a wide range of audience data available for targeting. However, for enterprise B2B marketers, these approaches are not mature enough to broadly support demand generation marketing.

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Is Your Topic Worthy of a White Paper?

WriteSpark

Because white papers have such high levels of proven marketing value, it's tempting to consider every potential topic about a product to be worthy of a white paper. But of course, not every topic is suitable.or even best presented in a white paper format. How do you choose which topics should be covered in a technical white paper? The following criteria can help you decide; consider a white paper for a topic that: Explains the design, implementation, or application concepts built into the produc

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Holy Twit – Increased Tweet Volume Drives Results

Convince & Convert

One of my favorite Twitter add-ons is Buffer , an easy-to-use service that allows you to quickly queue up many tweets at one time, with those missives and bon mots then automatically parceled out one at a time on a schedule you determine.(Buffer also works for Facebook). For people like me that do a lot of curation via Twitter, this is a real workflow advantage.

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Why You Should Be More Like Steve Jobs

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. Steve Jobs’ tragic death yesterday resulted in great accolades, making it easy to forget that he took a lot of criticism for his leadership style during his tenure at Apple. I think businesses would do well to study the Steve Jobs leadership method and take a few pages from his playbook. The bottom line in business ultimately is more than just having a vision.

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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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Your Lead Scoring Blind Spot: The Internet

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketers have a huge blind spot when it comes to nurturing and lead scoring. It does not matter if you have built a sophisticated lead management and nurturing system, driven by content consumption, engagement and response. Your blind spot is there. The problem is, you only see how people respond to your content and your offers. You only see what is happening on your own properties.

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What if There Were Nothing As Sure As Marketing, Death and Taxes?

B2B Marketing Traction

…and Marketing? What if marketing were regulated the way taxes are? Would the world be a different place? As another tax deadline looms I’m reminded of this question that often comes to my mind. What if marketing were regulated and legislated like taxes? Or regulated the way businesses are regarding treatment of their employees? Here’s what I think would happen: If business were required to plan and execute marketing every year, 1.

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The Power of Consumer Choice Drives Social Media Importance

Convince & Convert

I love the strategy of Seth Godin’s Domino Project , which is reinventing the publishing business by making hard cover books easier to find, remember, and digest (the average Domino book contains fewer than 100 pages). The most recent Domino book to be published was by Godin himself, and unfortunately I didn’t find it particularly good. Called We Are All Weird , it’s a somewhat haphazard treatise on the rise of the individual, and the notion that modern society enables us to em

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It’s a Google World and that’s fine by me

Biznology

I will admit that I am on the higher end of the social media user scale with regard to age. If you are that curious, I am 47 years old and have been working in the Internet space in some form or another since 1998. I am not a truly technical person but I can make my way around a little. I am not some social media or tech super user but I would suspect my involvement is on the high end in my age group (considering how most of my lifelong friends use it).

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Your Lead Scoring Blind Spot: The Internet

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketers have a huge blind spot when it comes to nurturing and lead scoring. It does not matter if you have built a sophisticated lead management and nurturing system, driven by content consumption, engagement and response. Your blind spot is there. The problem is, you only see how people respond to your content and your offers. You only see what is happening on your own properties.

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Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog in Your Marketing Plan

B2B Marketing Traction

Are you thinking of implementing the newest marketing tactics, such as social media, in your next marketing campaign? It’s important to look before you leap, and have a clear understanding of your customers and your industry when you plan your marketing. “Good to Great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies on bravado.” – Chapter 6, “The Hedgehog Concept,” Good to Great , by Jim Col

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

This week I was asked to speak on a panel about social media to a group of B2B marketers in financial services. It was great getting the perspective of marketers outside of technology. But they call it “financial services” for a reason: They have all of the same struggles as technology services companies—with the added complication of tons of regulatory requirements.