Sat.Oct 22, 2011 - Fri.Oct 28, 2011

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The Top Ten Actions to take from the book: "Social Marketing to the Business Customer"

ViewPoint

I recently read Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman’s book: “Social Marketing to the Business Customer” I liked the book (so much so that I wrote an Amazon recommendation) for a number of reasons. First, I like the format. The book is broken down into three sections: Tools, Technology, Tactics. I also liked that it is a very readable book (about 240 pages, lots of statistics, pictures…).

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Is Blogging Right for my Business? The Benefits of a Business Blog

NuSpark Consulting

The strategy of blogging, especially from a b2b perspective, can be somewhat misunderstood. What are your goals? Thought leadership, SEO, lead generation? How do I get people to read it? How to I build subscribers? Are my audiences really interested in my thoughts? So I thought I’d raise the question on the benefits of blogging to the NuSpark Marketing content alliance team, and get their reaction to the following question.

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12 Internet Trends You Need To Know From Mary Meeker

Marketing Insider Group

Every year I look forward to the amazing insights provided by Mary Meeker at the Web 2.0 Summit. Mary moved from Morgan Stanley to join the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. If you don’t know Kleiner Perkins, they’ve invested in some companies you may have heard of…like Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, LegalZoom and Groupon. So I think they know what they’re doing when it comes to future trends in the online world.

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5 Reasons Content Marketing is Getting Harder

Writing on the Web

I hate to be a purveyor of gloom, there’s too much of that around these days. But I’ve been thinking about this and want to share my thoughts with you. Here are some reasons content marketing is getting more challenging. There exists: A shift away from focusing on your products and services (what you know well). A shift towards the reader/customer and their needs (what you may not know very well).

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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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Parallels: Social Manufacturing & Outsourcing Manufacturing Lead Generation

ViewPoint

An interesting post by SoftwareAdvice.com’s Derek Singleton— What Does Social Manufacturing Look Like? —noted the Dreamforce announcement of Salesforce.com’s support for Kenandy , a cloud-based manufacturing solution that incorporates the social tool, Chatter. Kenandy has been founded by Sandy Kurtzig, the former CEO of ASK Group and the creator of ManMan.

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Social Media Data: Time to Embrace it

Buzz Marketing for Technology

There is not a day that goes by in the life of a marketer that doesn’t have a headline that reads, “marketers struggle to find the ROI of social.” It is as if marketers are chasing down a unicorn that exists only in their imaginations. A 2011 MarketingSherpa study confirmed this with 62% of CMO’s believing that social media will pay off for them … eventually.

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5 Steps To A Better Marketing Plan

Marketing Insider Group

The first step to great marketing is having a great marketing plan. However, not everyone bothers to plan – even though most agree that it is the foundation to successfully achieving your marketing objectives. I’ve always liked these quotes on planning: “bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part” and “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” If you haven’t started your marketing plan exercise, now is the time!

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Buyerology: Understanding Buyer Choice

Tony Zambito

Image by Will Lion via Flickr. When formulating marketing, sales, demand generation, and content strategies, an important factor is that of understanding the choices buyers make.  Oftentimes, strategies are crafted with a singular focus on the purchase decision.  However, increasingly evident today is that buyers make purchase decisions that are a summation of several choices.  In today’s social world, buyers are confronted with making choices in more areas than ever that

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How B2B Buyers Have Changed- and the Role of Content & Social Media

NuSpark Consulting

B2B buyers are time deprived and risk averse – and also enormously well informed. They resent and ignore interruptive marketing approaches such as advertising and cold calling. They do their own research online, and then contact vendors and service providers when they’re ready to talk price. From the B2B seller side, ‘beating the bushes’, ‘cold calling’, ‘hunting’… whatever you call it, is less and less effective.

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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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Memory + Emotional Attention = Content Marketing

Writing on the Web

How do you write good blog posts that connect emotionally with readers and turn them into loyal fans? Oh, heck, that’s easy. All you have to do is: Grab their attention. Get them emotionally engaged. Make a memorable impact. There you go, right? Easy-peasy. This is what you need to do whenever you write any content designed to market your products and services.

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What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs' Press Release

Tomorrow People

Have you read the press release from Steve Jobs on his resignation? If not, I suggest you do. It’s simple, straightforward and honest, and a great example for others to emulate. Here’s why we like it: 1) It Answers Questions without Added Fluff. Without going into unnecessary details, the release succinctly fulfills its purpose by answering the two most important questions: why Jobs is resigning and what happens next.

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Not how you fly, but how you serve

Savanta

Many years ago now, whilst I was working at, newly privatised, British Airways, our research team was challenged to understand what it meant to be “branded British” in each of its key markets. What does the power of national identification bring to the airline in each market it serves, and how could that knowledge be leveraged to help position the airline and its service to best effect?

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Breaking News: People Who Like Print, Like Print

B2B Memes

There’s been a minor buzz this week in B2B circles about recent survey results suggesting that paper magazines and newsletters remain extremely important to business professionals. I’m sure it’s true. I’m also sure it’s not very meaningful. Just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s not dead. The findings are from Readex Research , and are based on a series of media usage surveys conducted over the last year or so.

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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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Why Meta Data Still Matters in SEO

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. The search engines have evolved a great deal in the last fifteen years. They’ve gotten a lot smarter, meaning that it’s not easy for a website to get a good search ranking. Back in the day, website owners would cram lots of keywords into the meta title, description, and keyword tags in the code and get noticed by the search engines.

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Why I Hate Fear-based Selling….

B2B Marketing Traction

I hate fear-based selling. You know, the kind where the seller lets you know one way or another that if you don’t buy their product or service you’re going to lose out. Fear-based selling gives me a horrible, irrational feeling that puts up my guard and reduces my trust level with the seller. I started my career in sales in the ERP software industry and went through some sales training – Xerox’ Personal Selling System and Solution Selling.

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PETA’s SeaWorld Lawsuit: Do Publicity Stunts Make Sense?

Marketing Craftmanship

Whale Abuse: Exhibit A for Shamu, the Plaintiff. In the first case of its kind, PETA , three marine-mammal experts, and two former orca trainers are filing a lawsuit asking a federal court to declare that “five wild-caught orcas forced to perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves in violation of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” The filing—the first ever seeking to apply the 13th Amendment to animals—names the five orcas as plaintiffs and also seeks their release to

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Managing Content Marketing

Ambal's Amusings

There have been many blogs, books and other resources that discuss all aspects of content marketing… from the why to the what to the where…but oddly enough, rarely the how. Robert Rose and Joe Pulizzi have partenered to bring us the one and only Managing Content Marketing: The Real-World Guide for Creating Passionate Subscribers to Your Brand.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Are Local Websites Like the Internet’s Old Gray Mare?

Biznology

Image by Kerri-Jo via Flickr. You know that I talk a lot about local marketing. But more and more what I am noticing is that huge changes occur for local websites so quickly in this industry that itself is not very old. Speaking of old, I hate to admit that I know this song, but it’s more because I was a big Bugs Bunny fan growing up rather than me simply being old enough to know the tune and the words to “The Old Gray Mare.” But I do know the song, and it’s got me to thi

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Is It Time for a B2B Marketing Audit?

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. In today’s economy, every dollar you spend on marketing must produce results. Are you sure that the marketing you spend money on is working? As a new year approaches, this is a perfect time for a marketing audit. A marketing audit is a cost-effective review process where an expert looks at your marketing strategy, tactics, and results to make sure you are getting the best results possible without wasting money.

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Email Isn’t Dead Among Facebook’s Exec Team

Convince & Convert

One of the great modern mysteries is how so many people legitimately believe that social media is “killing email” when nothing could be further from the truth. Social media and email are complementary tools, and it’s no accident that you can’t even SIGN UP for a social network without an email address. There’s been a lot written about the folly of this “email is dead” conviction, and in fact I’ll soon be publishing here at Convince & Convert m

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Social Media Sleuthing: A-List Traffic and bit.ly Tricks

Digital B2B Marketing

Ever wonder how much traffic social media A-listers and publishers drive with their own Twitter stream? Using bit.ly , you can often see this as well as a wealth of other information, such as what content someone shares and even what accounts they manage. If you know me, you probably know that I am part analyst, part geek, and looking to peel back one more layer of the onion whenever I have time.

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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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The Cloud Must Go On – How to Catalyze a PR Win into Revenue with Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino You’ve heard all press is good press—but how good? It depends how good you make it. Here’s an amazing example of how you can transform press into celebrity with effective, multi-channel marketing. And of course, this means revenue. Recently, Oracle hosted their annual user conference, Oracle OpenWorld. More than 40K attend this software technology conference, and many expect to hear each year from Marc Benioff, CEO and chairman of salesforce.com.

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Optimize Your Web Site Search

Biznology

Image by music2work2 via Flickr. My monthly Biznology® Webinar Tuesday was called “Optimize Your Web Site Search.” I talked for 30 minutes about how to help searchers find what they want on your Web site. Did a frustrated searcher just ask again why your site search engine stinks? Site search foments frustration because you can’t deliver on the implied promise: “Type in anything and we’ll find it.

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If You’re B2B, What Day You Tweet Doesn’t Matter

Convince & Convert

(at least on weekdays). On Thursday October 27, join me and my friends at Argyle Social for a valuable (yet free) Webinar that puts some of the big questions about social media timing under the experimental microscope. Register here. We’ll cover a lot of ground about when’s the best time for Twitter and Facebook communication in different scenarios.

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Social Media Sleuthing: A-List Traffic and bit.ly Tricks

Digital B2B Marketing

Ever wonder how much traffic social media A-listers and publishers drive with their own Twitter stream? Using bit.ly, you can often see this as well as a wealth of other information, such as what content someone shares and even what accounts they manage. If you know me, you probably know that I am part analyst, [.].

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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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Chart Chat: Social Media Platforms and B2B Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino Back on August 18 th , MarketingSherpa posted a chart highlighting which social networks, according to their research, were the most successful when it came to inbound marketing. What is both interesting and useful about this chart is that not only does it give percentages, but it sections these percentages off according to their focus: B2B, B2C, or both.

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How to protect your trademark online

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. In the quaint old offline world, things move slowly. If you have a good name for your business or your product, you know exactly what to do. You do a trademark search to make sure that no one else is using the name (at least within your industry), you add a the trademark symbol™ to your name, and if you really want to go the extra mile, you register your trademark so you can use the registered trademark symbol®.

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Use Content Marketing to Manage Industrial Sales Funnels

Industrial Marketing Today

B2B and industrial marketers are usually tasked with two main responsibilities: Fill the top of the sales funnel (ToFU) with high quality leads. Maximize the middle of the funnel (MoFU) for converting more leads into sales opportunities. Achieving those two objectives are difficult enough, now add to that the constant pressure of having to lower the cost per lead at the same time.