Tue.Jan 31, 2012

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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

Everything Technology Marketing

Happy New Year! It is time again for our annual B2B Marketing "predictions". As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. And here are the results: 1 - Integration of social media Social media remains the #1 topic in 2012. Social media has clearly evolved from the experimental stage to become an established marketing tactic and lead generator in 2011.

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Do Standardized Sales Processes Really Work Anymore?

ViewPoint

Tony Zambito is Founder and Principal of the buyer research and strategy firm Buyerology ?. He is also the originator of the buyer persona research and creation methodology as well as Business Buyergraphics ™ that are widely used to make informed decisions from buyer insights. Tony also served in the role of Vice President in Sales and Marketing capacities for TRW, Knight-Ridder, and Compaq (HP).

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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

The Effective Marketer

Note: This is a guest post by Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. See Brad’s bio at the end of the article. Participating in social media is time consuming, so it’s only natural that people look for shortcuts. However, some shortcuts become disastrous detours, and this is often what happens when a company relies on automation for significant portions of its social updating.

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4 Ways B2B Marketers Can Benefit from Pinterest

B2B Marketing Traction

Like many of you I’m enamored with Pinterest , but I can’t help but ask, “Can Pinterest benefit B2B Marketers?” Pinterest is a social media site that allows members to create boards for images that they like. You can name the boards whatever you like, and assign them to a category from a list of pre-determined by Pinterest. Over time as you find images that you like, you pin the images to the appropriate board.

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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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Don’t Let Your Social Media Hypothesis Dictate Your Conclusion

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. While neither marketing nor social media are sciences, one needs to use scientific principles to be most effective when it comes to both branding and prospecting online. It doesn’t take an Einstein to succeed in social media marketing, but to does take a scientist. Are you rigorously collecting metrics and data to see if what you’re doing is resulting in sales conversions or extending your brand or are you relying on things you’ve learned from The Secret?

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5 Things I Learned from Self-Publishing

B2B Memes

If nothing else, self-publishing is a learning experience. You learn not just about the process, but yourself. It’s not for everyone, certainly, but don’t count yourself out as a self-publisher until you give it some serious thought. Thanks to e-book and print-on-demand technology, the risks are low and the potential for rewards—though not perhaps of the kind you’d expect—high.

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PPC Optimization: Conversion is Only Half the Battle

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino I’m pleased to welcome Mike Nierengarten, Founder of Obility Consulting , an internet marketing company as a guest blogger. Mike has spent the last 7 years driving increases in revenue & lowering customer acquisition costs for his clients by optimizing their online marketing tactics. The value of a lead is relative. Most marketing departments would be more comfortable handing off a lead from sballmer@microsoft.com than one from anonymous@gmail.com.

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Measure Your Social Media ROI with Google Analytics Part 2: Advanced Segments

EMagine B2B Blog

In our first post of the Social Media ROI series, we looked at campaign tagging, and how we can measure campaign performance, compare campaigns or social mediums, and even group campaigns together. This week, we’ll look at another way to measure Social Media ROI with Google Analytics – Advanced Segments. Advanced Segments Advanced segments allow [.].

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The Opportunity Social Media Offers Manufacturers

MLT Creative

The manufacturing industry has been somewhat slow to accept social media as a marketing tool. This is largely because it can be difficult to see how social media plays into the larger business-to-business (B2B) marketing strategy. That, however, appears to be changing. Acccording to a Forrester report released in March 2011, 30 percent of global manufacturers intended to increase social media investments in 2012.

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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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25% Increase in Facebook Likes in Just 5 Days

SnapApp

Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia created a home site and Facebook sweepstakes giving away a pair of 2011 Philadelphia Eagles season tickets. To enter the sweepstakes, fans had to complete a form where they also had the option to sign up to receive Eagles news via email or text alert. The campaign ran on the CSN Philadelphia Facebook page and website, as well as the Eagles official site.

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How to Use Lead Intel to Accelerate Sales

Hubspot

Marketers expend time and energy developing personas to explain their target customer, understand what motivates them, and paint a picture in the company's mind that depicts to whom they are speaking and selling every day. These personas are a crucial component to a well-rounded inbound marketing strategy , but doesn't it sometimes feel a little.general?

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Why I’m Not Writing a Book This Year

Convince & Convert

I was all set to write another book this year. Solo this time, as my book spouse Amber Naslund has her hands full with her new social business consultancy Sidera Works. I loved writing half of The NOW Revolution , and loved even more traveling around North America giving presentations about social media and social business ( here are the slides ). I spoke in 65 different cities in 2011.

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The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pinterest for Marketing

Hubspot

Over the past few months, you may have heard some chatter about a brand new social network called Pinterest. Not surprising. According to Compete , unique visitors to Pinterest.com increased by 429% from September to December 2011 , and the social network already boasts a user base of 3.3 million. Pinterest is only growing in popularity as the hottest new social network, and in December 2011, it made Hitwise's list of the top 10 social networks, currently sitting at #5 and beating out big names

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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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7 Trends From The Focus Technology Marketing Handbook

Marketing Insider Group

I started the B2B Marketing Insider blog to share marketing tips and tricks and my view of the marketing landscape from my perspective – someone who’s living and breathing this stuff every day. Recently Focus released their Technology Marketing Handbook (no registration), a compendium of marketing tips, tricks and trends crowd-sourced from us technology marketers ourselves.

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What Marketers Everywhere Can Learn From P&G's 1,600-Person Layoff

Hubspot

Yesterday, Business Insider reported that Procter & Gamble is set to lay off 1,600 employees as a result of its decision to cut back on the company's annual advertising spend of $10 billion. CEO Robert McDonald said he can't keep increasing his ad budget even if sales continue to increase because of the prevalence of "more efficient" expenditures like Facebook and Google.