Sat.Nov 24, 2012 - Fri.Nov 30, 2012

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Trade Show Follow-Up: 5 tips to optimize response

markempa

Tweet For the past seven years, trade shows have surpassed websites, email marketing and paid search to secure the top spot as B2B marketers’ biggest investment, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. But, do marketers make the most of this investment? I can’t help but wonder given my own trade show attendance experience.

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A Salesperson's Wishes from Marketing

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. “So, what do you want from Marketing?” I asked the gathered salespeople. “Don’t hold back; tell me like it is. Don’t be shy; open up and let me have it.” And that is how the conversation went with me saying very little for the next hour.

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I ? Sprout Social

Tomorrow People

Sprout Social, the social media workflow software, asked me to publish an ‘honest review’ of their product. Here’s what I think, no holds barred! As the Community Manager here at inbound marketing agency Tomorrow People, I’ve long been a lover of Sprout Social , the social media workflow software. So when they asked me to write an honest review of the product, I was happy to oblige - because being honest is easy when everything you have to say is good!

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4 Ways Your Website Can Replace Focus Groups

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Conversion Optimization Online Testing Web Analytics Web Design. While focus groups attempt to simulate and gain insights on what the customer potentially thinks, nothing can substitute truly anonymous, honest and unbiased feedback. Websites, however, can now provide this level of data in real time. Using a combination of online testing, web analytics and CRM data, today’s marketers know what actual people, doing actual searches, on their actual sites are actually

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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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A New Way To Connect Twitter To Lead Generation

Digital B2B Marketing

B2B marketers are so anxious to generate leads from social media they are turning Twitter into a list for cold calls and mass email blasts. In the last couple weeks, two companies have emailed or called me because I follow influential sales and marketing accounts on Twitter. There is nothing social about this! Marketers are just turning social into a source of email or telemarketing lists for mass outbound marketing.

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16 Slides On The Future Of Digital

Marketing Insider Group

This week I attended Business Insider ‘s Ignition conference where the topic was “The Future of Digital.” The topics ranged from digital content to advertising, to the rise of the mobile web and e-commerce to social media and technology start-ups. The speaker line-up was one of the best I have ever seen including CEOs Andrew Mason (Groupon), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn) and Jeffrey Bewkes (Time Warner), AOL Co-founder Steve Case, the Dr.

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3 Things We've Learned After Years of LinkedIn Group Spam (and what to do now)

ViewPoint

Today's guest blogger is Jeff Molander. Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell and a social sales training speaker. In 2008 LinkedIn introduced Groups and for years now B2B marketers have been tortured by inappropriate, low-value comments and linking—people trying to promote "their thing.

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Social media sells process, not product

Biznology

Folks care more about how you made than what you made. Well, not really. If what you made isn’t good, they won’t be interested in you at all; however, if you have a modicum of success, then folks will want to know as much about your culture, gear, tools, vision, operating principals, habits, and process as possible. So, if you’re in business, you need to learn to make you and your business as attractive as possible.

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B2B Industrial Marketing: Recap of GlobalSpec’s Economic Outlook Survey 2012

KoMarketing Associates

Last quarter , we gave you a recap of the “Trends in Industrial Marketing 2012” report from GlobalSpec ; our analysis covered the marketing trends, challenges, and expenditures specific to the engineering, technical, manufacturing, and industrial communities. Our intention in providing the results was to help marketers determine whether their clients were striking the right balance between digital and traditional marketing programs, as well as reaching their overall goals.

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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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6 Steps To Executing A Content Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Content Strategy is a very confusing topic in business and marketing circles. There are plenty of folks out there trying to define content strategy and differentiate it from traditional marketing, content marketing, digital marketing, social media and search engine optimization. But exactly how do you execute it once you have defined it, sold it in and been handed the mandate to get it done?

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Are Infographics Becoming Too Complex?

Writing on the Web

There’s no doubt that infographics are an extremely useful internet marketing tool, and as such, they’re becoming ever more commonplace when trying to gain new blog readers. There’s no better way to attract new customers than with a clever graphic. The problem, however, is that we’re seeing more and more that are overly complex, and are simply a waste of time.

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Agile marketing and the need for speed

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Some of you know that my second book is called Do It Wrong Quickly , and this post is about the quickly part. Advising people to do things wrong is just my cheeky way of getting marketers to start experimenting–to try things and see how they work. That experimental approach is the essence of agile marketing, a term not yet in use when I wrote my book.

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Why Your Email Subject Line Shouldn’t Be a Yes/No Question

The Point

If the secret to success of an effective email subject line is to grab the attention of someone with a potential interest in your product or service, you can be forgiven for thinking that the simplest way to determine that interest is to ask a Yes/No question. For example: Missing Too Many Project Deadlines? Spending Too Much $$ on Software Maintenance?

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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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B2B Marketers to Spend More on Content Marketing in 2013

B2B Marketing Traction

A recent study by MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute shows that over half (54%) of B2B marketers plan to spend more on content marketing in 2013 than in previous years. The study is the 2013 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America. Here I must make my usual side note comment about studies and their sources – this study that shows an increase in content marketing spending was done by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), which used to be Junta42

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Which Social Platform Do You Find Best for Interaction? [POLL]

Tomorrow People

POLL: Which Social Platform Do You Find Best for Interaction?

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Three Digital Marketing Musts This Holiday Season

Biznology

Photo credit: Vanderelbe.de. The holiday season is an interesting time to observe marketing tactics, especially when it comes to large businesses. Black Friday (now fading into Gray Thursday ), Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday — these are official shopping days that have almost become holidays in and of themselves. It is true that without these named shopping events, retail businesses would likely still rake in the cash during the holiday season – but riding the wave of seasonal exci

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Why Reputation Management Should Be Your Top Marketing Priority

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. You’ve spent years building your business. You’ve invested time, sweat, and tears. You’ve missed dance recitals and soccer games as you’ve toiled to create it. You finally feel as though you can relax… until the day when the phone calls stop, the new customers vanish, and you can’t understand why. You’re still providing excellent service and your existing customers love you, but your business is struggling.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Will Jet Engines Ever Be Social?

Digital B2B Marketing

What would a jet engine say if it was on a social network? The CMO of GE talked about this in a video earlier this year at Dreamforce. Wow, what a question. To think, soon your refrigerator, car and, yes, jet engines may be part of your social network. But as devices join you on Facebook, Twitter or other social platforms, are they really becoming social?

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I ? Sprout Social

Tomorrow People

'Sprout Social, the social media workflow software, asked me to publish an ‘honest review’ of their product. Here’s what I think, no holds barred! As the Community Manager here at inbound marketing agency Tomorrow People, I’ve long been a lover of Sprout Social , the social media workflow software. So when they asked me to write an honest review of the product, I was happy to oblige - because being honest is easy when everything you have to say is good!

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How do I avoid unsubscribes?

Biznology

Photo credit: incurable_hippie. Someone from a recent speaking event asked me about something he is quite concerned about. He has built up a small following on social media and has an e-mail list, but he has never done much content marketing to take advantage of these “opt ins” that he has amassed. He’s never taken advantage for a very simple reason: he doesn’t want to annoy his customers and prospects.

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Are You Fully Integrating Social and Your Website?

Convince & Convert

As I’ve mentioned here before, your company is most likely not in the eyeballs business, you’re in the behavior business. Driving behavior in social media and your website is the fastest and most efficient path to marketing success. Look at it this way: You have 100,000 visitors to your website each month, and a 1% conversion rate, for a total of 1,000 conversions per month.

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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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Content Marketers Must Read Book of the Week!

Ambal's Amusings

Name: ‘ Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile, ’. Author: Jon Wuebben. Blog Twitter Facebook. In the digital age, content is no longer confined to the written page. It is spread across web and mobile, taking the form of podcasts, webinars, widgets, and blog posts. Powerful content tells the story of your product or business, but it means nothing if it’s not written well, optimized for search and social media, and properly marketed.

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Visual Gold! The New Revolution of Content Marketing [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Content is evolving and marketers need to expand their content marketing strategy to include visual elements into their overall mix. The problem is that customer and prospects have less time for weighty words due to the current state of information overflow. In addition, the fast paced world of social media has forced us to learn to digest information faster and sometimes even at a glance.

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Seeing Past Internet Marketing Silos

Biznology

Photo credit: wattpublishing. Picture this: You are driving through the middle of the US. Let’s just say you’re in Kansas, Nebraska, or somewhere like that. You are on a long straight road that is flat and never seems to have a turn in it. On either side of you are fields. They can be fields of whatever you want them to be but remember where you are.

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Are You a Marketing Cheater? The Continued Gamification of Attention

Convince & Convert

We are addicted to shortcuts. Regardless of the structure and rules of the contest at hand, some among us will stretch the boundaries seeking an edge over our opponent. Perhaps this is just human nature, or maybe it’s more prevalent in America where we cherish our opportunity to have a strong role in our personal success. This insatiable desire to do more, to do better, to just do, is the psychological scaffolding thats supports hedge fund melt-downs, cyclists’ doping, and websites t

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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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Which Social Platform Do You Find Best for Interaction? [POLL]

Tomorrow People

'POLL: Which Social Platform Do You Find Best for Interaction?

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Does Facebook Work for B2B Lead Generation? Hell Yes!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller To the folks out there who say that Facebook is not an effective lead generation tool for B2B, I will tell them that they need a new strategy. Facebook boasts the largest user base of any social network and it’s essential that you have a presence here or your business will simply be missing opportunities. Over the past few months I have been experimenting with different types of ads, new content, eye catching visuals, and tracking my success using Marketo and Facebook insig

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B2B Marketers: Why You Should “F” Your Website Content!

B2B Marketing Traction

Studies have shown that you should position key content on your web pages in a certain format in order to have maximum impact. If you do it right, visitors to your site can answer the question in their minds when they land on your web page – “Is this what I’m looking for?” The format is in the shape of an “F.” Heat scan tests conducted by Jakob Nielsen of how visitors look at web page show this shape, and tests of the visitors eye scanning path prove this.