Sat.Apr 07, 2012 - Fri.Apr 13, 2012

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Three questions you must ask before you rebrand your business

Tomorrow People

If you’re thinking about a business rebrand, you probably have more questions than answers right now. After all, a rebrand can have a big impact on your company. So it’s essential to start by asking three important questions: 1. What do we want to achieve with this branding? Before you make any decisions, start by mapping out what you actually want to achieve.

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Lead Scoring: How to pick the right ingredients for high ROI

markempa

Tweet Marketers use lead scoring to slice all the potential deals in their pipelines and serve the sales team what it’s hungry for — leads that are ready to buy. Values are assigned to each prospect based on attributes like authority, title, vertical and timing to buy, as well as behavior. For example, did the person: Download a video? Watch a webinar?

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PowerViews with Jonathan Farrington: Stay Focused

ViewPoint

I’m really pleased to introduce you to PowerViews, a new series of Q&A video interviews that are all about providing solutions to the marketing and sales challenges we face today. It’s an honor for me to have as my very first guest Jonathan Farrington who is the CEO of Top Sales Associates and the Managing Director of Jonathan Farrington & Associates.

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Riding the Social Media Struggle Bus? You’re Not Alone

Webbiquity

Recent research from MarketingProfs shows that 84% of B2B companies use social media marketing in some form, and the figure is likely higher for B2C firms. But that’s a bit like saying that most Americans exercise regularly; it’s probably true, but there is a big difference between walking the dog around the block a couple of times per week and training for a triathlon.

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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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Four questions you should always ask a branding agency

Tomorrow People

Are you thinking about, or are you working with a branding company to update your business brand? Here are four questions every business-owner should ask their branding agency before going ahead with a business rebrand: 1. How well do you understand my business? The answer to this question will help to reveal exactly how far your branding company has gone to get to know your company, your aims and aspirations.

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What Makes You Fascinating?

Marketing Insider Group

Do you think you are fascinating? What if I told you that you most certainly are fascinating and that there is research to prove it? Less than 2 weeks ago I attended @ MarketingProfs Social Tech conference where I learned from an amazing keynote speaker, Sally Hogshead (@ SallyHogshead ) that yes, I am fascinating! “And research proves it?

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Content Marketing: Stories are Key

Writing on the Web

If you want your content marketing messages to be remembered, you must engage the emotional memories of your readers. Memory formation happens in two ways: 1. You say or do something that makes an emotional connection. 2. Something happens that closely resembles a previously established emotional connection. What results is a neural network of associations that get triggered by a hot-button stimulus.

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Upon Further Diagnosis…

ANNUITAS

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with one of my colleagues about the state of B2B marketing and the maturity of today’s marketers. During this discussion we were focusing in on the skills gap that has been well documented by groups like the Marketing Automation Institute , Sirius Decisions , Aberdeen Group and others. We came to the conclusion that by and large, B2B marketers are at a stage where they DO KNOW what needs to be done and where their organizations need to go.

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Selling to On-Demand Buyers

Avitage

Most of us are well aware the world of B2B buying has gone through fundamental shifts in the last five to ten years. Why hasn’t the way we sell fundamentally changed as well? We all feel the perception from buyers that, to them, all vendors and their products look pretty much the same (undifferentiated value). We know too well the difficulty of identifying and engaging new prospects in sales conversations (generating leads).

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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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Content Marketing: 6 Steps To Sell It In [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

Content Marketing is all about the battle for customer attention. As most marketers try harder and harder to interrupt their audience, smart marketers are using valuable and helpful content to attract the audience of future buyers. Because all marketing is content. In this presentation, delivered @ MarketingProfs Social Tech , I showed 7 reasons why most marketing stinks.

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The Lead Generation-Inbound Marketing- Funnel Optimization Toolkit

NuSpark Consulting

In the old days, we had a phone. And a fax machine. If you were in marketing, you had media kits and circulations statements. Rate cards were actual cards. Flow charts were designed on paper with markers and rulers. Budgets determined using Texas Instruments’ calculators. Then computers came. Wordperfect and Lotus123. Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads….

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Welcome to Lauren Carlson from Software Advice

Tomorrow People

I'd like to welcome Lauren Carlson from www.softwareadvice.com who will be contributor to our blog. Lauren Carlson is a writer and online marketing professional in Austin, TX. She joined Software Advice in 2010, where she heads up the CRM technology blog, focusing on topics related to CRM software, with particular interest in social media and the changing virtual landscape of how we communicate.

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Do You Need a Specialty Copywriter?

WriteSpark

It's easy to understand that not every freelance writer is a good match for every marketing project. Yet, how can you recognize when you need a specialty writer and identify what kind of writer to seek? These ideas can help your search. You need a writer with specific technical or subject knowledge. Teaching a generalist writer about your products, customers, and applications probably isn't a good use of time--for yourself or your subject experts.

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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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B2B Marketing Meets Video: Insights from 21 Marketers

Digital B2B Marketing

Just over half (52%) of B2B marketers are now using video, a 27% increase over the year before. However, that means nearly half of B2B marketers are not using video yet. Last week for #B2Bchat I moderated a discussion on video in B2B marketing, including why B2B marketers should care , how to get started, production quality and tools and resources. A summary transcript from the discussion is below and is worth reviewing, there were a number of insights as well as individuals in the discussion wo

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Tips for Next Gen Digital Marketing and PR Pros

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. What’s the future of digital media marketing and social public relations? What trends are we, as seasoned digital media marketers, seeing in the marketplace? What advice can we give the next generation of digital media marketing or PR pros for landing a job in digital marketing or communications? It’s spring, which means it’s mentoring season.

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How To Blog: Finding Your Blog Voice

B2B Marketing Traction

Identifying the voice of your blog can be tricky. What is the “voice” of a blog? It is its tone, its style, and how both of those fit its purpose. Determining the voice of your blog requires understanding your desired audience and knowing what will interest them. For example, do you want to entertain with your blog posts? Do you want to be controversial?

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Do You Need a Specialty Copywriter?

WriteSpark

It's easy to understand that not every freelance writer is a good match for every marketing project. Yet, how can you recognize when you need a specialty writer and identify what kind of writer to seek? These ideas can help your search. You need a writer with specific technical or subject knowledge. Teaching a generalist writer about your products, customers, and applications probably isn't a good use of time--for yourself or your subject experts.

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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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An Inconvenient Truth: Your Advertising is Invisible

Digital B2B Marketing

A growing portion of online advertising is purchased through DSPs and ad networks, and with literally millions of sites that sell ads through these channels, online advertisers cannot rely on knowing every site their ads are on. With this has come a new wave of quality control issues for online advertisers. According to recent research from ComScore , 31% of banner ads don’t ever have the chance to be seen.

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Your social media faults are not in the tools but in ourselves

Biznology

Credit: Wikipedia. Aaron Kim had a great post yesterday on our expectations of what social media tools will do for us. That got me thinking about how social media wasn’t the first tool that we have such outsized expectations for. For some reason, we expect that tools will help us impose the self-control around our days–maybe even our lives–that we fail to impose on our own.

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Is Social Media Better at Getting You Fired, or Hired?

B2B Memes

In what may be a record for journalists getting fired for their social media activities, Khristopher Brooks was sacked yesterday before he even started his job with the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal. What was his offense? Writing on his blog about getting the job, and using the newspaper’s logo and quoting from the offer letter without permission.

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B2B Marketer: Have You Backed Up Your Marketing?

B2B Marketing Traction

What if something were to happen to your online marketing presence? Now more than ever, marketing has a lot of moving parts. Your website, your email programs, your social media platforms all need to function so that your business has continuous communications to customers and prospects. Do you know how to access these platforms? Do you have your content backed up, just in case?

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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 CMO Guide to Inbound Marketing [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller The primary job of the CMO is to position a company for success and to drive revenue. But the trends of information abundance and attention scarcity mean that the tried-and-true ways of accomplishing these goals don’t work as well anymore. Fortunately, buyers put down their “anti-marketing” shields when they are actively seeking information or passively looking to be entertained or educated.

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Is Being A Social Media Jack of All Trades A Good Idea?

Biznology

Getty Images via @daylife. If you were to consider only the most used (thus possibly also the most influential) social media outlets what would you list as the Top 5? Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and LinkedIn? Would you have another combination that would make better sense for your business? I ask this question so we can seriously consider what the true skill set of a social media professional is as we move deeper and deeper into the online social age.

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Measuring the Value Social Marketing and Media

Vision Edge Marketing

'Hardly a week goes by when you don’t read or hear about social marketing or social media, the terms social marketing and social media are frequently used so it’s probably a good idea to define what we mean by these two terms. Social marketing was “born” as a discipline in the 1970s. Philip Kotler & Gerald Zaltman, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in 1971, used the term to describe the application of commercial marketing principles to health, social and qual

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When It Comes to Your Marketing Leads, Quality and Quantity Count

B2B Marketing Traction

Blog entry excerpted from the Marketing chapter written by Jennifer Beever in The Book on Business from A to Z. B2B marketers need to track lead quality as well as lead quantity. Marketing is a numbers game, right? Fill up that pipeline and increase sales! Not exactly. It is important to track the quality of your leads. One way to measure this is by tracking the conversion rate of leads by source.

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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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Lead Generation: How Do You Balance Quantity with Quality?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Seth Resler We welcome Leslie Griffey, Marketing Content Manager at Xactly Corporation , as a guest blogger. Finding new leads, leads that haven’t yet found you, and preparing them for sales is tough work. Rewarding people to do it well is even trickier business. A good lead generation team keeps your sales team fed and focused on closing deals. It fills your pipeline, creating a steady revenue stream.

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Social Pros 11 – Vanessa Sain-Dieguez, Hilton Hotels

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 11 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Vanessa Sain-Dieguez who is the Social Media Director at Hilton Worldwide. Read on for insights from Vanessa, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: 27% of people go through other channels before calling customer service lines).

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More Influence Hocus-Pocus

Paul Gillin

A Chicago company called Unmetric has just raised $3.2 million so it can develop yet another secret metric that purports to measure online influence. Unmetric monitors brands, not people, but it has the same shortcomings as Klout, PeerIndex and the others: Its methodology is a mystery. The distinguishing feature of its website is a leader board that shows the relative Unmetric scores of various brands in different industries.