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Poker Equity and Marketing II - Lead Equity Explained

Smashmouth Marketing

Ok, fair warning. If you are here for a two paragraph good marketing tip, you're in the wrong place. I'm deviating from my normal article style and getting down to some math. Geek Time! Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. The topic got resurrected this week with the posting of my interview on the Funnelholic site, when a question from @chadhorenfeldt from Eloqua caused me to bring up Lead Equity.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 4

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. As a result, I've made a number of small adjustments which have been retroactively edited into the previous posts. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention.

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Sales and marketing alignment: tips for getting it right with lead generation

markempa

According to the 2008 Miller Heiman Sales Best Practices Study, only 37% of respondents agreed that their sales and marketing organizations are aligned in what their customers want and need. I discussed this disconnect with Bill Golder in the February issue of Sales & Marketing Management. You can check out the interview online: Chronicles of a Sales Leader: The Lack of Sales and Marketing Alignment in Organizations Today.

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Spray and Pray Marketing 2.0

Buzz Marketing for Technology

No matter how you look at things these days marketers are becoming more like publishers than ever before. And their tactics are shifting from more Outbound Marketing like email and direct mail to more Inbound Marketing using SEO, Blogging and Social Media. So the game is changing right before our eyes! If you are pursuing a balanced approach of Outbound and Inbound marketing – you will quickly find you have a tremendous need for content!

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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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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220.

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5 Reasons Why Lead Management is more than Lead Nurturing and Scoring

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I think one mistake many marketers make is to think of their lead management requirements too narrowly — and to be honest, quite a few demand generation vendors make this mistake as well. As I wrote back in December, 2006, the fact that today's buyers take control of their buying processes using search, social media, and other online tools means that marketers need to move away from a mindset of "generating leads" and towards a model of " managing leads ".

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20 Useful PHP Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project

JotForm

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. In an effort to help you take it u.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

The following are what I thought were the top 20 take home tweets from the Sales 2.0 conference. Ok, 22 of them, but they are all worthy. Thanks to all that contributed, there were hundreds of tweets each day of the conference and it became all the buzz. Even to the point on the second day where a whole panel discussion was dominated by twitter talk. annekeseley : " sales 2.0 is not the answer.

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Customers and Sellers: The knowledge divide

The ROI Guy

A recent newsletter from sales and marketing best practices analysts at SiriusDecisions ( www.siriusdecisions.com February 2009; Knowledge Inflection Points) highlights that today’s buyers are more savvy, and gather more information than ever from public sources before they engage sales professionals. This means that marketing and sales efforts need to change in order to deliver what new customers demand – particularly, the newsletter highlighted some best practices we have been pressing for som

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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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More Resources to Define Lead Management Requirements

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A few days ago I posted a link to the new IDC Workbook: Optimizing Marketing and Sales Lead Management with Marketing Automation. This is a great tool, but there are quite a few other resources out there to help you define what you are looking for in a demand generation system. Here are some links to help you out; please let me know if you write about this topic and I’ll be happy to add you!

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The 4 C's of Social Media

WebMarketCentral

Social media is a bit like art—most of us are pretty sure we know what it is, but articulating a common definition can be challenging. There are many definitions of social media floating about of course, they just aren't consistent. Social media "are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information" according to Wikipedia.

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13 Top Books for CMOs - Recommended by The CMO Club

Smashmouth Marketing

Pete Krainik of the CMO Club posted thirteen books that members of the CMO club have recommended. Great list : Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur. Clued In: How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 1

Customer Experience Matrix

(note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) For better or worse, I've taken my usability scoring project as far as I can. So, having run out of reasons to delay, let me present the results. To start back at the beginning, the objective has been to find a practical, objective way to evaluate the usability of different demand generation systems.

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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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Announcing Marketo Lead Management 3.0

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A quick post to share the news that Marketo Lead Management 3.0 is now available! This is our largest release since we first launched the product last year. It delivers a comprehensive upgrade to our user interface as well as a great new design, plus a ton of significant new functionality in every part of the application. Be one of the first to check it out: All new Marketo demos.

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Best of 2008: Website Design

WebMarketCentral

What are the current best practices in website design? What common design mistakes should you avoid? Where can you find creative new design ideas? Many of last year's best articles and blog posts on the topic of website design were reviewed here in two posts on the best of website design so far in 2008, but to help answer the questions above, here are a few more. 25 Design Best Practices for Your Small Business Web Site by Search Engine Watch Carrie Hill provides a helpful list of website design

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Live Blogging Sales 2.0 Event With Twitter - INTENSE Experience

Smashmouth Marketing

I survived the first day of doing live twitter coverage of the Sales 2.0 event in San Francisco. If you want to follow it on twitter, use hashtag #sales20. When I first proposed doing live twitter coverage to Gerhard Gschwandtner, the publisher of Selling Power and the co-host of the event, I figured it would be an interesting thing to do, provide some value to the conference, and create a little marketing.

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Demand Generation Usability Scores - Part 3

Customer Experience Matrix

Usability Items for Complex Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs. Explicitly direct leads from one campaign to another. Users can directly send leads from one stage in a campaign to a different campaign.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Kiva.org Adds Video to Community

Smashmouth Marketing

Green Leads has recently been doing a team micro-lending project. Our employees can donate on a regular basis, we match dollar for dollar, and then we decide as a team what Kiva borrower to invest in. It's a great cause, and in the current economy, a great way to push from the bottom. One of the best parts of doing this is getting updates from our borrowers.

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Live Blogging Sales 2.0 Event With Twitter - INTENSE Experience

Smashmouth Marketing

I survived the first day of doing live twitter coverage of the Sales 2.0 event in San Francisco. If you want to follow it on twitter, use hashtag #sales20. When I first proposed doing live twitter coverage to Gerhard Gschwandtner, the publisher of Selling Power and the co-host of the event, I figured it would be an interesting thing to do, provide some value to the conference, and create a little marketing.

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Marketo Releases Marketo Lead Management 3.0

WebMarketCentral

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 software suite. With more than 200 new features, the release is the most significant since the product's initial launch in early 2008. Promising deeper support for a "conversational model of marketing," the new release provides 75 user interface enhancements as well as new features including: More fine-grained control over segmentation, targeting, and triggering; "Progressive profiling" on

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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

WebMarketCentral

Unless you are optimizing only for some extremely niche keywords, off-page optimization—building links from other websites to yours—is a critical and significant factor for SEO success. The blog posts cited here, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of link building, provide guidance on how and where to obtain valuable external links. They also offer advice on ineffective tactics and "bad neighborhoods" to avoid.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.