Sat.Feb 18, 2012 - Fri.Feb 24, 2012

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How to Get the CEO to Support Your Next Marketing Plan

markempa

Tweet On the way home from the MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Summit, I caught up with one our clinic coaches, Craig Mullenbach. A Program Manager for MECLABS, Craig used his decade-plus years of experience in lead-generation and content strategy to help attendees at the event. But he often felt like his hands were tied. He voiced his frustration to me: “Nearly everyone I talked to said that they knew all of the best practices but can’t execute them because they don’t have executive support –

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What Business-Owner Needs to Know about Social Media Marketing

Tomorrow People

Three things every business-owner needs to know about social media marketing and why social marketing is still not working for every business. Social media marketing. It’s one of the biggest things to hit the world of marketing for some time. But many business-owners are leaping head first into social media marketing – without taking some essential rules into consideration first.

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What is SEO? 10 Free SEO Videos for Beginners

KoMarketing Associates

What is SEO ? Data from Google’s Keyword Tool tells us that as of today, people search for this term 18,000 times per month. We’d like to help beginners to wrap their heads around the SEO concept and according to Wikipedia 60% of the general population are visual learners. There are endless amounts of books, blogs and articles that answer this question, but to suit the visual learners, we’ve compiled a list of videos that answer the question, “What is SEO?”.

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The Pros of LinkedIn vs. Facebook for Professionals

Writing on the Web

You’re probably already on Facebook , sharing photos of your kid’s first birthday party and links to your favorite articles , recipes and videos. After all, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family. But when it comes to using social media for your business, do you really want your professional network colliding with your personal life?

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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 Sales & Marketing Strategy Recommendations for 2012

ViewPoint

I’m an avid reader of Bob Apollo’s “Accelerating Revenue Growth” blog. Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. He does a great job of clearly presenting, assessing and recommending solutions for today’s pressing sales lead management challenges.

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Lead Generation or Demand Generation? It’s All Just Content Marketing!

Marketing Insider Group

Last week, Eric Wittlake (@ wittlake ) wrote a great post called Lead Generation is Crippling Demand Generation where he argued that these two marketing activities were working against each other due to the different outcomes each is trying to achieve. Many marketers lose focus on the bigger picture as they chase more leads. They throw registration forms in front of their content without thinking about earning the right to build an engaged audience that will return to you when they are ready t

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My Love/Hate Relationship with B2B Events

ANNUITAS

I have a confession to make. I have a love/hate relationship with marketing events, a fair share of which I attend each year. At many of these events, I have the good fortune of being able to present on topics such as lead management, lead nurturing and sales-marketing alignment. Along the way, I meet some very smart, interesting marketing people.

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20 B2B Marketers Losing their Brand on Pinterest

Digital B2B Marketing

Pinterest is the marketing flavor du jour. Media and press are tauting the ability of Pinterest to drive traffic and the time spent on Pinterest. Many B2B marketers do not have any presence on Pinterest. In my search for major B2B marketers on Pinterest, I only found a handful using it actively. Here are three of the better B2B marketing examples I found.

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How Paul Barrett Won Over Gun Forums

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. In order to mine social media marketing gold, you really need to roll up your sleeves, put on a pair of sturdy work boots, get into that little elevator, and descend that deep shaft into the gold mine yourself, pick in hand, and get to work. Message boards and forums are full of marketing gold but if gold were that simple to collect, everyone would be loaded.

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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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Social Media? #WTF

Marketing Insider Group

Tonight I am presenting social media marketing to a group of local marketing students at West Chester University. In preparation for the class, I spoke to the professor in order to determine which points about social media marketing I should touch on. She explained that the students think “Twitter is for old people” and are looking to understand what value social media marketing has relative to the larger marketing mix.

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On Becoming a Top Sales Expert at Top Sales World

ViewPoint

I’m honored, thrilled and humbled (all at the same time!) to be selected a Top Sales Expert at Top Sales World , the international online community dedicated exclusively to sharing sales best practices. Becoming a member of the Top Sales Expert team is an exceptional honor for me as the group is comprised of 31 sales professionals who have joined this exclusive group over the past five years, and a maximum of four new members are elected each year.

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Social Sleuthing: Who is Sharing Your Content: Twitter & LinkedIn Edition

Digital B2B Marketing

Have you ever wondered who is sharing your blog posts or other content on social media sites but don’t have access to expensive social media monitoring applications that can tell you? Here are ways you can find out who is sharing your content, and in some cases how much traffic each share is driving, on Twitter and LinkedIn. Some of the approaches here use Google Analytics or WordPress statistics, the measurement solutions I use here on B2B Digital Marketing.

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Dear LinkedIn Member – About Your Invitation To Connect

B2B Marketing Traction

Please tell me who you are and how we know each other. Because I do not have ESP. Nor do I have a photographic memory of recent people whom I’ve met. Please, help me with a reminder of how we know each other and a compelling reason to accept your invitation. On LinkedIn I usually only connect to people I know. This includes people I’ve have met face-to-face, and those I’ve worked with virtually through national teams or committees or gotten to know on social media sites.

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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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5 Online Marketing Goals that Make (Dollars and) Sense

Biznology

Many marketers enter the new year eager to make a difference only to do what they’ve always done—and only to see the same results they always saw. Happily, you’re not one of those marketers. What separates you from those other folks is your focus on driving meaningful results for your business. And, as I mentioned last month , part of driving meaningful results involves establishing clear, measurable objectives for your team to rally ’round.

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(Video) 4 Mistakes You Make When Posting Video on Your Blog

Convince & Convert

Guest post written by Rocky Walls , who has more than 10 years’ experience in digital content creation. As CEO of 12 Stars Media Productions , Rocky works with businesses to create video that’s so real and simple it changes audiences into relationships. It’s no secret that embedding videos on your blog post is a great way to attract readership and conversion.

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How Marketing Executives are Adapting to Online Tools [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller In today’s ever-evolving marketing world, few can argue the need for an aggressive and comprehensive online marketing campaign to help a company stay competitive. A full 81 percent of marketing executives agree with this, but what avenues to digital marketing and customer engagement are they taking, and what are their current challenges?

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B2B Marketing, Meet the Law of Attraction

B2B Marketing Traction

It’s no Secret that the Law of Attraction gets us what we want in our personal lives. But does it apply to business-to-business marketing? You bet it does. And social media has a lot to do with it. To be successful on social media platforms and on the Internet in general today means that you have to provide content about the value of your business and services.

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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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Social Business within the Enterprise: Is It Revolutionary?

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. You go to a conference, watch in awe the keynote speaker making a very convincing case that the-world-has-completely-changed-and-nothing-will-ever-be-the-same-again and leave energized, certain that we are all just witnessing the dawn of a brave new business world where you will never have to deal with email and endless meetings, hierarchy is replaced by a flat organizational structure and any knowledge you need is within close reach–all you have to do is to Google it.

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Crystal Light Challenged Getting Ready For Bikini Season

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Lisa Loeffler, Research & Analysis Lead at Convince & Convert. She is also founder and principal of Genuine Media , a marketing agency that helps clients build their individual and brand reputation through social media. It started out innocently when I saw Crystal Light’s new TV commercial last month. After rewinding it a handful of times and rolling in my personal laughter I thought it was funny enough to share.

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Manufacturers: Don’t Start a Lead Generation Campaign Without Sales

Industrial Marketing Today

Every manufacturing or industrial company that I talk to wants more leads. However, there is a serious disconnect between sales and marketing when it comes to defining a qualified lead. This is not a new problem. Google sales and marketing disconnect and you will find thousands of articles written on this topic. I am here to tell you that it is very real and thriving within manufacturing companies.

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The Inbound Marketing Multiplier: How to Maximize Your Inbound Efforts

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino Are you using a mix of inbound and outbound marketing for your lead generation efforts? You should be. Outbound marketing is any paid marketing – both online and offline – used to acquire new leads. It includes everything from trade shows to pay-per-click marketing and is critical to growing inbound marketing. Why? Well, when a new piece of content is launched, inbound marketing supports that content, for example, by sharing it in social media channels, making it faster and e

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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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Holiday Spending Delivers Q4 Gifts to E-commerce Sellers

Biznology

Image by Getty Images via @daylife. The 2011 holiday shopping season blur, though hectic, was a welcome event for e-commerce sellers and online retailers. Recording increases from 14 percent on Free Shipping Day to 26 percent on Black Friday, online sellers generated sales from $500 million on Thanksgiving to almost $3 billion during the entire week of Christmas.

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The High Cost of Lengthening Sales Cycles

The ROI Guy

For many B2B firms, sales cycles have extended by a month or more over the past few years, and show little signs of shortening. The economic malaise continues to drive buyers to be more skeptical, risk adverse and frugal, causing a rapid increase in stalled deals, and understandable delays in the decision making process. These sales cycle delays have had a serious impact on B2B sales revenue and growth, resulting in the failure of many sales and marketing organizations to meet growth goals and q

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B2B Marketing: Personal Relevance & Buyer Behavior

MLT Creative

ELM: The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) suggests that a fundamental key to the art of persuasion lies in a person’s cognitive elaboration on the issue at hand. According to the ELM, personal relevance is an important factor in motivating people to cognitively elaborate on an issue. Thus, finding a message that achieves personal relevance is very important.

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How to Write Call-to-Action Copy That Gets Visitors Clicking

Hubspot

Good writing matters in marketing; being able to articulate ideas clearly is key to capturing the attention of prospects. Let's take calls-to-action as an example. If the copy you craft doesn't draw visitors in, that can hurt your click-through rate, lead conversions, and ultimately, sales. “People looking for information are looking for text, not pictures,” writes copywriter Dean Rieck , analyzing the results of an Eyetrack III study.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How to Optimize Press Releases for Search Engines

EMagine B2B Blog

Part of your website optimization lies not only in the page’s content, but rather, in your assets. While your pages give a great deal of relevance to Search Engines, people often forget about assets such as images, videos, podcasts, PDFs, and press releases. An optimized press release gives you the upper hand in the search [.].

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The High Cost of Discounting

The ROI Guy

Discounting is unfortunately a way of life for many of our sales professionals today. There is a new breed of buyer who is more skeptical and frugal than ever before, indicating that price is the key factor in over 64% of decisions (U of Dayton). As well, these buyers are now firmly in control of the purchase cycle, inviting sales later than ever, when the process is already 65% complete (Forrester).

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Webinar: 5 Ways to Engage Your Facebook Community

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We're proud to announce Part Two of our Webinar Series: Proven Strategies to Grow, Engage and Convert Facebook Fans, which will provide five effective ideas for engaging and keeping your Facebook fans ! Attendees of the "5 Ways to Engage Your Facebook Community" webinar will learn: Optimizing the Frequency of Your Facebook Posts. The Secret to Getting Posts Shared & Responded To.