January, 2010

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. You know who you are. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. I took a look at the actual product last week.

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Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2009

markempa

Forecasting Clouds ranked the top 20 CRM blogs based on their content, readability and frequency of posting. I'm honored to have been included on the list. As I read over the list of blogs, I discovered some new ones worth reading along with a number of bloggers I already follow. Here's a partial list of the CRM blogs on their list: PGreenblog and CRM: The Conversation – Paul Greenberg.

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Why NOT to Publish an Audio or Video Transcript

WriteSpark

This may be marketing heresy today, but I much prefer to read an online article or transcript than to watch a video or listen to a podcast. In part it is because as a writer, I certainly have a bias for the written word. But the primary reason I like text: It allows me to save time by skimming the content for information of interest. Contrast this with waiting for a media file to download, the player to open, then having to view or listen to all or most of the file before I can determine if it c

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How to Write an Effective Email Newsletter

Webbiquity

Note: This post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog. A few years ago, I was tasked with reviving a declining company newsletter. In the previous six months, subscriptions had declined by 50%, and unsubscribes were significantly outpacing new subscriptions. Over the next six months, subscription increased by more than 400% and the rate of unsubscribes was reduced by 90%.

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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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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. Okay, so it’s difficult to actually pull money out of buyers for your marketing content (though there are rare exceptions: McKinsey has been doing it for years with the McKinsey Quarterly). Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events.

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Kynetx Lets Marketers Customize User Experience Across Web Sites

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Kynetx lets marketers enhance and coordinate user experience across multiple Web sites. It’s so different from site-based Web personalization that the possibilities can be hard to grasp. But I think they’re substantial. The classic view of online anonymity is the 1993 New Yorker cartoon, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Today, we realize that our online identities are not as private as they then seemed.

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LinkedIn for lead generation - Are You the Missing Link?

markempa

It takes time and commitment, but LinkedIn has become ideal venue to nurture relationships and generate new leads, especially for sales people involved in a complex sale. On that topic, I wrote an guest article for MarketingProfs, titled " 10 Tips for Using LinkedIn to Generate Leads." MarketingProfs decided to make it a "premium article" so it's available only to paid subscribers.

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New Year, New Projects, New Writer?

WriteSpark

You may be coming back to work after the holiday break with new funds in your budget and a long list of new marcom projects to complete. Is it time to expand your list of project resources with new freelance writers? You may already have a good working relationship with one or more freelancers.great! But as the pace of marketing activity picks up throughout 2010, you may need additional freelance copywriters for when: Your current writers are too busy.

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Influencers vs Advocates in B2B Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

According to Wikipedia – Influencer Marketing is a form of marketing that has emerged from a variety of recent practices and studies, in which focus is placed on specific key individuals (or types of individual) rather than the target market as a whole. It identifies the individuals that have influence over potential buyers, and orients marketing activities around these influencers.

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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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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. Okay, so it’s difficult to actually pull money out of buyers for your marketing content (though there are rare exceptions: McKinsey has been doing it for years with the McKinsey Quarterly). Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events.

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ClickInsights: Social Media Marketing in 2010

Ambal's Amusings

How will social media marketing evolve in 2010? We have invited 2 Social Media Icons - Pam Brossman and Chris Garrett - to shed light on the following question: "What do you foresee as the biggest change that will happen in social media marketing in 2010? How should marketers and businesses adapt to this change?" Read on to get their insights.

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Autonomy Promises to Automate Delivery of Tailored Marketing Messages

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Autonomy is a leader in enterprise search and content management (it owns Interwoven). Its concept of "Meaning Based Marketing" comes quite close to my idea of "content grazing" as a way to reduce marketing complexity while delivering the right content to each customer or prospect. In my last post , I proposed the (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) term of “content grazing” to describe automatically extracting small bits of information from company documents and feeding them to prospects and cu

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Target Your B2B Lead Generation Efforts by Vertical and Job Title

markempa

I thought this post by Carolyn Goodman for Target Marketing Magazine was a good reminder of how we can improve our lead-gen results by simply being more targeted with our messaging. I know this is a basic idea and many of you do this this already but knowing something and actually doing it are two different things. This article prompted me to make sure that my team and I are doing this consistently because talking or writing about it isn't enough.

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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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Welcome to The Point

The Point

If this is your first visit to the blog, welcome. If you’re a regular reader of my old blog, you may be asking (literally): What’s The Point? Here’s the news: the blog has moved to a new location and re-launched with a new name because I’ve also moved, to a new agency: Spear Marketing Group. Spear (“Marketing with a Point”) is a full-service agency that specializes in demand generation and lead management, but also offers a full suite of marketing and advertising services including general adv

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Why is Google Scared and What it means for B2B Marketing!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At a recent dinner with a buddy of mine from Microsoft (who helped launch Bing) – I learned a lot more about the search market and a very important trend that can effect the future of B2B Marketing. When you think about the search behavior of the average person online – we are mostly conditioned to search in very routine ways like pulling up a Google search page, using the toolbar in your browser etc.

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5 Marketing Automation Email Tips

Anything Goes Marketing

I have the pleasure of welcoming a new bunch of Eloqua team members who we start off with a boot camp here in Toronto so they get to know each other and the rest of the company. I’m going to outline some of the cool things our customers do but I’ll also provide a short intro on what I do in my day to day. To make it easy for everybody, I like to describe my role as a sherpa for our customers.

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How to Fight Writer's Block

Ambal's Amusings

It happens to all of us. We stare at a blank screen, watching the cursor blink and minutes tick, but just can't think of how to start writing. Whether we're working on the introduction to an eBook on a dry subject, or a mid-week blog post – some days the engine just won't start. You need a boost. So, here's a good one to try. Writer and editor Shane Arthur came up with the site Creative Copy Challenge as a way to combat writer's block.

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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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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. business-to-business marketing automation.

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Lead Generation tips for Tradeshows Conferences

markempa

Tradeshows and events are still being used consistently by B2B marketers for lead generation. With that in mind, Roger Lewis has some useful tips on how to improve your lead management strategy with from tradeshows. Lewis emphasizes how vital lead capture is to the lead management process. He writes: Without the continuity of using one lead management solution across all your yearly events, your company is often left with: Inconsistent data fields that are difficult to import into CRM systems; U

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Buyer Persona 2.0 – Part 3 - Understanding Buyer Goals

Tony Zambito

In this segment of the Buyer Persona 2.0 series I would like to talk about an often overlooked aspect of buyer personas.   When it comes to finding the disruptive edge in B2B sales and marketing, understanding and leveraging buyer goals is paramount.   Previously in Buyer Persona 2.0 – Part 1 , I reviewed the importance of buyer insight.   Without a rigorous effort in buyer insight, getting at the root of buyer goals will be extremely difficult.   The third key tenet of B

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Social Media Marketing Tips from the Experts: Rick Burnes

Webbiquity

Late last year, I sat in on a couple of social media marketing webinars from two of the best: Rick Burnes , Marketing Manager at HubSpot , and Chris Abraham of Abraham Harrison , along with Sally Falkow of Expansion Plus. Here are some of the key takeaways on using social media effectively. This post will review recommendations from Rick Burnes, while a follow-up post will present ideas from Chris and Sally.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Bye Bye, Advertising Madmen. Hello, Marketing Nurturers.

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. Many of us are pretty enamored with the television series Madmen , with its portrayal of advertising industry “madmen” who worked at the agencies behind the scenes, smoking incessantly, fueling their creativity with gallons of alcohol, and relieving stress with illicit affairs. It’s so popular, fashion designers are incorporating elements of the show’s costumes into their current designs.

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ClickLaunch: Seth Godin's Linchpin

Ambal's Amusings

What is a linchpin? Dictionary defines linchpin as - A locking pin inserted in the end of a shaft, as in an axle, to prevent a wheel from slipping off. Seth Godin has titled his new book as Linchpin (referring to a person). Who are Linchpins ? Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they're indispensable.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. But enhanced reporting was the most common improvement of all. Could marketers finally be ready to spend on measurement? I’m pleased to report that the 2010 edition of the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems is officially available today, with updated entries on all vendors (alphabetically: Eloqua , Manticore Technology , Market2Lead , Marketbright , Marketo , Neolane and Silv

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Lead re-engagement is lead nurturing to rejuvenate old leads

markempa

The January sales push well on it's way and most B2B marketers I know are looking an additional ways to generate leads more faster. Do you have a process have a process for handing leads from sales back to marketing when they are not sales ready? If not, I recommend you look at re-engaging the leads you already have in your database and pay special attention to the leads your sales team didn't convert last year?

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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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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

Image by LollyKnit via Flickr. I wish I could say that social media leads to sales. I really do. But I can’t. And I haven’t encountered anyone else who can either, have you? So when we think about social media ROI, we need to make a leap of faith. We need to believe that more engagement between our companies and the people we want to reach is a good thing that ultimately leads to sales—but down a long, narrow, winding path with a few jumps between cliffs thrown in there.

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The 4 P’s to Social Media Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. Frankly, I have been brewing this post for a while now and its time to let it loose. It combines a few things you might have read about into one new concept around social media – the 4 P’s of Social Media marketing.

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5 Outbound Calling Best Practices

Smashmouth Marketing

Dialing the phone all day is a task. I have one guy who calls it panning for gold. He'll say he just swished the phone 20 times, found 4 shiny objects and none were gold. Then an hour later he'll yell "Eureka!" when he does successfully set an appointment. I'll be presenting these 5 Outbound Calling Best Practices later today (4:00-6:30) at Papa Razzi in Burlington at the AA-ISP meeting ( American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ).