November, 2011

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17 Ways to Integrate Facebook and Email Marketing

Convince & Convert

Killer integration of Facebook and Email. View more presentations from Jay Baer. I won’t write out the entire presentation for you in blog post form – that’s what Slideshare is for – but here are the high points of this presentation on Killer Integration of Facebook and Email Marketing, where I offer 17 specific ways to tie these two important programs together. 2 Sides of the Same Coin.

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Fabulicious Workbook Helps Assess CRM Integration Features of Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

CRM integration is a fundamental feature of marketing automation. Pretty much every system can send leads to Salesforce.com , but capabilities vary significantly once you start looking for more. Sadly, most marketers pay little attention to these nuances until they've already selected a product. Then they learn they hard way what they should have asked.

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3 Key Tips to Effective B2B Email Marketing

Tomorrow People

What’s the problem with b2b email marketing? Let’s start with some statistics: the number of worldwide email accounts is projected to increase from over 2.9 billion in 2010, to over 3.8 billion by 2014. In 2010, the typical corporate user was found to send and receive about 110 messages daily. Roughly 18% of emails received is spam , comprising both actual spam and “graymail” (i.e. unwanted newsletters, alerts, etc.) ( Source: The Email Statistics Report, 2010, The Radica

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2011 Top Sales & Marketing Awards Nominations

ViewPoint

I am deeply honored to be selected as a finalist in two categories for the 2011 Top Sales & Marketing Awards. Now in its second year, the Top Sales & Marketing Awards combine peer voting with a judging panel of industry experts to recognize leading sales and marketing books, articles, thought leaders, solutions, resources and tools. " target="_blank">.

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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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Why the Term “Marketing-Qualified Lead” Creates Serious Confusion – Part 2

markempa

Tweet In my post earlier this week , I outlined the challenge presented by SiriusDecisions’ Demand Waterfall taxonomy, specifically with the phrase “Marketing-Qualified Leads” (MQLs). Another problematic phrase is “sales-accepted leads.”. Often, funnels leak the most during the handoff between sales and marketing. Invariably, marketing blames sales and sales blames marketing.

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5 Steps to Launch Your International Social Media

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Christian Arno , founder of professional translation services provider Lingo24. Launched in 2001, Lingo24 has clients in over sixty countries, and translated over forty million words in the last year. Even though Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google are American companies, social media doesn’t begin and end at the shores of the USA.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Selection: Summing Up

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s time to wrap up this series of posts on marketing automation vendor selection, which were based on my November 10 Webinar with Neolane (replay available here ). I’ve summarized them in three commandments. Forget the Past. Marketers have been doing such a bad job of selecting systems that they should forget their old approach and start from scratch.

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The Death of Email Marketing

Tomorrow People

Why your email marketing campaign doesn’t need inbound marketing. So you send out emails on a regular basis. But you’ve heard that inbound marketing may well be able to boost the results it’s bringing your business. Here are three reasons why your email marketing doesn’t need inbound marketing: 1. If you’re happy with one-off blasts that get patchy results.

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Andy Rooney on Sales Leads

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. Andy Rooney, probably the best known commentator of his time, who at 92 years passed too soon on November 4 th , said, “I've learned. that opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

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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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Why the Term “Marketing-Qualified Lead” Creates Serious Confusion – Part I

markempa

Tweet. SiriusDecisions made a brilliant contribution to B2B marketing several years ago when they created their Demand Waterfall. That “waterfall” is a metaphor for key funnel stages. It seems like everyone I talk to who works in the technology industry, which is an early adopter of marketing innovations, uses the Demand Waterfall framework. The concept is useful for any B2B industry with complex sales.

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Inbound Marketing: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Digital B2B Marketing

Two weeks ago, I wrote Just Say NO to Marketing Advice. Inbound marketing is a great example of popular marketing advice and it may makes sense for most marketers. But it doesn’t make sense for all. Most B2B marketers are not providing pure commodity products, even in commodity markets. Every company is looking to differentiate by meeting specific business needs.

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How to Effectively Bottle Social Media and Product Integration

Convince & Convert

In addition to family, football, and fancy side dishes you’ll never see for another year, Thanksgiving brings an annual dilemma to the oenophile. What wine to serve for Thanksgiving is a tricky question, as the holiday table replete with savory and sweet options is an Ellis Island of tastes, making for a tough wine pairing. This year, instead of hoping to get it just right, I’ll be serving a wine that has the best aspects of Thanksgiving (family, friends, socializing) built right int

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Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support

Customer Experience Matrix

As I wrote yesterday, no one knows exactly what we’ll want from our marketing automation systems in the future. But it's still worth taking a guess at what looks likely. Here are some trends I expect will be important. Social Media. The first wave of marketing automation features for social media is now several years old. These included making it easier to share emails and Web pages, tracking shares through embedded URLs, and monitoring social media conversations.

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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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SEO vs. Marketing

Tomorrow People

SEO vs. Marketing. Sounds contradictory doesn’t it? Why would you have an SEO marketing approach that conflicts with your marketing strategy? Surely both have the same aim – to help a business win more customers and make more revenue? The two should fit together. After all, an average 22% of total business marketing budgets is spent on SEO marketing , according to the companies surveyed recently ( Source: UK SEM Benchmark Report 2011 ).

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5 Steps To Get Your Social Media Game On

Marketing Insider Group

Are you thinking about getting started in social media personally? Don’t worry, you are not alone. You are not the last one to drag your feet a bit and jump on the social bandwagon! But if you are still holding on to some of the common excuses such as “I’m too old,” (bullsh*t) “I don’t have time,” (bullsh*t) “I don’t see the value,” (bullsh*t) or “I don’t know how…” (why I wrote this post) then let me tell you th

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“Content Is Power”: Q & A with Mark W. Schaefer

B2B Memes

Mark W. Schaefer. A couple of years ago when I started B2B Memes it was my plan to focus exclusively on trade publishing. But as I looked around the blogosphere/Twitterverse, it didn’t take long to realize that the most enthusiastic and informed discussions about B2B communications involved not publishing, but marketing. For me, a journalist, this came as a jolt.

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Inbound Marketing: A Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Digital B2B Marketing

Two weeks ago, I wrote Just Say NO to Marketing Advice. Inbound marketing is a great example of popular marketing advice and it may makes sense for most marketers. But it doesn’t make sense for all. Most B2B marketers are not providing pure commodity products, even in commodity markets. Every company is looking to differentiate by meeting specific business needs.

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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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Our Dangerous Addiction to Social Media Case Studies

Convince & Convert

The two most important words in social media should be “so what?” As Tom Webster eloquently put it in his recent Blogworld keynote , when research wears the cloak of content marketing, it’s a recipe for the incurious to pull a fast one on the masses, disguising pointless data as gospel. Tom was referring to data-dredging and the spate of statistical “best practices” that bubble up in social media like something in Jed Clampett’s back yard.

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Marketing Automation Selection: Finding a Future-Safe Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. I wrote yesterday about building a requirements document to define the features you'll look for. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success. Here are some ways to identify a “future-safe” vendor. Past innovations: a history of advanced thinking shows the vendor understands marketers’ needs and suggests they'll adapt well to the future.

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How SEO can Help You Win More Customers and Make More Revenue

Tomorrow People

What are Britain’s businesses missing when it comes to SEO? The London Vice President of Google recently made a big claim. He said that growing companies can go global in several weeks, simply by exploiting the power of the internet ( Source: The Daily Telegraph ). So if the internet does indeed offer so much scope for development why are so many companies still missing out?

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Are You an Accidental B2B Marketer?

B2B Marketing Traction

At New Incite, our tagline is “ Don’t Leave Your Marketing to Chance.” We’ve seen too many B2B companies fail to look at their business, industry, and competition strategically, miss major opportunities and waste precious marketing dollars. Planning your B2B marketing strategically means that you are driving the bus that is your business, not riding in it (or standing at the bus stop waiting for it).

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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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Process vs. Product: Six New-Media Principles, No. 6

B2B Memes

The new-media principles of transparency and openness discussed in my last two posts mean that readers can both see and participate in the process of journalism itself. They are no longer handed the finished product in the form of an article and asked to move along. For both reader and writer the change can be liberating, exciting, and rewarding. The downside, of course, is that the process is messy and prone to mistakes.

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Buyerology Trend: Think Buyer Decision Model vs. Buyer Journey

Tony Zambito

This is the fifth in a series of articles looking at buyer trends that will influence marketing and sales in the near and foreseeable future.  We explored so far experience creation , BIG insights , demand fulfillment , and buyer networks.  This article looks at how buyer decision models are changing and how marketing and sales can think beyond the buyer’s journey or buying process to adapt.  ( Image by Kenny Madden © All rights reserved ).

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The Awesome Power of Family in Social Media Storytelling

Convince & Convert

In honor of Thanksgiving, I wanted to write a post about the power of family in social media storytelling. And as you site down to whatever celebration you embrace, think about the videos below and what they evoke within you. But first, remember that the goal isn’t to be good at social media. The goal is to be good at business because of social media.

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Vendor Selection: Writing a Good Requirements Document

Customer Experience Matrix

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. How did we come to this? I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Remember all that yammering about how today’s buyers do their own research, don’t talk to sales until late in the process, and get their information from social media rather than experts?

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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The Most Effective Search Engine Marketing Strategy

Tomorrow People

SEO: What’s so surprising about SEO? The popularity of SEO as a business marketing activity is no surprise. Recent research has shown that nearly 60% of purchases made in a surveyed group started with a search, rather than with company websites or social media ( Source: GroupM and comScore ). With the number of internet users in the UK predicted to grow to an estimated 43.7 million by 2012 ( Source: eMarketer ), the popularity of search marketing is set to continue.

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Effective Content is Clear and Direct

The Effective Marketer

A recent post by David Meerman Scott touched on a big pet peeve of mine… creating content that is easy to understand. Big organizations suffer from this problem more than others, but it also permeates small and medium businesses. Gobbledygook is spread everywhere, from press releases to website content, to the latest whitepaper or eBook. I think that in larger organizations it probably starts with someone trying to sound smarter than the rest, showing off his or her extensive vocabulary of

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How to Revive a Dying E-Newsletter: 4 Tips

The Point

The demise of email newsletters as an effective B2B marketing tactic has been, to paraphrase Mr. Twain, grossly exaggerated. In fact, email newsletters can be a critical part of an ongoing lead nurturing strategy. At minimum, a well-crafted newsletter serves to break up what would otherwise be an unending sequence of more offer-oriented emails peddling white papers, Webinars and the like.