Sat.Dec 08, 2012 - Fri.Dec 14, 2012

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Gamification: How Siemens got 23,000 engineers to learn about its brand

markempa

Tweet Siemens Industry , Inc., is proving that engineers just wanna have fun. And it’s filling the sales pipeline in the process. In March of 2011, the Siemens team launched Plantville. This online game simulates the experience of being a plant manager. Players are challenged to maintain operation of their plant while improving productivity, efficiency and facility health.

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24 of the Best Google+ Guides, Tips, Rants and Raves of 2012

Webbiquity

Will Google+ be a “Facebook killer” or just Google’s next failed social network? It’s certainly gaining traction, with over 500 million users now on board, already half of Facebook’s total. Then again, the average Facebook user spends nearly seven hours per month on the site—compared to just three minutes for the average Google+user.

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SiteCore Migrates from Web Content Management to Cross-Channel Customer Engagement

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s more than three years since my original post about SiteCore’s plans to transform itself from a Web content management system to a platform for cross-channel customer experience management. It seems to be working out – since that time, revenue has grown 40% per year and the number of clients has nearly doubled from 1,600 to 3,000. The company has attracted additional funding, added support for producing dynamic print content, launched an “App Center” for pre-integrated third party products,

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How Much Of My Demand Generation Budget Should I Be Spending On Lead Nurturing?

The Point

It’s that time of year again, and marketers’ thoughts turn to budgeting for the next 12 months. One of the most frequent questions we’re hearing from clients during this planning season pertains to the balance between pure lead generation on the one hand, and lead nurturing on the other. Specifically, the question is: How much of our total demand generation budget should we spend on generating net new leads, and how much should we spend on converting the leads we have?

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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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Big Data For Marketing: I Want My Real-Time Dashboard

Marketing Insider Group

“Data is the new oil.” That was one of my favorite quotes from a conference I attended earlier this year. The businesses that can harvest and take advantage of big data will prosper and win in today’s hyper-competitive, social-driven and mobile-accessed economy. For marketers, this presents a massive challenge: first, we need to cover the cost of gathering and storing the data.

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Vulnerability is essential to your social media marketing success

Biznology

In order to succeed in social media, be it as a tool to build your own personal brand or as part of a marketing strategy for your own interest or for your employer, you will need to get over yourself and deal with some very primal fears you may have that feel a lot like your fear of public speaking. In order to make the first step, you’re going to have to trust yourself as a professional, as a communicator, and maybe even as the person who was chosen by your company as the best person to r

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How to Be Seen Online

Webbiquity

A famous Monty Python skit “educates” viewers on how not to be seen. While wonderful classic British humor, it’s the opposite of a productive online strategy. When prospective buyers are searching online for information about whatever it is you sell, or about solving the kinds of problems that your products and/or services are designed to alleviate, your brand should be as widely seen as possible.

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Social Business And The Next Generation

Marketing Insider Group

The social revolution has officially arrived at most corporate headquarters. Your company has Facebook and Twitter accounts, you’re schmoozing on LinkedIn, and your marketing department is uploading compelling content to your YouTube channel. These practices, however, are de rigueur in the age of social media. If you want to stay competitive, you have to become a true Social Business.

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My Business Website: Content for Customers… or SEO?

Writing on the Web

Should my business website focus on keywords and getting search engine results ? Or quality content for customers ? Perhaps a more important question is “How do I make the most of each of my web pages so that my business and I get found, get known, and get clients ?” The challenge: You want to make sure that your business website is fresh, attractive and informative.

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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 And The Value of Relationships

Biznology

Photo credit: ilamont.com. Content marketing is getting more and more attention. It’s not entirely a new concept – its roots are in search marketing and social media marketing – but more marketers are looking closely at a holistic approach that puts content at the center. Content marketing holds a lot of advantages (and differences) when compared to traditional marketing.

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WriteSpark: Best Blog Posts about Content Marketing

WriteSpark

This month's list focuses on my best posts and recommended resources for content marketing as it applies to technology products, services, and companies. If you are involved in producing any type of technical sales or promotional materials, you'll find these posts helpful: What does the content tell you? How to look beyond the standard collateral list to create fresh ideas for marketing content.

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Does B2B Content Marketing Really Help Buyers Buy?

Digital B2B Marketing

In B2B marketing organizations, content marketing aims to help buyers buy. Right? Content marketing provides the information buyers need to determine the type of solution they need, develop internal support for a change, create a short list of providers and address objections , all while positioning your company as a trusted resource. Wow, that sounds amazing.

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LinkedIn Video: How to Use Endorsements and Manage Skills

B2B Marketing Traction

I’ve had many questions on how to use LinkedIn endorsements. Watch this video to learn how endorsements and skills work on your LinkedIn profile! You will also learn how to assess and manage skills to best fit your capabilities and experience as well as a few other helpful LinkedIn features.

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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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Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly?

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. For an increasing majority of us, our mobile devices are the last things we touch before we go to bed at night and the first things we pick up and check when we wake up. Now more than ever, people are using their mobile devices to not only make phone calls and send text messages, but to access information on the Internet. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the majority of American adults who have cell phones are now using them to go online.

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Where is the utility in mobile apps for B2B?

Chris Koch

Mitch Joel has a nice post on HBR this week about bringing utility to marketing and social media. As is often the case, his advice pertains more to B2C than B2B, as I point out in a comment: “Utility” is a clear, succinct way of putting it. I am concerned about the B2B side of things, though, for complex technology solutions in particular.

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4 Rules for a Video to Go Viral

Convince & Convert

Not too long ago, I was approached by a company who explained to me that they were looking to have a viral video produced. It didn’t take long to realize that the ideas the company had for the video were far from being the roots to a successful video. As he sat there and explained his ideas (which consisted of text and logos plastered throughout), I quickly realized one thing; he didn’t want a viral video at all, he wanted a promotional video.

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WriteSpark: Best Blog Posts about Content Marketing

WriteSpark

This month's list focuses on my best posts and recommended resources for content marketing as it applies to technology products, services, and companies. If you are involved in producing any type of technical sales or promotional materials, you'll find these posts helpful: What does the content tell you? How to look beyond the standard collateral list to create fresh ideas for marketing content.

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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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Incorporate Long Tail Keywords into the Mix for SEO Success

Biznology

One of the first steps of an SEO campaign is keyword research. The keywords lay the groundwork for the campaign and influence every decision that is made thereafter. Two of the most important things to pay attention to when conducting keyword research are the relevancy of the keyword and its search volume. For most website owners that are just getting started with SEO, it’s not advisable to after the high search volume keywords right away, even though those are the ones that appear to be the mos

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Humor Me! Lighten Up Your B2B Marketing and Get Results

Crimson Marketing

'In today’s world of information overload how do you stand out in the crowd? Humor is a powerful way to make that initial connection and a great way to deliver results. Let’s face it, introducing humor in your B2B marketing mix can be a bit scary and feel risky. We found this recent Social Media Today article with some helpful ‘digestable’ ways to think about diving in.

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How Mobile, Content, Influence and Culture are Changing Marketing Forever {free ebook}

Convince & Convert

Has there ever been a more visceral, complex time to be a marketer? The rules (such as they are) are changing constantly, and new technology and rapid shifts in consumer behavior are giving best practices the shelf life of a ripe banana. It’s an era of exploration and experimentation that favors the nimble marketer. To help document some of today’s important ideas about business culture, research, social media, mobile, content marketing and more, I recruited an all-star team of 12 contributors.

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The Contentious State of B2B Content Marketing [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jason Miller Our friends over at MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute recently released The State of B2B Content Marketing in North America. It’s a fascinating report revealing insights into how B2B marketers are using content marketing techniques and the biggest challenges they face. The results reveal that B2B marketers are spending more, using more tactics, and distributing their content on more social networks than they have in the past.

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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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Are you ahead of your social media customers?

Biznology

Photo credit: paparutzi. I learned quite some ago to stop apologizing for my approach to this time of year. I celebrate Christmas because I am a Christian. If I offend you by saying “Merry Christmas!” that’s on you, not me. So why am I talking about one of the things you never speak of in a business context (along with politics which is much more uncomfortable these days than religion is by far)?

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100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures From 2012

Crimson Marketing

'We recently ran across this Huffington Post article featuring a great compilation of stats from 2012 that are worth taking a look at, especially as you plan for your 2013 social media campaigns. Here is just a sampling: Websites using the +1 button generate 3.5x the Google+ visits than sites without the button. 625,000 new users on Google+ every day.

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Blogger Outreach Software That Will Make You Do a Happy Dance

Convince & Convert

Flickr image from slettvet. Blogger outreach is a major part of many agencies’ social media offerings, and finding and managing relationships with bloggers is often a time-consuming, Sisyphean task that usually gets foisted upon junior team members who then spend dozens of hours on random Google searches and lame email pitches. Let’s fix that.

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Where Marketing Metrics Go Wrong

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Jon Miller I recently wrote about how to build a data-driven marketing team. But what metrics should that team track? There are literally hundreds if not thousands of possible marketing management metrics to choose from, and almost all of them measure something of some kind of value. The problem is that most of them relate very little to the revenue and profitability metrics that concern the CEO, CFO and the board.

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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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Are Manufacturers Turning a Deaf Ear to Content Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

Despite all the published reports about the great results that businesses are deriving from content marketing, it seems manufacturers and industrial companies are still stuck in their old ways of [.]. [ This is only a content summary. Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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The Ultimate List of 2012 Email Marketing Stats

Hubspot

Contrary to rumor, email is not dead. Nor is it dying in the wake of social media's rise in popularity. According to our 20 Marketing Trends & Predictions for 2013 , email will live on longer than you might think. Because email is alive and kicking, email marketing is still an incredibly important channel for most businesses. But while email is here to stay, it is also rapidly evolving.

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To Succeed in Social Make the Story Bigger

Convince & Convert

Ekaterina Walter, Intel @ekaterina. Ekaterina Walter , author of Think Like Zuck and social innovator for Intel , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the future of Facebook, woven-in social media strategy at a multi-national tech powerhouse, and empowering customers through social with that human touch. Read on for some of the highlights or listen below for the full podcast.