Tue.Apr 26, 2011

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Change Is Coming To B2B Marketing. Are You Ready?

Marketing Insider Group

Imagine for a moment that you could identify precisely the effectiveness of your marketing activities. You are able to tell exactly how well you have delivered on business results in the form of revenue, customer retention or higher brand equity. Now imagine that the results of that data showed you that 70, 80 or even 90% of your marketing activity produced no measurable impact on those business results!

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MakesBridge Offers Powerful Features to Small Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: MakesBridge offers a full set of marketing automation features with some special strengths that will appeal especially to small companies. I’ve written quite a bit recently about marketing systems for very small businesses – a category I’ve tentatively labeled “micro-business” and pegged at under $5 million revenue. This group of marketers has different needs from even slightly larger companies.

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Five Myths of Lead Management

ANNUITAS

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. Over the last 12 months, marketing and sales dialogue increasingly has focused on how marketers can better engage with the more empowered B2B buyer and what they need to do in order to leverage the B2B buyer relationship.

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New Tool Helps SEO, SEM Consultants Pinpoint Local Clients

Webbiquity

The SeoQuake team, the group behind the SEMRush tools for SEO and keyword research, recently released a new tool to help SEM consultants and agencies find local clients. SEMRush Geo displays Google AdWords advertisers on a Google Maps background, enabling users to identify the businesses within any geographic area who are running AdWords campaigns. Clicking on any businesses opens a small pop-out with additional information (which is also displayed in the left sidebar).

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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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Stop Advertising and Give Them Content! [The Numbers Prove It]

Digital B2B Marketing

We all want to get more than we give, it is simply human nature. We don’t overpay at Walmart out of the goodness of our hearts. Likewise, we don’t pay attention to advertising that doesn’t give us something of value in return , either discounts, entertainment or information. I could launch from here into the value of developing personas to ensure advertising is delivering value.

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Facebook Deals Unveiled, Goes Head-on with Groupon

Hubspot

It is no secret that Facebook wants to own all parts of the social Web. Quickly following Facebook's announcement of its new Send Button, The New York Times broke an embargo about Facebook's next step in world domination, Facebook Deals. Today, Facebook began to test its new deals platform in five cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco.

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Why B2Bs are busily building online communities

EMagine B2B Blog

No, they’re not as glitzy as their B2C cousins, and certainly nowhere near as big. But B2B online communities have an important difference: they get real work done for the vendor that hosts them. That’s because they’re built on a model of professional collaboration, whereas B2C communities tend to be about information dissemination and “shop [.].

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Why the Mean Is Killing Marketing Data Analysis [Excel Tips]

Hubspot

If you're an inbound marketer, chances are you have lots of data to analyze and you base your most important decisions on quantitative measures. In this blog series, I discuss some the most useful tools and tricks for analyzing your data in Excel. Often times we hear statistics based on the average or the mean value of a dataset. The average, however, is often not the most representative number and should be used with caution.

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Boost Email Relevancy With Dynamic Content

Industrial Marketing Today

Email marketing has been a staple of industrial marketing for a long time. However, many of these marketers are now experiencing declining open and click through rates. With all the buzz about social media, blogs and RSS feeds, are email marketing and eNewsletters dead? Not so fast! IMO, they are and will continue to be very useful provided your content is relevant.

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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.