Tue.Jan 03, 2012

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7 Things Marketers Should Stop Doing Today

Marketing Insider Group

It’s that time of year when a lot of folks like to make resolutions. New beginnings and all that. Well I’m not gonna take the conventional path here. I mean if you want to lose weight, the steps are pretty simple, right? Exercise every day, weigh yourself once a week, count your calories. But sometimes it’s not about what you need to start doing, it’s really about what you need to stop doing that is so important.

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7 Burning Questions for B2B Marketers in 2012

Tony Zambito

Asking good questions was seared into my mental consciousness by several mentors early in my career. This notion was further influenced by prodigious reading of Peter Drucker.

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B2B Webinar Best Practices from VMware

Anything Goes Marketing

As you’re gearing up for a great new year, I wanted to highlight some webinar/event best practices from the marketing team over at VMware. VMware has found that this marketing channel is one of their most successful when it comes to ROI so taking a few pointers and optimizing your own efforts could pay off big time this year. They achieved an ROI of 1324% in 2010 - not too bad!

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Be a Big Fish in the Blogger Outreach Pond

Biznology

Image via CrunchBase. It’s always a tough question: would you rather be the smallest fish in a big pond or the biggest fish in a small pond? Would you prefer to be the ugliest pretty person or the prettiest ugly person? Would you prefer to have the lowest IQ at MIT or the highest IQ at State? This is all according to your preference, but when it comes to a blogger outreach campaign, the decision is never so zero-sum, not nearly so either/or.

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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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Marketers Ruin Good Marketing Opportunities

Digital B2B Marketing

Innovative marketers constantly put new ideas into practice, and some of the most effective new ideas quickly become marketing best practices or emerging trends. However, when marketing ideas initially move from early adopters to the majority of marketers, they tend to lose their luster. The incredible results the early adopters reported are not repeated.

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Create a Content Series for Industrial Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Happy New Year! This is my first post in 2012 and I want to start the New Year by answering a perennial question about content marketing for manufacturers and industrial companies. The question – what do we write about? The answer – create a content series. Just like popular TV serials, you want to create a series of short blog posts that revolve around a common theme.

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Is there a Way to Improve Sales Tool Adoption?

The ROI Guy

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year. Yet, despite such enormous investments, results are mixed, as the American Marketing Association reports an amazing 90% of marketing deliverables are not used by

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17 Silly Missed Lead Generation Opportunities

Hubspot

Offers are the heart and soul of lead generation. After all, you need to put something on the other side of that lead-capture form that will motivate visitors to complete it in the first place, right? And it needs to be good. That's why you spend hours upon hours creating ebooks , perfecting webinar slides, and building up your arsenal of offers. And if that's the case, you want to pump as many leads as possible out of those offers' landing pages.

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Nine Cloud Myth Busters (SandHill.com feature)

The ROI Guy

Survey after survey of IT executives indicates that cloud computing ranks as one of the top strategic technologies for 2012. This prioritization makes it important for IT decision makers to quickly and clearly understand the available cloud solution options, design considerations, deployment requirements, economic impacts and more. However, cloud computing is also one of the most hyped new technologies, leading to a decided lack of clarity.

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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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11 Sure-Fire Ways to Increase Email Click-Through Rates

Hubspot

It's not that email open rate isn't important. It is! No one can redeem your email offers if they don't open the email first, right? But with the prevalence of preview panes and the emergence of tools like Priority Inbox, the metric that gets email marketers salivating most is email click-through rate (CTR). A high one, specifically. If you've been running your email marketing campaign for even a few months, you're probably able to anticipate the click-through rate of each campaign.

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Is Like-Gating Dead?

SnapApp

One of the most popular methods for increasing the number of likes for your Facebook page is called "like-gating." Like-gating teases potential fans visiting your page with valuable content--either a chance to enter a Facebook sweepstakes , a coupon, engaging content or more. This content entices the visitor to like your page and is a highly effective way to increase Facebook likes.

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8 Universal Traits of a Winning Social Presence

Hubspot

Every social media network has a few nuances specific to that network, and it's your job as a social media marketer to master them. But when you begin to dissect any effective social media presence, whether on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+, there are a handful of characteristics common to all of them that constitute what we can now boil down to social media best practices.

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Best B2B Marketing and Sales Strategy Guides and Insights of 2011

Webbiquity

Social media, content aggregation and curation , user-generated content and other developments have dramatically changed the B2B buying cycle over the past few years. Marketers need to think like publishers not only to improve their company’s visibility in search (which is where 93% of B2B buying cycles now start ) but also to address the differing information needs of buying team members, at different stages during the decision process.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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7 Signs Your Mobile Marketing Sucks

Hubspot

"Marketers: Start your engines." That's the call many marketing professionals have taken to heart in the past several months or so as they add a mobile component to their marketing mix. That being said, some have been more successful than others at taking their marketing show "on the road" and leveraging all that mobile marketing has to offer. The key, experts say, is in understanding the fundamental differences between your inbound marketing program for the desktop environment and reaching thos

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Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and the Gang of Four

Convince & Convert

Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Abbreviated transcript below. Please watch video for entire interview). Jay: Hey everybody. It’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert , joined today by a very special guest, prolific author, public speaker, consultant, and futurist, my man Phil Simon live from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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10 Ways Small Business Marketers Can Crush Big Competitors

Hubspot

If you're a small or medium sized business, you've probably set your sights on overtaking industry competitors that are in a similar stage of growth as you. But why not dream big? Why not try to compete with the Oracles, Tiffanys, Starbucks, and other big guns of the world? There's plenty of room for both of you in the market; you'll just have to get creative and strategic to combat their more bountiful resources (that's the diplomatic way of saying that they have tons of cash and manpower).

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Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and the Gang of Four

Convince & Convert

Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Abbreviated transcript below. Please watch video for entire interview). Jay: Hey everybody. It’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert , joined today by a very special guest, prolific author, public speaker, consultant, and futurist, my man Phil Simon live from Las Vegas, Nevada.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con