January, 2013

article thumbnail

Social Media Strategy in 8 Steps

Convince & Convert

Over the past four years at Convince & Convert, we’ve continued to refine our social media strategy process. Here’s one of the latest iterations, presented as a keynote speech to ESTO (Educational Seminar for Travel Organizations) last Fall. I’ve pasted the slides below, but also included a short summary of the 8 steps in our social media strategy process, as the slides are more visual than descriptive.

article thumbnail

MMA Modernizes Marketing Mix Models

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently looking at marketing measurement systems. This means that you, Dear Reader, will be spending a lot of time reading about them. A good place to start is Marketing Management Analytics , known to its friends as MMA. MMA was founded in 1989 and is one of the pioneers in marketing mix modeling. Mix models remain the heart of the company’s business.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PowerViews with Josiane Feigon: Survival of the Fittest Sales Reps

ViewPoint

Joining me today is Josiane Feigon, President of TeleSmart. TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation.

article thumbnail

3 Steps that Helped Skyline Exhibits Increase New Product Sales by 18%

markempa

Tweet During the economic downturn of 2008, while most companies were scaling back and avoiding risk, Skyline Exhibits , a global trade show exhibit company, decided to go the opposite direction and invest in innovation. It was a smart move, considering that Skyline: Became the smallest company ever to win the Product Development and Management Association’s prestigious Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award in October 2012 – joining the ranks of companies like Harley-Davidson and FedEx.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Perspective on the B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report

KoMarketing Associates

Last October, KoMarketing Associates announced the launch of research consultancy Software Advice’s B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey. Software Advice’s Managing Editor Ashley Verrill shared some of the charts and information highlighting results of the survey. In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013.

More Trending

article thumbnail

The New Skill Every Social Media Marketer Must Possess

Convince & Convert

In The NOW Revolution , Amber Naslund and I predicted that social media would become a skill rather than a job. As companies take more steps to “be” social, and incorporate social business initiatives alongside the more common and obvious social media marketing programs, employees from all divisions and departments will utilize “social” to be more effective, the same way they have historically used telephones, email and in-person meetings.

article thumbnail

Infusionsoft Gains $54 Million for Small Business Marketing Automation, Spends a Bunch on GroSocial

Customer Experience Matrix

Infusionsoft today announced it has acquired social lead generation vendor GroSocial. This comes two weeks after Infusionsoft raised $54 million in new funding. GroSocial is an interesting acquisition: about it three years old, it has about 20 employees and more than 25,000 customers. Starting price is $30 per month after a 30 day free trial. The system makes it easy for small business to generate leads through social marketing campaigns and track results.

article thumbnail

Why Sales Leads are an Asset With a Declining Value…for Some

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. Salespeople often complain about receiving enough new leads, but are short on answers about the leads you gave them, now aging and becoming potentially less valuable. I remember Dan Rogers, the president of SmartLead by AdTrack, stating that sales leads are one of the few assets marketing creates that have a declining value mont

article thumbnail

How Technology on the Trade Show Floor Can Help Your Sales Team Work Smarter and Sell More

markempa

Tweet Trade shows and conferences are still the biggest areas of investment for marketers, according to the most recent MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. And, as we marketers have embraced digital, the value of face-to-face interactions has increased. There really isn’t a digital replacement for shaking someone’s hand or reading their body language and all the other benefits of human interaction.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

And the Nominees for Best 2013 Content Marketing Ideas Are…

KoMarketing Associates

For many, January is a time to dust off last year’s list of resolutions and get a strategy in place for the new year. While the end of the previous year may have served as a time for reflection , the forward momentum into the year ahead comes with a whole new set of goals and priorities. This year, as I got to thinking about the ways in which we’ll make our B2B content marketing collateral stand apart from the crowd and ultimately drive results for our clients, I turned to the 2013 Academy Awar

article thumbnail

Eight ways B2B market research differs from B2C

Savanta

Warning. Market research can be bad for your health. It can actively hurt business performance by drawing misleading conclusions. Conclusions which fail to consider the full picture, which focus on the obvious rather than delving deep or which are simply based on faulty information. The result is bad decisions. Research can also passively hurt business performance by not driving action.

Research 185
article thumbnail

5 TV Shows Using the Power of the 2nd Screen for Social Engagement

Convince & Convert

Image via Glee. It used to be that the television only sat in your living room. Chances are that it still does. The difference now is that you no longer just have a television because you also probably own a smartphone, laptop, tablet computer, desktop computer, and an MP3 player. Since you own all of these devices, there is a good chance that you will probably use them while you watch television.

article thumbnail

IBM Interact Adds Interactions to Enterprise Marketing Management

Customer Experience Matrix

My continuing tour of real time interaction managers landed with the good folks at IBM two weeks ago, where I caught up with what’s now IBM Interact. The product was originally launched more than a decade ago by Unica as Affinium Interact.* The concept of Interact has stayed quite consistent over the years, although the underlying technology has been overhauled several times.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Online Marketing: the Musical!

Tomorrow People

'It’s here! The new musical you’ve all been waiting for. With plenty of great tips about online marketing, you simply must read about this spectacle. Tomorrow People copywriting intern and keen amateur showperson, Naomi Pelkiewicz , presents an all-singing, all-dancing duo: show business and the business of online marketing. ‘Two different worlds!’ you cry.

article thumbnail

5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

ViewPoint

The decision to add “tele” to your arsenal will soon be easy. If you don’t, you’re dead. What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

article thumbnail

Refresh Your Best Marketing Content

WriteSpark

At the beginning of the year, your content marketing plans are likely focused on new, new, new: New white papers, sales brochures, Web articles, and customer case studies. But equally valuable marketing opportunities may await you in the old--through a relatively simple, fast, and inexpensive refresh of your best existing materials. For example, look at white papers and ebooks where the core content is still relevant, but information such as market statistics, application examples, and messaging

Planning 120
article thumbnail

The Future of Marketing: Is The Science of Marketing Taking Over?

Marketing Insider Group

Last week we kicked of this Future of Marketing series with an interview with Mark Schaefer. Mark identified culture as the key differentiator of a successful social business. He also predicted that Facebook search would begin to impact the balance of power that Google has with consumers and over advertisers, as more millennials enter and rise in the workforce.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

The 3 Rock Solid Questions To Guide 2013 Social Media Success

Convince & Convert

There is an almost infinite variety of minor circumstances that can occupy your attention and create frustration for social media and content marketing professionals. The pace of change is breathtaking, and the feedback loop is instantaneous. This creates a culture of disproportionate attention to detail. So much has been written about the mechanics of social media marketing in the past year, that I fear we’re losing sight of the horizon.

article thumbnail

5 Creative Ways B2B Marketers Can Use Twitter’s Vine

B2B Marketing Traction

I don’t know much about Vine, and I like it already. Here’s why – have you ever NOT watched a video because all you want is the few seconds that show you how to do the thing, and the video is 4 minutes long? That’s what I’m talking about. I’m just saying I’d rather scan some text than endure a long video to get the small bit of information I need than be a captive viewer for several minutes.

article thumbnail

Online Marketing: the Musical!

Tomorrow People

It’s here! The new musical you’ve all been waiting for. With plenty of great tips about online marketing, you simply must read about this spectacle. Tomorrow People copywriting intern and keen amateur showperson, Naomi Pelkiewicz , presents an all-singing, all-dancing duo: show business and the business of online marketing. ‘Two different worlds!’ you cry.

article thumbnail

Content: Fueling Your B2B Marketing Strategy

ANNUITAS

The B2B buyer’s journey has changed. Gone are the days of buyers contacting companies directly to learn about a product or service. Instead, buyers independently research solutions online and independently narrow their options before ever engaging with a vendor. In fact, SiriusDecision recently reported that two-thirds of the buying process is completed before sales is ever contacted. .

article thumbnail

ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

article thumbnail

Refresh Your Best Marketing Content

WriteSpark

At the beginning of the year, your content marketing plans are likely focused on new, new, new: New white papers, sales brochures, Web articles, and customer case studies. But equally valuable marketing opportunities may await you in the old--through a relatively simple, fast, and inexpensive refresh of your best existing materials. For example, look at white papers and ebooks where the core content is still relevant, but information such as market statistics, application examples, and messaging

Planning 139
article thumbnail

9 Reasons QR Codes are Bad for Your Brand

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in QR Codes. The tale of the QR code is a sordid story. The QR (Quick Response) code was originally the trademark name for a two-dimensional barcode system. It was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave, a Toyota subsidiary, as a way to track vehicles as they were assembled, and to scan components at high speeds. While Denso Wave holds the patent on the technology, they granted free license on it, going so far as to publish the specs online, and allowing anyone to use it.

article thumbnail

The Critical Interplay Between Social and Search

Convince & Convert

Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz @randfish. Rand Fishkin , Founder and CEO of SEOmoz , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss content calendar and community management at SEOmoz, the rumors of Google’s Author Rank, and the future of Facebook’s new Graph Search feature. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast.

article thumbnail

Social Media Marketing: Where Do I Start?

B2B Marketing Traction

Many business owners want to get involved on social media, but don’t know where to start. The answer is simple, but it depends on whether you are a B2B (Business to Business) or B2C (Business to Consumer) marketer. Business to Business marketers should start with LinkedIn. The reasons are simple. For B2B marketers (consultants, business lawyers, accounting firms, technology and manufacturing companies), LinkedIn is the number one social media platform with 200 million users.

article thumbnail

Salesforce’s 8th State of Marketing Report

Discover today’s biggest marketing trends in the 8th edition of Salesforce’s “State of Marketing” report. Salesforce surveyed 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide to discover how marketers are: Embracing AI to operate more efficiently Removing silos and leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience Innovating to meet evolving customer needs Preparing for the retirement of third-party cookies By submitting this form, you agree to have your contact information, including email, passed on to the sp

article thumbnail

Four Incredibly Naive Things People Say About Online Marketing

Tomorrow People

'Working as the editorial manager here at inbound marketing agency Tomorrow People , I can’t believe the naive comments about online marketing I hear people state as gospel. Here are some of the worst offenders. This news just in : people in pubs talk very confidently about topics they know nothing about. And there’s no topic people dismiss as foolishly as the world wide web.

article thumbnail

The Most Important Marketing Metrics

Marketing Insider Group

What marketing metrics do you use to run your business? Are they the same as the metrics you report to your CEO? Long-gone are the days when the only thing marketing discussed with the CEO was the color of the logo and the size of the advertising budget. It is not the creatives who will delivering reports to the C-Suite. It is the data scientists and the marketing nerds.

ROMI 198
article thumbnail

Three Reasons Marketing Is the First Budget Cut

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketing budgets are often one of the first budgets cut, time and time again, yet marketers continue to claim companies are making unwise decisions. To support the case, you point to research and cases showing companies who invest in marketing during a downturn come out stronger. Is the answer turning marketing into a profit center, as some have claimed?