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free stuff that sells. maybe.

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Free Stuff That Sells. Maybe. Free Marketing Stuff Can Sell As marketers our job is to generate brand awareness, educate our prospective customers on the benefits of our products and get them to purchase. Effective marketing is about generating sales.

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Top 5 Lead Management Excuses (with Poll)

The Point

According to a recent industry survey by Demand Gen Report , fewer than 10 percent of marketing executives who responded have automated lead nurturing strategies and processes in place. Furthermore, only 15% of those same respondents planned to deploy or expand their lead management initiatives in 2009. As someone who sees clients achieving very real, [.].

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5 tips to build more relevant and engaging lead nurturing emails

markempa

A recent MarketingSherpa survey of email recipients found that 58% of those who stop reading, disengage, or unsubscribe after cite "lack of relevance" as a key factor. This is hugely important because most marketers rely on email as their main lead nurturing tactic. As B2B marketers, we should have it drilled into our brains that relevance must be an essential part of our lead nurturing touches.

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Why Twitter is for old people

Chris Koch

Like many, I’m a late convert to Twitter. I avoided it for defensive reasons. I’m one of those boring people that eats the same thing for lunch almost every day. So I figured I wouldn’t have much to twitter about. I also figured that Twitter would appeal mostly to young people interested in flirting with one another in 140 characters or less.

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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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Cloud-Based QlikView Still Isn't Available as a Service

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Pay-as-you-go pricing would make QlikView easier to buy, but the company doesn't offer this option. To make a stronger business case for the purchase, include the value of shifting work from IT to business users, and of producing results faster. Last week’s post about QlikView 9.0 prompted an inquiry from a manager who has been trying for a year to convince his company to consider the product.

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No patience for the ROI of Social Media discussion

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In a blog post last week, Dell revealed that it has generated more than $2 million in revenue from @DellOutlet, one of its many Twitter sites. Late last year, there were some headlines about Dell crossing the $1 million mark via Twitter and it’s only gotten bigger since then. How did they do it? With a coupon code! Wow, now that’s inventive. But this is not a dig at Dell it’s a dig at all of us marketers who say they don’t understand how to calculate an ROI from Social Media.

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Apple’s marketing arrogance

Chris Koch

It’s marketing 101: don’t hold your needs above those of your customers—and don’t defy the expectations that you set with them. Apple has violated both of those rules this week, and I’m sure they could care less—Apple long ago concluded that their products are so much better that customers will overlook the arrogance with which they treat customers.

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How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX

JotForm

AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way. What Is AJAX? How Does It Work? AJAX stands for Asynchronous Jav.

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B2B Appointment Setting - Best if Nurtured First

Smashmouth Marketing

37% of prospects that were nurtured move on to further sales activity from an introductory meeting -- 12% hig her than those not nurtured As you all know, Green Leads is in the b2b appointment setting business. Similar to b2b inside sales teams, we book meetings with C/VP level executives on our clients' behalf and only get paid when the meetings take place.

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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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Truth #4—The Truth about Sales Leads

ViewPoint

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Sales Lead Management Best Practices: Thought Leadership with Barry Trailer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Barry Trailer. Barry is co-founder of CSO Insights , an analyst firm that benchmarks the challenges faced by today's sales and marketing organizations, tracking the trends in the usage of people, process, technology and knowledge to improve sales effectiveness. Barry is also a member of the Marketo Board of Advisors.

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How To Create Your Own Stats Program (JavaScript, AJAX, PHP)

JotForm

When creating a website, one main goal is to attract visitors. Traffic generation is a necessity for monetary purposes, showing off your work, or just expressing your thoughts. There are many ways to create traffic for your website. Search engines, social bookmarking, and word of mouth are just a fe.

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MarketingProfs Speakers - Link List

Smashmouth Marketing

Wanting to know more about the various speakers from MarketingProfs this past week, I started looking some of them up on the web, subscribing to their blogs, checking them out on LinkedIn and trying to find them on Twitter. After finding a few, I thought it might be valuable for others. Speaker's blogs are listed if I could find them, otherwise their company link is there.

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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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How NOT to pitch a blog | Online Marketing Blog

Online Marketing Institute

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. Home About Resources Archives Subscribe Consulting Contact How NOT to pitch a blog 29 Comments | Posted by Lee Odden on Aug 29th, 2007 in Blog Marketing , Blogging , Online Marketing , Online PR In the past I’ve written about blogger relations offering tips on how marketers or PR professionals ought to present their story ideas to bloggers.

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Marketo Ignite Revenue Sales Insight Launch Party

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

On Thursday, June 4 th over 200 customers, prospects, analysts and friends of Marketo attended an evening at Hotel Vitale in San Francisco for the launch of Marketo Sales Insight.   The party was high energy and with filled some great spirits, snacks, and demos of the new product.   Phil Fernandez, President and CEO of Marketo, shared some thoughts during this fun night, talking about how Sales Insight came to fruition, explaining why so many customers were implementing these new fea

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Show me the How

Wondering Out Loud

At the risk of making enemies of all who have weighed in on the subject, I beg all of you to please stop blogging, writing, talking & pontificating on the subject of WHY B2B companies need, should, have to use social media. A search of Google returned 492,000 hits on the keyword “B2B needs social media&#. At the top was this one from iMedia Connection.

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My Top Take-Away From MarketingProfs b2b Forum

Smashmouth Marketing

As a Demand Gen/Marketing junky, if there was one thing I came away with from MarketingProfs b2b Forum it's this: Go to the next MarketingProfs event they host! It was so full of nuggets, all I can say is to go read as many of the blogs as you possibly can on the topic. There is a thread of blog articles on MarketingProf's , a page of MarketingProfs speaker's social media contact info on my blog, and the whole twitter feed of #mpb2b hash tag comments.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Building B2B Online Communities - Insights from the Online Community Unconference | Business.com's B2B Online Marketing Blog

Online Marketing Institute

B2B Online Marketing - Business.com Home About 6 B2B Online Community Takeaways from OCU 2009 Online Community Unconference 2009 At Forum One’s energized gathering of online community professionals at the Online Community Unconference in Mountain View last week, there was great interest in B2B online communities compared to last year’s conference (marketers are starting to realize that B2B companies need social media too ).

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Out of Town and Out of Contact

Dahle Communication

I just wanted to put a quick post up today. I am at the National Debate Tournament in Birmingham, AL coaching students from Washington High School all week. Needless to say it's been a busy week and internet connections are a little sketchy at times in our hotel and the schools have cut off wireless at the schools where students are competing. Basically what I am saying is - sorry for not getting a post up and running this week - hope to be back at it early next week with some thoughts from

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IT Sales and Marketing - Recovery On its Way

The ROI Guy

As we track the pundits opinions on IT spending levels and trends, and come to our own conclusions from our research and engagements, we have been preaching for some time how the current downturn has been steep, but that we believe the downturn won't last long, and the recovery will be strong. Forrester today announced in their investor conference their latest projections which revised downward earlier predictions, but clearly support our opinions on the current downturn and strong and quick rec

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#mpb2b - MarketingProfs Highlight Tweets From Day 2

Smashmouth Marketing

Yesterday I posted my favorite tweets for the day. Tuesday's MarketingProfs b2b Forum was a bit more tiring, but just as filled with content. Again, the twitter feed was loaded. Find it with hashtag #mpb2b. Below are today's collection of what I gleaned as cream of the crop tweets. BDSolutions : Apparently the proper term 4 "above the fold" in email is "prescroll"--& only 11% of email users venture beyond.

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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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Aprimo Solutions: CRM Software, Process Workflow, Marketing Communications, Sales Marketing Management and More

Online Marketing Institute

United States | United Kingdom | Australia | France | Germany | Netherlands News | Events | Careers | Education | Support | Contact Us About Us Mission Vision Core Values Company Locations Board of Directors Management Team Products What is EMM? What is MRM? Technology For Enterprises For Mid-Market For Agencies Services Customers Production Mgmt & Workflow Case Study Planning & Financial Case Study Campaign & Lead Management Case Study Brand Content Management Case Study EMM Case Study Solution

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Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

Looking for some helpful tools to enhance your online reputation management? How about slick tools to creating a social media email signature or conducting a video chat session? Or perhaps something more serious, like spying on your competitors or conducting global economic research? Find cool web-based tools for all of these purposes and more here in some of the best tools and reviews of the past year.

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Marqui Combines Content Management and Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Marqui started as a Web content management system and then added basic demand generation. It’s a good choice for organizations that need both and don’t have very sophisticated marketing requirements. Marqui is one of the oldest demand generation vendors, founded in 2000. But that date is a bit misleading because the company’s original product was a Web content management system (CMS).

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#mpb2b - MarketingProfs Highlight Tweets From The Day

Smashmouth Marketing

Today's MarketingProfs b2b Forum was great. Picked up lots of tidbits. Good news is that much of it is documented on twitter under hashtag #mpb2b. I thought I would collect a few during the day that stood out. More tomorrow. GinnyBartosek : Sales doesn't view quality of leads the same way as Mktg. At least we're not alone. 90% of the people at #mpb2b raised their hands. agravel : Attending session about demand generation: quantity vs quality #mpb2b.

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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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Social Network based Caller Routing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ok, let’s say you are searching the web for a new fishing rod. You find the right website but you are having trouble locating the right rod and reel combination. Frustrated you consider giving up but give it one last shot and decide to call the 800 number on the site. And instead of getting the usual IVR tree – you are prompted for your Facebook id.

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MarketingProfs Speakers - Link List

Smashmouth Marketing

Wanting to know more about the various speakers from MarketingProfs this past week, I started looking some of them up on the web, subscribing to their blogs, checking them out on LinkedIn and trying to find them on Twitter. After finding a few, I thought it might be valuable for others. Speaker's blogs are listed if I could find them, otherwise their company link is there.