Sat.Apr 14, 2012 - Fri.Apr 20, 2012

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Universal Lead Definition: Why 61% of B2B marketers are wasting resources and how they can stop

markempa

Tweet Confession: I wish I could flash this across every marketer’s computer screen the moment it powered up: A universal lead definition (ULD) clarifies what a lead is to everyone in your organization. It also: Fits the profile of your ideal customer. Has been qualified as sales-ready. Spells out the responsibilities and accountabilities of Sales and Marketing.

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Why your business brand means much more than your logo

Tomorrow People

Your business brand is not your logo. Your logo is a big part of it, but it isn’t everything – and here’s why: Your logo is just the start. Your business branding is the message you put out there about your entire organisation. It’s the the style and the format in which you share your goals and activities. Consistency is everything.

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8 More Compelling Infographics About Content Marketing

KoMarketing Associates

Content marketing is argued to be the “heartbeat” of many companies’ marketing efforts, without original intriguing content it is difficult for successful efforts to be delivered by a brand. There are many content marketing related infographics available to aid the understanding of its importance for today’s marketer. Not only can an infographic explain the value of content marketing, but also illustrate tactical recommendations associated to the B2B marketers’ strategy with content develo

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the things I’m enjoying about my new role as head of analytics at Left Brain DGA is being closer to hands-on marketing than I was as a consultant. This leads to different questions than I used to get, including the ever-popular “what’s a reasonable response rate for our emails?” That one came up last week and led me to review my files on industry benchmarks.

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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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Is Lead Generation Slipping Away From Marketing?

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. I know what you’re thinking, you’re saying to yourself, “Is he serious?” But in a recent post on the Sales Lead Management Group on LinkedIn, Kevin McArdle, the regional sales manager for Eloqua (Chicago), advocated that sales departments should take over lead gen and he makes the following points: Sales

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CMOs: Shedding light on marketing performance

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Businesses use enterprise data and metrics to manage business performance and drive efficiencies across the organization. But when it comes to marketing, there has always been a bit of the “black box” effect. Marketing is the one major budget item that traditionally has been the hardest to understand and measure from a traditional business performance standpoint.

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Focus On Customers and Run Like Never Before

Marketing Insider Group

If you read this blog regularly, you know I write mainly about 2 things. The first is that we marketers need to stop talking about ourselves and focus on our customers. The second is that marketing can be more effective at creating value for our own business when we seek to meet the needs of our customers. Well, almost as a rule, I try to follow my own advice and don’t use this site as a platform to promote what we are doing at SAP.

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PowerViews with Trip Kucera: Best Practices & Surprising Trends

ViewPoint

My guest today for this third PowerViews interview is Trip Kucera, Senior Research Analyst at Aberdeen Group. His focus in the Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy practice helps his clients achieve extraordinary results. Prior to joining Aberdeen Group, he spent years in the trenches with companies including Progress Software, LogMeIn, and SuccessFactors.

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Why Your Unsubscribe Process Is as Important as Earning Subscribers

Tomorrow People

It is no secret that earning a subscriber is exciting. Subscribers are often some of the most loyal customers to a company because they receive content right in their inboxes, making it easier to read and harder to ignore. An email message every day or ever week helps to increase visibility and get your brand recognized. Many companies allow for readers to subscribe to a blog, a special promotional newsletter, or other email marketing campaigns full of videos and advice.

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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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Are Your Lead Generation Tactics Targeting The Wrong Buyer? 4 Steps You Can Take.

Tony Zambito

Target (Photo credit: Wikipedia). I am a big baseball fan and a one-time want to be pitcher. Hitting the target within the strike zone with a variety of different pitches is what separates Cy Young award winners from ordinary pitchers. Their ability to target different parts of home plate with predictable ball movement is an amazing skill and if you have it – you can earn millions playing the game.

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Content Marketing: Get Trained Up [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

We all create content. But let’s face it, most of it is simply awful! How many emails do you get that you struggle to read? How many 5 minute voice mails do you delete? And how many PowerPoint slides contain way too many words? I mean no one wants to call someone else’s (content) baby ugly… This is not just about marketing. This is relevant for all business professionals who write emails, create PowerPoint slides and leave voice mails (And that’s all of us).

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Marketo Buys Crowd Factory, Silverpop Buys CoreMotives, and Other News from Pardot, Neolane, Act-On and OfficeAutoPilot

Customer Experience Matrix

With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. But what I find intriguing is how little the two businesses overlap. Marketo is primarily focused on business marketing, and in particular lead generation, nurturing and analytics.

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Is Your Content the Pretty Lady or the Old Hag?

Digital B2B Marketing

Sure, your content is excellent. It is unbiased, educates and provides valuable advice and perspectives. But is that how your audience sees it? Depending on your perspective, you may see an old hag or a young lady in the drawing at the right. And once you see one, it can be difficult to switch and see the other perspective. Marketers get caught in the same trap with their content.

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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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Are Your Marketing and Sales Systems Broken?

Tony Zambito

Everything Is Broken (Photo credit: Wikipedia). For many in marketing and sales, the march continues towards the attempt to develop tactical plans that will connect them to buyers. We have seen many variations over the past two as these attempts are made. Whether they relate to demand generation, content marketing, sales enablement, and more, efforts are being made to make adaptations to changing buying behaviors.

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How Big is Too Big? One Email Offer That’s Tough to Ignore.

The Point

As any regular reader of this space will know, I am a fierce evangelist for the “sell the offer, not the product” approach to B2B email creative. That approach rests on the assumption that by selling the value of whatever it is you’re offering the reader (a white paper, a Webinar, an ebook), and not your product or service, you’re more likely to generate response from interested prospects.

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Infusionsoft Revamps Its Interface, Adds New Campaign Builder, Web Analytics and Lead Scoring

Customer Experience Matrix

Infusionsoft introduced its latest release earlier this month. This included a full revamp of its customer interface, a new campaign builder and shopping cart, and new capabilities for Web analytics, lead scoring, and lead source reporting. Stated so plainly, this doesn’t sound like much. But Infusionsoft says it’s the biggest release in company history and I've no reason to doubt.

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5 studies prove social media is less than 6 degrees of separation

Biznology

Cover of Kevin Bacon. The idea behind 6 degrees of separation is ”friend of a friend” connections make it so everyone is only 6 steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person. The theory was originally presented by Hungarian author, Frigyes Karinthy, in a 1929 short story. It was a popular play in 1993 written by John Guare and then a trivia game called Six Degree of Kevin Bacon that Kevin turned into a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org.

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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

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What Makes Ads Go Viral?

The Effective Marketer

Looking for a recipe to get your new video to go viral? In a recent Harvard Business Review article “ The New Science of Viral Ads” , assistant professor Thales Teixeira from HBS outlines the ingredients you will need: 1. Utilize “Brand Pulsing”: weave your brand throughout the ad instead of placing it front and center. Example is the “Happiness Factory” video for Coca-Cola. 2.

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Cookie Deletion and Measurement: What you Need to Know

Digital B2B Marketing

Some days it seems online marketing revolves around cookies, those small text files stored in your browser that may be automatically deleted by browsers or routinely deleted by individuals. Cookies are used (among other things) for measuring performance, targeting advertising and personalizing sites. But how reliable are cookies and more importantly, how does that impact our data and decisions?

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Social Media Time Savers: 4 New Productivity Tools and How to Use Them

Convince & Convert

Jess Ostroff is Managing Editor at Convince & Convert. She also acts as Director of Calm for the new virtual social media assistant agency, Don’t Panic Management. You can find her tweeting about social media, martinis, and music as @jessostroff. As Jay mentioned in his post yesterday , there’s a serious influx of information out there, plus an increasing urgency to get things done better and faster.

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Why Can’t I Share to Google+ From My Apps for That?

Biznology

Now that I have my iPhone wired for sound, I do a majority of my tweeting and facebooking through the apps that I use. I use Instagram , which connects to my Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , Tumblr , Posterous , and FourSquare account; I use Hipstamatic and it connects and posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Flickr; I use Posterous and it will cross-post to Twitter and Facebook; I use FourSquare and it posts to Twitter and Facebook as well; and I have started using GetGlue recently a

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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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Content Marketing Showcase Series # 4 Red Bulletin

Ambal's Amusings

Content Marketing Showcase Series # 4 Red Bulletin. Name: Red Bull’s ‘Red Bulletin’ Magazine for iPad. sap. Normal. sap. 1. 1. 2012-04-20T05:49:00Z. 2012-04-20T05:50:00Z. 1. 141. 807. personal. 6. 1. 947. 10.2625. Clean. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. Name : Red Bull’s ‘Red Bulletin’ Magazine for iPad. Description. The Red Bulletin is a one of the biggest global magazines published each month in English, German and Polish.

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Measuring Marketing Effectiveness

The Effective Marketer

If before marketers had the challenging job of gathering data to analyze campaign effectiveness, now the opposite might be true. Email marketing, marketing automation, web analytics, CRM, and the myriad of software now permeating marketing organizations gives us more data than we can process in a timely fashion. A recent survey by CMO.com shows that fewer than 20% of marketing respondents have full confidence in what should be fundamental abilities, including measuring overall campaign effective

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Selling and Journalism

B2B Memes

I’m sure there were at least a few journalists who took offense at Gap marketing chief Seth Farbman telling an audience earlier this week that marketers are more honest than journalists. In his former life as a journalist, Farbman said, “I always had the sense that I was creating information, but the real purpose of that information was to sell something—to sell newspapers and ad space.” There’s nothing particularly new or revolutionary about this sentiment, and I might

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Employees represent their companies online, like it or not

Biznology

Photo credit: Steve Woolf. In the social media age we desperately want to have our cake and eat it too. In fact, we would love to have everyone else’s cake as well but when it comes to the consequences, we scatter like cockroaches when the lights come on. We see all the time how people try to distance themselves from people and things so that they can have the perception of more freedom.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Seven Ways to Test Your New Logo

B2B Marketing Traction

Before you go live with your new logo, you should run it through several tests. Logos take time and effort to develop. You don’t want to launch a new logo and sink money into print materials and other collateral, only to have to redo it. 1. Fax. Yes, there is a good chance your logo will be faxed. (Still.) Do all the logo elements come through on a fax?

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Don't Miss These Great B2B Marketing Webinars

Everything Technology Marketing

For B2B marketers, webinars are not only a great lead generator and essential part of a solid content marketing strategy, they can also offer a great educational opportunity to learn what other marketers are doing to drive awareness, engage prospects, and generate revenue. Here are a couple of new marketing webinars you might enjoy. For a complete list of B2B marketing webinars, check out the B2B Technology Marketing Channel on BrightTalk.

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Jeff Jarvis Strikes A Blow for Web History

B2B Memes

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that while the Web has a future, it may not have a past. Exhibit A in my argument was the lamentable state of Jeff Jarvis’s influential blog, BuzzMachine. Started in the aftermath of 9/11, its archives offer an invaluable chronicle of the development of new media in the 21st century. But as I noted, trying to dig through those archives was nearly as arduous as excavating Troy.

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