Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

.  This past election made me think about parallels to the ongoing debate that surrounds sales and marketing alignment.    As if the state of sales and marketing has an imaginary aisle like the House on Capitol Hill.    Marketing’s role has been primarily one of PULL. 

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Renasant Bank: Marketing strategy takes step above boring classes. The challenge is always getting buy-in , but everyone at Renasant loved the idea. It helped that those involved in the project and the marketing for the show came up with a well-thought-out multifaceted concept, explains Oxford. It’s a key market for us.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Leadspace

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’ve been a B2B marketer for about 20 years. We’ve never had trouble identifying the unique challenges we face compared to B2C: B2B deals have a much longer sales cycle, there are more influencers and the buying decision is much more complex. “If inbound) marketing, with more than a little success.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. per week in 2006.

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 17, 2010

Here is a draft of the first chapter of Social Marketing to the Business Customer by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman. This chapter focuses on drawing the major distinctions between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets and where social marketing has particular value to B2B companies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 19, 2010

These days, virtually all marketers – B2B and B2C – at least recognize the potential impact of blogging when integrated into the marketing mix. But for many B2B marketers, the decision to put a B2B blog strategy in motion may not come as easily. B2B blog content can be repurposed in other channels.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Want to know how to write more effective marketing and sales copy? Then read on—you'll discover these answers and more in the blog posts reviewed here, some of the best of 2008 on writing great sales and marketing copy. Copywriting: 7 Ways To Trigger Emotions by Self SEO After stating "all human beings buy on emotion.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media?

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 16, 2019

He has built a career around human-focused marketing. What first defined your marketing journey? In addition, they had to be semi-cool graphics, because our target market — teens and college kids — wouldn’t come to something that wasn’t semi-cool or better. And it’s the mistake of so many marketers.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What common mistakes should you avoid in social media marketing? Get the answers to these questions and others here in the final set of the best posts on social media marketing from last year. While his focus is on television commercials (b2c), the tactics he outlines work equally well for video content produced by b2b enterprises.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I have invited our Panel of B2B Marketing Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. via Beth Harte).

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Communications Conversations Conversations about digital PR strategy Home About Arik Work With Me Around The Web Speaking Contact Subscribe From The Blog 3 B2B social media case studies and why they work Posted by arikhanson on 17. B2B case studies. But, what can other B2B organizations learn from this campaign?

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 30, 2020

Image Source: The B2B Institute Three topics have dominated much of the conversation in B2B marketing circles over the past few years - technology, data, and content. The explosive proliferation of marketing technologies has been well documented. Meanwhile, content marketing has become nearly ubiquitous.

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Hubspot

APRIL 5, 2011

Survival of the fittest applies in business as it does in nature, and in today’s corporate environment, the evolution of buyer behavior is causing the need for both B2B and B2C companies to adapt. Marketing Evolution. The way businesses market to and sell to potential buyers has changed. Even 5 years ago.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As much as marketing has changed in the past 10 years, it’s no exaggeration to say it may change even more in the next five. The marketing technology industry has exploded, which has disrupted traditional notions about the role of the marketer at an exponential rate. So how can marketers up their strategy game?

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SnapApp

APRIL 25, 2018

In the world of B2B tech marketing, women are making an incredible impact around the world on brands large and small. From successful marketing campaigns, to leading teams that drive bottom-line results, to development of inventive lead generation tactics–there are no limits to the glass ceilings they are smashing.

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SnapApp

APRIL 25, 2018

. In the world of B2B tech marketing, women are making an incredible impact around the world on brands large and small. . From successful marketing campaigns, to leading teams that drive bottom-line results, to development of inventive lead generation tactics--there are no limits to the glass ceilings they are smashing. .

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tech companies are in somewhat of a unique position in the world of marketing. These factors can make successful content marketing far from a simple task for many technology brands. So educational, non-sales focused content is a vital part of your overall marketing strategy. But when they succeed, the results can be impressive.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 18, 2008

MarketingSherpa has just released its 2008 B2B Lead Generation Handbook (that's a link to the free executive summary PDF; the complete report will run you a cool $500). The 22-page executive summary contains some useful information for B2B marketers and CEOs (plus a little bit of misinformation best disregarded).

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Martech

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The global pandemic has confirmed what many marketers already knew: the telephone is an integral part of the consumer purchase journey. More and more enterprise marketers are using call analytics platforms to collect, analyze and act upon the growing volume of caller data now being captured from the billions of inbound calls to businesses.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Never Heard Of It This is of course a situation that is most acute in B2B, where White Horse found that 60% of companies either have low executive interest in social media, or have modest interest but a lack of education. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 24, 2015

I’m revving up for the next edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report, which will include six first-time entries. The system also extends beyond sales and marketing functions to include customer forums, Wikis, support tickets, project schedules with tasks assigned to individuals, and coupons.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 16, 2009

Several recent studies have put the challenge that social media presents to marketers into stark relief: social media is huge. And most marketers still haven't figured out how to capitalize on it. To succeed in marketing through social media, businesses of all types have to become publishers. It's growing at an astounding rate.

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Outgrow

JANUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! We recently interviewed Mike Lieberman for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! Starting out in marketing – what worked and what didn’t 2. Technology’s impact on marketing – how things have changed in the last 20 years 3.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. The More Things Change, The More Things Change | Social Media Marketing | [link] [link] Tena Hartwig great post featuring @bulbstorm! agencies, you should be experimenting with this too).

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Engagio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Fifteen years ago, inbound marketing and demand generation were revolutions in B2B go-to-market strategies. As a result, Marketing and Sales teams ended up wasting a lot of time and energy on unqualified leads—and a lot of their budgets. No more wasting budget marketing to companies that weren’t a good fit.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Buy your own product.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

No matter how large or small your business is, or how experienced you are in content marketing, these recently published books can help you take your content marketing to the next level. Resources for content marketing newcomers. Attract qualified traffic to your site. The chapters contain between three and 12 pages.

Enterprise Management 109

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 4, 2022

How do we enable the people who need data to make decisions within their area of expertise—finance, operations, sales, marketing, supply chain, whatever—but who aren’t experts in data analytics, to use data effectively? Some marketing dashboard tools are easy to use but very limited in scope. Here’s the story of Visme.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% billion this year Source : eMarketer B2B interactive marketing spending will climb to nearly $4.8

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Content atomization, a term first coined in 2008, is still in its infancy. While some brands have been early innovators in converting larger pieces of content into smaller components, many marketers have yet to explore the process. AI can help marketers atomize their content more efficiently and effectively, as McKinsey & Co.

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