Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Any B2B marketer concerned with marketing ROI and sales enablement needs to know how and when to use it. Second only to Google, YouTube has rapidly emerged as an easy-to-use and reliable search tool; it overtook Yahoo as the second largest search engine in 2008 and is now the fastest-growing media platform in history.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

I feel like the other guy in the story- will you try social media if I give you some great case studies? link] #SMM [link] Doktor Marketing Would You Try It With a Fox? Holding a semi-annual niche affiliate marketing conference, it is quite common for me to find folks who want nothing to do with social media.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!).

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. Very helpful post, Jay. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. link] [link] WebPro360 And, it's not just about businesses 'tooting' their own horn. Great thoughts, Laura!

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Hubspot

MAY 10, 2018

Great marketers care deeply about copy, obsess over visuals, and pour their hearts into content. But great marketers also know a hard truth about their work. That ultimately, no matter how much effort goes into building and refining your marketing strategy, something else will always have a bigger impact on buyers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. There’s been a bit of news about it recently. Can a social media program go viral?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. I believe it to be the most complete picture yet painted of how marketers are thinking about and deploying social media.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

No stack of case studies or conference road trips will do it, either. If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. But the job of arm twisting and education can’t come from outside.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

February 25th, 2010 |Written By: Susan Baier | View Comments Tweet Guest post from Susan Baier, a 20-year marketing strategy veteran with an MBA in Entrepreneurship. Her company Audience Audit provides strategic marketing support and audience segmentation research that helps organizations understand their customers better.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s about marketing sideways , not marketing head-on. Or do you think that reputation through relationships is enough to expand your market? jmctigue Jay, you're dead-on (not head-on) about removing friction as the key to new marketing strategy, but at some point we need to expand our reach to find new customers, no?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] telleni (Trina Isakson) Twitter Comment RT @impactmax: Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] ernstschipper (Ernst Schipper) Twitter Comment Now that’s a great post!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com. Does your business recognize the potential of social media marketing but remain uncertain about to how do it?

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Approximately 10 years after having 67% of the search market, Yahoo! MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. And they never really pushed into the huge Asian market either. It never captured the social media market. The Live Feed and Social Graph is what they are selling marketers on.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Reduced time in marketing/sales funnel as prospects quickly can be served up relevant products and even shopping carts of peer recommended products within seconds. Expect that lifestyle marketing efforts will be the first foothold for these industries –but not their core activity website. Enjoy the beach!

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy May 19th, 2010 |Written By: russhenneberry | View Comments Tweet Guest post from Russ Henneberry , who writes, speaks and executes on content marketing plans for small businesses. Marketing was much easier when it was controllable. Then they can go back to business as usual.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. This has happened before online. Proposals are written. Resources deployed. Stuff gets built.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

More from Convince and Convert The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Should Facebook Dominate Your Social Media Strategy 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website Convince and Convert Recommends How to Introduce Social Media to Your Business (Danny Brown) Social Media Marketing… Simplified (The Arkayne Blog) Alexandra Kirsch and the Perfect (..)

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

link] [link] Doktor Marketing Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? – [link] #measure [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media Success Metrics and Premature Calculation | Social Media Staffing and Operations | Social Media C. Fitting the square peg of social media in the round hole of marketing metrics is not going to work.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

link] Go2Mach2 Thanks Jay…Your chart is a good description of how the “process&# of Social Media Marketing should be viewed by most companies. link] jaybaer Mark just by doing that one thing – dealing with people other than the marketing department – you’re way ahead of most agencies.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

The ability of companies to win hearts and minds through contextually appropriate, just in time marketing is the hallmark of the Opportunity Economy, and it has never been healthier. That type of rifle shot, competitive marketing would be unthinkable in the “real world&# , but it happens every minute of every day on Foursquare.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. link] Nisha Pawar There are many niche markets and social media out there.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

In other cases, they are the new influencers, bloggers and taste-makers. Social Campaigns & Apps (social media marketing) In this approach, you’re using contests, promotions, offers, and self-contained applications and widgets to promote your company or product. Social CRM The new telephone.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

One of the greatest benefits in the emergence of social media communication and marketing is that now every consumer has a voice that can be heard. It's not like the “old days&# where TV/radios advertisements and marketing campaigns had to appeal to broadly defined targets markets. Well…duh!

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2012

This is an excerpt from our new ebook, 100 Ideas That Changed Marketing. At the beginning of this year, we set out to create an infographic that gave a rundown of the history of marketing. That made us think of all of the other advancements that have rocked the marketing world. 2) Blogging. 2) Blogging.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 9, 2010

An expert in marketing to women, she heads the Media Connections practice, focused on managing brand dialogue via traditional and social media. In fact, if you’re a marketer, online influencers generally agree that getting free products to review is great, but the trump card is the authenticity and transparency something experiential offers.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

Ask Emmanuel Rosen , – whose revised version of Buzz Marketing should be required reading for all communicators. Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? link] Sounds like Randy should be in marketing! link] Sounds like Randy should be in marketing!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By way of comparison, that’s approximately the same size as the Asian American population, and you certainly don’t see the media coverage, software development, conferences, and general hullabaloo about marketing to Asians. Can you imagine an “Illinois Marketing for Dummies&# book? We built our own Frankenstein.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 16, 2010

And exceptional businesses are realizing tangible, meaningful outcomes using social media & mobile marketing. Here’s how they’re doing it — in two words: Build utility. Here’s how they’re doing it — in two words: Build utility. It’s more about demand creation.

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