Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: " What is the biggest roadblock to converting marketing leads into the sales pipeline? How do marketers overcome this roadblock? Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. in January 2008.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 23, 2011

In a recent Harvard Business Review article , one of the most respected names in technology marketing and strategies, Geoffrey Moore discussed how diagnostic and benchmarking sales techniques can be used, particularly during a downturn, to help engage executives, open up new opportunities and unfreeze previously stuck sales processes.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Howard Sewell’s blog, Direct Connections. Content Strategy: The Future of Marketing (via Joe Pulizzi with Christine Halvorson). B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change.

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 100

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Howard Sewell’s blog, Direct Connections. Content Strategy: The Future of Marketing (via Joe Pulizzi with Christine Halvorson). B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

AUGUST 25, 2009

How a company and its outside support agencies view their Twitter approach seems more to dictate the management framework than intrinsic values associated with the new medium itself. Evolution of approach , seems to be the real watchword especially for companies just beginning to test the waters.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

Our client work has also covered a broad spectrum of organizations, with representation of global firms like British Telecom (BT), Microsoft, Spirent Communications and BearingPoint, as well as emerging growth companies such as GovDelivery and Epok. Its in this phase that interaction with the organizations sales team becomes paramount.

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Social Media Media Budget Programs B2B Thought Leadership 40

Convince & Convert

MAY 10, 2012

This episode features Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion. Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Stat of the week comes from Return Path , which is an email marketing data company.

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Work Management Mobile Marketing Marketing Management Mobile Advertising 114

Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. Show them aspects of your company that they didn’t already know. Santosh460 hh Social media marketing agency Awesome Post!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. At the very least those companies are engaged in the conversation and have a strong awareness of the perceptions of their brand. Why ignore it? Leaders may believe that if they don’t play, they cannot lose.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. How do we help the client sale its product? What do you think? Hope everyone is having a great day!

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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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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Howard Sewell’s blog, Direct Connections. Content Strategy: The Future of Marketing (via Joe Pulizzi with Christine Halvorson). B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change.

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Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. How to Use ANGELS to Energize Your Market. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates. SMB and Distribution. Susan Beebe. susanbeebe.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Twitter Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. How to Use ANGELS to Energize Your Market. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates. SMB and Distribution. Susan Beebe. susanbeebe.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Twitter Marketing Management 100

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Read more… Blogger outreach is scary — I am still surprised that many companies don’t do blogger outreach, even today. You need everything that you could possibly need to have your post make sense on the same page, within the same post. For real effect. My conclusion is that what is holding them back is fear.

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Social Media Social Marketing Media Paid Search Agency 80

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. Don’t Sell Too Early Many of the missteps that contributed to MySpace’s decay were based on the company not moving beyond its core proposition. In 2006, you have a veritable ATM machine, with companies begging you to put banner ads on your site.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

it’s really not possible for a company (or even an individual like me) to have true conversations within social media – and certainly not with any real scale or breadth. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again. Not so much.

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Conversion Paid Search Agency Social Media Advertising Agencies 116

Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

This is not some sort of ExactTarget sales pitch (although you do have to fill out a short form to download it, which I abhor). Sure, social media differs from the marketing we’re used to in that it puts the company and our customers on the same – rather than opposing – teams. More on this at [link].

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

Hubspot

DECEMBER 21, 2010

According to Wikipedia , " Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fund-raising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every e-mail sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing.". newsletters).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Within 12 months of its invention, 1,200 companies entered the radio “business&# in some form or fashion. Social media adoption is happening at an extraordinary rate, and I believe every company will have some sort of social media presence within the next 24 months. And that’s the problem.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Check out these posts, more of the best so far in 2008, on web marketing and Internet research to sate your curiosity, make better marketing decisions, and arm yourself with online trivia knowledge. State of the Blogosphere 2008 by Technorati Fascinating details about blogging, advertising and income.

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