Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Jun 26, 2008 0. Jun 25, 2008 0. Luis Suarez posed an excellent running summary of my talk this morning on Twitter. Luis’ main Twitter account is @elsua ; the summary is on his conference specific account @elsuacon ). Jun 25, 2008 0. RecentChangesCamp. recognition. right brain. rococo2007. Scobleizer.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Drive a strategy development process that results in a project vision, objectives, roadmap and success metrics. 7) I’m not convinced there is a “tipping point&# for social tools (like twitter): Many may disagree on this and likely we’ll end up debating semantics…but here’s my thinking. Upcoming Events.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. And they use different sources to get their information. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. I’ve read several articles about the impending death of email marketing because of the steady decline in open and click-through rates (CTR).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

One of the key findings from the study was that B2B marketers are realizing that developing brand awareness among their customers’ customers can capture a larger share of channel margins and build loyalty that can protect them against lower-priced competitors. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website? All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development. Refresh - Content gets stale over time. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Post to Twitter. This was a presentation to instructional design researchers advocating for more research and coordination in developing skills for the 21st century at all levels of schooling. This was a presentation to instructional design researchers advoca more. From: vyonkers , 4 days ago. SlideShare Link.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The content mapping discussed here is based on the four stages of the industrial buying cycle identified as Needs Awareness, Research, Consideration & Comparison and Procurement (See my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ). Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

And once your inside sales team or lead development group concludes that a set of leads aren’t up to snuff, forget it: you’ll have a very difficult time convincing them otherwise. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. RSS Feed Click Here to receive new posts instantly via RSS. Bookmark the permalink.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Keep your focus squarely on finding topics that are of interest to your target audience and developing content. On the other hand, you are not likely to develop a following if all you write about are topics that are of little interest to your audience. After all, blog content is what will influence people to take a desired action.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

The primary ways industrial companies participate in social media today are through community/discussion sites for customers as well as similar internal sites for employees whereas adoption of newer social media tools like Twitter is very low at only 9% (Source: Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector by GlobalSpec ). All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Then, the teams developed a plan of action. We need to develop customer-centric solutions-based marketing content instead of product-centric features and benefits marketing collateral. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. The four steps are: 1.

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

B2B marketers have consistently recommended blogging as a communication vehicle and brand awareness tool for the company, but developing a strategy that accomplishes both of these goals isnt always easy. As a result, from 2008 to 2010, blogging actually rose 3 percent as an Internet activity among all adults. Objectives differ.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 The team focused on creating communities for NYC professionals, which resulted in a @RegusNYC Twitter feed and a Facebook Page. The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Find online buddies who are having fun with the tool : It may not be your idea of giggles, but you still need to develop an educated opinion on why the tool is attracting attention, anyway. Senior PR practitioners need to understand how these tools fit within a larger marketing strategy.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. Position yourself as the go-to source for stimulating research, insight and interpretation of the latest news and trends.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2012

RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. Audience Development. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. Digital audience developers and executives discuss their favorites. While Facebook and Twitter offer their own analytics tools, a host of third-party offerings exist to pick up where they leave off. --> About FOLIO.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. You MUST ask and answer this question, and develop appropriate calls to action accordingly. First, never blow off a post.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. The biggest obstacle is corporate culture. Social Media?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. Great insight.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Hope that helps!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Written by Josh Catone / May 12, 2008 5:00 AM. / One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. ReadWriteTalk. AltSearchEngines. RWW Daily by Email.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

That was the key finding of a research study done by McKinsey & Co. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

CONNECT Home > EDUCAUSE Review > Archive > EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 43, Number 3, May/June 2008 > A Seismic Shift in Epistemology. © 2008 Chris Dede. 3 (May/June 2008): 80–81. Whereas the twentieth-century web centered on developer-created material (e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr).

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