ViewPoint

JULY 25, 2011

This week's guest blog is co-written by Greg Alexander, Sales CEO of Sales Benchmark Index and John Kearney a Consultant with Sales Benchmark Index focusing on sales force effectiveness and inbound marketing. John Kearney is a Consultant with Sales Benchmark Index focusing on sales force effectiveness and inbound marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.” Don’t sell.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Paul Roetzer , founder and CEO of PR 20/20 , a Cleveland-based marketing agency and HubSpot VAR. His forthcoming book (December 2011, Wiley), The Marketing Agency Blueprint , serves as a guide for building tech-savvy, hybrid agencies. We’ve attended IMS since the inaugural event in 2008.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. The philosophy behind this channel reads as follows: Smart entrepreneurs who want to thrive in today’s marketplace must master the fields of psychology, marketing, and human behavior. Billy Gene is Marketing Inc. Today’s blog post is for you! Go check it out!

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2016

“B2B Marketing Drives Business Growth: Learn from the Experts” Features Three Informative Sessions Lead by Globally Accomplished B2B Marketing Professionals. Titled “B2B Marketing Drives Business Growth: Learn from the Experts,” this special event will be held Tuesday, October 18, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. PHOENIX, Ariz., to 6:00 p.m.

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Exo B2B

MARCH 8, 2018

We start March with our Top 30 marketing influencers of 2018. So, with much enthusiasm, we skimmed through blogs, B2C and B2B marketing sites. One of them, Lee Odden : marketing star, did a great job covering the topic with a blog that is an absolute must-read. These influencers are all over the place.

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Hubspot

APRIL 17, 2013

Small businesses with limited marketing budgets have always been at a disadvantage against big-name competitors. When you’re the shop on the corner, good luck competing with corporations with quarterly marketing budgets larger than your entire annual revenue. At least, that’s how the story used to go. Talk about powerful.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

Which prompted a question by Scott Zosel about how much should you allocate for Social Media in your budget – and so I created the Social Media Budget Ratio (SMBR) post back in 2008 which was good but it lacked historical data like I have now. So here is my take …. Share this on Reddit. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2011

As we wind down 2011, this is a good time to review all the industrial marketing posts that I have published here and been viewed by you, my readers, during the year. Not all the posts were written in 2011, one was way back from 2008. That’s the power of inbound marketing with content.

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KEO Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Local Marketing Expert to Help Guide Phoenix’s Only Association Devoted Exclusively to B2B Marketing Professionals. Kloefkorn is founder and president of KEO Marketing. The complete 2017/2018 board member roster of BMA Phoenix includes: Sheila Kloefkorn, President, KEO Marketing Inc. PHOENIX, Ariz.,

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

B2B marketing is a monolithic & ever-transcending field & thriving in a knowledge-based economy takes a lot of effort – particularly in terms of delivering the value with the help of content. Content Marketing Institute : Next-up on the list of the best digital marketing blogs is the Content Marketing Institute.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. However, is improving efficiency enough to justify investing in Marketing Automation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?)

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Why is it important?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 14, 2012

April 2012 marks a milestone for my industrial marketing company Tiecas, Inc. Back then, print media was the center of the universe for B2B marketing. Over the years, Tiecas began to offer more media planning, design and production of marketing collateral, four-color and prepress services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2014

Keeping up with industry trends and reading content from the best and brightest industry experts are two tasks many marketers struggle to find time for. Maybe you''ll grow your marketing expertise just by taking a little time out of your day-to-day and checking out some thought-provoking posts and discussions. Marketing.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year. In Facebook Adding 'Fan' Pages To Public Search Listings , Mark Walsh of MediaPost provides additional detail on this announcement and its implications for marketers.

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Leadspace

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’ve been a B2B marketer for about 20 years. inbound) marketing, with more than a little success. And somehow, despite what people like me predicted in 2008, we haven’t abandoned email and the telephone for Twitter. ABM forces a tighter alignment of sales and marketing. It works with your existing marketing tools.

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Exo B2B

MARCH 16, 2017

For more than ten years, I’ve been working closely (and sometimes from afar), with many of the main Web marketing players in Quebec, but also from elsewhere. Marketing is now overflowing with them. ” And the ability to do this is not limited to Marketing professionals. To create action, you need content and relationships.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. Stay tuned as the role of B2B marketer continues to evolve.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

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. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

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Hubspot

MARCH 19, 2013

During the 2008 presidential election, content played an important role in electing Barack Obama. Four years later, content played an even more important role: With inbound marketing strategies applied, that content was given context. In essence, Goff practiced what we preach here at HubSpot: Create marketing people love.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Editor’s note: This article is the follow-up to an August post about 25 frequently asked questions about content marketing. Do you get asked tough, or even easy, questions about content marketing by your executives or clients? We just wrote about 99 benefits of content marketing. What is content marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? What is it?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Customer Intelligence” is SAS’s name for the platform underlying its enterprise marketing offerings. This is a brand new, SAS-developed module, set for release in December with initial deployments in first quarter 2008. SAS says it intends to tightly integrate RDM and Interaction Manager during 2008, but hasn’t worked out the details.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While most of us are relatively new to remote work life, SmartBug® has always been a fully remote agency since it began in 2008 and has come up with different ways for you to be successful while working remotely. Balancing between work and personal life is critical to maintaining a healthy remote work life and avoiding burnout.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. 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. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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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 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user. If the vendors fail, the business will go to consultants, ad agencies, and other service firms that do the clients’ marketing for them.

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