B2B Marketing Traction

AUGUST 16, 2010

I got an inkling that all was not right in the web development and SEO world in 2008. That’s a red flag of a fragmented industry – or innocent business owners being ripped off on their Internet marketing! In 2005 I placed more emphasis on positioning and marketing my B2B CMO for Hire services. ” Eeeesh!

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 1, 2015

This profile focuses on Paul Dunay, a Visible Expert for B2B marketing. Visual Expert Paul Dunay, an award-winner marketing expert and author, credits his blog with setting him on the path to success. But I had an idea that they would become a staple of today’s marketing departments. This time, his proposal was accepted.

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Kapost

APRIL 19, 2017

The Marketo Marketing Nation Summit is headed back to the city by the bay next week after a short detour in Las Vegas last year. As a data-driven marketer, I ask myself how I am going to maximize my ROI. Do I want a general overview of what’s new and happening in the marketing world? These three strategies deliver every time. #1:

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Outgrow

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! . We recently interviewed Freelancer of the Month ‘Pierre Zarokian’ for our monthly podcast – ‘ Marketer of the Month ’! Welcome to another episode of Outgrow’s Marketer of the Month. An upcoming marketing trend is. Lessons learned from 24 years as CEO.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 9, 2012

Tracing the percentage of those expecting improvements for the coming year in the global economy, local economy, their industry and for their individual company, Executives reported a significant drop in positive outlook, returning to pessimistic levels similar to those of 2008 and the beginning of the Great Recession.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? The students had four weeks to design proposals. A proposal for double-paned glass evolved into an idea to fill the space between panes with water.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Earlier, I had proposed a theme of "What are the habits of effective knowledge workers?" Giving a talk at the Graduate School of Bangkok University, January 2008. Friday 27 June 2008 05:15 PM GDT. and was pleased that this was one of the topics selected. gurteen.com. David Gurteen. Services I offer. My schedule. tell a friend.

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Velocity Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In a world full of marketers addicted to quick wins, no-brainer hacks and next-big-things, he’s the oddball who pauses to consider what’s really going on here. I read a LOT of marketing and business books. The market shift is where CMOs and I spend the most time in conversation however. Jay Acunzo is a rare beast.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

IDC has just completed their annual Tech Marketing Benchmarks Survey, and the news is good for tech marketing teams. The latest survey (completed 9/10) reveals that large technology vendors have increased their marketing budgets by 3.7% compared to 2008. The bad news for marketing leaders is that although the 3.7%

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A recent research report on content marketing highlighted why marketing via feature / function / price is extinct, and why connecting personally with skeptical and frugal buyers is more important than ever. o Smaller companies are spending more on their content marketing as a percentage of budget than larger companies.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Gartner's latest CIO study, "Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda" highlights several important trends that will have significant impact on technology marketing and sales enablement into 2011 and beyond. According to Gartner, this requires CIOs re-imagine IT and lead it through a process of “creative destruction.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 14, 2011

Thriving in today’s content-driven online marketing world, demands that you think like a publisher. That’s the battle cry among content marketers. Just as publishers start by learning everything about their target audience and what information they want, content marketers must realize it is not about them but about their customers.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 21, 2009

According to Garner’s Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President at Gartner and Global Head of Research, “While the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, the market will not recover to 2008 revenue levels before 2012.” According to Peter, “2010 is about balancing the focus on cost, risk, and growth.

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readwrite

AUGUST 1, 2010

The privacy features sparked an internal debate in 2008 between revenue-minded executives and developers who wanted to make Internet Explorer 8 better for consumers in order to gain back the market share lost to browsers like Mozilla Firefox, the WSJ reported.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For example, a powerful minority within the marketing department of a tool manufacturer engages a consultant to do a market survey. © 2000-2008. The Recipe for an Effective Proposal. Join me at the Satir Global 2008 Conference , which will be held in Denver, August 2 - 5. Copyright © 2008 Steven M Smith.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Promotion and marketing: Spreading the word about your event to the right audience is key. Pharma meeting planners are experts in social media marketing, email campaigns, media partnerships, and more to maximize HCP attendance and participation. Get detailed proposals from different companies to compare what is included in the fees.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

While reddit and Wikipedia are probably two of the most influential and powerful media platforms online today, they’re also the most intimidating because so many of us in the PR and marketing world have been not only burned but sent home tarred and feathers, never to go anywhere close to either of these sites ever again. Addition 1.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Its grand idea for bringing together the two chains fighting for market share? Back in 2008, the competition between these two soup companies was just heating up. Featured Image via Burger King McWhopper Proposal Video. The creation of the McWhopper. But will the brand ever retaliate? Only time will tell.

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Paul Gillin

MAY 27, 2010

Here are the first 1,100 words of the chapter on B2B social communities from my forthcoming book, co-authored with Eric Schwartzman, entitled Social Marketing to the Business Customer. Spiceworks builds the community into every facet of its operations, even asking members to vote on proposed new features.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Demandbase Stream, which is aimed primarily at companies marketing to other companies, cross-references the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of computers accessing a website with publicly accessible information and data from business databases. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic? 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As well, the Tech Media publishers have seen a dramatic shift in B2B vendors, who are looking for innovative ways to break through marketing fatigue to attract, connect and engage ever more skeptical and frugal buyers. The company said that percentage has dropped even more in its current fiscal year, which ends Sept. That was pretty much it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Marketing IT. To drive KM at Russell Reynolds, the company circulates a document every afternoon throughout its 32 offices worldwide that shows all outstanding proposals and projects. To combat this, Brad DeLong, CIO for Orix Capital Markets (a division of Orix USA), seeks out the people he calls the groups "emotional leaders.".

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 20, 2010

IT solution providers must recognize this change in order to succeed over the next 5 years - moving from product / solution selling to value sales / marketing strategies - helping buyers quantify the business benefits, return on investment and value advantages of proposed solutions to frugal, economic focused buyers.

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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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The ROI Guy

JULY 19, 2012

Understanding how the mind uses both, and the inherent biases involved, can help you create better marketing content and sales presentations, drive better engagement and win more favorable decisions, faster. Emotionally the chance for loss is weighed higher than logic would dictate, and most avoid the risk and choose the sure bet.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2017

I've seen the inside of hundreds of marketing agencies over more than a decade, including my own. Most marketing agencies struggle to generate recurring revenue. It's why I started HubSpot's agency partner program in 2008, and why I've launched an agency partner program at my new company, Databox. 1) Your Own Marketing Sucks.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. Even with a continued recovery and more financial optimism, the shift to frugality is fundamental and permanent. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 1, 2009

Are they appropriate for our industry/market? Last October, Forrester Research released its Best and Worst of Brand Building Web Sites, 2008 Report. If you need help evaluating your proposed site changes, try going down the free checklist we have posted called The B2B Website ROI Checklist. Tags: Web Marketing.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 13, 2022

30-second summary: Erica Gunn, CMO at Canto, offers a guide to maximizing your marketing budget in tough economic circumstances. As marketers, we must be prepared for challenges to our budgets. It’s easy to give in and let your marketing budget be cut back to the bare minimum, with a reduction in headcount and spending.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

" The following attributes of the information literate person were proposed by Chris Doyle in 1992 3 : · Recognizes that accurate and complete information is the basis for intelligent decision making. · Competitive Intelligence, Market Research, Scientific Method)? ©2008 Special Libraries Association.

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Wondering Out Loud

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

We did it to support a brand-spanking-new website that was to be launched on January 1, 2008. The vendor’s proposal called for a list of 50 keywords from which they would develop content that would link to appropriate pages of our website. First, the vendor’s key market is small retailers. Red Flag no.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. Go to [link] If you don’t have an account, please make one. “ Your Content Stinks! You’ve got my vote!

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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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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Hubspot

APRIL 8, 2013

But you can teach a good, old-school agency how to adapt to changes in the marketplace, and transform themselves into a sleek, high-performance inbound marketing machine. Make a very tangible, meaningful commitment to inbound marketing.”. That’s very different than adding some inbound marketing services to your offerings.”.

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