markempa

APRIL 19, 2007

Paul also writes the insightful Buzz Marketing for Technology Blog. Outsource podcast production or do-it-yourself Hints and tips for marketers to start podcasting for lead generation Listen to podcast now (MP3 22 min 5.6 Paul also writes the insightful Buzz Marketing for Technology Blog.

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 2-3, PodCamp Philly 2010 Philadelphia, PA: This event is targeted to audio and video podcasters, bloggers, social media enthusiasts, professionals and hobbyists, musicians, marketers, and people who want to understand more about the new media space.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

May 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Jennifer Maggiore, CEO of Maggiore Consulting, a multi-media lead generation firm and co-host of Locals Only: a Phoenix-based live Internet show. It's mostly based on buzz and mass popularity. Social media has never been driven by function and purpose.

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markempa

JUNE 28, 2007

Guys writes, “The backbone of traditional marketing has long been the 4Ps: product, pricing, placement and promotion. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Today, his article in BtoB Magazine gives a great summary of his presentation from the roadshow and is worth a read.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

link] mattsurfs "Twitter can suck you in to a vortex of counter-productivity like one bite of that KFC Double Down sandwich." " [link] [link] mattsurfs "Twitter can suck you in to a vortex of counter-productivity like one bite of that KFC Double Down sandwich." Whatchya think?

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markempa

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Mac writes, "When searching for leads for selling your products or services, you want to find those companies who have a problem for which you have the solution. Mac writes, "When searching for leads for selling your products or services, you want to find those companies who have a problem for which you have the solution.

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markempa

JULY 16, 2007

from SalesFish Advertising just isnt very good at selling anything, except low cost commodity products. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Its simply unrealistic to expect advertising to sell business solutions.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s blog posts, video blogs, Powerpoint presentations, podcasts, haiku, or graffiti art, practice makes the production process easier. Powers RT @jaybaer: Are You Growing Enough Voices [link] That's a productive vacation. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Google’s new Buzz technology recognizes this convergence, by treating email connections between us as the core atomic unit of the social Web, rather than newer, more ephemeral connections made on Twitter, Facebook or elsewhere. Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Based on consistency of product, suitability of packaging, and convenience of location, Stratten shifted his daily coffee habit – to the tune of perhaps $30,000 in lifetime value, underscoring the ultimate importance of every customer acquisition or defection. link] links for 2010-09-07 | Glenn Friesen [.]

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s lengthy and often inconsistent approval process.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

My goal is to inspire, challenge, and engage marketers at firms that sell highly-considered products and services. While the economy has put the brakes on corporate travel, trade shows still managed to gain ground, as sales like to press the flesh in these venues and buyers circle exhibit halls gauging product buzz.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the Year 2009. Not a shabby list.

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markempa

APRIL 3, 2006

To develop an effective lead generation program, you need a process that identifies decision makers along with their sphere of influence before you can initiate a productive conversation. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Is it good enough to just say “here is our product, go buy it?&# You can contribute more to your organisation than just leads – such as product improvement ideas that you gather through interaction with your customers – and thus help keep your company competitive and increase the value you bring to the table.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 6, 2009

Thanks to all that contributed, there were hundreds of tweets each day of the conference and it became all the buzz. damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. productivity technologies" David Thompson, Genius.com #sales20. conference. is not the answer.

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markempa

MARCH 21, 2006

During two years of research, Reichheld discovered, that the answer to this basic question, Would you recommend our products/services to a business peer?, During two years of research, Reichheld discovered, that the answer to this basic question, Would you recommend our products/services to a business peer?,

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social media and PR support this by providing both more links to your website and more places, other than your site, where information about your company and products can be found. Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Buzz up! For generic term searches, SEO helps get your site in the top results.

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markempa

MAY 21, 2007

Once you understand why clients chose your products or service you can tailor your message around the needs you solve. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Would they refer you to other people?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

Thanks to all that contributed, there were hundreds of tweets each day of the conference and it became all the buzz. The following are what I thought were the top 20 take home tweets from the Sales 2.0 conference. Ok, 22 of them, but they are all worthy. annekeseley : " sales 2.0 is not the answer. It is a question."

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markempa

MARCH 30, 2007

The goal of a well-developed lead generation strategy, therefore, is to evolve relationships between people through dialogue that positions your marketing effort as a conversation (not a compaign) to identify, initiate and nurture productive selling situations.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

There are more protections for tangible products but not many for service based business, which most companies are evolving to anyway. My skeptical coffee companion had a schotoma (blind spot) because his viewpoint came from a product driven, B2C, branding perspective. You cant even keep all of your people indefinitely.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

markwilliamschaefer I would add that for commerce-oriented blogs, it would also be possible to track clicks back to a commerce-related part of a website for product information, registration, etc. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

The Power of the Unexpected The genius of infomercials (and to a lesser degree, home shopping channels), is that they present to you products that you didn’t know you needed, because you didn’t know they existed. Consumers learn to trust a human, and then they trust the info the human delivers on a product or service.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

People use Twitter and FB and other social media sites to provide word of mouth advertising whether it be negative or positive, it is some time of feedback of a product. I would argue that “social media makes everything about product/service&#. Now that it is so easy for Joe Q.

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markempa

JANUARY 3, 2006

She wrote, "I just put your book in production! She wrote, "I just put your book in production! Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 During the past month, Ive put all of my energy into getting my first book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale , to the finish line.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

A few years ago, I worked on a lead generation program with a client that launched a new product life cycle management (PLM) software product. The product was expected to have an average sale of $200,000. Their initial target database was comprised of 2000 product driven companies across 20 unique SIC codes.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2017

sold over $12 billion in toys and merchandise, according to Forbes , and that’s just products. The year was 2010. And as Mint’s head-spinning success story unfolded from 2007 to 2009, experts intensively analyzed the “how.” What generated the buzz to begin with was the brand’s personality prelaunch.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

A new product launch. RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works (check it out) [link] [link] Meltwater Buzz RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] A Social Media Scoreboard That Works – [link] (via @jaybaer & @philsimon) #fb [link] Kim Brame RT @upwardaction: Great tool! A write up on a blog.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Basically they can take that gorgeous photo that you paid a photographer to shoot for your product, hotel or client and use it however they want. FTC Disclosure Requirements – The recent changes from the FTC don't just apply to bloggers; rather, anyone who is compensated for promoting a product/service.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

After all, why would they even be coming to your Web site unless they had questions about your product or service? And if possible, I’d recommend having employees closest to the product (designers, engineers, product marketing, customer service) be the stars of the show, not executives or marketers. To be entertained?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

in the morning here in Holland and I can't sleep.so what do you do? in the morning here in Holland and I can't sleep.so what do you do?

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markempa

MAY 9, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

I know you’ve got a bunch of exciting new products that I’m excited to try. The way Donovan McNabb hates T.O. The way Lindsey Lohan hates non-alcoholic beverages. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. agencies, you should be experimenting with this too).

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

About the Data: In March 2010, White Horse conducted a survey of 104 corporate marketers across a range of businesses about their companies’ use of social media marketing. Figures for company blog customer acquisition are closest in range, with 57% of B2C companies and 43% of B2B companies obtaining a customer through this channel.

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