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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

Activate is the home that Green Leads deserves – a close knit company, still managed by the founders, that understands the marketing and sales landscape and will be an enduring partner moving forward. Linda and I learned and understood the B2B sales and marketing business as well as the appointment setting business. Enough business.

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How to Run an Effective Agile Marketing Organization (with Vittorio Viarengo, MobileIron’s VP Marketing & Products)

Crimson Marketing

If you are the head of a marketing organization, you always have more tasks than time. So how do you take the most important marketing objectives of the company, prioritize them, organize a team and make sure that goals are met? Some of the marketing tactics that Vittorio shares are as follows: Ready, Set, Sprint!:

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7 Ways to Lighten Up Your Marketing and Generate Conversation

Convince & Convert

As content marketing explodes, so too, does the volume of noise. And, according to a global Nielsen Survey of Trust in Advertising conducted in September 2013 (58 countries), almost half (47%) of respondents said that humor resonates more than any content approach. To date, there haven’t been many great examples of humor in B2B.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 3]

ViewPoint

I recently asked fellow industry leaders to weigh in on the rising popularity of Account-Based Marketing among B2B companies. Is ABM the Holy Grail to lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before? 50-250 beds.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. What do buyers really want from social media marketers?

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Adobe Buys B2C Marketing Automation Leader Neolane: One Gap Filled, But Where's CRM?

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Neolane announced $58 million revenue in 2012 and has been growing around 40% per year, which would yield about $80 million 2013 revenue.)

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

What Is Google’s Thinking About Links From Article Marketing, Widgets, etc? Created: May 29, 2013. When building content, if you link to the same page with different anchor text, in the same article, citing algorithm updates from 2009, Cutts indicates that Google will typically evaluate the only one reference for search relevance.