Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Measuring ROI on content marketing is not straightforward; that is why most firms put measurement on the back burner. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. However, there’s no denying the low cost of email marketing. Therefore B2B and industrial marketers continue to favor email marketing over other direct marketing channels. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Howard Sewell’s blog, Direct Connections. Content Strategy: The Future of Marketing (via Joe Pulizzi with Christine Halvorson). Cashing in With Content (a classic by David Meerman Scott). Get Content.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I would also put another group — one more focused on helping marketing align with, support, and enable sales: firms like BrightMarket, einsof, Longwood Software, and Salesforce.com with their Saleforce Content offering, to name a few. 9) Collaboration — capabilities like wikis, sales-contributed content, voting and tagging.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we create content in multiple forms and locations that demonstrates our expertise? I'd like to see PRSA take an even more aggressive role in educating the public about PR. I'd like to see PRSA take an even more aggressive role in educating the public about PR.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. And will the lead management market continue to grow in addition to – or despite – the plethora of offerings hovering around it?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

But that’s content for another blog post. Dig Deep with B2B Buyer Personas - The Content Factor , July 6, 2010 Every B2B marketer I talk to is on board with the concept of user personas to guide their web content strategy. The results are paying off in content that truly speaks to the buyer. What did I get?

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