The Effective Marketer

MAY 18, 2010

Telemarketers often regret the call because the passionate marketer keeps analyzing their sales pitch instead of buying something. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Job Marketers are, unfortunately, the majority out there.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

What can we do to improve clickthrough rates and, more importantly, to get people to buy/download/register? Get yours [link] 8 hours ago Good tips for corporate bloggers - "13 Tips for Creating a Top-Ranked Blog" - from @ MarketingProfs [link] 1 day ago Why #MarketingAutomation Projects Fail? How can we improve open rates?

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The good surveys, or should I say effective surveys, are the ones that get people to fill them out giving you enough insight into their market/purchasing process/buying habits/etc. This entry was posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 10:13 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , Marketing Planning.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2009

As you discuss the plan of action with your team and with the stakeholders (see previous post), you are also getting buy-in for carrying out the tasks. This entry was posted on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 3:26 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , Teamwork. United States License.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Website Grader Badge Connect with Us HubSpot on Facebook HubSpot on Twitter InboundMarketers LinkedIn Group ProMarketers Facebook Group Subscribe to Blog RSS Want to share your Inbound Marketing advice with the community? My real challenge was getting my staff to warm to the concept of being a blogger.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 29, 2009

In your first conversation with a vendor, you should list all the uses (maybe even share the grid with them) for the tool you want to buy and ask for a demo showcasing the specific requirements you have. This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pm and is filed under Communication , productivity.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

Part of the challenge is reaching enough people with your message so that at least a significant number of them decide to buy. Odds are that someone may eventually buy the product or service. Simon Mason says: June 16, 2009 at 12:25 pm Hi Daniel, Interesting post. And how do you reach even greater number of prospects?

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. The Twitter figures are surely much higher by now.) . A Forrester chart posted on Mashable shows interactive marketing spend by category, projected from 2009 to 2014. in 2009 to 8% in 2014.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Not everyone is a natural born blogger. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. What I really appreciated about the C&C guest bloggers is that almost across-the-board they wrote about topics that I never would have thought to have tackled. Visits are up.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

At the company I work for we recently had an informal discussion about Facebook and Twitter, with people raising questions such as “why don’t we have a Tweeter page” or “let’s create a Facebook account and start inviting customers”. Get people to buy our products! Tell them about a new release! And similar comments ensued.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Which is closer to buying, a consumer searching for “flat panel TV&# or a consumer searching for “26 inch 720p flat panel TV.&# ? But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Link buying isn't supposed to help, but it does, and some large companies spend big bucks on this, which is difficult for smaller firms to compete with. It's very difficult for small websites to outrank large ones, particularly for highly competitive phrases. Among his conclusions: more content helps. Blogging helps. Social media works.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. It is a balancing act between making your B2B blog too narrow in focus and standing out from the crowded field of bloggers. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

prepare TV review content about HDTVs for twitter and blog comment distribution). RT @MikeCorak: Honored as guest blogger on C&C-RT @jaybaer: 5 Steps to Winning Fans with Content Strategy [link] [link] Abby Thanks for the resources. About a year ago, I wrote a guest post here titled “ Use Online Listening for Competitive Research.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos has been named three years in a row—from 2009 to 2011—to the Sales Lead Management Association’s 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and contributor to many B2B marketing publications. This is the first commercial I’ve seen in a long time that makes me say I want to go buy that.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? That depends upon how many other people/brands they are following, and how often they check Twitter. In general, however, the chances any one Twitter follower sees any specific update from you is minimal. Very, very few.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. When we looked at the statistics, we had 10 different people tweet about our launch to a total Twitter following of 40,013 people. Next week, Oct. 5 and 6, will be the Boston summit.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. What’s the Point?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

In the words of Jeffrey Zeldman , the renowned web designer, blogger, independent publisher and the king of Web standards according to Business Week, “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.” Are you involved in or responsible for redesigning your company’s website?

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. When we looked at the statistics, we had 10 different people tweet about our launch to a total Twitter following of 40,013 people. Next week, Oct 5 and 6, will be the Boston summit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Median leads were 77% higher among marketers with blogs of 52+ articles versus bloggers with 24 to 51 articles. Leave a Comment Previous post: Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Next post: Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value. Exciting time to be a marketer, but challenging as well!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word. What is content curation?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Buy yourname.com if it is available. Start Twittering. Hire a social media-savvy PR person to help you get interviewed by prominent bloggers and writers in your industry. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2009. Use the domain to build a professional website (e.g.,

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox? How can I help you?

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. By mapping content to buying stages your content will address prospect needs from status quo through purchase decision. Transitioning prospects through each stage of the buying process works best with a combination of free and opt-in content. Blog Funnelholic Twitter funnelholic.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below. Maybe you will also.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store? Pissing off Google.&#

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. I was just introduced to you and Scott via twitter. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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