Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Content addressed to a Business Decision Maker. We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath Albee.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 25, 2009

So it is no surprise that one of the principles for effective marketers has to do with productive meetings. Another example might be a meeting to review artwork, design, or other conceptual diagram related to marketing collateral or advertising. Instead, teach them how to run effective meetings ! United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e. and measure it religiously.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

Class: Analyzing Inbound Marketing (AZ401) Professor: Marshall Sponder, Monster.com , Web Analytics Association for Social Media In this class Marshall takes you through a tour of web analytics and how to track and measure your efforts related to social media, web, and more. niches and for the different markets. But it is not.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2009

The names of the people who will be affected by it, especially if approvals are needed (think for example about whether the CEO, the CMO, or another high level executive needs to review and approve your ad campaign before it goes out the door. but you should also look into whether the sending of the email itself was done correctly.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

They caution us saying it could be dangerous to our business if incorrectly used and it’s only helpful to build relationships and goodwill. I don’t know about you, but so far it seems like Social Media is nothing more than just another media, another tool in the marketer’s arsenal. Maybe not so much. Please share!

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 6, 2009

Example: for a question like “do you have experience with trade shows?” The question about trade shows above, for example. Well, if events are a big part of their marketing budget, then they need someone they can count on to manage that side of the business. What is the risk the company faces? United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

Chuck Palm, from Internet Podcasting Network , closed the day with “Social Media Mania – what should my business do about it?&#. The Zappos story about blue suede shoes stuck in my mind as a great example of social media, six degrees of separation, and pure luck The best of these events for me is actually the networking portion.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 19, 2009

What can SEO professionals learn from traditional marketers? Find the answers to these questions and others here in the first set of the best blog posts and articles on search engine optimization (SEO) from 2009 (so far). the meta keywords tag, duplicate links, and graphics—except for the alt tag assigned to them).

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Writing on the Web

MARCH 31, 2011

I share these key points with anyone who struggles with writing online for their business and needs ideas for what to write. I first heard the term content curation is this post by Rohit Bhargava back in 2009. I am giving you an example of this here. Content Marketing with Blogs: What Do You Believe? Tweet This!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. In 2010, almost 50% of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You are not alone, most business purchases, especially industrial products don’t lend themselves to a simple Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). This is not a new problem; business marketers have been debating the pros and cons of publishing prices on their websites for several years now.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

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. To help you get started, I’ve put together a simple spreadsheet (with example data). What can you do online? But trust me its worth it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Put it on a refresh schedule and spiff it up to keep it in tune with constantly shifting markets.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

However, I think it is a new and permanent reality of the current economy and have learned to adjust my business model accordingly. The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. Take a quick poll. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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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? For example, “content creation.” I print my copy and then read it back to myself.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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markempa

MAY 13, 2007

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. If marketing is a profitable activity, it still doesnt mean that what it is communicating to the universe of buyers is building the business.

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markempa

DECEMBER 7, 2006

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. This makes it particularly challenging for marketers who are trying to measure their revenue contribution and lead generation ROI.

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

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. David not only compares them to the older whitepapers, but also discusses their use as a valuable marketing and lead generation tool.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog. BTW, this post is a working example of content curation. Where do you stand on this debate?

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markempa

JUNE 14, 2007

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. There are simply more consumer buyers than business buyers. 3: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Any help that I can provide to my clients to alleviate the problem is greatly appreciated and rewarding for my business. Kerry explains this concept very well with a realistic example. As such, you are solving the problem of inefficient cost management because at the end of the day, your software helps business owners save money.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

LinkedIn users will be shown events that match their specific business needs based on the information they’ve added to their LinkedIn profile (Job Title, Industry, etc.), For example, give away a free or discounted registration for those that tweet about your event 6. Once your event is created, invite your connections to attend.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

B2B Marketing has become multi-faceted in this digital era. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " How can companies maintain branding and messaging consistency across various marketing vehicles that they use? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. How do they build a business case?

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2007

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. Review 10 - 15 recent sales "wins" and look at what business pains or events were present. See the above mind map for examples) 2.

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markempa

JUNE 16, 2006

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. He features my recent book launch as a direct to consumer news release case example.

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markempa

JUNE 26, 2006

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. The workhorse of business-to-business direct mail is still the one-page, personalized letter sent in a #10 envelope.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2006

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. Update: The book made its debut in Amazons top 100 (sales and marketing books) today. More about the author. I had the pr. More about the author.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Case studies give us examples to learn from and situations to study. Just look at Peter Kim’s social media case study wiki –it’s chock full of examples. In fact, one of the key goals early on in the campaign was to give sales folks a door opener with businesses they were selling. Continue reading [.]

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. More than half of respondents (55%) said they use Twitter for marketing purposes.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world.

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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. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

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. This is a common theme in sales and marketing automation, CRM implementation being another good example.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

We do see a lot of ROI case examples come out of companies that have social close to the point of conversion, such as Bazaarvoice or other social commerce companies –but for those that are focused on conversion, it’s harder. Much of the challenge stems from the engagement mid funnel is often seperated from point of conversion.

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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. We run a microsite, B2B Online Marketing Pros, for our B2B Online Marketing group on LinkedIn. For example, we just launched Genoo into public release.

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