markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

B2B Sales 120

B2B Sales Lead Generation Sales Leads B2B Thought Leadership 120

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Tell A Friend TAF offers free and fee-based tools to help companies capitalize on word-of-mouth (or word-of-web) marketing. Tags: Cool Web Marketing Tools. Their suite of apps ranges from simple branded buttons to social commerce tools, advertising and social rewards programs.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices Adwords Word of Mouth 20

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

A subscriber-centric, unified view of email + social connectivity is what we need to move social out of the experimental phase and into true business integration — including (perhaps especially) at the enterprise business level. It looks like the predictions of email and social being two sides of the same coin are coming true.

Social Media 137

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 137

markempa

JUNE 29, 2007

If so, MarketingSherpa just released their “ Business Technology Marketing Benchmark Guide 2007-08 ” and I had the privilege to interview Anne Holland about this years findings. They interviewed over 1000 marketers, plus this year they gathered in-depth research from 4,658 actual business technology buyers. Very useful stuff.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Work Management Generation Telemarketing 120

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

markempa

MAY 13, 2007

If marketing is a profitable activity, it still doesnt mean that what it is communicating to the universe of buyers is building the business. Who is accountable for all the potential business they lose by saying the wrong the thing to the right people at the wrong time? " I agree with Jeffrey. The soution?"

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation ROI Top of Funnel B2B Marketing 120

markempa

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Event Marketing Trade Show B2B Marketing 120

markempa

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 120

markempa

MAY 9, 2007

May 09, 2007 | Permalink Technorati Tags : lead generation , lead nurturing , ROI , sales leads TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How Lead Nurturing Improves Lead Generation ROI : » Do You Nurture Leads, Or Do You Just Follow Up? I hope you can make it. Register here.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Lead Nurturing ROI Generation 120

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

Newsletter 114

Newsletter Social Media Media Paid Search Agency 114

markempa

APRIL 19, 2007

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation B2B Thought Leadership Leads 120

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Many businesses are past the point of asking the “should we be on Facebook&# question. There are five main approaches to using Facebook for businesses. It will change the way you think about Facebook for business. If it’s not now, it will be soon (see my post tomorrow for more on that).

Facebook 122

Facebook Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics Advertising Agencies 122

markempa

JULY 9, 2007

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Marketing Analytics Tools Leads 120

markempa

JANUARY 19, 2006

Use tagged URLs. Use tagged URLs. Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Heres a summary of Michael Ortners eight points: 1.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Leads Leads 120

markempa

JULY 28, 2006

They conducted their third annual study of business technology marketing. They conducted their third annual study of business technology marketing. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Actually, Im focused on getting a special project ready that I’ll be releasing to tomorrow.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Generation Leads 120

Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Why not just establish some sort of conversion goal from the web on your own site (blog or www) as hub and create a social segmentation, establish process to campaign tag special links / promos and set everything else as a KPI (community size, engagement events). I really don’t see this as a tough thing to solve. Will send you a ping.

Analytics 40

Analytics Top of Funnel Research Webinar Metrics 40

markempa

JUNE 14, 2007

John concludes, "The result is that there are fewer pundits and thought leaders writing about B2B marketing, resulting in fewer links to those early adopters who do write about business marketing techniques. There are simply more consumer buyers than business buyers. B2B is more complex. Its about results. Thats a fact.

Social Media 120

Social Media Lead Generation B2B Marketing Social Marketing 120

markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Generation Leads 120

markempa

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Process mapping is a well-known technique for creating a common vision and shared language for improving business results. Process mapping is a well-known technique for creating a common vision and shared language for improving business results. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales B2B Marketing Generation 120

markempa

AUGUST 23, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Paper Sales Qualified Leads Generation 120

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The faux testimonials on the back of the book are priceless, including: “This book is the greatest business book in the world, besides mine.&# - Author who only gives testimonials for people who give him one in return Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better!

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Peer-to-peer 115

markempa

MAY 21, 2007

Is that the same reason they keep doing business with you? How has working with you helped their business? Do you want to generate $600K in new business in revenue this year? No matter how busy you are, be sure to make time to do personal lead generation activities especially, if you don’t have a marketing team supporting you.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads 120

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The way to do this practically is to borrow a technique from social media and use tagging. Group them into personas related to the tagged characteristics. Write your messaging to the personas and build your lists based on the tags. Ideally, you also want a way to import the tags already available on user profiles.

Social Media 123

Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 123

B2B Marketing Savvy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Other Twitter Topics: Tools for Business Teams Multiple Account Layering Strategy More Analytics Email The Scoopdog Team. of the 2009 ISCRAM Conference. Twitter Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth. Lenhart, A (2009). Twitter Adoption and Use in Mass Convergence and Emergency Events.

Social Media 40

Social Media Facebook Research Peer-to-peer 40

Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

Paid Search Agency 116

Paid Search Agency PR Advertising Agencies Word of Mouth 116

markempa

JUNE 13, 2007

Review 10 - 15 recent sales "wins" and look at what business pains or events were present. You can research new business opportunities based on trigger events, for little to no cost, by leveraging press releases, websites and news wires. See the above mind map for examples) 2.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles Generation Leads 120

markempa

MAY 18, 2007

Define your expertise: how can you demonstrate your ability to solve business problems and share new ideas? Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 I’m wondering what you do in your company to foster better sales and marketing collaboration? Please share your thoughts and comments.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales B2B Marketing Lead Scoring 120

Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Last night while reading the story, it occurred to me that many small business decision-makers are like Sam- saying no to social media, without even being sure why. For small business, the costs of social involvement are dwafted by the potential benefit, yet the psychology of stubbornness remains. Social Media With A Mouse?

Paid Search Agency 121

Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies CAN-SPAM PR 121

Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Mike Cassidy made me (and a lot of other people) think differently about the intersection of social media strategy , and business objectives. Danny Brown) You Are Not The Story (Danny Brown) Tagged as: blogging , content creation , content marketing , content strategy , Convince and Convert , Guest Posts Did you enjoy this blog post?

Paid Search Agency 117

Paid Search Agency Blogger Advertising Agencies PR 117

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. Its kind of like that with business now. There are more protections for tangible products but not many for service based business, which most companies are evolving to anyway.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Generation Leads 120

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. Does that drive business to you?

Social Media 115

Social Media SEO Marketing Websites PR 115

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

That being said, the “transition&# will likely go on for some time, meaning there's still quite a bit of business to be had and money to be made in mobile apps. The decision to go with a web or native app comes down to what makes the most sense for the business so there is no right answer to this one.

Social Media 114

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 114

Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? For example, the markers for a jump to cloud computing for a declining retail company are quite different than the markers for a growing startup to embrace a business intelligence application. Absolutely.

Social Media 116

Social Media Enterprise Management Media Webinar Metrics 116

Online Marketing Institute

MAY 27, 2009

Posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pm Why B-to-B Marketers Will Pioneer the New, New Media 150,000 Years of Social Network Media Experience: Why B-to-B Marketers Will Pioneer the New, New Media. According to some historians, business decisions have been made by groups of people for over 1,500 centuries. RSS COMMENTS 0 Loading.

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer B to B RSS Word of Mouth 40

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. 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.

Conference 116

Conference Organization Paid Search Agency PR 116

markempa

JULY 7, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Leads 120

Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Indeed, I use Twitter for all of the reasons above (especially to meet new people), but for me and my business, I have two core, measurable goals. For us, it has helped expand our consulting business, which is a real measure. By far and away it has been our best means of getting our story out, and capturing business.

Twitter 126

Twitter Paid Content Paid Search Agency PR 126