Webbiquity

MAY 20, 2010

Discover the answers to these questions and many more here in the best miscellaneous marketing articles, lists and blog posts of the past year. A Top 25 List of Social Media, Web 2.0 & Marketing ‘Best-Of-Lists!’ Webinar Marketing Tip – Use Those Precious Last Few Minutes Before The Webinar by Nurture.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 29, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking What’s Your Marketing Approach? An interesting post by Steve Johnson talks about marketing not being a list, but rather an approach to solving customers problems and helping buyers to buy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 31, 2013

Last week we kicked of this Future of Marketing series with an interview with Mark Schaefer. He also predicted that Facebook search would begin to impact the balance of power that Google has with consumers and over advertisers, as more millennials enter and rise in the workforce. Marcus, tell us a little bit about yourself.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 18, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking What Type of Marketer Are You? They read about marketing, they talk about marketing outside work, they go to events and try to educate themselves. This bunch sees marketing only as a job.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 5: Take Responsibility for Communicating To get things done you need to communicate, ensuring the team is aware of the plan, deadlines, and expected results.

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Digilant

JANUARY 12, 2021

Experts no longer question the validity of programmatic marketing or if advertisers use it. Instead, people now look to the future to see how they can work to combat any drawbacks people face to grow programmatic marketing and to help advertisers reach their audiences even better. Demand Side Platforms (DSPs). Agency Trading Desks.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

We’re told that if you have a good plan , if you follow a proven framework for rolling out your social media activities and integrate them with your sales efforts , then the ROI will be clear . That is, if you can translate all those additional site visits, downloads, and re-tweets into sales. Get people to buy our products!

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markempa

NOVEMBER 14, 2005

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. Google (web) Analytics is now free for websites that have less than 5-million page views.

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Porch Group Media

MAY 21, 2019

Digital marketing continues to grow. Marketers are inundated by more types of digital data and are continually adjusting their strategies to ingest more data and to improve their marketing execution. It has a median ROI of 122 percent, more than four times higher than any other digital marketing format. eMarketer).

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Chris Koch

MAY 15, 2012

We all know the increasing importance of ideas in B2B marketing. But idea marketing doesn’t start and stop with marketers. A (fairly old) study by Forbes and Google found that 80% of C-level executives perform at least three web searches per day. That was in 2009. I think they need to be convinced.

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Sana Commerce

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hairdryers, vitamins, room humidifiers are all available at the click of a button — and if the spike in online sales amid Covid-19 is any indicator of where we’re headed, online transactions are only going to get more central to the way customers interact with businesses. Source: Google Cloud. Where are they in the sales funnel?

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Sana Commerce

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hairdryers, vitamins, room humidifiers are all available at the click of a button — and if the spike in online sales amid Covid-19 is any indicator of where we’re headed, online transactions are only going to get more central to the way customers interact with businesses. Source: Google Cloud. Where are they in the sales funnel?

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Free Stuff That Sells. Free Marketing Stuff Can Sell As marketers our job is to generate brand awareness, educate our prospective customers on the benefits of our products and get them to purchase.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In our last interview, Steve McKee asked if Big Data was the future of marketing. In previous interviews, Doug Kessler talked about creating a content culture , Todd Wheatland predicted that content and technology would combine to drive the future of marketing. Marcus Starke predicted the rise of the science of marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

The study shows that there are specific keyword combinations used dependent upon the buying stage of the person searching on Google. While this study was focused on IT Buyers, the implications for the B2B Marketer should be relevant across the prospect universe no matter which industries you serve.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 29, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Tools of the Trade: Webinars and Online Presentations Webinars or webcasts, as they are sometimes called, have increased in popularity and in effectiveness within the past 5 years or so.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2019

We're losing more than we're gaining for the first time since those statistics have been tracked, and the crossover coincided with the recession of 2007-2009. Census Bureau, the overall number of business applications began to recover in late 2009 and has been trending up for the past ten years. Source: Capterra. According to the U.S.

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markempa

MARCH 6, 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. Well meaning marketers can ruin their lead generation results by rushing an unqualified list of tradeshow attendees to their sales team.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

But in today’s noisy marketing landscape, what your brand really needs is a story. Stories make for better marketing because they elicit emotion. The biggest lesson in content marketing is that the story shouldn’t be about you, but instead, what you do for others. Well, maybe a few stories, if we’re being honest).

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. I should know — I am an engineer too.

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Hubspot

MAY 27, 2015

Before I became an inbound marketer, I once made $50,000 a month spamming Google. My Mindset in 2009. Google made me do it. They rationalize spamming Google's index in so many ways: We're helping Google improve their algorithm! Google's lying to people. Google Made Us Do It. Content is king?!?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

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. « B2B Lead Generation Blog Adds FeedBlitz for Email Notification | Main | Google Makes Web Analytics Free but will it help your lead generation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today we turn the spotlight on this critical issue, discussing: Seven trends poised to influence the future of marketing technology. Marketing technology (martech) is uniquely placed in gender representation. On the one hand, the marketing space is known for hiring women, especially in customer-facing roles.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can survey your customers, although that’s not always the best approach because the questions are not fresh in their minds – they’ve already made their buying decision. I would also make a point to solicit input from customer service and sales teams, as they have more day-to-day interaction with fence-sitters.

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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. It means that we must continue to nurture viable prospects until they are ready to buy. Trigger events matter for two key reasons.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Here’s an example from my post titled “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” Here’s my description tag from the same post (NOTE: it is not the default first paragraph): Don’t go crazy stuffing keywords in your page’s keywords tag because Google does not use the keywords Meta tag in page ranking.

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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.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

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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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

When I say that you should become an eco-marketer, I don't mean that you should add some corny green recycle image to your website (who would do that?) Although I'm a big supporter of environmental issues and started my career running an environmental organization , I would like to focus on eco-marketing in terms of demand creation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2018

Then, a fitness craze emerged -- and the folks in Nike's marketing department knew they needed to take advantage of it to surpass their main competitor, Reebok. (At In 1988, Nike sales were at $800 million ; by 1998, sales exceeded $9.2 It was a breaking story across the marketing and advertising industry. It was a hit.

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