markempa

JUNE 28, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

MARCH 8, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the Year 2009. But wait that’s not all!

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. Brian leads the call with the stat - "80% of leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded."

Lead Generation 120

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markempa

OCTOBER 19, 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. For this reason, most leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded. There is a difference.

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markempa

MARCH 2, 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. whats causes sellers to have difficulty getting into BIG organizations? whats causes sellers to have difficulty getting into BIG organizations?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. While many organizations have got social media religion, there are many others still swimming against the stream. Change takes time. Yes, there are strong parallels.

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markempa

JANUARY 24, 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 bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to be highly personal. The bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to be highly personal.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 15, 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. I strongly recommend forging alliances with your CIO and CFO because they understand process and metrics way better than you do.

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markempa

MARCH 2, 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. MB) Why has it become more difficult to sell to large organizations? MB) Why has it become more difficult to sell to large organizations?

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markempa

MAY 21, 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. Nevertheless, there are some organizations that for various reasons still place the responsibility of lead creation with the sales sector.

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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. Remember it’s an iterative process… you want to first crawl, walk and then run. Trigger events matter for two key reasons.

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markempa

JANUARY 4, 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. More outreach required to the sphere of influence : Buying processes frequently involve a team approach.

Lead Generation 120

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 11, 2009

When you visualize your strategic plans visualize your plans in 3 boxes: Box 1 - Managing the Present Box 2 - Forgetting the Past Box 3 - Creating the Future Most organizations over focus on Box 1! Right now strategy is about projects going on in 2009 to stay relevant! And strategy is really about Box 2 and Box 3.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 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. As a result, most marketers are focused on improving their organic search engine visibility and trying to get top rankings via SEO.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 23, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 based sales qualifying service InTouch Inc.,

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 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. Is your lead generation strategy tailored, relevant and meaningful to each person involved in the buying process? Think critically. Think critically.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Your votes count for 30% of the “scoring&# when organizers determine who gets to speak at the mighty SXSW Interactive festival in March in Austin, Texas. It’s one of the reasons I don’t like the whole voting process of SxSW. I hate the voting process. Please click the little thumbs up icon.

Paid Search Agency 111

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markempa

FEBRUARY 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. Sales cycles have gotten longer and number of decision makers involved in a typical buying process has increased too. Are elevator speeches useful?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s blog posts, video blogs, Powerpoint presentations, podcasts, haiku, or graffiti art, practice makes the production process easier. Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. They like it.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Google’s new Buzz technology recognizes this convergence, by treating email connections between us as the core atomic unit of the social Web, rather than newer, more ephemeral connections made on Twitter, Facebook or elsewhere. However, the data base of the concerned company should be in good shape.

Social Media 114

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve even left the stat breakdown public so you can see all the views are organic, not off-shored to get views (like some video companies have done). [link] and you can “independently verify&# the 80,000+ views so far in the past 10 days since uploading it since this one is hosted on YouTube.

Social Media 115

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

To better understand, how Eloqua pulled this off, see: Social Media Buzz at a Live Event. The marketing organizations that have the right people and are using the best practice strategies will have the most success. The result was better than Eloqua could ever have expected. Marketing automation experience will be key. Congrats all!

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markempa

MARCH 30, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Word of Mouth 120

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. This internal buzz stimulates action. LinkedIn profiles are updated.

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markempa

MAY 23, 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. In my experience, conflicts between sales and marketing organizations are over stated and artificial. Sure, there are conflic.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to print out all your key metrics on one piece of paper, for easy distribution and circulation within your organization? If you have all of your passwords and such handy, the process should take about 5 minutes. RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works (check it out) [link] [link] Verizon Friends Thanks, Jay!

Social Media 117

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media. Social is a process that has the power to transform your entire organization.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media. Social is a process that has the power to transform your entire organization.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Are you suggesting that any use of software or databases to help organize and scale your social outreach is invalid? Like some other readers have commented, what a marketer (or more importantly an organization) does with that data is key. And of course product improvement ideas are important.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009 - Webbiquity , February 1, 2010 Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. But you can do much more to make that newsletter and its content work harder for your organization. Best of B2B Marketing.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Another noteworthy post from this publication is Facebook is a Personal CRM for Baby Boomers , in which Daniel Flamberg reports on an Accenture study showing that in early 2009, “boomers posted a 59 percent increase in use of social networks; a rate of adoption 30 times faster than any other age group.&# practices, blogs and more.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives. Content is King? Content may indeed be king.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline. This helps organize content and plan for creation topically (ex. This provides the information needed to craft the message (ex.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Unbelievable turnout (more than 260) for a first-time event, and tremendous kudos to Fred Von Graf , who organized it practically solo. Terrific job at crystallizing the thought process that needs to occur instead of just signing up for FB and Twitter and “going for it.&# Thanks for the thoughts and processes.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Understand Your Frequency Schema The key to a content ladder is organizing your rungs. It’s these types of processes that can help them “spread the word&# about who they are and what they do. GREAT INFO!

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