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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

Brian Hansford – VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing. Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. Bio: I’m VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing, where I’ve worked the last 6 ½ years. Location: Redmond, WA USA.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. I’m sure this post will generate its fair share of comments, outrage, and controversy.

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15 B2B Marketing Books You Need to Read

Directive Agency

UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Another social media book that focuses on building close customer relationships makes the list with Scott Stratten’s 2009 publication, UnMarketing. The Fundamentals of Business to Business Sales and Marketing by John M. Business to Business Marketing: A Step By Step Guide by Ray Wright.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But unless it’s a very enlightened company, the “generation of product improvement ideas&# alone is not a very compelling “give me budget dollars to work on this program&# argument – at least not over the long term. And of course product improvement ideas are important. All rights reserved.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

Online Marketing Institute

Lead Generation. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Database Marketing. Reader Service and Lead Generation. Audience Development. Assn/Non-Profit. B2B: Business Media. City & Regionals. CMS Insights. Consumer Media. Design & Production. Digital Editions.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. population. 16% of consumers drove 80% of the impressions. I'm flattered and accept.