B2B Marketing Traction

JUNE 28, 2012

I learned from two bloggers at the Marketing Profs conference in Boston in 2009 – Beth Harte and Jay Baer. I have categories for Social Media , Marketing Execution , Marketing Planning , Marketing Research and Analysis , Marketing Strategy and more. So, I created categories for Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 28, 2012

Now, with more and more buyers doing their research online at your website and other sites, it’s important to be able to digitally track and see as much as we can about that company and person before they ever reveal themselves to us. About the Author.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

Background This study is the 2 nd phase of a research project by both TechTarget and Google. In this 2 nd phase, released in September, 2009, the companies partnered with research firm OTX to validate their findings but this time they presented the survey respondents with actual search engine results pages.

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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. Like Be the first to like this post.

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Outbrain

MARCH 9, 2020

Podcasts are great because they can be consumed on-demand. With podcasts such a popular channel, people everywhere are researching how to get into podcasting, and how to use it to market their own businesses. Podcasts are booming in every genre and niche. Smart Passive Income.

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Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn. She is a speaker, author, and current member of the LinkedIn Influencer program. Find her on Twitter & LinkedIn. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn. Find him on Twitter & LinkedIn.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

Sean is exposed on a daily basis to the latest best practices in B2B marketing and is chock full of practical demand generation advice. What are your top 3 tips to help B2B companies improve their demand generation ? What innovative or overlooked demand generation tactics do you think will become more important in 2009?

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markempa

JANUARY 11, 2011

Over the holidays, I had some time to really dive into the LinkedIn B2B LeadGen Roundtable discussions. Are your efforts on LinkedIn and Twitter paying off?” I took this question to Sergio Balegno, Director of Research for M ECLABS , the parent company of InTouch. she queried. How many leads have you generated? How about you?”.

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markempa

JANUARY 11, 2011

Over the holidays, I had some time to really dive into the LinkedIn B2B LeadGen Roundtable discussions. Are your efforts on LinkedIn and Twitter paying off?” I took this question to Sergio Balegno, Director of Research for M ECLABS , the parent company of InTouch. she queried. How many leads have you generated? How about you?”.

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markempa

APRIL 19, 2007

« On B2B Demand Generation tools and Lead Generation Dashboards | Main | On Lead Nurturing: Looking for a "hot" date? Research shows that Podcasts do impact B2B purchase decisions. Research shows that Podcasts do impact B2B purchase decisions. They also want to know the people behind the company.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

« MarketingSherpa Demand Generation Summit 2007 | Main | Practical Strategies for Generating Quality Leads Teleclass » On Alignment between Marketing and Finance Many marketers are quickly approaching their favorite time of year. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

This Marketing Data and Research Presentation includes data on: Lead Generation Blogging and Social Media Marketing Budgets Twitter and Facebook 50+ pages of marketing charts and graphs from original research Download the report from here.

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markempa

MAY 13, 2007

My post a few weeks ago, " On B2B Demand Generation tools and Lead Generation Dashboards ," started an email exchange between me and Jeffrey Eisenberg on the subject. In addition, we cant ignore research showing the average tenure of a CEO is six years. Our exchange spawned an article by Bryan Eisenberg over at ClickZ.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! 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. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. And they use different sources to get their information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

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markempa

AUGUST 30, 2007

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

Here are some direct mail content ideas: personal letters, dimensional mailers, books, newsletters, press releases, white papers, event invitations, research reports, case studies, success stories, article reprints and third-party articles. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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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? RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

B2B buyers are most likely to share useful vendor content via email (79%), followed by LinkedIn (53%), Twitter (39%) and Facebook (18%). Women make up the larger share of users on Facebook (58% to 42%) and are a slightly larger share on Twitter (52% to 48%) while men are the predominate users of LinkedIn (63% to 37%) and Google+ (71% to 29%).

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 27, 2015

There Is an Increased Demand for T-shaped Marketers. For the research, this general skill set included six popular marketing specializations—social media marketing, SEO, PPC (pay-per-click), Google Analytics, digital marketing, and content marketing. The data indicates that a high demand doesn’t always mean a higher salary.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 27, 2015

There Is an Increased Demand for T-shaped Marketers. For the research, this general skill set included six popular marketing specializations—social media marketing, SEO, PPC (pay-per-click), Google Analytics, digital marketing, and content marketing. The data indicates that a high demand doesn’t always mean a higher salary.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 14, 2015

The company will use the funds to fuel the growing global demand for Video Marketing Platform technology and to expand its product offerings for marketing and sales. Salesforce has invested in more than 100 enterprise cloud startups since 2009. For more information, please visit www.salesforce.com/ventures.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 14, 2015

The company will use the funds to fuel the growing global demand for Video Marketing Platform technology and to expand its product offerings for marketing and sales. Salesforce has invested in more than 100 enterprise cloud startups since 2009. For more information, please visit www.salesforce.com/ventures.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. 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).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. Your prospects will find pricing information even without your help. The only problem is, you’ve now lost control of your pricing messaging.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2009. A few examples.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Results achieved: The company has seen a 26% increase in engine and automotive shipping customers since the campaign began in 2009 FreightCenter.com exceeded its original goal of a 50/50 split in only 18 months. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

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. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The content mapping discussed here is based on the four stages of the industrial buying cycle identified as Needs Awareness, Research, Consideration & Comparison and Procurement (See my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services. However, are you addressing the concerns of your readers? It is all about them and not you.

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