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. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2009

The names of the people who will be affected by it, especially if approvals are needed (think for example about whether the CEO, the CMO, or another high level executive needs to review and approve your ad campaign before it goes out the door. Do you have to put out a press release after you revamp your whole website? United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 29, 2009

For example, typical uses of webinar software often fall into one or more of these categories: Online sales demos and presentations : a sales rep shares a PowerPoint presentation and his desktop screen while walking through a product demonstration. I hope these simple tips will help you with your webinar initiative!

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

At the company I work for we recently had an informal discussion about Facebook and Twitter, with people raising questions such as “why don’t we have a Tweeter page” or “let’s create a Facebook account and start inviting customers”. Reply Jean-Paul says: July 22, 2009 at 8:58 am Hello, Thanks a lot for track backing our link.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

Sales Management 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Here are my top five industrial marketing lessons: Lesson #1: Save them time Most engineers, especially design engineers are already overloaded with work. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry.

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Writing on the Web

MARCH 31, 2011

I share these key points with anyone who struggles with writing online for their business and needs ideas for what to write. I first heard the term content curation is this post by Rohit Bhargava back in 2009. I am giving you an example of this here. Does this make sense to you? Blog this on Blogger.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

LinkedIn users will be shown events that match their specific business needs based on the information they’ve added to their LinkedIn profile (Job Title, Industry, etc.), It’s a year old but the information is still useful. For example, give away a free or discounted registration for those that tweet about your event 6.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

B2B Marketing has become multi-faceted in this digital era. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts " How can companies maintain branding and messaging consistency across various marketing vehicles that they use? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. " Read on to get their insights. Ardath Albee.

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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? For example, “content creation.” I print my copy and then read it back to myself.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. If the market has shifted and it’s no longer relevant.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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Hinge Marketing

JULY 25, 2014

With thousands of other users, open source CMS sites have plenty of free tutorial videos and online references. If your last press release or blog post was uploaded in 2009, it’s time for something new! If you are an A/E/C firm, for example, are you displaying that awesome hospital wing your firm built last year on your site?

CMS Development 48

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 29, 2011

Solution Toolbox provides their own comparison of their system to Squarespace and LightCMS , but take it with a grain of salt; it’s biased in their favor of course and some of the specifics are out of date (for example, Squarespace now includes a forms-builder). Web Marketing Platforms. Web Marketing Platforms.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We run a microsite, B2B Online Marketing Pros, for our B2B Online Marketing group on LinkedIn. For example, we just launched Genoo into public release.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. Kerry explains this concept very well with a realistic example.

Buying Cycle 60

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Case studies give us examples to learn from and situations to study. Just look at Peter Kim’s social media case study wiki –it’s chock full of examples. They also highlight each blogger with a head shot, bio, link to their blog and contact information. All in all, it’s a great way for most to learn.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I hope this blog brings you a fresh perspective on the future of B2B marketing and best practices that you can put to work today to improve Marketings standing and influence inside your firm. You are welcome to participate and critique, praise, extend, or correct the information and opinions found on this blog.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 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. For example, I get some numerous e-mails from companies that know me (in some cases Im their customer!) but their e-mails dont show it.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. More than half of respondents (55%) said they use Twitter for marketing purposes.

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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. See the above mind map for examples) 2. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles Generation Leads 120

Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

We do see a lot of ROI case examples come out of companies that have social close to the point of conversion, such as Bazaarvoice or other social commerce companies –but for those that are focused on conversion, it’s harder. Much of the challenge stems from the engagement mid funnel is often seperated from point of conversion.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker? Let’s take unified communications, for example. The main goal in this scenario is getting products to market faster.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management B2B Business 100

Hinge Marketing

JUNE 26, 2016

Online marketing is growing in popularity – and importance. As we explored in our recent book, Online Marketing for Professional Services , changes in the demographics of the professional services marketplace are leading to the adoption of new strategies for building reputations, networking, and generating leads.

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Work Management Online Marketing Marketing Management Service 114

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. During their sales lead close-loop feedback sessions, they discovered key pieces of information that impacted their overall go-to-market strategy.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Marketing Budget SIC Budget Programs 120

Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Share one example of ROI tool/strategy that has worked either for you or your client." " Ardath Albee.

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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. Dont for get your audience wants information that is relevant and meaningful. Webinars compete for your audiences most precious commodity - time.

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Webcast Lead Generation Webinar Metrics ROI 120

Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Best FREE White Papers of 2010 Since April 2009, cataloging free white papers that have been tweeted via Twitter has been a regular part of this blog. No Registration: the white paper must be freely available for download without requiring any personal information or registration requirements. By incorporating S.A.M.

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Paper Best Practices RSS Landing Pages 40

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

Some of the smartest people that I knew were from a technology post-grad college that I attended called the “Information Technology Institute (ITI) in Toronto. For example, our sales team can see my travel plans and perhaps pull me into a prospect meeting if I'm in that area. tools , online marketing. That is very cool.

Social Media 100

Social Media Web 2.0 Media Blogger 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The rate of mobile adoption has eclipsed that of all previous technology change waves: by 2014, more than 25% of all global internet traffic will be mobile (up from less than 1% in 2009), and more people will be accessing the internet on mobile devices than on traditional PCs. Marketers have been trying hard to keep pace with these changes.

Mobile Marketing 48

Mobile Marketing Marketing Automation Services Practices Optimization 48

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

So, in terms of things like time/ contact , money/ contact , and "times used" (how many times we can put one piece of information out to the market), blogging and related social media is, by far, the most efficient activity. posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM by Jack Leblond Jack - thanks for the comment.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Update an original pos t that provides more value to your readers (this post is an example) 50. Get the latest information and ideas by creating alerts using Google Alerts on your favourite topics. Turn your blog content into an online course and publish it and sell it using applications such as wiziq.com , odijoo.com , litmos.com 84.

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Paid Content Tips Webinar Metrics Ideal Customer Profiles 40

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

.&# Features being considered for inclusion in new releases include CRM integration; deep analysis of customers’ social graph and content they’ve produced (keyword analysis of your Tweets, for example); and even semi-automated social media response mechanisms. Just a thought.

Social Media 127

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Paid Search Agency 127

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Understand how IT decision-makers are accessing information and how you can engage them with successful multi-channel programs. Digital marketing is gaining traction in a number of industries, and business-to-business (B2B) marketers are in on that trend, too. It’s just like e-mail marketing: Don’t be a blaster.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. link] [link] Dan Nestle Case study could herald future of ad agencies RT @jaybaer: An Online Community with a Purpose, and a Plan.

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