Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. million followers on Twitter? population.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

On this blog you will find insights and advice about how to make conventional, online, and social media work well in B2B marketing. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. My goal is to inspire, challenge, and engage marketers at firms that sell highly-considered products and services.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent. Like Be the first to like this post.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. Salespeople need leads—right now. How do marketers overcome this roadblock? So marketing tries to feed the pipe.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

With 10 out of the 20 leading life science companies in our customer database, we’ve worked with 80+ pharma event management companies. Pharma meeting planners are experts in social media marketing, email campaigns, media partnerships, and more to maximize HCP attendance and participation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Forrester research analyst, Laura Ramos led a great presentation on how B2B’s can make best use of social media to drive demand. Keep the pipeline filled with qualified leads. Email, search and direct mail generate leads. Social media usage is nascent. Understand markets and opportunities.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2010

Accepting B2B social media as a fundamental way of doing business These B2B companies have accepted social media as a fundamental way of doing business—it’s an ongoing program and not just a campaign. After all, social media is really not just a marketing activity. Cutting back on trade shows, reducing ad spend, etc.)

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

But the problem with email and social media is that too many people are positioning it as an either/or scenario. Several blog posts have foolishly been written about social media “killing&# email. Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Big but concise lead-in. Big lead-in helps keep users reading. What I Don’t Like: Lead-in copy “Explode six direct marketing myths&# doesn’t tell me much, poor choice of words (although ‘myths’ tend to get people to read). Clear header with big title and date/time of the event.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Whether it’s a webinar or a multi-day conference, leveraging social media can help event organizers extend an event’s visibility, attendance and pre-event conversations. Sharing photos, videos, press releases, media coverage, speaker updates, etc. So what other ways have you used social media for your B2B event marketing?

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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. Note: this research looks at firms of 50 employees or more only. " in the marketing mix.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job.

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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. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? And they use different sources to get their information.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

Below are a few questions for Gerhard on the topic: Mike : Given the economy, some people instinctively think "cut budgets", but I think it was Forrester at the last Sales 2.0 Gerhard : It wasn't Forrester who said that, it was IDC. Both departments need to work in lockstep to create a better lead pipeline that's target rich.

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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. Social media. Source: Capterra.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 3, 2009

Below are a few questions for Gerhard on the topic: Mike : Given the economy, some people instinctively think "cut budgets", but I think it was Forrester at the last Sales 2.0 Gerhard : It wasn't Forrester who said that, it was IDC. Both departments need to work in lockstep to create a better lead pipeline that's target rich.

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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? Within a 3-month period of execution for the program, the combination enabled the company to reactivate dormant leads and add $4.5M

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community. BTW, it recently won BtoB Magazine’s BtoB Social Media Awards 2010 in the blog category. Think carefully before you jump into either one of them.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

For example, how can trade show marketing strategy be consistent with blogging and other social media strategy? Problems arise when marketers think that social media is a stand-alone strategy or that trade shows are an island. Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. Ardath Albee.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

You may recognize these five states from the research I’ve been doing over the past few years How to Organize for Social Media Measurement Read the report, print it out, and share with others. This entry was posted on Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 5:08 am and is filed under Altimeter , Social Media Measurement. United States.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Does this mean cross-media, low-volume campaign all year long? Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group , a full-service agency with offices in Silicon Valley and Seattle that specializes in demand generation, lead management, and ROI-based marketing. Social Media (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn). Ardath Albee.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2009

Mike Rowland of Impact Interactions , a community consulting group, led a well-attended session on B2B communities and their characteristics based on his six years of experience helping major B2B companies such as Cisco, Intel, and SAP establish relationships with their customers and prospects using online communities and other social media.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. "Simple Content Creates Quality Leads!" Maria Pergolino is Director of Marketing at Marketo , leading their efforts in adoption of social media channels for brand awareness and demand generation. Ardath Albee Recommends.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. But what metrics are really most appropriate for social media measurement? Is your social media strategy built on a solid foundation, or is it more like a Hollywood movie set—a pretty facade with nothing behind it?

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott – video interview. He's also the award-winning writer of the Webbiquity blog , which focuses on B2B lead generation and web presence optimization -- the fusion of SEO, search marketing, social media, content marketing and interactive PR. Tom Pick's Tip.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

50 newsletter signups (potential leads). For instance, capturing attention via a YouTube video or a viral link on Twitter, but then having people who access this media find something – some link or call to action – that takes them to the next step. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

The tool is featured in direct marketing and social media campaigns, and is available from EMC.com - driving a significant increase in leads, education and deal flow. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. ▼ January (10) Is The End of the Social Media Story Already Writt. Latest Research.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Yesterday’s Fall 2009 MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World Virtual Conference was the perfect event to prepare for the planning of Q4 marketing programs. I focused on the B2B sessions along with hosting a one hour chat session on Email Marketing and Lead Nurturing in the network lounge during the event.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Which content should be gated to genereate leads? We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? Which content should be free? Blog posts.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

“Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques must evolve to meet these new economic buyer demands, and as a result, they are recognizing the need to connect and sell to economic buyers with Alinean -developed assessment, ROI and TCO demand-generation and sales enablement tools.&#

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social Media – according to a study early this year by Forrester Research, 91% of technology b2b decision makers use social media in some form (blogs, video, customer reviews, social networking sites, Twitter, etc.). What’s more, social media supports SEO and even branding activities. Ideally, do both.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

From survey results of IDC’s Technology Marketing Barometer, comparing 2009 to 2010 marketing allocations, technology marketers indicated that digital would experience the most growth year-over-year, greatly exceeding traditional advertising, public relations and events in year-over-year growth.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Get Customers.

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