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AUGUST 30, 2007

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Lead Generation Generation B2B Thought Leadership Leads 120

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 15, 2010

A new role has emerged at many leading B2B companies, Sales Enablement, and recent research from Forrester and IDC proves this new sales enablement practice as the key linchpin required to help a B2B company bridge the gap between their business strategies and how they execute in the field. April 2009).

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Forrester Lead Ranking Cross-Selling Sales Cycle 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. Disclaimer The views expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, Xerox Global Services, nor those of my former one, Forrester Research. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic.

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Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? United States License. United States License. United States License.

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Planning Marketing Budget Creation Work Management Marketing Management 100

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. link] Research Report: A Framework for Social Analytics | Thought Experiments [.] link] Dan Whitehouse Social analysis. United States.

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Analytics Top of Funnel Research Webinar Metrics 40

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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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Leads 100

Martech Advisor

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Remember Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ campaign from 2005-2009? According to a 2019 study done by Pew Research, 81% of Americans now own a smartphone. Europe leads the smartphone adoption trend, with a slightly higher penetration of about 83%. Mobile-first: An organization-wide approach. nillion in 2021.

Trends 102

Trends Gartner Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 102

Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Research shows that consumers perceive the same type of personality characteristics in brands as they do in other people. Some emotions are more effective than others for driving certain types of actions, according to HubSpot : Happiness leads to sharing. Sadness leads to giving. Fear leads to loyalty. A video is worth 1.8

Storytelling 110

Storytelling Video Marketing Top of Funnel Work Management 110

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. You need to research, study, and learn.

Tips 101

Tips Business Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 101

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

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.

Marketing Budget Creation 100

Marketing Budget Creation Design Email Marketing Planning 100

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.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

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. Understand markets and opportunities. Execute under increasing financial pressures.

Marketing Analytics Tools 48

Marketing Analytics Tools Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0 48

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Research shows that consumers perceive the same type of personality characteristics in brands as they do in other people. million words, according to Forrester Research’s James McQuivey. Learn From the Pros Google released their “Parisian Love” video all the way back in 2009, but it remains just as creative today.

Storytelling 65

Storytelling Video Marketing Top of Funnel Work Management 65

EMagine B2B Blog

JUNE 11, 2013

This leads to the question: just how impactful is mobile technology in our lives? According to Forrester Research mobile marketing spending will quadruple in five years, rising from $26 million in 2009 to $106 million in 2014. In the lives of our B2B companies?

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Companies B2B Forrester 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. April 2009.

Effectiveness 40

Effectiveness Forrester B to B Sales Cycle 40

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

2) Engage those visitors’ attention with industry leading content (website copy, white papers, videos, podcasts). And then, nurture them from cold leads to hot prospects with multi-touch drip email campaigns. Match the content to the prospect’s buying cycle to ensure you can nurture them around the cycle (see below).

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Before a B2B company can decide which tactics to use, they need to do some research and develop a strategy for being “findable.” 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.

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Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency Emarketing Inbound Marketing 100

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.

Allocation 40

Allocation Forrester Buying Cycle Sales Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

JUNE 16, 2009

As we track the pundits opinions on IT spending levels and trends, and come to our own conclusions from our research and engagements, we have been preaching for some time how the current downturn has been steep, but that we believe the downturn won't last long, and the recovery will be strong.

Forrester 40

Forrester Advertising Agencies Opinions Paid Search Agency 40

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.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Webinar Metrics Content Marketing 100

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2009

More leads? B2B online community participants are buyers Survey research from multiple B2B online communities shows that 60+% of members say that something they read or saw in the community influenced them to buy. This is a theme Forrester’s Laura Ramos also mentioned in our B2B social media with her. Raising awareness?

Communities 40

Communities Online Marketing B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency 40

Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

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. CourtneyM This is a great review of the Forrester Research.

Social Media 150

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 150

Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Within the SXSW community, attendees can research and vote on panel sessions, engage in event-related discussions and prepare their schedule. Community Building a community around your event may only be viable for the larger conferences like SXSW, but the value it can bring to attendees is worth the consideration. Powered by Wordpress.

Social Media 40

Social Media Event Marketing Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

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. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research.

SMB 40

SMB ROI Marketing Budget Work Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar The Marketing Mélange A blog on all things Marketing with Strategy & Information Technology focus Blog Archive ▼ 2009 ( 22 ) ▼ June ( 2 ) Strategic Insights from Calculating Lifetime Custo. March 20, 2009 1:17 PM Kenji said. My feeling is that this would be an exciting thing to research!

Psychographics 40

Psychographics Work Management B2B Sales B2B Marketing 40

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.&# Latest Research.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management ROI 40

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Virtually every b2b buying decision involves some level of research on the web. Based on my own anecdotal research, natural search typically drives at least 40% and average more than half of all unpaid traffic to b2b websites. So how should your prioritize spending for next year? Buyers won’t buy from you if they can’t find you.

Marketing Budget 40

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation Paid Search Agency 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

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.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Budget Social Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Laura Ramos , a principal analyst at Forrester Research who focuses on business-to-business marketing trends and technology, says that services like Demandbase could prove useful, but adds that it may be hard to measure its impact on sales and marketing. “How do you leverage otherwise anonymous traffic? ERP Internet Cust.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

To address the frugal buyer, leading sales enablement groups and marketers are now providing tools to help buyers diagnose their issues, justify solutions, and compare to prove superior value. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. 6:20 AM Andy said.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management ROI 40

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.

ROI 100

ROI B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Research & Analysis. New Top-Level Domains Expected in 2009. Oxford International Modernizes Vehicle Order Management System for Leading European Automaker, an IBM Case Study. Forrester Wave: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008. Enhancing Online Sales and Support: New Research Reveals What Works--and What Doesnt.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 100