Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. The guide itself is well-researched, clearly written and highly practical.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 25, 2016

I’ve been writing about Demandbase since 2009, when they had already begun their climb from compiling company profiles to enhancing Web site visitor records to personalizing Web content to targeting Web display ads. As its name implies, Spiderbook scans Web and social sites for information about company and individuals' behaviors and events.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along Talk to marketing mangers and sales managers about their biggest complaint and you will likely hear “They don’t follow up on leads!&#

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 18, 2011

link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 at 12:19 pm and is filed under Email Marketing , Lead generation , Marketing Training , Online Marketing. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? billion emails sent. United States License.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 4, 2010

A few weeks back, I wrote about social marketing features from consumer marketing automation vendors. Naturally our friends in the business marketing space have been adding such features as well. Genoo can also assign lead score points for social media sharing. I got details from two of them last week.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 28, 2012

We used to analyze website effectiveness by how well it conveyed who you are as a company and how quickly and easily it informed visitors of the value you deliver to them. Online tracking of web visitors has taken on added importance for sales and marketing. Follow Lisa on Twitter @lisajcramer or connect on her B2B marketing blog.

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MLT Creative

MAY 19, 2010

Once you've grasped the whole marketing automation concept, you're going to need a vendor to help you follow through. Over my next two blogs, I'll highlight different marketing automation vendors, and what they do that sets them apart. Stay tuned next week for information on more marketing automation vendors.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 9, 2009

Insider information is always good when planning your next career move! This entry was posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pm and is filed under Communication , Hiring. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Use Social Media – Lessons from AMA Digital Conference This past Friday (March 6) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter hosted an incredible full day event called the Digital Marketing Conference.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 25, 2009

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 9:02 pm and is filed under Communication. 2 Responses to Killed By Powerpoint The captivated listener says: August 26, 2009 at 8:39 am I couldn’t agree more. When used effectively, PPT can be a great help in conveying information, telling a story, and engaging the audience.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

By gathering information from your LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail (not Hotmail, mind you), and other social media sites you belong, it maps out your connections and the connections of your connections. This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm and is filed under Online Marketing , productivity , Social Media.

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markempa

JULY 7, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 16, 2009

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm and is filed under Communication. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 2, 2009

Recently, I read an article about the Ten Small Business Lead Nurturing Tools. I found the title curious, since I only use one lead nurturing tool, and upon reading the article realized that many small and medium (and even large) companies are purchasing anywhere from 2-10 tools to do what one marketing automation system can do.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2009

The principle of communicating also applies to ensuring the marketing manager gives the necessary information to others in the company to get their jobs done. Sales, finance, operations, shipping, each department manager needs specific information that will help them do their jobs. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 12, 2009

Did we generate quality leads? This is often the most important piece of information of the whole presentation. Some charts are clear and have all the information necessary, while others only glimpse into a certain question or answer. You may have to add supporting information either before or after the chart.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

But the real excitement will be features that expand the scope of demand generation products to support inbound marketing, better measurement, and more efficient content creation. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. business-to-business marketing automation. inbound marketing.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

Class: Advanced SEO Tactics: On Beyond Keyword Research (GF401) Professor: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz SEOmoz is one of the best places for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) information, and the presentation was full of nice tidbits about SEO. Rand’s presentation is engaging and full of great information.

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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. Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. Of those, about 10,471 are fairly well-targeted into our niche of B2B marketing.

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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.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 29, 2009

One other thing to consider is the teleconference provider, especially for your marketing webinars that are likely to have dozens of attendees. Online lead generation events are more effective when there’s a formal procedure that is followed every time, preventing occasional glitches from happening. United States License.

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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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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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The Effective Marketer

MAY 29, 2009

This entry was posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm and is filed under Marketing Planning , Marketing Strategy , Pricing. 4 Responses to Kindle Marketing Lessons Steve Bain says: May 29, 2009 at 11:12 pm The WSJ rather than Amazon is the likely cause of the price increase. Anyhow keep up the good work!

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

Free Marketing Stuff Can Sell As marketers our job is to generate brand awareness, educate our prospective customers on the benefits of our products and get them to purchase. Effective marketing is about generating sales. Back to the free marketing stuff. What do we do with it? But that’s another story.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. Primary goals of marketing content in the early stages of the buy cycle There are two main goals that your content needs to achieve in the early stages.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 25, 2009

There are meetings to prepare a statement or press release, meetings where team members report the status of their tasks, meetings to inform other executives, and so on. This entry was posted on Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 10:02 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , Marketing Planning.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2009

Make sure to add this person as part of your plan and also to allocate the appropriate time it will take for this person to review and approve – or not – the deliverable) The names of people who will have to be informed by the decision (after you create a new piece of marketing collateral do you announce it to the sales team?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

She started the session by stating what marketers are struggling with including their needs to: Improve company reputation and standing. Understand markets and opportunities. Keep the pipeline filled with qualified leads. B2B marketers have struggled to move from traditional approaches to more digital methods.

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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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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We’ll come back to this story – let’s focus back on email marketing. Sometimes it’s What’s Missing That Counts I was reading MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Email Marketing Benchmarking Guide looking for useful metrics and tips. I’m not referring to autoresponder emails but rather to campaigns that contain two or more automated emails.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 12, 2009

In your calendar, ensure you have some time blocked prior and after the meeting : This may vary depending on the type of meeting, but you may have to prepare or read the agenda or even collect information. This entry was posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 9:22 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , productivity.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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