The Effective Marketer

MAY 3, 2011

Marketers are starting to play a strong role in defining the needs and in the selection process when it comes to purchasing marketing technology. Get yours [link] 8 hours ago Good tips for corporate bloggers - "13 Tips for Creating a Top-Ranked Blog" - from @ MarketingProfs [link] 1 day ago Why #MarketingAutomation Projects Fail?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Here is our 2009 year in review. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. University of Missouri Researchers Find Search Process Affects Cognition and Emotion. October 2009 Online Marketing News. Google Removes Page Rank from the Webmaster Tools.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

How can we improve this process? Get yours [link] 8 hours ago Good tips for corporate bloggers - "13 Tips for Creating a Top-Ranked Blog" - from @ MarketingProfs [link] 1 day ago Why #MarketingAutomation Projects Fail? Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 17, 2010

This post is another installment of the “gallery” concept so that you have more designs to review and use in your own creative process. Big blue lead in. Compelling lead in. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Concise bullet points. United States License.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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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. I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The good surveys, or should I say effective surveys, are the ones that get people to fill them out giving you enough insight into their market/purchasing process/buying habits/etc. This entry was posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 10:13 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , Marketing Planning.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 29, 2009

I believe in three simple rules for a successful webinar program: Understand and map your needs Choose the appropriate webinar platform Put in place a well documented webinar process 1. This way you make sure you control the sales process and don’t waste time with a tool that does not have a feature you consider critical.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time. It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

Sure, leads and nurturing and all of that are all good but the reality is that unless a sale is made, all that money was spent without any return. We send it along to the sales reps so tat they can chase these “leads&# like eagles diving for their prey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 6, 2009

Risk is the most important factor: The whole hiring process has one goal, and that is to reduce the risk of hiring a bad candidate. This entry was posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 10:08 pm and is filed under Communication , Hiring. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 United States License.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site. Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead. Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. According to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings , “The solution is for all business owners to insist on SEO right from the start.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5. They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. We could have conflicts with our channel partners 4.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. Lead them to it. How effective has it been for generating leads?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

April 30, 2009 — Laura Ramos Email, Search, and Direct Mail Deliver Results Over Time I am very appreciative to Roy Young and Ann Handley at MarketingProfs for partnering with Forrester and me on the B2B marketing budget trends and effectiveness survey. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic. What’s making a comeback?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. WHY : Why are you sending out this email campaign?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you. I’d add that B2B blogs which provide individual contact information of the bloggers or experts referenced in the posts can lead to new sales opportunities. That is a very good way to generate a qualified lead from your blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

He explains it very well by saying, “Thus, for every feature about my company, the product that we use, the equipment that we operate or the process that we follow when completing work, I must transition the featured aspect into a believable benefit to the customer. According to Brad, the most important piece of the puzzle is the transition.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

This is when you stop ‘doing stuff’ and go to ‘processing stuff’, which also means that at the end you need to prioritize. As you get emails, make sure you process them and if there’s an action that needs to be taken, use the proper categories and prioritization. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

In this post, I will provide an overview of the study and summarize the key actions you should take as a B2B Marketer responsible for driving leads for your business. Focus on a great title, a strong value statement and clear summaries for your content and ads used in search.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

During my research, I stumbled upon a great article by the Canadian Marketing Blog called " 2009 B-to-B Demand Creation Trends " eh (Canadian joke). It's been proven that archived webinars can generate more leads then the actual live event. Reuse all of your marketing materials in your lead nurturing efforts.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." Many CEO's don't have the guts to challenge themselves or their organizations to go on the offensive, to grab market share and lead their companies out of the recession. Gerhard : Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0,

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 3, 2009

The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." Many CEO's don't have the guts to challenge themselves or their organizations to go on the offensive, to grab market share and lead their companies out of the recession. Gerhard : Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0,

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Zoho BPM (3) Business Intelligence (14) Cloud Computing (13) Content Mgmt (15) CRM Best Practices (493) CRM Industry News (314) CRM Technology (521) Customer Experience (16) Customer Service (156) E-commerce (28) Enterprise 2.0 (6) But Longo says that Demandbase does a better job of integrating relevant data. 6) ERP (17) Internet Cust.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 5, 2011

Read on to see what Gary has to say about the virtues of what he has dubbed Marketing Operations 2.0. On July 26, 2009, I celebrated a half-century on the planet. Align the yin to Web 2.0’s Marketing Operations tracks leading indicators to manage turbulence. Marketing Operations ensures value.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. April 13, 2009 12:55 PM Axel Schultze said. Image created by Ryan Schradin.)

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