The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Social Media’s Next Victim? We all like stories of companies that mess up and in the process of trying to clean up their act end up messing up even more. Like Be the first to like this post.

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MAY 3, 2011

The Goal of Marketing Software The need for marketing software comes from the necessity to better understand customer behavior across multiple channels. The goal is to make use of cross channel marketing strategies to target the customer at the right moment and influence purchase decisions. Like Be the first to like this post.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Content That Sells When talking with lead nurturing and marketing automation vendors they all make it seem very easy. Like Be the first to like this post.

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APRIL 18, 2007

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

JANUARY 13, 2011

If you have just started your 2011 campaigns after battling the budget process, I bet you can definitely see some relation to your own company. So with all these new channels available, why does email marketing continue to be a top choice for marketers everywhere? You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 11, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Choosing an Email Marketing Software Who’s the best email marketing company/software? The important thing is to lead with the analytics side before throwing the qualitative evaluation into the mix.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

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

MARCH 17, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking B2B Email Design – Gallery 2 Last week I started an email design gallery containing a series of HTML emails I received. Big blue lead in. Compelling lead in. Concise bullet points.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

How can we improve this process? Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! 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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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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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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Webbiquity

JUNE 28, 2012

Online tracking of web visitors has taken on added importance for sales and marketing. While web analytics software tells us important metrics like how many visitors we have, which pages they visit and for how long, sales and marketing need more leads. Follow Lisa on Twitter @lisajcramer or connect on her B2B marketing blog.

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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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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. Marketing guru Seth Godin has recently posted a short but very good list of how you can make better surveys , but he misses one very important point.

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DECEMBER 21, 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! " Related post: U.S.

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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

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. Keep in mind the following factors and you’ll be a step ahead of other candidates.

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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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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2009 has been a long year but as I reflect back on my many conversations, I've created a top 5 list of items to avoid in 2010: 1. In 2010 you will not have a choice but to make social media part of your overall marketing strategy. The key to sending relevant communication is to automate the process.

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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

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). You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. Some of these marketing assets will change over time. You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time.

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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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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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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

As I mentioned earlier, what originally most impressed me about Aprimo Marketing Studio was its scope. This starts with the core functions of any business marketing system: outbound and multi-step email campaigns, landing pages, Web behavior tracking , lead scoring, Salesforce.com integration, reporting and content management.

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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

MAY 14, 2010

Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries. The best example of an expertise blog that I know of is the Emerson Process Experts blog moderated by Jim Cahill.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process. This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource. The objective here is to drive people to your website, which should be the hub of your online marketing.

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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. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Using content or Inbound Marketing , you are able to make that key connection with your prospects by delivering specific content needed in order to make an informed decision. Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Design wins lead to production volume orders. They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). For other engineering disciplines and architects, you can create an online library of detailed CAD drawings.

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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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JUNE 12, 2010

We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5. 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

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

One way or another, you want it to be an integral part of your industrial marketing efforts in generating leads and driving sales. You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? Marketing Charts ). eMarketer ).

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