The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finding and retaining the best people has always been a challenge, no matter your industry. The best marketing ends up being what the employees tell their friends about their companies. When you have a little bit extra to offer, being that the free lunch or whatever, you are a step above the competition. United States License.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Do you know how much to spend on your B2B marketing budget in 2009? How to allocate your budget across programs and headcount? Or how to split marketing programs budget between investments such as events, advertising, and PR? For example: Marketing Investment Trends. for software, 0.8%

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 3, 2011

Based on a recent report on Marketing Technology Adoption for 2011 , the findings of their research shed some light on the challenges we face when it comes to marketing technology. The Goal of Marketing Software The need for marketing software comes from the necessity to better understand customer behavior across multiple channels.

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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. More than half of respondents (55%) said they use Twitter for marketing purposes.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How Success is Misunderstood How do you define success? If you answered “it depends&# , then you’re thinking smart. Number of leads generated? Amount of sales or deals closed?

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. For Eloqua, at least, they say there’s no need to worry since HubSpot is serving a very different market.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

What seems to be the opposite thinking of the advertising school became the winning campaign of Banco Hipotecario , a financial services business based in Argentina. Sometimes going against established “best practices&# may pay off. Sources for more info on this story are: Creativity Online article, F*ck Smaller.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

According to a recent chart published by MarketingSherpa (below), 80% of marketers don’t spend time qualifying leads before sending them to sales. It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 2, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Fail at Social Media The challenge of keeping up with the competition in the social media space is not new. The solution, it seems, is far more complicated. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 23, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Ghost Blogging Debate Done Right If there is a discussion that will never die is the Ghost Blogging debate. Schaefer , another excellent blogger and marketer. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Take for instance the following: The average webcasts captures 441 registrants Attendee participation is usually 50-60% of registrations 15-30% of registrants are sales-qualified opportunities The numbers above should be enough for you to go back to your own metrics and see how you compare. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Their latest study points out that “The majority of B2B organizations are increasing marketing budgets for inbound marketing tactics, including social media, virtual events and webinars, SEO and PPC&#. 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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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Taming Your Brand Mascot From Tony The Tiger, Trix Rabbit and Energizer Bunny to Ronald McDonald and even John McCain (?!) brand mascots are a common tool to promote your product or service.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

Then with all the triggers in place, sit back and watch the software do the job of sending the right message to the right prospect at the right time. How is it that your product or service will benefit me? Wow, it’s magical! Yes, except for one little detail. Who’s going to write all that new content? We have all been there.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

On Monday I attended a Marketing Automation Monday event, put together by the Marketing Automation Association , a newly formed group of marketing professionals that discusses all things related to marketing automation and best practices. United States License. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

billion emails sent. 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 United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

.&# MarketingSherpa is known for quality content and I have attended a couple conferences ( I was a speaker at the Email Marketing Summit 2008) and have always thought that the best you get from attending an event like this is more in the form of networking than in content itself. Like Be the first to like this post.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I’ve already discussed the use of PowerPoint for website reviews and if you’re starting from scratch it not only provides you with a grate starting point but is a low cost solutions. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 7, 2011

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2011

In their research they also classify companies according to their results in email marketing usage. 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

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. Software vendors like to boast when they are placed in a specific position on Gartner’s famous Magic Quadrant report. From what some vendors say , depending on your space the analyst report won’t help you at all. Stay tuned!

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This last bit is important for factors outside your influence, maybe a contract that depends on another company has to be signed for the joint marketing campaign to start, or what to do if certain assumptions you’ve made when putting together the plan fail to materialize (i.e. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Books and theories exist on how to get people to perform their best or to change the way they behave (“ Bringing Out The Best In People &# comes to mind) but rarely we see those in action. This entry was posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Social Media.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 7, 2010

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Quality varies: [link] Can you recommend other resources for free marketing knowledge? This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 12:05 pm and is filed under Marketing Training. What else is out there, you may ask. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video. A recent article ( When digital marketing strategies go wrong ) from Revolution Magazine, a UK publication, reviews some of the most interesting social media mishaps.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 17, 2010

Design #11 Email Sender: Tableau Software Email Title: 50 Metrics Every Marketer Should Master What I Like: Small but visible logo on top left identifies the company immediately. Note : The emails are in no particular order and the senders were selected at random from a variety of emails I get. Click on the images for larger version.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I recently attended the Business of Software conference where I participated in a Pecha Kucha competition. This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under Communication. What if you could change all that and have the message, whatever is was, delivered to you in six minutes and forty seconds?

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 23, 2010

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 16, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Don’t Forget Your Company History The recent advent of the lost NASA tapes (they lost the original tapes from the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, then found out that they had all been erased) got me thinking.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

Ron Adelman, from WSI Marketing , discussed Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in a down-to-earth manner that was refreshing at the same time very entertaining. This entry was posted on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at 9:32 pm and is filed under Marketing Planning , Marketing Strategy , Social Media , Uncategorized.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking If you’re gonna copy, make it right An interesting blog post by Jason Cohen at OnStartups.com discussed why you shouldn’t copy other companies just because they were successful at what they do.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

That’s why we made our best to create a really plain way of getting things done. One of our core objectives is to make our tool usable by people with different backgrounds, of course technical staff but designers or people more focused in the business side as well. United States License. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

So while adding another person to your marketing budget may seem tricky at first, maybe you don’t have to hire an additional person (although for larger organizations that should definitely be the case). How you decide to work with it will determine whether you succeed or fail. Like Be the first to like this post.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you are anything like the typical worker, you can probably list a few things you’ve accomplished such as: read emails responded to emails sent emails deleted emails See a trend here? This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 8:15 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , productivity.

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