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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Can we assume that the buyer is always right? Has a state of buying nirvana been reached? ...Tags: Tags: buyer behavior outbound marketing Dan Ariely search marketin
 
Friday, March 12, 2010
Have Sales 2.0 tools crossed the chasm to the stage of the early majority? Do Do these low risk, user-friendly tools accelerate the adoption of technology? ...Tags: Tags: Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0
 
Friday, March 5, 2010
B2B marketers who target customers and prospects with the same Batch & Blast email risk reducing returns and compromising customer relationships. ...Tags: Tags: email lead generation outbound marketing Adam Needle
 

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Can we assume that the buyer is always right? Has a state of buying nirvana been reached? ...Tags: Tags: buyer behavior outbound marketing Dan Ariely search marketin
Have Sales 2.0 tools crossed the chasm to the stage of the early majority? Do Do these low risk, user-friendly tools accelerate the adoption of technology? ...Tags: Tags: Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0
B2B marketers who target customers and prospects with the same Batch & Blast email risk reducing returns and compromising customer relationships. ...Tags: Tags: email lead generation outbound marketing Adam Needle
Outbound marketing must adapt or face declining returns or even extinction should obsolete practices be used. Darwin Darwin would say that outbound demand generation is not extinct but faces challenges in adapting. ...Tags: Tags: demand generation inbound marketing lead generation outbound marketing B2B lead generatio
Digital Marketing - IDC reports that digital marketing spend is over 9% of total marketing investment in 2008 and predicts that digital marketing will carve out the largest slice of marketing spend by 2010. Sales Spend - Areas such as sales administration and outside sales will bear the brunt of cuts while sales enablement and insides sales are forecasted to see increased funding. In response to a substantial drop in technology spending, B2B marketers will cut budgets and re-jig their media mix. This was one of the main conclusions drawn from the recent BtoB webinar: Outlook

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Saturday, March 20, 2010
A telling moment at the South by Southwest Interactive 2010 festival was when Mobile Roadie was one of the winners of the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator award. Mobile Roadie enables users to build mobile applications and submit them to the iPhone App Store and the Android App Market. AdMob, a research firm, did a study released in January 2010 that showed Android and iPhone users spend an average of 80 minutes per day using applications. Mobile Roadie started by developing mobile applications for bands, and rapidly expanded to business, media, sports, and other organizations including churches.
 
Saturday, March 20, 2010
At the recent IDC Directions 2010 conference - there was a lot of buzz about the Sales and Marketing disconnect in organizations and one of the phrases that caught my attention was - 'Sales is from Mars and Marketing from Venus'. I I have discussed a couple of times on this blog, on how sales and marketing teams can come over their reservations and be more supportive of each other for the greater good of the organization. Thinking
 
Friday, March 19, 2010
Image by HubSpot via Flickr I want to do something ambitious and I’m hoping you’ll help. I’d d like to create a guide for how to use social media in B2B that does not involve talking about the specific tools—as least not in the top line. I
 

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As we move into 2010, I thought I'd share these 30 content marketing truths that are taped above my desk. Whenever I can get two numbers into the title of a content marketing post, good things are always bound to happen. ;) Whenever I lose my way (to a more traditional mindset), I read through this content-marketing heavy list.  It's
In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. In 2010 you’ll start to hear about marketing methods. At Marketbright, we believe Agile Marketing will emerge as a popular methodology so marketing professionals can adapt and survive in 2010. Social Media Marketing FAIL: In 2010, we’ll see a lot of companies spend a lot of money trying to 2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity
Video will be big in 2010 Don't say it - more offline content in 2010??? The Question What is your prediction for how brand marketers will create and distribute their own content in 2010? 2010 will be about figuring out how to use it well.    Some things amaze me, like this year's social media and content marketing predictions list.  0160; What does one sent email and two tweets equal? 
Because all of us are smarter than one of us, you will find lots of value in the new e-book, Key Content Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2010 – which even includes my own fearless prediction on content marketing. Key Content Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2010 has plenty of intrinsic value for marketers. New Crowd Sourced E-Book Is Also a Brilliant Example of Content Marketing The genius behind this e-book is Ambal Balakrishnan.
What is your social media strategy for 2010? One of my New Year's resolutions is to get more organized.  This 0160;This week, I've been going through some old notes from conferences I attended this year.  Pulled 0160;Pulled out a great one-sheeter on keys to social media...thought