Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

Second, similar to any other marketing campaign, you must start by defining your target audience and then setting specific objectives that can be measured. Upon completion the next step is determining where your target audience is actively engaged, who the key influencers are and how does your target audience consume and share information.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals.

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 1-2, Open Video Conference New York, NY: This multi-day summit full of thought leaders in business, academia, art and activism will explore the future of video on the web. October 9-14, DMA : 2010 San Francisco, CA: The only Global ROI Marketing Event, focusing on direct and digital marketing integration across all channels.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I also need to mention that I cannot take credit for my funnel depiction as there was much discussion by the leaders in our organization about the shape of our funnel and the need to increase the velocity of our demand activities by moving from a wine-glass shaped funnel to one shaped more like a champagne flute or a shot glass.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Mr. Watkis then states “ the most important activities for marketers are the establishment of marketing objectives, a plan for their achievement, a budget to support the plan, and the management of assets and resources to achieve the objectives ”. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 United States License.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

If you use your CRM system to track marketing activities from inquiry to close, then you know how many opportunities you have created and how much sales pipeline that has generated. For example, effective demand generation with high quality content that meets customer needs will produce awareness and will drive consideration of your product.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration? Traditional Pipeline Acceleration.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

They show how brands with high loyalty and strong social currency command a price premium confirming the need for the tighter coordination of social brand activities. In simpler words, a brand’s social activities need to help your prospects with something that is relevant to your brand. Give them what they want.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 18, 2010

They see these activities as “work” and as such, shouldn’t be performed after 5:29pm. This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 12:05 pm and is filed under Hiring , Marketing Management , Teamwork. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 We need more people who are passionate about what they do.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Content: in building strong customer relationships, you have to provide valuable information that meets your customer needs. In social media content is not necessarily about creating white papers or videos. And something that is often overlooked: simply sharing the valuable content of others. The reason is context.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 16, 2009

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Think back to your daily activities. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 When are you usually checking email? Is it the first thing you do in the morning?

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 29, 2009

As marketers, we sometimes fall victims of the routine day-to-day tactical activities and forget why we are doing them. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 9, 2010 9 Subscribe Finding The Time To Tweet or Blog? This takes no more than 15 minutes.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

The question is whether we are actively participating in it online. I know how to create content that people respond to. Share: Read more from Strategy B2B Marketing , Content Marketing , customer , Inbound Marketing , objectives , Online Demand Generation , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. I know how to generate a lead.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

The question is whether we are actively participating in it online. I know how to create content that people respond to. Share: Read more from Strategy B2B Marketing , Content Marketing , customer , Inbound Marketing , objectives , Online Demand Generation , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. I know how to generate a lead.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

This is one of the most positive outcomes of the social media activity in B2B marketing. Which is more important: channel or content strategy? It’s all about content! ROI: How do you link social media activity to the bottom line? Michael Brenner Jun 9 2010 Thanks Paige. Glad to have discovered your blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 6, 2009

It is very important to make sure your marketing activities are results-oriented. There’s a whole discussion around marketing ROI that we should have at a later date, I think most of you are already developing plans with specific goals in mind be it lead generation, web traffic, referrals, and even sales. United States License.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Time Line Close The Time Line close is effective when a product or service will impact a prospect’s project plan, especially if the purchasing decision is a prerequisite to other activities in the project plan. He has demonstrated success in the creation and active management of aggressive marketing and sales plans. Happy to help.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

This is a foundational activity. Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

Lead scoring is a key component so that once a lead meets a quality threshold, it is sent to sales with all the relevant history such as marketing tactics responded to, content viewed, solution interest, budget or timeframe. kenny madden Aug 13 2010 Michael, Great post. Bottom line is that marketing needs to be flexible.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2009

Think of the communication activities that may result of completing a task) A key part of taking responsibility and assigning people responsible for each task is to make them accountable. 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 17, 2009

As the marketing plans are shared with the rest of the company, and details on why each campaign or activity is being carried out together with their expected impact on operations and sales, the reason for marketing and why we have this department should become clear. United States License. United States License. United States License.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? Will Deacon Aug 11 2010 Great post.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? Will Deacon Aug 11 2010 Great post.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?! Search is really hard to explain.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

The details page should show all available sizes, options and other selection criteria with active links to downloadable PDFs of datasheets. Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP. Dan McDade Oct 14 2010 I enjoy reading your articles, Michael, but have to disagree with your take on appointment setting. That is so true!

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 5, 2009

The 8 principles he outlines in his HBR article are more “action oriented”, meaning they guide you towards making the right plans for the right activity and how to behave in general. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Let’s apply them to marketing, shall we?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman July 18, 2010 at 11:22 am Achinta; This is a great article – thanks for posting it! It’s a combination of tools, methods or procedures, and analysis and activities.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

This agrees with what I am hearing from my engineering and industrial clients, they are seeing a lot more activity but the average sales cycle has grown by an additional 90 ~ 120 days. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The Representative must specifically address the content that was viewed Each person that searches the web has a specific purpose. The search term used and the content they found are big clues.” The Representative also needs to have the specific piece of content available in case the prospect would like it re-sent.

Work Management 100

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! Once there, make sure your content fulfills their search queries and encourages them to engage with you further.

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