MLT Creative

JANUARY 12, 2011

Here are the top 10 most viewed and most linked blog posts of 2010: The Buck Stops Here OR How I Learned to Stop Thinking. Is Twitter's Sun Setting or Rising for B-to-B Marketers? Strategy director Patrick Maness reviews a business article and shares his thoughts about Twitter's future for B2B marketers.

B to B 40

B to B Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency B2B 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over a thousand B2B marketers registered to attend an October 13th webinar created to help marketers plan for 2010. Specifically, the spoke about: Five key planning assumptions across two macro functions – reputation and demand creation – that should drive b-to-b marketing planning for 2010.

Demand Generation 48

Demand Generation Webinar Metrics Demand Planning 48

ViewPoint

JANUARY 26, 2012

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. But what are the most effective outbound marketing channels for kicking off a business relationship? billion on search marketing for the same purpose. billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

B to B 120

B to B netFactor Media SEM 120

markempa

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. If youre doing marketing or lead generation for a complex sale, youll want to read it. In 2005, 3.5 In 2005, 3.5

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B to B Paid Search Agency 120

markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more. B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Lead Generation Demand 120

markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. When I see the challenge that marketers face when it comes to getting their budgets approved, I wonder why it has to be so hard?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Marketing BtoB Lead Scoring 120

markempa

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Many financial executives still view marketing as an expense, a.k.a. cost center, rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue.

Budget Programs 120

Budget Programs Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads 120

markempa

JULY 16, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Ive summarized Kevins three points: Don’t be too Web myopic.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Work Management Marketing Management Search Marketing 120

Online Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We are always trying to stay on top of the B2B trends in the marketing industry. What business marketing revolution is coming in 2011? So, we developed a list of our top B2B marketing predictions for 2011. Emerging Marketing’s 2011 B2B Marketing Predictions + Companies will continue to spend again.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies B to B 40

markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Marketing Budget 120

Marketing Budget Lead Generation Work Management Lead Management 120

markempa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. " Ive paraphrased a few of his thoughts below: Sales and Marketing need to communicate then collaborate - not just executives but the entire team.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads B to B 120

markempa

OCTOBER 28, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. MarketingSherpas posted their B-to-B Lead Generation Summit Notes. MarketingSherpas posted their B-to-B Lead Generation Summit Notes.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation B to B Leads 120

markempa

APRIL 5, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. As a lead generation tactic, podcasting is still in its infancy but its expected to be used by many more b-to-b marketers in 2007.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation Leads Lead 120

markempa

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. « Lead qualification and scoring for better leads | Main | Target Marketing: What’s a Lead?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Generation 120

markempa

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. For this reason, most leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded.

Lead Qualification 120

Lead Qualification Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 120

markempa

MARCH 30, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. So if you want to build a WOM marketing program, you must look at your reputation first - not your brand. They have it wrong. Why or Why not?

Word of Mouth 120

Word of Mouth Lead Generation WOM B to B 120

markempa

APRIL 18, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Be sure to let them know about your favorite Marketing, Advertising, and PR blogs. Anyone can nominate. Anyone can nominate.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Marketing Generation B to B 120

markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. On the other side, Ive heard numerous speakers and bloggers declare e-mail marketing dead. That’s simply not true.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Relevance Resources B2B Marketing 120

markempa

JUNE 28, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Guys writes, “The backbone of traditional marketing has long been the 4Ps: product, pricing, placement and promotion.

Online Lead Generation 120

Online Lead Generation Lead Generation Work Management Marketing Management 120

Paul Gillin

JUNE 17, 2010

Here is a draft of the first chapter of Social Marketing to the Business Customer by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman. This chapter focuses on drawing the major distinctions between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets and where social marketing has particular value to B2B companies.

Enterprise Management 50

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Rules B to B 50

The ROI Guy

JUNE 3, 2010

A SiriusDecisions survey recently examined which b-to-b sources are trusted most by buyers during the buying lifecycle, and the results indicate not surprisingly that Industry Analysts and Peers are the most influential and trusted sources of information. of respondents) and peers (28.7%). Search engine results were cited by only 4.4%

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer B to B Vendors Marketing Proposals 40

markempa

JUNE 14, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Fellow Revenue Roundtable member, Mike McLaughlins Blog, Guerrilla Consulting won in the "B-to-B marketing blogs" category.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation B2B Thought Leadership B to B 120

markempa

AUGUST 14, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Webinar Metrics B2B Sales Generation 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

Social Networks 60

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0 60

markempa

JUNE 27, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Generation Work Management 120

markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. David not only compares them to the older whitepapers, but also discusses their use as a valuable marketing and lead generation tool.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Generation Leads 120

markempa

JULY 3, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. All three of us had a great time exchanging ideas on marketing, life, business and books. Thanks for treating us to dinner Dan!

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B2B Thought Leadership Generation 120

markempa

MAY 26, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Im listed in the "B-to-B marketing blogs" section. Im listed in the "B-to-B marketing blogs" section.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Leads 120

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Take a moment to reflect on the year’s most interesting, exciting and sometimes surprising online marketing news. December 2009 Online Marketing News. November 2009 Online Marketing News. 40% of Marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2010. IT marketers meeting buyers' online content needs.

Paid Content 48

Paid Content Online Marketing Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 48

MLT Creative

OCTOBER 28, 2010

” With so many worthy contenders, the marketing professionals who will be judging these awards have a big challenge ahead of them. I’m nominating and voting for many of the B2B marketing “braniacs & maniacs” I follow, and I think it’s a great way to say, “Thanks for the helpful tweets.".

Twitter 40

Twitter Advertising Agencies B2B Marketing B to B 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

Peer-to-peer 40

Peer-to-peer Marketing Automation Services Spending Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

According to sales and marketing analyst firm SiriusDecisions, “Successful reps know that establishing credibility and providing value to a prospect or customer throughout the buying cycle is the difference between closing the deal and losing it. So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off? April 2009.

Effectiveness 40

Effectiveness Forrester B to B Sales Cycle 40

Paul Gillin

MAY 25, 2010

There I got a chance to meet some remarkable people who took chances on social marketing before it was fashionable and won. His advice to prospective b-to-b bloggers: “Be prepared to stick with it for a while; it takes a couple of years to build up your presence. Those stories are rich in the keywords that customers use.”.

BtoB 50

BtoB B2B B to B Blogger 50

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For the next post in our series of B2B marketing thought leader interviews , we interviewed Matthew Schwartz, an independent journalist with more than 20 years’ experience working in the media, who is currently a contributing a writer at Crain’s BtoB and BtoB’s Media Business magazines. What is the strategy behind this?

Business Blogging 48

Business Blogging Zoominfo B to B Enterprise Management 48

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

Demand Generation Agencies 40

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Peer-to-peer Demand 40