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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Below are a few useful tools out there for this problem. Website Review and Annotation Tools ShiftSpace.org is an interesting app that gives you the ability to comment on any website using your browser, but others have to have ShiftSpace installed to see them. Any other tools I have missed? United States License.

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MAY 10, 2010

brand mascots are a common tool to promote your product or service. This entry was posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 11:45 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media , Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 United States License.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Get yours [link] 8 hours ago Good tips for corporate bloggers - "13 Tips for Creating a Top-Ranked Blog" - from @ MarketingProfs [link] 1 day ago Why #MarketingAutomation Projects Fail?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The answer may lie in a tool most people already have… MS PowerPoint! Instead of waiting for the designer to come up with a Photoshop or HTML mockup of something that doesn’t resemble what I asked for, the PowerPoint slide can serve as a guideline and visual discussion tool for everyone involved. Start prototyping today!

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MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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NOVEMBER 24, 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 November 24, 2010 Subscribe A B2B Marketing Manifesto? Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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MAY 3, 2011

New tools on the block (social media monitoring and others are the likely candidates) may have a tough time showing solid ROI, therefore their purchases being delayed. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Blog at WordPress.com.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Why is it that such a poweful tool can be so deadly? Much has been said on how PowerPoint is a bad tool and should be abolished, but who’s really at fault? Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Blog at WordPress.com. Happy 25th birthday!

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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? Fewer tools. More leads. More sales. Less money.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

This really cool tool I read about on Laura Ramos’ blog , shows the path between you and your desired target. By gathering information from your LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail (not Hotmail, mind you), and other social media sites you belong, it maps out your connections and the connections of your connections.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

David Meerman Scott , in his book The New Rules of Marketing and PR points out that creating quality content is the new imperative: “The tools of the marketing and PR trade have changed. This entry was posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 8:45 am and is filed under Communication , Content Marketing , Online Marketing.

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MAY 3, 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 May 4, 2010 7 Subscribe Why am I in Marketing? Michael Brenner May 16 2010 Thanks Barb.

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MAY 3, 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 May 4, 2010 7 Subscribe Why am I in Marketing? Michael Brenner May 16 2010 Thanks Barb.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment Denise Williams Nov 4 2010 Great info Michael. Michael Brenner Nov 5 2010 Thank you Denise.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment Denise Williams Nov 4 2010 Great info Michael. Michael Brenner Nov 5 2010 Thank you Denise.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Only One Thing Matters in Online Surveys – WIIFM Marketers have several tools at their disposal in their arsenal of marketing weapons, one of which is surveys. Blog at WordPress.com. United States License.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

If you are looking for a more formal approach, check out The Marketing Leadership Council which offers a marketing planning tool called MarkPlan and recently held a series of workshops on marketing planning. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. is a great closing tool with a product that has many clear benefits. Trinity Oct 10 2010 A very good advice. Michael Brenner Oct 11 2010 Thank you Trinity!

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JANUARY 3, 2009

Blogs, magazine articles, whole books were written on marketing strategies and tactics and how to tweak your website to get higher Google rankings, how to use Guerilla Marketing and all the other interesting tools in the marketer arsenal but those are mainly that: tools. Without good judgement, they are a waste of resources.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Not understanding our target audience’s pain points : Simple surveys using free tools like SurveyMonkey or Zoomerang can provide quick and easy access to a prioritized list of prospect pain points. Michael Brenner Jun 3 2010 Great point Daniel. Ryan Beale Jun 3 2010 Michael, Great post. What does someone from 3M say?

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JUNE 7, 2010

According to this study , none of the Global Fortune 100 CEOs had a blog and only 2 had a presence on Twitter. She said the best advice to give a CEO who is considering starting a blog or getting involved in social media was a quote from Apple CEO Steve Jobs: “JFDI” (That’s “Just F-ing Do It”). Which department should own social media?

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MARCH 7, 2009

I was prepared for a sales pitch but Albert delivered one of the best presentations of the day while at the same time informing us of all the great tools available for Marketers from Google. He reinforced some key messages we heard throughout the day and added some great stories about Twitter, blogs, and podcasting.

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JUNE 21, 2009

While corporate blogging, for instance, is a broad topic, the presentation focused on only certain aspects of corporate blogging, leaving a lot of stuff untold. From a corporate blogging perspective, I like that they brought up what I consider the two main issues in corporate blogging: Do you have the time?

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JANUARY 5, 2009

You may very well have as highest on your list the revamp of the corporate website using the newest flash menus, blogs, and tracking mechanisms but can you link it back to corporate goals? P.S.: you may be asking youself “where are all the nice tools that we marketers love to use and how do they relate to being effective&# ?

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APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information.

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MAY 12, 2010

ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. There are plenty of statistical modeling tools that can help you determine which mix of tactics, topics, and partners will deliver a predictable result. Because it is an easy metric to obtain. This is a quantifiable science.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. kenny madden Aug 13 2010 Michael, Great post. Happy to connect kenny@spiceworks.com Michael Brenner Aug 14 2010 Hi Kenny, thanks for your comments.

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JUNE 23, 2009

Class: Analyzing Inbound Marketing (AZ401) Professor: Marshall Sponder, Monster.com , Web Analytics Association for Social Media In this class Marshall takes you through a tour of web analytics and how to track and measure your efforts related to social media, web, and more. You have placed a good information on your blog.

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MARCH 15, 2009

But I digress… what I’ve been focusing on for the past few posts is on how you can use tools you already have at your disposal (like MS Outlook for most corporate users) to become more effective and productive. The use of such tools, however, can be seen as a short-tem fix instead of a long-term effect.

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JULY 21, 2009

I don’t know about you, but so far it seems like Social Media is nothing more than just another media, another tool in the marketer’s arsenal. Choosing the right social media strategy While some may say that since your employees are already using social media (facebook pages, tweeter accounts, linkedin posts, etc.) What is it for?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. You can read his entire blog post here. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement.

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JULY 12, 2009

Ok, now that we have a tool to fix those ugly Excel charts, let’s see what we can do about the main goal of your chart: The message. Cliff Atkinson has some great suggestions of places to get images from and the PresentationZen blog has a recent post that will help those trying to present technical information. United States License.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. 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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JUNE 13, 2009

It is a free week long online training program featuring some great speakers on topic such as blogging, SEO, viral marketing, email marketing, lead nurturing… all the tools online marketers need to know. Reply Kaila Woodie says: February 5, 2010 at 10:18 am Hi. I saw your good blog while researching yahoo.

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