Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Even though more than half of the marketers saw their roles expanded well into the sales process, 58 percent of those surveyed met with sales just once a month or less and 8% or nearly 1 out of 10, admitted to never meeting with their sales counterparts. All rights reserved.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 29, 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

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markempa

JULY 10, 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. Kate Maddoxs article in BtoB Magazine , " Integration Key to Lead Generation ," emphasizes the need for close sales and marketing integration.

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markempa

APRIL 6, 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. A new article in BtoB Magazine by Karen J. A new article in BtoB Magazine by Karen J. Ideas or tips of the day.

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markempa

JANUARY 23, 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

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation BtoB B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership 120

markempa

OCTOBER 22, 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. Thanks to Carol Krol over at BtoB Magazine for pointing me to the report.

Telemarketing 120

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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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Mac is also an expert that I cite in my upcoming book.

Lead Generation 120

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markempa

APRIL 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

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Paul Gillin

MAY 25, 2010

I was privileged to moderate the BtoB magazine Social Media Awards Breakfast in New York this week. It took two years for Jim Cahill and Deb Franke to convince the management at Emerson Process Management that a blog was a good idea. Emerson Process Experts was born. Their reticence was understandable.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

markempa

MARCH 30, 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

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles Generation Lead Scoring 120

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.

Webinar Metrics 60

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markempa

MAY 23, 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. A new study that was covered in BtoB Magazine showed that CMOs who are effective at measuring their marketing performance are more empowered.

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markempa

JULY 11, 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. Thanks to Kate Maddox and BtoB Magazine for pointing me to the upcoming 2005 Marketing Accountability Forum.

Lead Generation 120

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2015

Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 render HTML using Microsoft Word. While you can test HTML email rendering manually by setting up email accounts on all of the email platforms and clients and sending test emails to each one, this process can be very time-consuming. For example, Outlook 2003 uses Internet Explorer 6 to render HTML.

Email Marketing 48

Email Marketing B2B Marketing Planning Mobile Advertising 48

The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

In a recent article on the 10th anniversary of B2B magazine, marketing leaders were asked to look back on the past 10 years and reflect on the biggest changes in B2B marketing. The results – interactive white papers are more than 65% more effective than their static counterpart at attracting qualified leads and speeding up the sales process.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Buying Cycle Peer-to-peer Paper 40

markempa

FEBRUARY 7, 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. Sales cycles have gotten longer and number of decision makers involved in a typical buying process has increased too.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Paid Search Agency Companies Generation 120

markempa

JANUARY 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. was recently interviewed by Selling Power Magazine on the topic of prospecting (sales person generated leads).

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Lead Scoring 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

million, an increase of 61 percent from the same quarter of 2010. The key social principles of connectivity, openness , and engagement are also core to Revenue Performance Management (RPM) , the powerful new business strategy and process that is reinventing sales and marketing on a global scale. 71 percent of U.S.

Salesforce.com 48

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. Latest Research.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? At the same time, as buyers are becoming more empowered, sales professionals are seen by these buyers as less valuable in the decision making process, and as a result are being invited later and later in the buying cycle.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

3 items that should be in your 2010 email budget by BtoB Magazine. 30 Beautiful Email Newsletters Design For your Inspiration by Tripwire Magazine. Amanda Gagnon explains how Walden University dramatically increased email subscriptions by simplifying its signup process and reduced the number of clicks required.

Marketing Budget 100

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

Work Management 40

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

However, solving this problem will be difficult for most teams, as sales remains inwardly focused on the traditional funnel based selling process, rather than having a keen understanding of how customers make decisions and actually buy - the buying lifecycle.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

9 Social Listening & Tracking Tools - Marketing Genius Blog , May 7, 2010 Here is a list of 9 social media tracking and monitoring tools. 100 Tips for Trade Show Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , May 11, 2010 Lead generation remains the top reason most companies exhibit at events and tradeshows. Best of B2B Marketing.

Paid Content 40

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Productivity benefits where there is not a direct automation or elimination of a process step or task 3. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f.

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Budget Programs Work Management 40

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Exhibit #1: Emerson Process Management Experts. A niche business blog run by Jim Cahill that targets process manufacturing engineers and professionals. Objective: Connect process manufacturing professionals with experts at Emerson Process Management who have valuable industry, application and technology expertise.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency ROI 60

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As well, personal productivity applications such as word processing, e-mail and messaging could be considered commodities. IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Network servers, storage and printers have moved towards commoditization as well.

ROI 40

ROI Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 40

markempa

MARCH 2, 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. After working with hundreds of sales people and seeing their sales processes first hand, I frequently hear this "stuck point."

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Leads Sales Qualified Leads 120

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In BtoB Magazine , Karen J. Then work with sales to fill those gaps in content and process. Share: Read more from Sales Alignment B2B Marketing , Lead Qualification , Sales Alignment 29 Comments Post a comment Mario Sep 30 2010 More and more the line between sales and marketing is blured. What is a salespage?

Sales Management 100

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010 ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO Tool for Unified Communications Business Case Easy-to-use online calculator analyzes the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of competing unified communications systems to determine true costs and business value SUNNYVALE, Calif., Posted by Tom Pisello at 1:00 PM Email This BlogThis!

Work Management 40

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 7, 2010

A fascinating “hardcore” B2B social media success - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , June 20, 2010 With many companies now engaged in social media marketing strategies for nearly two years or more, success stories are starting to emerge, even in the difficult marketing world of industrial B2B. Best of B2B Marketing. Seems doubtful.

Social Media 40

Social Media Inbound Marketing Enterprise Management Social Marketing 40

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

BtoB Magazine ). One-third of global b2b buyers use social media to engage with their vendors, and 75% expect to use social media in future purchases processes. Mobile commerce is projected to ten-fold from 2010 ($3 billion) to 2016 ($31 billion). BtoB Magazine ). BtoB Magazine ). TMGmedia ).

Paid Content 100

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? Although social media and blog content have the hype, when we look to which marketing content B2B buyers use more than any other in driving decisions, the white paper shines well above all others (MarketingSherpa and IDG 2010). They do if they are Interactive!

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Paper Work Management Marketing Budget 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? Better competitive advantage was gained by helping the customer set the strategy and agenda, versus involvement later in decision process, such as responding to RFPs. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Using ROC as an important element in the CRM decision process can help the team maintain customer focus and better balance investments for long term value acheivement. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. With ROC the value of using the equation outwieghs these risks. Latest Research.

ROI 40

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