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JULY 15, 2010

My answer: use your customers and sales people to write about, videotape and blog about successes and tips on navigating through the buying process. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? How to create valuable content on a small business budget? What are the most successful lead sources?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior. But using Twitter, and Facebook are also necessary for giving other information. Michael Brenner Nov 11 2010 Thanks Andrew! Overall great article.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

The study shows that there are specific keyword combinations used dependent upon the buying stage of the person searching on Google. In phase 1, the 2 companies relied on a Question and Answer format to determine the impact of buying stage on the keyword combinations used by IT buyers.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

We want to get people to know us, like us and trust us so much that they want to buy from us and stay with us. Real value comes from producing customers who stay and who have an amazing customer experience so they buy more. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

This way we are engaging prospects earlier in the buying process and never stop engaging them even (or especially) after they purchase from us. For most B2B buying experiences, they expect to speak to a salesperson at some point in their journey. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

Instead create personas of people that buy your solutions or products. Understand why your customers buy from you and not the competition and make sure you have the content to support that Use the halo effect to your advantage. Michael Brenner Jun 3 2010 Ryan, Thanks for your comments. Know your prospects pain points.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 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 June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Michael Brenner Jul 12 2010 Hi Sandi, I am so happy you agree!

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Marketing is all about getting people to know you, like you and trust you enough to buy from you. People do not “like&# brands on Facebook because they want to be marketed to. Channel: not every marketer belongs on Facebook. All the best, Steve O Michael Brenner Sep 16 2010 Hi Steve, thanks for your comments.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Within 10 days of launch, data revealed that respondents from Google were better qualified and were converting at a higher rate than respondents from other search engines in the media buy. 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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Within 10 days of launch, data revealed that respondents from Google were better qualified and were converting at a higher rate than respondents from other search engines in the media buy. 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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You may have heard that social media can improve not only your more traditional tactics but also allows you to engage with your prospects sooner in the buying cycle. It is easy to simply dismiss social media as “hype”, create a half-baked Facebook page and call it a day. So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If the quantified impact of the business problems exceeds the investment required to solve the problems, a buying decision is easy to justify. The Visual Close Some prospects have a hard time making a buying decision, regardless of the attractiveness of the potential return on investment. Trinity Oct 10 2010 A very good advice.

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Top of Funnel Telemarketing Work Management Marketing Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

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. But these are still people.

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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. But these are still people.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Rose Dec 1 2010 Lots of good points here, Michael. Michael Brenner Dec 1 2010 Hi Diane and thanks for your comment! I like to put it this way: the only reason ANYONE will interact with your brand before they buy is content. Michael Damphousse Dec 2 2010 Looking forward to our session! Hope it’s great!

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

However, you must continue to nurture those leads that are not yet ready to buy. It is possible to generate only highly qualified leads – just say something like: “If you are ready to buy, click here.&# kenny madden Aug 13 2010 Michael, Great post. We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

And according to the study “ The Role of Search in Business-to-Business Buying Decisions ,” 65% of respondents stated that they prefer search engines to review sites, manufacturer sites and industry portals. Michael Brenner Jun 3 2010 Great point Daniel. Ryan Beale Jun 3 2010 Michael, Great post. That’s true, definitely.

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B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Content Marketing 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

Quite simply: Executive buy-in. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media 7 Comments Post a comment Paige ONeill Jun 9 2010 Great post, Michael. Michael Brenner Jun 9 2010 Thanks Paige. Claire Chapman Aug 26 2010 An interesting post and I like the analogy of the B2B dance.

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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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AUGUST 29, 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. But I’ve heard the audience demographic of the Facebook is now moving from being focused on college kids to becoming a place for adults.

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Social Networks Lead Generation Network Marketing B2B Marketing 120

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?! James Oct 18 2010 Great article.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Budget Programs Marketing Budget 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Customers decide when and how to engage with us in the buying journey. ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. Michael Brenner May 16 2010 Totally agree on engagement as the right objective. Kelly May 24 2010 Michael, I had fun reading your post.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Sales Management Lead Ranking ROI 100

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Even though the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is growing exponentially, there is a raging debate about measuring its ROI. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. I use LinkedIn and Twitter quite a lot in my online networking and sure, I’ve grown my network in a short period of time.

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Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

Create a proper nurture program for all responders in the information phase We should never assume that all responders are looking to buy something from us today. Kathleen Jul 20 2010 Continuously “touching&# leads through calls and emails is the best way to nurture a lead. Hard selling doesn’t work with me or for me.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

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.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Privacy Policies Buying Cycle RSS 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

Optimization 60

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Distribution 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. See charts below).

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Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Budget Programs 60

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Small Business Marketing 60

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives. How are you using content marketing in your B2B marketing?

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Demand Generation Agencies 60