Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 21, 2010

How should you adapt to the changing trends in B2B marketing? We asked Galen De Young "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?". Blog B2B Marketing Twitter GalenDY. " Galen De Young's Marketing Prediction for 2010. Fill the holes.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 17, 2010

We are pleased that we were able to catch-up with Andrew Gaffney, Editor-In-Chief of DemandGen Report, an on-line publication that covers B2B marketing and the marketing automation space. We wanted to get his take on all things B2B marketing and what the future holds for this space.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Content That Sells When talking with lead nurturing and marketing automation vendors they all make it seem very easy. United States License. United States License.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 25, 2010

Re-casting How We Think About B2B Marketing Automation I was analyzing results from our recent B2B Marketing University series , which Silverpop launched this past Fall, and the data seem to point to an eye-popping, potential ‘banner year’ for marketing automation in 2010.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Top of Funnel Work Management 40

SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study. Breakdown of marketing spending between organic and paid channels was most commonly 75% organic – 25% paid, followed by 50% organic – 50% paid. Venture capitalists (VCs) invested $20.8 Try Our EdTech Data Free.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 1, 2011

  Morgan Stanley (2010) recently reported in a study that there are now more social network users than email users.    Marketing, as we know it today, will see its’ percent of activities devoted to social marketing increase past 50% over the next two years.  Image via Wikipedia.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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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.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

In the video below, Holly explains their process. 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 All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. 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.” You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint. This tendency often neglects the other marketing channels that played a role in early stages of the purchase funnel. That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage.

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Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. You do a great job of showcasing your experts at Emerson Process Experts.

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Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Let’s look at two case studies to see how industrial marketers are using email to reach and engage with industrial buyers. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). Lesson #5: Path of least resistance Engineers are taught to find the path of least resistance.

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Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

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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, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. The Death of a Salesman?

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 19, 2010

.  In addition, we know from the people who survey sales trends, such as Sirius Decision , CSO Insights , and McKinsey , today’s buyers get through nearly 70-80% of the buying process BEFORE they engage with sales people.    We’ve become fixated on the process and not the experience.  

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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.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

But the problem is not “why sales cycles are getting longer&# , its why buyers are taking longer to make decisions. Understanding how to facilitate this buying lifecycle, especially how to connect and engage todays economic-focused executive, is a key to sales success, and establishes a roadmap for sales enablement.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing for September 2010. Great stuff in the B2B Marketing world in September. Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , September 1, 2010 Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. B2B Voices , September 1, 2010 Image via CrunchBase.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { Bruce Rasmussen´s last blog.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. April 2010. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing. HP, P&G) to the channel… The Difference Between B2B Leads and Personas - Marketing Interactions , April 17, 2010 B2B marketers have relied on lead definitions to define their marketing programs for years.

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Forecasting Social Media B2B Marketing Social Marketing 40

B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 5, 2020

00:36 – Paul Slack’s background in B2B Digital Marketing. 05:23 – The planning pillars in B2B digital marketing. 15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. 33:17 – The one question every B2B digital marketer should ask themselves. Uh, and the tension that they’re trying to buy is here, take our demo.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management B2B Marketing Top of Funnel Planning 52

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

This is the process of comparing two variations of a single variable to determine which performs best in order to help improve marketing efforts. Primarily, this is done in email marketing (with variations in the subject line or copy), calls-to-action (variations in colors or verbiage), and landing pages (variations in content).

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Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Management Marketing Automation Services 28

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Big Ed’s Top 10 B2B Marketing Trends For 2010 by Marketing-Gimbal. Edward Brice pretty much nailed the significant b2b marketing developments for 2010 (e.g. 2010: Social Network Advertising and Marketing Outlook by Brian Solis. The Truth About Inbound Marketing vs Outbound Marketing by Kuno Creative.

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Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking 100

TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Lucidchart is based in Utah, and was founding in 2010. Through harnessing the power of carefully crafted sales, marketing, customer service, content management, and operations tools, the software aims to make it easy to unify team strategy and drive conversion. LEARN MORE. HubSpot CRM. LEARN MORE.

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