Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 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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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The companies that are able to create a sustainable responder generation program will see higher conversions and sales. The companies that are able to create a sustainable responder generation program will see higher conversions and sales. The key is to reach the prospect within 48 hours.

Work Management 100

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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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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

As the quality pressure starts to rise, you can only send to sales those opportunities that are further along in the sales cycle. In some companies “nurture happens&# almost by accident. In other companies lead nurture is a very formal and well-defined process. kenny madden Aug 13 2010 Michael, Great post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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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. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

Business Blogging 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? And that begins with thinking like an investigative reporter by asking the 4Ws and the 1H questions. They are: WHO : Who are the intended recipients of your emails?

Email Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. This 28-page white paper is chock full of useful information for aligning your marketing content with the industrial buy cycle. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

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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Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” You may be surprised by how different some of those terms are from those used within your company. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Give your company a reason to reach out continuously to those who find a particular topic relevant. Hold some in reserve to use as an offer during an inside sales call to follow-up. For example, if your company’s positioning changes and your content doesn’t match. There could be a number of reasons.

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman July 18, 2010 at 11:22 am Achinta; This is a great article – thanks for posting it! He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Buyers have neither the time nor the patience to wait for call backs and meet with sales people at a later date. The Internet is never going to replace great sales people.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Or are you trying to position your company or yourself (consultants and coaches) as a thought leader to influence C-level execs and decision makers? Create content – It is easy to get bogged down with the design aspects of a company blog. The focus of your blog will be determined by how well you can define your readership.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing. The four steps are: 1.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

Back in the late 90s, I was the founder of a software company called Pangaea. It was a product configurator application being marketed to the sales industry, and so obviously I got to know the head of Selling Power magazine, Gerhard Gschwandtner , for the first time. Gerhard : Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0,

Top of Funnel 100

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 3, 2009

Back in the late 90s, I was the founder of a software company called Pangaea. It was a product configurator application being marketed to the sales industry, and so obviously I got to know the head of Selling Power magazine, Gerhard Gschwandtner , for the first time. Gerhard : Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0,

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 Budget Programs 100

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. Is their definition the same as mine?

Marketing Automation Services 40

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. 3) It’s all about the buyer now, so why are you still writing about “my company this, my company that&# ? (4) Methods to the madness: Everybody has methodologies, Sales has SPIN, Customer Centric, etc. predictions. Marketing has none.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

If you are asking if we need to align with sales, go find a new profession. Similarly, the Harvard Business Review wrote in Why Sales and Marketing Are at Odds — or Even War : The ongoing conflict between sales and marketing is the “elephant&# in the room at many companies. What is a salespage? — It just does.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Planning Paid Search Agency 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. LeadLife is designed to increase qualified leads while shortening sales cycles and decreasing the cost of sales.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Twitter Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. LeadLife is designed to increase qualified leads while shortening sales cycles and decreasing the cost of sales.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Twitter Marketing Management 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A new CMO walking into her new job in a B2B company ought to be able to ask for the Book of Learning and be given a big, fat ring binder (or wiki URL). Maybe the long sales cycle in many B2B markets is the culprit. Or the (unsustainable) lack of communication between marketing and sales.

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Paid Content B2B Marketing Advertising Agencies Work Management 40