Ambal's Amusings

MAY 12, 2010

Why should B2B organizations commit a growing percentage of their budget to content creation? Why should you conduct content audits and create content maps to extract the most value possible from existing content assets by repurposing them in as many ways as possible? What actions should marketers take in 2010?"

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Microsite Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Emarketing 100

SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). The top 3 most effective marketing channels as reported by respondents were social media, organic search and content marketing. Video is a flexible and engaging content format that not only captures eyeballs but is easy to share across various platforms.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Marketing Budget Paid Content Paid Search Agency 98

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Michele predicts that content will continue to be a driving force in B2B marketing in 2010, especially as companies try to take advantage of social media. We asked Michele Linn "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" Not all content is king!

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Content Buyer Personas Marketo Consulting 100

Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 19, 2010

Does your content have a personality? Does your content build your KLT Factor (Know, Like and Trust)? We asked Patsi Krakoff "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?". Patsi Krakoff's Marketing Prediction for 2010. Patsi Krakoff, Psy.D. Patsi Krakoff.

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Personalization Content Marketo Small Business Marketing 100

Contently

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

” My “Sarah Lawrence College Class of 2010!!!” LinkedIn launched a feed to become the social network for your weird work persona. Twitter’s feed was chronological, so you could tweet out a ton of links to content and get consistent clicks from your followers. It was basically a directory.

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Social Networks Social Media Facebook Verticals 208

KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 16, 2014

As my World Cup fever symptoms begins to take hold, I’ve started to draw some comparisons of this year’s event to my job as a content marketer. So, without further delay, here are the 5 lessons I believe content marketers can take from the 2014 World Cup: 1. Developing buyer personas is a critical piece of this process.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Planning Peer-to-peer Comparison 120

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. Who’s going to write all that new content? But why the focus on content?

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Planning 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel 100

Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 12, 2010

Marketers should focus resources by creating a good content strategy. Jonathan Kranz urges B2B brands to make great strides with relevant content and forming communities. We asked Jonathan Kranz "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" Jonathan Kranz.

Marketing & Strategy 100

Marketing & Strategy Advertising Agencies Content Fulfillment 100

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 18, 2015

As time progressed in the early decade of 2000 to 2010, reliance on the sales representative for product and solutions information began to diminish. The numbers bear this out as seen by several surveys showing content marketing effectiveness declining. The Internet Propels Buying Behavior Shifts.

Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Ideal Customer Profiles Profiling Buyer Personas Marketing Management 100

DemandBase

MARCH 30, 2020

By the 2010’s we were starting to see the concept of account-based advertising take shape that led us to the current evolution of identifying and targeting buying committees. Open Exchange buying not only on irrelevant sites and apps but often on content that is not brand-safe, content farms with excessive ad load, etc.

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Advertising Agencies Account Based Marketing ABM Advertisements 111

Sprout Social

JUNE 14, 2022

In 2010, Betty White became the oldest person to host SNL after nearly half a million people liked a Facebook page petitioning her to take the gig. But senior content creators (also known as “granfluencers”) are reaching across generational lines. So why is granfluencer content so compelling? Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised.

Demographics 99

Demographics Class Social Media Trust Marketing 99

Hubspot

APRIL 13, 2017

I’ve always been obsessed with content – how its message has the ability to inspire, educate, motivate, and drive people to take action, whatever that action may be. This poses an obvious issue to those who aspire to be found online through non-paid search, as you need content to be successful. Once I learned this, I was hooked.

Enterprise Management 70

Enterprise Management Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 70

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Buyer personas and content creation The interaction was great and the fact that we had people from both SMB and large companies was great, we could hear both sides of the story and how different size companies work with marketing automation. One of the interesting points raised during the discussion was about content creation.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Planning Work Management 100

Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. Well, according to Google, more than half (52%) of all B2B purchases in 2019 were influenced by digital content and marketing. Content marketing is one of the leading strategies for B2B today.

Top of Funnel 136

Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 136

Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 14, 2018

Are technology marketers moving away from creating content for the buyer’s journey? The CMI research team found ourselves asking this question as we analyzed the data from our eighth annual content marketing survey. More on that in a moment, but first consider that technology marketers are achieving increased content marketing success.

Research 105

Research Budget Programs Paid Search Agency Account Based Marketing 105

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.”

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 30, 2011

One of the interesting outcomes of the rise of Social Media , Demand Generation , and Content Marketing in 2010 was the increasing use of the term audience development.  In the new world of content marketing, the idea of thinking like a publisher has taken root.  Image via Wikipedia. Let’s take a look at some good.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Buyer Personas Planning 100

Hubspot

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Yesterday, HubSpot's Vice President of Marketing Mike Volpe took the stage at Dreamforce 2010 , Salesforce.com's user conference in San Fransisco, to share insights about gaining visibility in search engine results pages for businesses. In his presentation, Volpe discussed marketers' addiction to advertising.

Search Engine Marketing 28

Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing Salesforce.com Buyer Personas 28

Valasys

MAY 16, 2019

Atomic Reach, the leading content intelligence platform announced on May 16 th 2019 its integration with LaunchPoint by Marketo, an Adobe company. The companies, as a team, are making the best use of artificial intelligence (AI) so as to help marketers optimize and personalize email content at scale. About Atomic Reach.

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Marketo Email Marketing Optimization Paid Search Agency 53

Tony Zambito

MAY 13, 2011

While this second report highlights the continuation of the changes noted in the 2010 report, there is definitely a “more of” aspect that is revealed and a few surprises.  In terms of sharing content – okay I get it! Reinvent B2B Sales With Buyer Personas (buyerpersonainsights.com). Related articles.

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas WOM B2B Paid Search Agency 100

Stevens & Tate

AUGUST 10, 2020

Twitter has also taken action against QAnon content, suspending thousands of accounts for sharing or associating with any “conspiracy theory-ridden content”. Lessons Learned: Buyer Persona Gone Wrong. Creating a buyer persona is essential to effective attraction marketing. Improving your Marketing Program.

Trends 64

Trends Spyware Work Management Paid Search Agency 64

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content. Why is it important?

Optimization 60

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle 60

Ambal's Amusings

MAY 17, 2010

We asked Ardath Albee "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Ardath Albee's Marketing Prediction for 2010. In 2010, more B2B marketers will implement true nurturing programs to improve upon the limited results possible with short-term campaigns.

Emarketing 100

Emarketing Buying Cycle B2B Sales Marketo 100

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

SnapApp

APRIL 9, 2015

Full disclosure: I love interactive content and have been a SnapApp advocate for well over two years. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s be clear about one thing: You should not have an “interactive content strategy.” And don’t get me started on channel strategies - remember when we all had a social channel strategy circa 2010?

Interactive Marketing 48

Interactive Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Top of Funnel 48

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?

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Biznology

OCTOBER 15, 2015

It also reflects the basics of smart brand positioning: • Market Opportunity – The disastrous war in Iraq after 9/11, the failure to create sustainable democracies after the “Arab Spring” in 2010, and the turbulent events in Syria between 2011 and 2014 left a power void in the area for the religious extremists.

Case Studies 80

Case Studies Case Study Studies Ad Building 80

Tony Zambito

MAY 16, 2010

  In a B2C market, understanding persona goals and aligning strategies to help consumers accomplish their goals determines how a product or service is positioned.    Developing internal competency in this area appears to be an important mandate for organizations in 2010 and over the next couple of years. 

Buyer Personas 100

Buyer Personas Demand Generation Agencies Social Media Correlation 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. Group them into personas related to the tagged characteristics.

Social Media 123

Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 123

Everything Technology Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Especially the top-3 challenges have grown significantly from 2009 to 2010: 1) Generating high-quality leads (from 69% in 2009 to 78% today) - Today's B2B marketers are tackling this issue with processes and technologies such as marketing automation and lead scoring in an attempt to only deliver qualified, truly sales ready leads.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing High Quality Lead B2B Lead Scoring 100

Brightedge

MAY 16, 2021

She has practical advice on how to move beyond profiles to personas and solid go-to-market planning. Download the content funnel mapping checklist. Ellis named and started the growth hacker movement in 2010 after his successes at Dropbox and Logmein. He covers the implications for web site content as well.

Marketing AI 142

Marketing AI Planning Paid Search Agency Enterprise Management 142

Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2010

The CMO Council Marketing Outlook 2010 Report , published April 19th, points to the digital transformation of marketing.  In parallel to the digital marketing makeover is the digital buyer persona makeover.  Image by HubSpot via Flickr. Granted, there is much being said here.    One thing is clear though. 

Social Media 100

Social Media Buyer Personas Media Marketing Automation Services 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

This means as marketers, we have to stop selling , start listening and provide content that helps our target audiences. Create Marketing Personas: Marketing personas are tools that take demographic and psychographic details about your customers to the next level. Optimize credible and valuable content – everywhere.

SWOT 100

SWOT Marketing Management B2B Marketing Planning 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

This means as marketers, we have to stop selling , start listening and provide content that helps our target audiences. Create Marketing Personas: Marketing personas are tools that take demographic and psychographic details about your customers to the next level. Optimize credible and valuable content – everywhere.

SWOT 100

SWOT Marketing Management B2B Marketing Planning 100

Hubspot

OCTOBER 10, 2020

It was launched in October of 2010, where its app store. Its popularity has led it to become a source of income for content creators and brands worldwide, many using the app as their sole source of income. If your content appeals to your target audience, your engagement rate will be higher. Instagram turns 10 in 2020.

Lead Scoring 101

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Advertising Agencies Click Rate 101