Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

White papers come in all shapes and forms. Our Panel of White Paper Experts have written and reviewed thousands of white papers over the years. Which white paper stands out in their mind? Michael Stelzner's Favorite White Paper -- The Expanding Digital Universe. Jonathan Kantor.

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markempa

AUGUST 23, 2006

" Ive written a number of times that educational content is an important tool for lead generation. If youre involved in marketing to IT or financial buyers, you should consider using white papers or e-books. If youre involved in marketing to IT or financial buyers, you should consider using white papers or e-books.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Enjoy the following collated list of best blog posts from Connect the Docs in 2010. 2010 Content Marketing Trends and Predictions. Content marketing is changing like never before at a faster pace than we’ve seen in the last 100 years. What is the future of content marketing? Which content should be free?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as we slide into the New Year. Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing? Related posts: Using Content to Build Trust in B2B Marketing In the recent Edelman Trust Barometer report they detail out. Billion Dollars just barely over ten years later.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

How many times have you heard the expression “content is king?&# Great content accomplishes at least two of the following objectives: • It helps get you “found&# online. • Great content fills a need for both the consumer and the producer. So how do you produce great content?

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 31, 2011

I have invited our Panel of White Paper Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Jonathan Kantor is the principal and founder of The Appum Group, " The White Paper Company ", and has been producing commercial white papers for the past 11 years.

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markempa

AUGUST 11, 2005

« Two new reports on marketing and lead generation | Main | Combine Your Cold Calling Efforts With Email Marketing » Lead Generation via white papers and webinars MarketingSherpa published a great article today on how Redhats Director of Marketing Communications, Chris Grams, broke the rules for distributing white papers and webinars.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. Among the key findings from the report: Despite the lingering economic malaise, companies across virtually all industries plan to increase budgets for social media marketing in 2010. Share this on Mixx. Tweet This! Seed this on Newsvine.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Internet Fuels IT Buying Cycles According to a recent survey of 500 technology decision makers and influencers, Internet access to content is changing the way IT solutions are purchased, with buyers using on-line research to drive substantial portion of the decision making cycle on their own. Content that Matters Most?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

You may also uncover useful details for tailoring sales copy and content to the interests of your target audience. These details help build a buyer persona, allowing marketers to fine-tune the delivery of content. Include a section for white papers, case studies, and videos. Optimize Content for Multiple Stakeholders.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We asked Gordon Graham "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Gordon Graham is That White Paper Guy , an award-winning writer who helps B2B technology firms tell their stories with crisp, compelling white papers. Gordon Graham.

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markempa

JULY 29, 2013

Digital video can help keep your brand top-of-mind when it’s time for a purchase decision – if you create content designed for sharing versus selling. Today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post features three reasons why you should adopt video content into your B2B marketing mix. from 2010 to 2016. from 2010 to 2016.

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BenchmarkONE

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Competition in the content marketing arena is heating up. Statistics show that the number of brands that are actively using content marketing has grown by 12% between 2020 and 2021. . To succeed, you have to master content marketing and use creative ways to set yourself apart from competitors. What’s Content Marketing?

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 20, 2011

My content marketing heros Jonathan Kranz and Joe Pulizzi have collabrated to create magic again. The brand new version of Content Marketing Playbook has been released! What are the top 10 content marketing tactics? White Paper. What are the five brand content marketing tactics? Multimedia Content Platform.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 8, 2011

In this penultimate best-of-last-year post you’ll find a compendium of interesting, informative and valuable but difficult-to-categorize marketing-related articles and blog posts from 2010. Next week will feature the must-see Best-of-2010 season finale post here, then it’s on to new ideas and putting 2010 in the rearview mirror.

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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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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 30, 2020

Image Source: The B2B Institute Three topics have dominated much of the conversation in B2B marketing circles over the past few years - technology, data, and content. Meanwhile, content marketing has become nearly ubiquitous. The explosive proliferation of marketing technologies has been well documented.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The advent of the Internet, smartphone and social media came in different decades, but the 2010s were not without its seminal moments and trends for digital marketing. In fact, the last 10 years saw the true emergence of social media marketing, mobile marketing and SEO-building content campaigns. White Papers.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

We asked Michael Stelzner "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Michael Stelzner is author of the book Writing White Papers , founder of SocialMediaExaminer.com and an organizer of summits such as Social Media Success Summit and Copywriting Success Summit.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 29, 2021

Tip: Create a Table of Contents to allow you to easily index and reference each page. Sometimes, the placement copy will be actual guidance content for the copywriter. The keyword should align with the content on the page, so this should happen naturally. Write your content with that in mind. Cut, then cut again.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Our expert contributors to ClickPredictions 2010 eBook are giving away many exciting and wonderful prizes this week. Win eBook version of Jonathan Kantor's new book Crafting White Paper 2.0. Winner can e-mail Gordon a white paper to review, or ask questions about a white paper project they're considering or working on.

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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?

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The Point

AUGUST 18, 2014

A 2010 study concluded that fewer than 70 percent of exhibitors have any formalized plan or process in place for how leads are followed up after the show. a white paper download, a demo request) can help uncover hot leads that might otherwise be missed, or at the very least can help sales prioritize which leads merit being called first.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.”

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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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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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

« Webcast: Closed-Loop Lead Generation & Management | Main | Off topic: Response to meme - 8 Random Things About Me » Content ideas for lead nurturing and tactics to use When it comes to lead nurturing , I find that many marketers get stuck because they lack enough good content to do it consistently.

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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?) in B2B marketing content.

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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. Kill the white paper!”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content. Definitely not.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. 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.”

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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