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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They spend on average more than 10 hours a week blogging. Share: Read more from Social Media Blog , Blogwell , Marketing Mix , Social Media 4 Comments Post a comment Andrew Corliss Nov 9 2010 I believe blogging but all acts of social media are now necessary for businesses. Michael Brenner Nov 11 2010 Thanks Andrew!

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I have used sales pipeline return on marketing spend. Total unweighted pipeline divided by total marketing spend is a good measure because it allows you to analyze a wider set of marketing activities then if you just looked at closed sales. Pick a metric you can use to separate the good from the bad. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 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 December 9, 2010 9 Subscribe Finding The Time To Tweet or Blog? Keep up the good work!

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The first was the Harvard Business Review’s “ Branding in the Digital Age: You’re Spending Your Money in All The Wrong Places &# written by David C. Pages About Michael Brenner Appearances Search Based on Traction Theme by The Theme Foundry Copyright © 2010 B2B Marketing Insider. All rights reserved.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

I agee that ALL marketing spend should be tied to quanitifiable results that the sales team and executives want to see. Pages About Michael Brenner Appearances Search Based on Traction Theme by The Theme Foundry Copyright © 2010 B2B Marketing Insider. He also asks us to be accountable to results. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Marketing spend is much more efficient. Share: Read more from Demand Generation B2B Marketing , Inbound Marketing , Online Demand Generation , Sales Alignment , Sales Funnel , Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment kenny madden Oct 19 2010 AMEN!!! Conversions increase. And customer lifetime values increase. This is great stuff.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

Source: The Google/TechTarget Behavioral Research Project: Phase 2) Key Takeaways: Spend more budget and time optimizing brand and solution keywords and less time on more generic keywords. Pages About Michael Brenner Appearances Search Based on Traction Theme by The Theme Foundry Copyright © 2010 B2B Marketing Insider.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Depending on your audience, your primary focus should look back to #1, the Customer to understand where they spend their time, what Content would be helpful and in what Context do they expect to receive it. All the best, Steve O Michael Brenner Sep 16 2010 Hi Steve, thanks for your comments. Now there is one “C&# I left out.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Well, we know that customers will pay a premium for brands they trust or simply will be more willing to spend their hard-earned money with a strong brand. Michael Brenner Oct 4 2010 Great point: putting yourself in the customer’s shoes is the really the MOST if not the ONLY important thing. Give them what they want.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I read a great interview with Seth Godin where he says that he is able to write in his blog by thinking that there is at least one person who wants to hear what he has to say and so he spends a considerable amount of time thinking about what to say to them. To share the love. I am frustrated every day. I am a perfectionist.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I read a great interview with Seth Godin where he says that he is able to write in his blog by thinking that there is at least one person who wants to hear what he has to say and so he spends a considerable amount of time thinking about what to say to them. To share the love. I am frustrated every day. I am a perfectionist.

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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.

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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 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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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. Asked about their online marketing performance measurement ability, the plurality of respondents to that survey (44%) were either working on increasing their capabilities or “struggling” to put a value on their interactive spending.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

kenny madden Aug 13 2010 Michael, Great post. On average a software company will spend between $40 – $75K in additional “qualification” costs for every 1000 “leads”. Happy to connect kenny@spiceworks.com Michael Brenner Aug 14 2010 Hi Kenny, thanks for your comments. Here is something I put together on the topic.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

Yes No Home | Features | About | Buzz | Help | Discuss | Language | Developers | Gear Terms of Service | Privacy | Content Policy | Copyright © 1999 – 2010 Google This blog is not hosted by Blogger and has not been checked for spam, viruses and other forms of malware.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Commitment : you will have to commit to spending time developing your social media strategy; it doesn’t work overnight and require backing from your company willing to let you spend time doing it. Set goals : this is important for any social media platform that your company is trying to use. and measure it religiously.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Junta42 reported that for the third straight year, marketers are planning to spend significantly more on their content marketing efforts. For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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markempa

JULY 9, 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. Often when prospects have an identified need, they can spend months researching and seeking information on solutions that may satisfy that need.

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

Yes No Home | Features | About | Buzz | Help | Discuss | Language | Developers | Gear Terms of Service | Privacy | Content Policy | Copyright © 1999 – 2010 Google This blog is not hosted by Blogger and has not been checked for spam, viruses and other forms of malware.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

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. What we try to spend time on in this call is "space" shared between marketing and sales.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2006

Yes No Home | Features | About | Buzz | Help | Discuss | Language | Developers | Gear Terms of Service | Privacy | Content Policy | Copyright © 1999 – 2010 Google This blog is not hosted by Blogger and has not been checked for spam, viruses and other forms of malware.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Budget Programs 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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Spend 80% of your time writing engaging content and the rest of your time on optimizing your blog. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Now that you have a better idea of optimizing your WordPress blog to attract traffic, don’t forget, it is your content that will create fans and convert them into customers.

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markempa

JUNE 14, 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. Those who spend more time talking about the trendy marketing mediums (ie. You can’t do that with Hawking.” Blogs, podcasts, WOM, etc.)

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markempa

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 « Podcasts vs. Webinars which is better?

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markempa

DECEMBER 21, 2006

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. It seems they would rather spend their budgets on things that drive activity (which is often wasted) over results measurement.

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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. Thanks for the post.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

markempa

JANUARY 19, 2006

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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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