markempa

APRIL 19, 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. Outsource podcast production or do-it-yourself Hints and tips for marketers to start podcasting for lead generation Listen to podcast now (MP3 22 min 5.6

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 26, 2012

Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. That compares to $7 billion spent on direct mail and $4.5 billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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markempa

OCTOBER 31, 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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. They really know the product, service, and benefits. population. link] @jaybaer [link] Top

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Online Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We are always trying to stay on top of the B2B trends in the marketing industry. Emerging Marketing’s 2011 B2B Marketing Predictions + Companies will continue to spend again. The focus on ROI that we’ve seen in 2010 will continue. I call this CFO-driven marketing planning. I’d love to hear your thoughts. +

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Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 18, 2015

At the same time, we also saw the prominence of product management and product marketing rise in 1980’s and 1990’s. The jobs of product marketers were to market to customers the product lines of the organization. (Many may remember profiling performed with Miller Heiman blue sheets.).

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markempa

MAY 21, 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. Once you understand why clients chose your products or service you can tailor your message around the needs you solve.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. It’s in our DNA.

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markempa

JULY 16, 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. from SalesFish Advertising just isnt very good at selling anything, except low cost commodity products.

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markempa

APRIL 3, 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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markempa

JANUARY 3, 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. She wrote, "I just put your book in production! She wrote, "I just put your book in production! It’s in great shape.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 28, 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. There are more protections for tangible products but not many for service based business, which most companies are evolving to anyway.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

No doubt about it, you can create a buzz rapidly using social media, but unless there is a solid product/service/brand/campaign behind it, it means nothing, as it will be washed away in the endless woe of status updates and posts. How do we help the client sale its product? Hope everyone is having a great day!

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markempa

MARCH 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. During two years of research, Reichheld discovered, that the answer to this basic question, Would you recommend our products/services to a business peer?,

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markempa

MARCH 30, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

It’s just the noise that drives me nuts and it is the counter-productive noise that scares companies. Earlier today I commented on a somewhat counter opinion to yours that you might find interesting. I am not suggesting that your blog and the other is parallel in every aspect, they are not.

Social Media 137

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

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. A few years ago, I worked on a lead generation program with a client that launched a new product life cycle management (PLM) software product.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2012

There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs. You don’t sell products based on blog posts.

Top of Funnel 124

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2012

There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs. You don’t sell products based on blog posts.

Top of Funnel 124

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When someone registers to download a white paper or podcast or case study about the business challenge that your product solves, he or she is expressing an interest in that topic, not necessarily in your product. That individual may well be a great candidate for your product, it’s just that he/she doesn’t know it yet.)

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markempa

MAY 9, 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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markempa

JUNE 8, 2005

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 Focus on the seller, instead of the customer.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Click to start video at this point — Dave discusses the recent ITSMA report—“Marketing Transformation: Are We There Yet?”—and and notes how transformation has been driven by marketing budgets reaching new lows in 2009 and 2010: “Marketing, rather than just trying to do more with less, had to do something differently and had to transform.”.

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2005

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. Kanazawa says: "It makes us more susceptible to product messages, because were designed to trust our friends." writer, Thomas Mucha too.

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markempa

JUNE 8, 2005

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. You’ll evolve from a vendor that is simply selling products and services to being an expert that is selling value.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 7, 2010

" Don't lead with the product pitch" Michael Stelzner's Bio. Michael Stelzner is one of the leading authorities on the topic of writing and marketing white papers. We’re all deluged with offers via email, direct mail, and the Web. Focus on your product or service instead of the offer. Michael Stelzner.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions. With marketers who seem more focused on gaming the channels themselves than in the value of the dialogue being created, buyers are now inundated with more product related and meaningless offers than ever.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Business buyers typically seek additional information and resources for information on business products and services. In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. Â Pure content creation is demanding.

Curation 40

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media. Even around products, amazon reviews, movie reviews, the comments on woot.com. Consumers are discussing products and media.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

All of these answers are knowable, and if we commit to testing and optimizing our social media efforts in 2010, we’ll go from having a social media presence, to having a social purpose that drives meaningful ROI. There’s a reason that some videos show up on the first page of Google, and others do not.

Social Media 119

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Webbiquity

JULY 16, 2019

The Product. Year founded: 2010. Traditional advertising and promotion do not work in this set of market dynamics. We have found that attending trade shows, writing blog posts, and direct marketing of information and training have been the most effective way to reach the marketplace. The Company. The Lessons.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

Add WordStream’s Advanced Keyword Tools to Your Website for free , June 8, 2010. Pricing Based on Customer Expectations , May 26, 2010. June 7, 2010. CK’s B2B Blog ( SMS Mobile Marketing Mix Audience ). Great B2B Marketing Stats (in a GREAT format!) , June 13, 2010. March 18, 2010. June 8, 2010.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. 2010 was the year social media moved from cutting edge to mainstream (right?). The one thing that concerns me is that sales and marketing alignment continues to be an issue. Michael Brenner Nov 18 2010 Hi Chris, Thanks so much for your comments.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. For me, the strength of inbound marketing techniques lies in the power of giving up control to the customer. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. For me, the strength of inbound marketing techniques lies in the power of giving up control to the customer. All rights reserved.

Social Media 100

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 5, 2009

Whatever the guide you use or that you created along the years based on your industry, product, or service make sure everyone is on the same page as to what are the standards. Seems easy enough but if you are a freelance writer or if your company is using one, that is one of the first things you should do. Work on your opening lines.

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markempa

APRIL 12, 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. Closed loop feedback is often touted in CRM software and often relied on to be the single source of sales and marketing collaboration.

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