markempa

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

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markempa

JULY 28, 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. They conducted their third annual study of business technology marketing.

Lead Generation 120

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markempa

JUNE 14, 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. I saw a press release for a study last week completed by the Nielsen Norman Group , which also supports this finding.

B2B Sales 120

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markempa

JULY 13, 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. They just announced the results of a joint research study on the emerging role of new media, particularly podcasts , on B2B technology purchase decisions.

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markempa

OCTOBER 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. from FreshSqueezedMarketing I saw an interesting link to a Marketing Sherpa study on Lead Scoring by Brian Carroll on his B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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markempa

OCTOBER 11, 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 So everyone cant be one. So everyone cant be one.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. I can't wait to read the study now. population.

Social Media 150

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markempa

JULY 21, 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

Lead Nurturing 120

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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. A study by the CMO council showed this is a key reason CMOs are losing influence at the executive table.

Budget Programs 120

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markempa

NOVEMBER 17, 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. If youre supporting multiple sales channels with lead generation, youll probably like this case study by MarketingSherpa.

B2B Sales 120

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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. A study by John Coe and the Sales & Marketing Institute showed, “70.8% My experience has been been around 45%.

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markempa

JUNE 15, 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. The study found that, 58% of polled executives rated their marketing departments lead development capabilities as "fair" or "poor."

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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. MarketingSherpa published a great case study that explains how landing page design impacts lead generation results.

Landing Pages 120

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markempa

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

This new case study by MarketingSherpa demonstrates the practical application of the halo effect. This new case study by MarketingSherpa demonstrates the practical application of the halo effect. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

AUGUST 10, 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. They studied almost 200 business decision makers with the intention of understanding what it is like to be a buyer of your services.

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markempa

MAY 23, 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. This leads to a problem that affects 87% of B2B marketers. Survey: CMOs feel the power I often ask CEOs how they measure marketing success.

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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. A recent study found that sales people who came to be regarded as trusted advisors are 69% more likely to come away with a sale.

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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. To the first issue: expectations, it’s important to recognize that content syndication leads are not like most sales leads.

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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.”.

Organization 120

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markempa

MAY 24, 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. That amounts to literally billions of wasted marketing dollars. That amounts to literally billions of wasted marketing dollars.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

Christa Carone, CMO of Xerox Corp in her Direct Marketing Association’s Digital Marketing Days keynote indicates that “Xerox is faced with the same challenges as every other company, which is cutting through the clutter in a world of information overload.” Seems like this same challenge is dawning on others as well.

Enterprise Management 40

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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. There are just a select few thought leaders in every industry and field of study. Thought leadership is not what you say or write.

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markempa

MAY 28, 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. Numerous studies show that companies (with complex sales) dont see increased revenue from getting their sales people more appointments.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

To this end, are your marketing efforts connecting with these frugal buyers who don’t care about product features and benefits, and are instead value focused? Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 7, 2010

Stephanie Tilton is an expert case study and white paper writer who helps B2B companies advance the sales cycle by engaging prospects and customers. The High-Tech Direct Marketing Handbook. Ardath Albee's Blog Marketing Interactions. Marketing Interactions Blog. The High-Tech Direct Marketing Handbook.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This Blog is an initiative of the CMA Digital Marketing Council. All marketing-related topics are fair game: branding , strategy , online, offline, marketing trends, technology , direct marketing , market research.and more. Marketing Today’s Direct-Mail / E-mail Marketing Campaign Marketing ROI Calculator.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

To address this growing market opportunity, Alinean developed the EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor, a TCO calculator at the heart of this new SMB virtualization marketing campaign. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base.

SMB 40

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Comment by Brian Heys — July 22, 2010 @ 4:47 pm Leave a comment   About This Site: Business Blog Consulting is a site devoted to demonstrating how effective weblogs can be for communicating with customers and marketing to new customer prospects.

Curation 40

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I have studied and proven this. I have studied many fan pages with 100k+ to millions of fans that get only from 100-5000 people engaging with Brand posts. I think Myspace is a great case study but I don’t think FB has learned from the mistakes. So much clutter. And over 50% of profiles are locked down private.

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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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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. Now They’re Just Sound Bites « Direct Marketing Observations [.] In short, we have to wait our turn.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. Featured Sources. Like hooking their toilet up to Twitter.

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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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markempa

MARCH 2, 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 as a joint team.

Lead Generation 120

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markempa

MAY 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. According to studies, the single biggest issue for contemporary business-to-business marketers is effective lead generation.

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markempa

AUGUST 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. According to studies, the single biggest challenge for contemporary B2B marketers is effective lead generation.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

. • Level 4: Business Transformation – these revolutionary investments seek to utilize business information and implement new processes to empower business capability and agility – enabling M&A programs, launching new businesses, empowering different go-to-market programs, launching new channels, or launching competitive programs.

ROI 40

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