Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2011

Looking for an easy way to create a cool graphical email signature with trackable interactive buttons? Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Create video emails? Economic conditions may have been tough in 2010, but there was no shortage of online innovation. Cool Social Media Tools.

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Martech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

One way to do that is to append a customer ID as a query parameter to the links in your email. But what if the recipient has forwarded the email, or has posted the link to social media? People forward emails all the time. Antennagate The iPhone 4 went on sale to much acclaim in June of 2010. Here are two examples.

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Martech

APRIL 3, 2024

When email expert Natalie Jackson took the leap from publishing into marketing technology, she took advantage of the professional thought leadership available to her in Kansas City, Missouri. Q: You have extensive career experience in email marketing, content and B2B strategy. Q: How did you go about learning email?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

What the best practices for professional networking, generating sales leads, connecting with potential business partners, sharing content and getting answers to tough business questions? Mark Walsh reports on company pages, another new feature added by LinkedIn in late 2010. What new features should you get familiar with?

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Remember 2010? 2010 saw the inception of the Content Marketing Institute , and a growing realisation that content was the way forward. But let’s face it — it’s not 2010 anymore. Sales presentations, FAQs, customer case studies and past marketing material can all provide inspiration. How to stand out in 2018 and beyond.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 6, 2021

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. Personalization today certainly has a different look than the ‘personalized’ emails from brands back in 2010. 11 Webinar Etiquette Tips for Presenters & Attendees.

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Brandwatch Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

2/ Generate Prospects and Drive Sales Most analytics tools will suggest companies to first listen to branded conversation, but many B2B companies don’t have a strong brand presence to listen to in the first place. They can then contact these people/companies and attempt to nurture them into sales. In fact, it can be quite the opposite.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Read on to learn how social media is changing PR, how pitching bloggers is different from traditional media outreach, how to optimize press releases for search and online distribution, which tools should be in your social PR toolbox and more here in some of the best articles and blog posts on social PR of 2010 so far.

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ClickDimensions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We hope you enjoy getting to know these individuals, and if you’re interested in being featured, send us an email at marketing@clickdimensions.com. Prior to setting up Cloud9 Insight in 2010, I was the General Manager at Sage for their CRM Division. Carlene Jackson. CEO, Cloud9 Insight. What do you like best about your job?

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Brandwatch Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

2/ Generate Prospects and Drive Sales Most analytics tools will suggest companies to first listen to branded conversation, but many B2B companies don’t have a strong brand presence to listen to in the first place. They can then contact these people/companies and attempt to nurture them into sales. In fact, it can be quite the opposite.

Brand Identity 52

Brand Identity Branding B2B Eye-Tracking 52

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

The anecdotal evidence that breaking the rules sometimes pays off comes from the world of email marketing. Because people don’t like being sold to, an email-nurturing best practice is to prioritize educational emails over sales messages. So we typically send emails that link to juicy, relevant content.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 31, 2011

This experience included a variety of sales, marketing, business development, and management positions. Combining successful technical, sales and writing careers, Sarah provides a rare perspective to every project. What was your "Aha" moment in 2010? Edwards Enterprise Software (now a division of Oracle Corporation).

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2016, LinkedIn data revealed that people who graduated between 2001 and 2010 (aka millennials) worked for an average of 3-4 companies in the first 5 years post-graduation. We’re now able to automate email campaigns that get in front of previous users — we call them our past-user campaigns.”. Sales intelligence as a category.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Well, SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today’s Frazzled Customers by Jill Konrath is that kind of book… Social Media Marketing – An Hour a Day by Dave Evans. Without a solid content strategy to support movement through the marketing and sales cycle, marketing automation software is just a nice email system.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

As we move closer to 2010, New Year’s resolutions are top of mind. The right processes must be put in place to nurture and develop relationships with this group so they don’t fall in the crack between marketing and sales. One day later, the prospect is sent an email with a whitepaper attachment that reinforces the advertising topic.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives in 2023, sales leaders saw huge industry transformations — automation, data analysis, and enhanced productivity for starters. Many AI adopters saw conversion rates and sales productivity improve by 10-30%. Here’s what sales leaders should keep an eye on.

Trends 69

Trends Top of Funnel Cold Calling Trust Marketing 69

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Here are some of the more interesting things found in the January, 2010 survey: 1) Social media became the hot new marketing tool. 2) Email, search marketing, and inside sales worked best for awareness and demand generation. But remember, these statistics are about popular use, not about what works and what doesn't.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives in 2023, sales leaders saw huge industry transformations — automation, data analysis, and enhanced productivity for starters. Many AI adopters saw conversion rates and sales productivity improve by 10-30%. Here’s what sales leaders should keep an eye on.

Trends 64

Trends Top of Funnel Cold Calling Trust Marketing 64

Sales Engine

JUNE 28, 2016

The scenario is similar for any quota-driven B2B sales team. Unfortunately—and this is where it gets tricky—interest does not necessarily equate to sales readiness. What is a sales-accepted lead (SAL)? What is a sales-qualified lead (SQL)? If an MQL is rejected by Sales, what happens to it?

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The Best B2B Marketing Ideas of 2010 A guest post by Jeff Ogden , president of Find New Customers Although companies like Marketo, Eloqua and Kinaxis have produced terrific written content in blogs, e-books, etc., 19 , 2010, the marketing take-away I shared was “Think Different.&# They all are very entertaining, too.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. And a key part of delivering sales and marketing ROI is the ability to track the dispositions of all sales leads via a CRM system. Measure Campaign ROI.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). Overall, the edtech market is growing rapidly and is expected to continue to grow in the coming years, with online education and B2B sales being particularly strong areas of growth. Email Marketing. Venture capitalists (VCs) invested $20.8

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 2-3, PodCamp Philly 2010 Philadelphia, PA: This event is targeted to audio and video podcasters, bloggers, social media enthusiasts, professionals and hobbyists, musicians, marketers, and people who want to understand more about the new media space.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

People respect their peers first and foremost and the results of the event exemplified this point: high conversion rates from our email promotions, 55% attendee rate, and people stayed for the entire event — very little drop-off. Some of the top ones included: What is the best way to align your efforts with sales ?

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2012

This is an update of the looking back at 100 post in July 2010. How to Write an Effective Business Blog (January 8, 2010). 33 (of the) Best Marketing Strategy Guides and Insights of 2010 (February 14, 2011). The One Effective Use of Facebook for B2B Marketing (March 9, 2010). It Depends (October 13, 2010).

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 28, 2014

We wrote that in 2010, but in many ways that book feels more current than ever. Email me at jay@jaybaer.com) . Our job vs. skill model from The NOW Revolution in 2010. Is social media a tool for sales? speaking of which, I have some extra copies of The NOW Revolution at home. Is social media customer service? Often, yes.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in many marketing and sales departments is the importance of certain metrics. In 2010 just over 40% of our dispositions or completed companies were from inbound responses.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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Paid Search Agency Lead Generation Work Management Sales Qualified Leads 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over a thousand B2B marketers registered to attend an October 13th webinar created to help marketers plan for 2010. Specifically, the spoke about: Five key planning assumptions across two macro functions – reputation and demand creation – that should drive b-to-b marketing planning for 2010.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along Talk to marketing mangers and sales managers about their biggest complaint and you will likely hear “They don’t follow up on leads!&# from the sales guy.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Companies for decades ran focus groups and test markets, and of course monitored sales success. Companies now included generic email addresses (i.e., The first research studies were released showing that online reviews could affect sales. They sent an email pleading for my opinion ,so I clicked on the link. How did we do?

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Customer Surveys 178

Litmus

JANUARY 12, 2023

What email design trends and best practices do we see on the horizon this year? Combined with our own thoughts, here are email marketing design trends we expect to see in 2023 with examples. Should you leverage email marketing design trends? In 2022, the monthly average of email opens recorded for each month was 1.5

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go. What is the hand-off process with sales? How do you get a feedback loop established with sales so that you can get better at scoring your leads?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. Email is a proven and somewhat traditional technique for getting the word out.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Now’s the time to be asking questions about the possibilities of AI, which has enormous potential for B2B marketing, facilitating data driven matching of businesses and sales prospects. SiriusDecisions released a marketing automation for B2B study predicting a rise from 8-12 percent in 2010 to a majority in the very near future.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

In fact, just this weekend, the inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson and the use of “@” passed away. However, even as amazing as email is for demand generation, used outside the context of a solid demand generation strategy, it can have a negative effect on productivity, communications, brand, revenue and growth.

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