Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

I link to some of the latest research from firms like emarketer, Forrester, Morgan Stanley and the Altimeter Group and cite popular social media experts like Charlene Li, Shannon Paul, Jay Baer and Jason Falls. Related Posts: Top Takeaways From Blogwell Philly 2010 Holy Cow! I explain the 5 steps required to gaining executive buy-in.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. Disclaimer The views expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, Xerox Global Services, nor those of my former one, Forrester Research. I will delete spam, off-topic, or inappropriate comments, but all others are welcome.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

All major analyst firms are predicting better times ahead for technology vendors in 2010, with many estimating a modest 3% growth. Forrester however thinks these estimates are low and is indicating that 6.6% In sentiment, Forrester indicates that formal IT budgets do not point the way to the upward revision in growth estimates.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention? United States License. United States License. United States License.

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Vidyard

MARCH 7, 2017

KITCHENER, Canada (March 7, 2017) – Vidyard, the leading video platform for business, announces Shannon Stubo , has joined Vidyard’s board of directors. Over the last twenty years, Shannon has worked at five of the world’s leading technology companies: Intuit, Yahoo!,

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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. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free. Let’s also assume that you have a Facebook fan page.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social Media – according to a study early this year by Forrester Research, 91% of technology b2b decision makers use social media in some form (blogs, video, customer reviews, social networking sites, Twitter, etc.). However, they are as “instant off” as they are “instant on”—the moment you pause or delete a campaign, the lead flow stops.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 17, 2011

by Carol Fox If your sales leads aren’t receiving lead nurturing efforts from marketing to convert them quickly into business, they ultimately aren’t going to benefit your bottom line. Improving lead quality requires a commitment from sales and marketing to focus on both quality and quantity, not just one or the other.

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Marketing Insider Group

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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Vidyard

MARCH 7, 2017

KITCHENER, Canada (March 7, 2017) – Vidyard, the leading video platform for business, announces Shannon Stubo , has joined Vidyard’s board of directors. Over the last twenty years, Shannon has worked at five of the world’s leading technology companies: Intuit, Yahoo!,

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Big but concise lead-in. Big lead-in helps keep users reading. What I Don’t Like: Lead-in copy “Explode six direct marketing myths&# doesn’t tell me much, poor choice of words (although ‘myths’ tend to get people to read). Reply Daniel Kuperman says: March 12, 2010 at 7:48 pm I agree, Jodi.

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Vidyard

MARCH 7, 2017

KITCHENER, Canada (March 7, 2017) – Vidyard, the leading video platform for business, announces Shannon Stubo , has joined Vidyard’s board of directors. Over the last twenty years, Shannon has worked at five of the world’s leading technology companies: Intuit, Yahoo!,

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A recent Forrester report called The Intelligent Approach to Customer Intelligence does a good job outlining the challenges of creating data that can truly be used for driving strategic marketing decisions (what they call Strategic Intelligence). But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have.

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SnapApp

JULY 9, 2014

Over the past year, some of the preeminent thought leaders in marketing like Sirius, Gartner and Forrester have recognized and begun to write about the next significant shift in marketing - interactive content experiences. Since 2010 we have been pioneering software to replace development cycles for marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A recent Forrester report called The Intelligent Approach to Customer Intelligence does a good job outlining the challenges of creating data that can truly be used for driving strategic marketing decisions (what they call Strategic Intelligence). But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have.

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Biznology

JUNE 17, 2013

By the percentages: 200% to 300% increase in click-through rate when marketers include video in an e-mail ( Forrester ). 51% of online marketer reported a 51% increase in subscriber-to-lead conversion rates when video was included in an email marketing campaign. 35% increase in mobile video views occurred from 2010 to 2011.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sources: 1) SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyer's Survey 2010 2) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and testable.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 6, 2009

damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. damphoux : Brett Wallace, @forrester - the key to a good engagement is starting with a solid introductory appointment #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

Below are a few questions for Gerhard on the topic: Mike : Given the economy, some people instinctively think "cut budgets", but I think it was Forrester at the last Sales 2.0 Gerhard : It wasn't Forrester who said that, it was IDC. Both departments need to work in lockstep to create a better lead pipeline that's target rich.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 3, 2009

Below are a few questions for Gerhard on the topic: Mike : Given the economy, some people instinctively think "cut budgets", but I think it was Forrester at the last Sales 2.0 Gerhard : It wasn't Forrester who said that, it was IDC. Both departments need to work in lockstep to create a better lead pipeline that's target rich.

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Conductor

APRIL 28, 2020

A shortened season can lead a lot of players to rush back into “being prepared.” ItThis can lead to just being plain ol’ out-of-shape, like when Shawn Kemp returned to action 40 pounds heavier after the 1998–1999 NBA lockout, or it can lead to even more dire consequences. The Best Teams Remain Cohesive During Lockouts.

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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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The ROI Guy

JULY 7, 2010

So are the leading characteristics for sales and marketing in 2010. The original Forrester study and commentary can be found at: [link]. Sales cycles are extended, more stakeholders are involved in each decision, and more competitors seem to be invited into every deal.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle Is there an ROI from Social Media? Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

The need to better understand online behaviors to convert leads jump-started the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM). Activate the intersection of marketing, customer services and sales to attract hotter sales leads. Providing the option to pass back leads to marketing for further nurturing.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Evidence of this shift can be found in IDC’s 2010 Customer Experience Survey.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 12, 2010

SearchCIO's latest survey on IT budgets and spending priorities confirms reports from Forrester, Gartner and other analysts, that the IT spending recovery in 2010 is upon us. The three highest priorities are storage, enterprise applications and servers, with enterprise apps clearly leading as most important (32% of respondents).

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Important caveat: Social isn’t just for ‘generating leads’ but can be used for many, many things, such as improving customer experience, reducing support costs, and improving products. Also you’re right of course – social is for more than ‘generating leads.’ Will send you a ping.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This is a more than 50% increase over 2010, which had also doubled in revenue from the year before. 50% of qualified leads are not ready to purchase immediately. Source: Forrester Research) Tweet This! 47% of B2B marketers say they either close fewer than 4% of all marketing-generated leads, or they don't even know this metric.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Frugal Buyers: With two economic downturns over the past decade, buyers have been forced to do-more-with-less, and CFOs have gained more formal control over business groups and key purchase decisions, leading to an unprecedented level of financial due diligence on proposed spending. Fight Frugalnomics with Outcome Selling?

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