Contently

APRIL 5, 2022

For better or worse, it’s unlikely you’re reading this article without interacting with their products. However, perhaps the company’s most significant marketing innovation is using sites like Media Labs as giant white papers. Have any companies shaped the digital era more than Google and Facebook?

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Facebook Google Paid Search Agency Content Marketing 157

Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). If you get a chance, please check out the white paper.

Long Tail Marketing 117

Long Tail Marketing Blogger Paper Content 117

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In the recent BtoB magazine article, " Tech Media Evolution a Bellwether ", the major technology publishers were examined to understand how quickly the shift to interactive marketing was occurring. The age of Internet fueled buying decisions means that traditional print publications just don't meet buyer or seller needs.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Advertising Agencies BtoB Peer-to-peer 40

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

As user-generated content becomes a greater part of professional workflow, it is important for B2B marketers to understand not only where their customers are interacting, but also their motivations when they are consuming or participating in these communities.

Social Media 100

Social Media Peer-to-peer Social Marketing B2B Marketing 100

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Customization of the content can be generated prior to presenting the content, such as using registration profiles to customize the e-mail blast, or in real time, like a dynamic white paper that asks the customer a few questions and then completely tunes the white paper based on profile, stage in buying cycle, opportunity and need.

Interactive Marketing 40

Interactive Marketing Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Buying Cycle 40

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2010. To Interact with Customers. It’s not that Twitter can replace other touchpoints completely of course, but it can reduce the required cost and frequency of high-touch interactions. To Interact with Prospects. To Become a Resource.

Twitter 100

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 7, 2010

We have invited White Paper Experts to shed light on the following question: "What mistakes must a copywriter avoid in copy used for lead generation?" Recommended Resources from Experts on white papers. Michael Stelzner's Book Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Lead Scoring 100

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Use social media selectively to engage with your target audience in a more personal way and humanize an otherwise impersonal interaction that is purely transactional. Create an expertise blog to showcase your internal subject matter experts and allow your prospects and site visitors to interact with them directly.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

A lead nurturing program can leverage existing investments that you have made in other marketing tactics such as events, white papers, contributed articles, or any other thought leading content. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 What can you send via email?

Lead Nurturing 120

Lead Nurturing Lead Generation Tactics Lead Scoring 120

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

According to them , “customer engagement is the level of involvement, interaction, intimacy, and influence that an individual has with a brand over time.&# In essence, to measure customer engagement accurately, we need to track four components — involvement, interaction, intimacy and influence.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Marketing gurus tend to talk about opt-in pages, sign up forms, calls to action and interactive squeeze pages to boost your click through and conversion rates. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Opt-in 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. A white paper would fit the bill nicely here. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now. Move them from awareness to inquiry – get the prospect to sign up for a webinar.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. The same holds true for video white papers. To improve engagement, build interaction into your site.

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

Carone is that “Marketers must “break through the barrier” of simple personalized communications into more relevant one-to-one interactions with customers.” One of the best ways we have found to connect with customers one-on-one is through interactive white papers.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Buying Cycle Peer-to-peer Paper 40

markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Some of the other topics include: New B-to-B Search Marketing; Maximizing White Papers, Ezines Webinars & Podcasts; Marketing to Fortune 500; Video, Viral & Web 2.0 Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Lead Generation Demand 120

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

They recently put out a 2010 Budget and Allocations trends document which surveyed the membership to gave you the chart above. If you blow up the chart you can see that Social Media as a percentage of your overall interactive spend has grown from 13 percent of budget to 14 percent of budget for B2B Technology Marketers.

Social Media 100

Social Media Allocation Social Marketing B2B Marketing 100

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In this post, I will offer a preview of the thoughts I will deliver during the Focus Interactive Summit on Progressive B2B Marketing. Rose Dec 1 2010 Lots of good points here, Michael. Michael Brenner Dec 1 2010 Hi Diane and thanks for your comment! Michael Damphousse Dec 2 2010 Looking forward to our session!

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 100

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.

Webinar Metrics 60

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

Features 60

Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV? They are time-challenged and want to interact with salespeople based only on their needs and schedules. Kerry O’Malley´s last blog.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Navigation and your calls to action play a major role in how your visitors interact with your blog. Entice them to continue receiving regular communications from you by offering a free white paper or a special report. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Jim Cahill May 23, 2010 at 9:46 am Achintra, Great points!

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist and the CEO of her firm, Marketing Interactions, Inc. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Who has more “Rs&# to add to the list?

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

markempa

AUGUST 22, 2007

« Content ideas for lead nurturing and tactics to use | Main | Closed Loop Marketing Isnt Software » Off topic: Response to meme - 8 Random Things About Me Ardath Albee, over at Marketing Interactions , tagged me for a meme "8 random things about me." " Let me see. Ardath, thanks for the tag. " Let me see.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Generation Thought Leadership 120

markempa

JUNE 19, 2006

A new white paper by CSO Insights supports my research and shows that companies that support their sales teams with lead generation programs have higher conversion rates and increased sales effectiveness than those who dont. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Generation Optimization Leads 120

The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management ROI 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Thursday, December 09, 2010 Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

ROI 40

ROI Marketing Budget Work Management Marketing Management 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Spending 40

markempa

JULY 13, 2006

Nearly 60 percent of respondents said that information on business or technology topics, currently delivered as white papers or analyst reports, would be more interesting as podcasts. 55 percent of respondents would be more likely to consume white papers and analyst reports if they were delivered as podcasts.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Purchase B2B Thought Leadership Generation 120

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. White Papers are Influence Kings, But Need Persona.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Marketing Budget Budget Programs 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. The Death of a Salesman?

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management ROI Marketing Automation Services 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

markempa

JUNE 14, 2006

Research shows shows that if you require registration on your website to download content such as articles, white papers, studies or other "free" resources, you could be losing 75%-85% of your potential leads! Ardath Albee over at the Marketing Interactions Blog has some great thoughts on this too.

B2B Sales 120

B2B Sales Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

markempa

MARCH 30, 2005

« My Mention In Writers Digest | Main | Word of Mouth Marketing relies on reputation not branding » New PDF Tracking Gives Us Pause If you require registration on your website to download white papers or other "free" resources, youre losing up to 75%-85% of your potential sales leads (2004 MarketingSherpa Report ).

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Thought Leadership Word of Mouth Generation 120

markempa

JULY 10, 2006

The article is based on a recent white paper , as well as research by CSO Insights. The article is based on a recent white paper , as well as research by CSO Insights. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

B2B Sales 120

B2B Sales Lead Generation Sales Leads BtoB 120

Online Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The focus on ROI that we’ve seen in 2010 will continue. iPads and tablet technology will continue to grow in relevance as paper-less sales tools and innovative presentation tools are developed specifically for B2B companies. The big question being how B2B companies can better interact with their current customer base.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies B to B 40