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MARCH 24, 2011

B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist This entry was posted on Thursday, March 24th, 2011 at 9:00 am and is filed under Lead generation , Marketing Automation , Marketing Budget , Marketing Management. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) Why Social Media Needs to Die What Type of Marketer Are You?

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MARCH 10, 2011

The money flowing to companies like HubSpot is impressive, and the results of the investment will not only benefit them but also the whole marketing automation and marketing software industry in general. This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 10:54 am and is filed under Marketing Automation , Marketing Management.

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MAY 10, 2010

More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. The company reported $9.7 One Response to Taming Your Brand Mascot David Thompson says: April 4, 2011 at 8:38 pm I specialize in designing brand mascots. brand mascots are a common tool to promote your product or service.

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MAY 7, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Explaining Social Media If you need to explain what social media is and the impact it can have in your company or industry, the slideshow below might help. The presentation is not only funny is also engaging.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

How many B2B vs. B2C companies, industries, and even job titles. This entry was posted on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 at 12:19 pm and is filed under Email Marketing , Lead generation , Marketing Training , Online Marketing. I like Dan’s presentation for its brevity and focus on key action items based on solid data.

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MAY 9, 2011

When companies start to tailor content to different audiences and stages of the buying cycle, they greatly increase the amount of content, and the type of content needed changes&# Marketing Roles Are Evolving Marketing used to have clearly defined roles. How you think about what content is for your company will determine how big this role is.

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JUNE 14, 2011

A Forrester Research “ How US Maketers Use Email &# Report sheds some light into the use of email by B2B and B2C companies. According to the report, adoption of email marketing is high, with 88% of B2C companies already using email and 10% planning to use before December 2011. Best Practices in Email Marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

If you see another company being successful (however you define success) and you try to apply the same method, can you guarantee you will also achieve success? A B2B company applying tactics used by B2C companies can be very successful but only after some necessary translation is done. Now let’s go one step further.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Opposite of Advertising How can a company embark on an branding campaign without prominently displaying its logo? Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Corporate America usually relies on some form of compensation system which basically uses a reward/punishment method that tries to coerce people into doing what the company wants. And how about your staff or your company’s employees? The videos on their website (embedded below) are some great examples of what they mean.

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MAY 18, 2010

After interviewing many marketers for different positions at my company and meeting marketing professionals regularly at events, I came to the conclusion that there are two types of marketers: Passionate Marketers Job Marketers The first group is comprised of those that, as the name suggests, have a real passion for marketing.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

We all like stories of companies that mess up and in the process of trying to clean up their act end up messing up even more. The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Social Media’s Next Victim? United States License.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Web Prototyping With PowerPoint Website re-designs are a common project on the hands of marketers at companies of all sizes. Marketers are good at visual communication, but not necessarily experts with the design tools.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Buyer personas and content creation The interaction was great and the fact that we had people from both SMB and large companies was great, we could hear both sides of the story and how different size companies work with marketing automation. One of the interesting points raised during the discussion was about content creation.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. Is an interesting lawsuit because it brings up the question of whether these vendor reports can really help or hinder a company’s ability to grow. A Judge Will Decide. United States License.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Choosing an Email Marketing Software Who’s the best email marketing company/software? Slides can be seen below. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Like Be the first to like this post.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This last bit is important for factors outside your influence, maybe a contract that depends on another company has to be signed for the joint marketing campaign to start, or what to do if certain assumptions you’ve made when putting together the plan fail to materialize (i.e. United States License.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Yup, it is more complicated when you get to the implementation phase of the program, and that’s where most companies fail. That reminds me of what I see when I visit most B2B companies’ websites. Do you even know what kind of content you need for each nurturing stage? But why the focus on content? We have all been there.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Although his criticism was towards Wall Street financial companies that complain they need hefty compensation packages to attract talented employees, you decide whether it applies to your company as well. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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APRIL 9, 2009

The site not only lists top executives based on approval ratings but also shows you reviews that give you some more specifics of the person, the company, and what it feels like working there. One of the more interesting features is the ability to search for salaries paid at a specific company. United States License.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

How do you get pass that low level gatekeeper and get an introduction to the real decision maker at the company? And PWC is a company with thousands of people from all over the world, so although the fact that they worked for the same company is good, it doesn’t really ensure they know each other. United States License.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What if we could change the way our companies treat presentations and just give everyone six minutes to tell their stories? More than your typical “and in this slide I will talk about X&# , because since the slides are automatically timed, your delivery has to be on time all the time. United States License.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking If you’re gonna copy, make it right An interesting blog post by Jason Cohen at OnStartups.com discussed why you shouldn’t copy other companies just because they were successful at what they do.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I work for a B2B software company and we do regular email blasts. If I were to look at benchmark data from MailChimp we are doing way better than their published rate of 18% for companies in the software industry. Our open rates average 30%. Is this good? United States License.

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APRIL 6, 2009

I was recently hiring a marketing coordinator for my company and once again it became obvious to me that most candidates do a poor job at interviewing. Companies spend a lot of time and money when they need to hire someone and spend even more when they make a wrong hiring decision. What is the risk the company faces?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Are the tasks you and your team working on going to directly affect the company’s ability to compete in the marketplace? What are the key items in your agenda as a marketer that can have a direct impact in the company’s bottom line? Food for thought. United States License.

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JANUARY 17, 2009

In marketing is especially important to ensure that the company as a whole is aware of what is being done. In big companies as well as in small ones Marketing can oftentimes be considered a necessary expense, the department where money gets spent without consideration and where results are difficult to be measured.

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JANUARY 18, 2009

You probably heard of countless stories of how a company faced a crisis situation and was able to turn it around and come out even better than before (remember the Tylenol scandal? Johnson came out victorious after a well planned management of the crisis that could have cost the company dearly). United States License.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Design #11 Email Sender: Tableau Software Email Title: 50 Metrics Every Marketer Should Master What I Like: Small but visible logo on top left identifies the company immediately. Click on the images for larger version. Clean header graphic with big and concise title. Short copy. Right side bar with useful links related to the webinar.

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JANUARY 3, 2009

An effective marketer, therefore, is someone who can accomplish his/her goals and produce the results set forth by the company. Notice I didn’t say ‘marketing results’, I’m referring to the Corporate goals because no marketing can be effective if it doesn’t contribute to the overall goals of the company.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Sure, in some cases people may respond simply because they love your company/brand and that’s great, but you should also strive to get those who are not necessarily loyal customers to respond, otherwise the survey may end up not telling you the whole truth. The benefit to the survey respondent needs to be obvious.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

As a marketer what is the ONE thing you need to do that will really determine whether your company will be successful? This is key and what will link marketing to the company’s priorities. Where is the company headed? What is your highest priority? What’s the mission? United States License.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

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MARCH 7, 2009

Is great to be able to discuss your own challenges with other marketers and realize that you’re not alone out there… I met some great people and learned some stuff I can start using right now in my own company. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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JUNE 13, 2009

We want names, titles, email addresses, phone numbers, company revenues, number of employees, and while we’re at it give us your annual budget too. Will I get sales calls from each company that is presenting a class? Especially anything to do with the actual lead generation or companies making them. What do we do with it?

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APRIL 29, 2009

Understand and map your needs First and foremost, you should list out all the ways in which your company will be using webinars and the platform. I believe in three simple rules for a successful webinar program: Understand and map your needs Choose the appropriate webinar platform Put in place a well documented webinar process 1.

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JUNE 21, 2009

Commitment : you will have to commit to spending time developing your social media strategy; it doesn’t work overnight and require backing from your company willing to let you spend time doing it. Set goals : this is important for any social media platform that your company is trying to use. and measure it religiously.

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