Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2011

It is January and time again for the obligatory 2011 predictions. Many marketing experts have strong opinions on what they think will happen in 2011. I asked you to rank the marketing areas you think will become more important in 2011. This flood of leads overwhelmed sales and distracted from the selling part of their jobs.

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Everything Technology Marketing

MAY 31, 2011

SlideShare views for the new report " 2011 B2B Content Marketing Trends " are off the charts - looks like we have a topic that is really resonating with B2B marketers. Companies spend an average of 20 percent of their budgets on content marketing. Companies spend an average of 20 percent of their budgets on content marketing.

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The Point

JANUARY 20, 2011

Our agency recently developed a report summarizing the results of a B2B marketing survey commissioned by Google and conducted by research company Ipsos OTX. In the survey, more than 600 B2B marketing executives answered questions about their budgets, marketing mix, and key challenges for 2011.

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markempa

AUGUST 25, 2014

Tweet Our sister publication, MarketingSherpa, publishes three weekly newsletter case studies, and in the B2B beat in particular, those weekly articles routinely feature a story covering marketers tackling lead generation for the complex sale. Case Study #1 – Local B2B Marketing: 150% boost in lead generation. 200% ROI on PPC in 2011.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 11, 2011

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. No longer will companies buy data from one vendor but rather they will create a network of data providers to deliver to them the specific information in their target markets. Lead scoring and lead nurturing will move from art to science.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Wiley, 2011). So at the start of 2011, here are a few bigger trends I see shaping the way B2B marketers will do business in the coming year. A mere 12% of business executives say their companies are using social media effectively, according to a recent study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Why is that?

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The “2016 LinkedIn Ads Benchmark Report” from Bizible found that most B2B software and business service companies (50 percent) consider their LinkedIn marketing strategies to be successful. How have B2B marketers changed the way they use LinkedIn to discover new opportunities/leads/customers over the past few years? (Or

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 5, 2010

  The year 2011 will shape up to be a transformative one for sales and there will be significant rethinking on how sales functions are integrated into B2B organizations. Companies will see a need to shift from solely a focus on selling processes to incorporating the sales experience into a framework of the overall buying experience. 

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2015

Did you know that breast cancer is the leading cause of female cancer mortality worldwide? Sanjeev Saxena, who has over 25 years experience in Sales and Marketing and operations in the biomedical industry, founded POC Medical Systems – a medical device company – to answer that question. million new cases of breast cancer worldwide.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Lead Genius is a good example. The company is in the business of assembling B2B marketing lists – an industry dating back centuries to city directories and beyond. But Lead Genius was founded in 2011 to commercialize university research into combining AI with human inputs. Lead Genius does this too.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Tweet If you attended our most recent B2B Lead Roundtable Webinar, Six Funnel Focal Points to Finish 2011 Strong – Part I , you found out that even though the end of the year is less than 125 days away, there’s plenty of time to drive more opportunity through your sales funnel and to the bottom line. But it gets even better…).

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

But how do you know when you’re looking at a marketing qualified lead? A few telltale signs and characteristics will help you navigate the vast world of online discussion and find those qualified leads that you want. Let’s take a look at using Twitter for B2B marketing leads: 1. They’re Talking.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

“Micro” vendors sell largely to businesses under $5 million in revenue; “core” vendors sell to B2B companies with $5 to $500 million in revenue, and “enterprise” vendors sell mostly to companies over $500 million revenue. As you might expect, products for larger companies have more features available. (In

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2020

Blame a few fuzzy data in a 2011 study. In fact, CPG industry leaders have upped the ante on innovation, anticipating changes to maintain their lead. Your marketing team should take the lead in communicating that openness. Content marketing needs to lead this transformation. Image courtesy of Visual Capitalist.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2011

As we wind down 2011, this is a good time to review all the industrial marketing posts that I have published here and been viewed by you, my readers, during the year. Not all the posts were written in 2011, one was way back from 2008. B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail.

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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. Our experience is that companies are killing the golden goose by focusing too much time and money on inbound marketing campaigns (and technology) and not enough time and money on outbound marketing and nurture campaigns.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 29, 2011

by Carol Fox CSO Insights just released the results of its annual Lead Management Optimization (LMO) Study. The chart below shows how funds were allocated for 2011 among companies surveyed. And customer loyalty increased in priority this year – cited by 32% of companies as opposed to 2010′s 25%. .&#

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are 11 concrete ways I think the environment in which B2B Marketers operate will evolve in 2011. Think about it marketers have been given this gift of Social Media which is reinventing areas of your company on the fly. Startups like Payvment , and Alvenda will help companies large and small to open up shop in Facebook.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 21, 2019

Marketing today has become so advanced that artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used by many companies to improve their campaigns. Scott Brinker’s marketing technology supergrapic has grown from just 150 tools in 2011 to almost 7,000 today. Image credit: Scott Brinker, Chief Marketing Techologist.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 5, 2010

The reality is, more and more companies are adopting practices like these (especially telecommuting and flex hours) because technology is such that not only allows you to do it, but makes you more productive. But companies don’t offer these nice perks just because they are run by nice people. United States License.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Facebook was founded in 2004, Twitter in 2006, Instagram 2010, Snapchat 2011, and TikTok in 2016. We then grouped this data by company size to understand how much of an impact social media following has, depending on business size. The Debate: Is Social Media Lead Gen or Brand Building or Both? The problem? So what gives?

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To help you find what you’re looking for, you can use the following links to jump quickly between sections: What is a Saas Company? SaaS will continue to increase in popularity over the coming years as more companies choose to streamline their operations. Is Netflix a SaaS company? What qualifies as SaaS?

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accelerate agency

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What is a Saas Company? Types of SaaS companies: B2B & B2C. Stages of a SaaS company. Top 20 SaaS companies of 2021. Top 6 SaaS companies to work for. Getting started with a SaaS company. What is a SaaS company? Is Netflix a SaaS company? The SaaS business model. FAQ about SaaS.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 19, 2010

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    For years, B2B companies have put sales people through training on relationship selling methodologies that focused on – well – the relationship.  Image via Wikipedia.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If your 2011 marketing budget is tighter than you want it to be, trying giving sales less leads. According to Marketing Sherpa’s just-released 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , a whopping 80 percent of the 935 respondents said they pass unqualified leads along to sales. That’s a costly mistake.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I recently asked fellow industry leaders to weigh in on the rising popularity of Account-Based Marketing among B2B companies. Is ABM the Holy Grail to lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If your 2011 marketing budget is tighter than you want it to be, trying giving sales less leads. According to Marketing Sherpa’s just-released 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , a whopping 80 percent of the 935 respondents said they pass unqualified leads along to sales. That’s a costly mistake.

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Webbiquity

MAY 3, 2011

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Jenara is an Asia-based filmmaker, organic farmer, and freelance journalist for Fast Company magazine and CNNGo, as well as a Harvard and Berkeley grad.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 30, 2012

WordPress is not only the most popular blogging platform , but is increasingly becoming a leading website content management system (CMS) as well. How did WordPress emerge as the leading blog platform? ” Top 50 WordPress Plugins for 2011 to Zoom SEO, SMO & Audience Engagement by Zoom Factor. by majordojo. ** 5 STARS.

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Kapost

MAY 24, 2016

Over time, many marketers will see a dip in their lead nurturing programs. The first step to improving your lead nurturing program is to understand that this natural cleansing process is healthy for your business. Is your marketing strategy more of the same, or are you actively taking steps to differentiate your company?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

Today let's take a look at the same diagram for large businesses, which we define as companies with $500 million revenue or more. These companies have large marketing departments that may manage hundreds of campaigns for different products in different locations.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 19, 2015

Learn why and how a software company doubled organic traffic to their website and increased leads with less content marketing. There are lessons to be learned about why and how this company was successful. SuperOffice is the company in the case study. Their web presence includes six different languages.

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The Point

AUGUST 8, 2011

A recent industry study on Lead Management Optimization, conducted by CSO Insights and conducted in partnership with SMEI and Marketo , sheds insight on the relative budget marketing organizations are investing in areas such as lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation. I have two major issues with the analysis: 1.

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Martech

MARCH 11, 2024

However, much of this martech stack is designed to convert prospects into leads and track them through the marketing funnel. For the company, less alienation and more effective communication with most of our market. What problem does your company solve?) Lead forms Lead forms are still crucial. Brand association.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 16, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Don’t Forget Your Company History The recent advent of the lost NASA tapes (they lost the original tapes from the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, then found out that they had all been erased) got me thinking.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Facebook was founded in 2004, Twitter in 2006, Instagram 2010, Snapchat 2011, and TikTok in 2016. We then grouped this data by company size to understand how much of an impact social media following has, depending on business size. The Debate: Is Social Media Lead Gen or Brand Building or Both? The problem?

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