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HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013 INBOUND Keynoters Nate Silver and Scott Harrison Named 'Most Creative People in Business' Apparently we’re not alone in our Nate Silver fandom, as Fast Company just placed this 35-year-old “freelance data scientist” at the top of its 2013 “100 Most Creative People in Business” list. Also on the Fast Company list, at #10, is another INBOUND keynoter -- Scott Harrison , the founder of charity: water. It does to me. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013 In (Partial) Defense of Tracking Cookies First, the evil: When you go to a site and some other company (a “third party”) puts a cookie on your computer and starts tracking you as you travel across other sites, “that feels like something you can’t control,” Volpe says. Everyone who uses Amazon knows how great it can be to get really well-targeted information from a site you trust. -
A different way to think about social media ROI We build our emotional attachments with companies and brands like the way we build our friendships — through lots of small, consistent interactions that lead to deeper forms of engagement. The biggest measurement problem companies face is that they have been conditioned to think of social media as advertising. OK, here we go. -
HUBSPOT | SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013 Facebook Rolling Out Video Ads to News Feeds, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week Not only did the company recently release YouTube Trends Map, but it also started rolling out paid subscription channels offering premium video content. The premium subscription is planned to compete with other premium video services such as Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix. Oh, and Happy Mother''s Day! ;-). in Real Time, From The Next Web. -
BLOG MY CALLS | FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013 22 of My Marketing Secrets Upload to Amazon and sell it on the Kindle. Find companies that offer complementary products or services, then do: joint webinars, joint blogposts, joint email blast that includes offers or free content from both. When creating content for your brand or blog or whatever, have fun! If you aren’t having fun, you’re not doing it right.
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VIEWPOINT | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Protect Your Online Reputation Use tools such as Google Alerts, Social Mention and Topsy to discover your online rep, and work on building a positive online brand for your company. History and context can make an e-mail more like a conversation, says Donald Parsons, Amazon''s global e-mail director. Compelling Reasons To Launch B2B Mobile Landing Pages Now. -
ENGAGE | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013 65 Tweets to Engerize Your Marketing Strategy from #WhatsNextDC Day One Get someone outside your company to tell your story. Fun fact: Amazon actually patented their #OneClick shopping system. 'I recently had the privilege of attending the What’s Next DC Marketing and Communications Conference at The Hamilton Live. ” #whatsnextdc. Frank Gullo (@frankgullo) May 6, 2013. Smackdown on malaria. -
THE EFFECTIVE MARKETER | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013 The New Rules of Lead Generation: Book Review For more information about the book, check it out on Amazon and on the book’s website. 'I was fortunate to receive a copy of “ The New Rules of Lead Generation “, by David T. Scott, for review. The author, David T. Scott, is the founder and CEO of Marketfish , a data management and lead generation platform. Measure. -
READYPULSE | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013 Beating Amazon at the Review Game: Top 3 Ways to Boost Sales With Social Media Testimonials billion spent in 2012 according to The Custom Content Council – companies are looking … Continue reading → Share and Enjoy. 'Most major brands are now allocating larger parts of their overall marketing budget to custom content. With content marketing on the rise – a record $43.9 -
CONTENT MARKETING TODAY | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013 Write a Book. Change the World. For example, your ideal reader may be a c-level executive with 20 or more years of experience who is struggling to understand how to use content marketing and social media in his mid-size manufacturing company. It doesn''t matter whether you are self-publishing or working with a publishing company. You can see their book covers here. -
BLOG MY CALLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 7 Reasons LogMyCalls is Winning Awards The most prestigious of these awards was the Grand Prize in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Start-Up Challenge. We competed against 2500 companies from 85 countries. 'In the last 4 months, LogMyCalls has won almost 10 awards. We won the entire competition. We won $100K. Awesome. The question is this: why are we winning awards? -
BIZNOLOGY | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 Enterprise Social Networking Platforms: Think Amazon, Not Facebook kid you not: even though Amazon predated the whole Web 2.0 Think now about Amazon in its early days. It was to grow fast – so that it could be as big as the Amazon river for the online retail world. Others said the company was burning through its cash too quickly. 'amazon.com (Photo credit: soumit). in 1997. -
INTEGRATED B2B | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 B2B mobile strategy: Time to build an app for your business? Mobile is the new frontier, and for B2B companies today, just having a great website and being on social media isn’t enough; companies need to think in terms of multi-channel strategy. For most B2B companies, a mobile strategy could have two tracks. Could one of them work for your company? Smartphones are the future. -
WRITING ON THE WEB | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013 Bloggers: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills So how can you brush up on your writing skills in order to maintain a professional blog and website for your company? search on Amazon for “writing skill reference books” turns up many titles that are well-reviewed by customers. 'Business bloggers: just how good are your writing skills? This is great, if you can handle the expense. -
ENGAGE | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013 Journalism’s Future: Serve Your Audience, Not Just Your Advertisers This bar, which eventually became more popular than the company’s initial chat project, was eaten up by Google and turned into a pure monetization play. Here’s a company that had a four-year head start to reinvent its model, its journalism, and its overall mission. Just take a look at this thing — what can be said? The noise. -
BLOG MY CALLS | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013 Why Don't Marketers Demand More From Call Tracking? In early 2013 LogMyCalls won the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Start-Up Challenge. More than 2500 companies from around the world (85 countries to be precise) applied for the honor, and LogMyCalls won. We won because we're not a call tracking company. We're an analytics company that happens to do call tracking. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013 15 Insider Tips for Creating a Content Creation Machine [SlideShare] This is similar to the preview of a few pages of a book you can view on barnesandnoble.com or Amazon, and it makes for quick and easy blog content. Or maybe you just create a fun video that shows off your company culture. First things first: To "do" inbound marketing, you also need to "do" content. Be careful here. how-to post ! -
INSIGHTIQ BLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013 Dear TV, Where are You Going? There is an abundance of streaming services with Netflix still in the lead, but a lot of healthy competition from Amazon, Hulu+, and so on and so forth. Intel is working with cable companies and designing much more consumer-friendly packages. I moved to the United States from Russia when I was little. think so. -
BLOG MY CALLS | THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013 Call Tracking Metrics for Agencies: 6 Reasons LogMyCalls is the Choice Certainly LogMyCalls has hundreds of SMB clients, massive companies on the Fortune 100 list, and everything in between. This has been confirmed by awards from Amazon Web Services and others. Some call tracking solutions are designed for SMBs. Some are designed for enterprise-level clients. We love them all. 1) Flat Pricing. Period. -
MARKETRI | THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013 Ads Are for Losers! How B2B Professional Services Firms Can Earn an Audience by Being Interesting However, when someone reads a third-party article written about your firm, or he or she views coverage of an event your company hosted, they’re seeing something you didn’t pay for, which makes it more credible from the reader’s or viewer's perspective. Is your company doing something innovative or different? -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013 Move From Branded Content To A Content Brand Other brands are creating content so valuable that consumers are purchasing their content as books on Amazon. Here’s a quick anecdote: Selling powdered milk… Defiance, a powdered milk company, was having a really hard time penetrating a crowded market against 300 other brands. What do you see happening in Content Marketing today? -
SYNECORE | FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 From Bricks to Clicks: SoLoMo Saves Retail - #MarketingTechMin While e-commerce, or "etail," websites such as Amazon have largely profited from the transition to SoLoMo, a number of big-box retailers haven't fared as well, finding it difficult to stay competitive in today's hybrid online-offline shopping environment. Follow @SyneCoreTech -
SYNECORE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 Walmart Evolves with SoLoMo In business, consumer paradigm shifts are particularly disruptive, as they force the companies affected to alter (sometimes dramatically) existing models in favor of new ones. Once a Wall Street darling, the company is now fighting to stay in business. By its very definition, the phrase “paradigm shift” implies disruption. billion. ¹. -
FEARLESS COMPETITOR | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013 The Critical Importance of Sales Lead Generation today Gerhard Geschwander of Selling Power once asked meeting attendees “How many of you have purchased a product from Amazon in the last year?” Then he asked “How many of you have spoken to an Amazon salesperson?” This is why companies need to invest in sales lead generation today. ” Every hand went up. -
SYNECORE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013 Google: Of Employee Happiness and the Future of Marketing Given the company’s track record, it should come as no surprise that for years now Google has been engaged in an ongoing effort to use big data to improve employee happiness. This data even helps determine the company’s Googlegeist – Google’s very own happiness metric (No, I didn’t make this up).¹. Talk about stealthy micro-managing…. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013 14 Eye-Opening Stats You Probably Didn't Know About Spam There’s a reason Amazon is so successful: They recommend products you love based on what you have already purchased, so whether you purchase additional items or not, your interaction with them demonstrates they have taken each of your previous searches and choices into account. You can run, but you can’t hide. So in the spirit of St. -
BIZNOLOGY | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013 Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. Seven years later, very few companies, if any, have experienced sustained success using that wiki-based knowledge management strategy. On the contrary. -
SYNECORE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 Out with the SEO, In with the ACE (Anticipatory Computing Engine) Instead, the company focuses on harnessing the ability of mobile devices to capture ambient audio, visual, and location-based information (so-called “soft signals”) to interpret “ meaning and intent from multiple different streams of sensor data.”. Heck, you’ll probably be able to buy it on Amazon (I don’t know about free shipping). -
PAUL GILLIN | THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 Attack of the Customers Press Release Links and tweets are appreciated, but Amazon reviews will get you undying devotion. Customers are taking their complaints about companies and products to the Internet in record numbers, and a new book tells what is driving this trend and how businesses can avoid being victims of customer attacks. It was more difficult than I expected! -
MARKETING ACTION | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013 4 Tips to Consumerize Your B2B Marketing Today, B2B companies are borrowing marketing strategies already proven successful in the B2C marketing world. To encourage more customers to get involved in marketing, B2B companies can create challenges for their customers that offer a reward upon completion of the challenge. smartphones and apps) are bleeding into the enterprise. -
SYNECORE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013 Facebook vs Big Tech: One Generalist to Rule them All? An article in the Wall Street Journal positioned the move as a potential threat to other tech industry Titans such as LinkedIn, Amazon, Yelp, and of course, Google. Granted, the concept of bundling online services is becoming increasingly prevalent among the top tech players - think Amazon Local deals or Twitter’s Sponsored Tweets. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013 The Marketer's Guide to Pinterest SEO 1) Choose an Optimized Company Username. Going the “business” route also makes it easier to verify your website, add links to your Twitter and Facebook accounts, and add Pinterest buttons and widgets to your company site or blog. If your full company name fits -- fantastic! Optimization! 2) Optimize Your Page's 'About' Section. -
SYNECORE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013 3 Digital Marketing Lessons from Amazon.com While other companies are struggling to find their digital marketing mojo, Amazon has emerged as the model to emulate. According to Foresee, companies that provide an excellent customer experience tend to see increased revenues, loyalty, and recommendations. According to comScore , an estimated 39% of U.S. Why should you care? -
B2B MARKETING UNPLUGGED | THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013 Book Review: What to Expect When You’re Expressing: APE Delivers There’s a particularly funny bit called Amazon from Cradle to Gratitude near the end of the second section, which illustrates how pervasive this company is to all aspects of writing and publishing. at Amazon and makes a heck of a Happy New Year gift to yourself. You break up with them and publish the next book yourself. Oh dear. -
HUBSPOT | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2012 Instagram Responds to Privacy Policy Backlash, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week The original changes would have allowed Instagram to “share user content and your information” including data such as location, cookies, devices, and more with Facebook owned companies. So how do you turn your company blog into a thought leadership-building, lead generating machine so you can achieve similar success? Not bad! Uh oh. -
3 Ways Mobile Insights Are Informing Online and Offline Marketing Which means, as a sales channel, it will either supplement or replace other marketing platforms—namely, brick-and-mortar store locations, online stores like Amazon and eBay , and/or standalone ecommerce sites. Customer Experience Mobile Amazon cross channel optimization ebay mobile optimizationPosted in Customer Experience Mobile. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012 9 Undeniable Advantages of Using Personalized Content in Your Marketing Subject Line: Personalized with the recipient’s name, company's name, industry, or topic of interest using dynamic tags. This is why Amazon offers one-click purchases. Companies sent a generic email to everyone on the list, and just did it over, and over, and over until a needed revenue level was hit. Welcome to Unicorn Coffee. -
BUZZ MARKETING FOR TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012 Personalizing With Purpose Certainly, many ecommerce shops attempt to mimic Amazon’s highly successful interactions with returning customers (“You were interested in XYZ, so you may enjoy ABC,” etc.) — but most companies are not going far enough, allowing customers to slip through the cracks. Posted in CRM eCommerce Personalization. -
PAUL GILLIN | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 My New Book, ‘Attack of the Customers,’ is now available Eleven months later, Attack of the Customers on sale on Amazon ! Now I’d like to ask for your support by liking the book on the Amazon page and registering your like on the book Facebook page. We make the case that companies have no choice but to invest in this area, though. Farming Out Customer Care. -
A cautionary tale: Putting your business in the hands of Facebook Now this is not a slap against Facebook, but it’s a mistake that happens all the time … Every big online company wants to lock you into their platform… …offering you free space and an incredible existing audience. Amazon wants authors to mainly use their author’s page and discourages outside linking challenging. -
LEDGER BENNETT | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 Modern Marketing Ten Commandments Despite being a business critical tool, many B2B companies still haven’t optimised their websites for easy viewing. They’re used to it on Amazon and Tesco, and it’s just part of the modern buying experience. '1. Thou shalt not spam. Non targeted ads, email and DM is just noise that doesn’t get heard. Watch your tone. -
INTEGRATED B2B | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012 Brian Walker of Hybris: If you don’t know your clients’ online buyer behavior, you will soon lose out In this interview with Brian Walker, former Vice President with research giant Forrester, now Senior Vice President of Strategy at commerce software vendor Hybris , we discuss the changing face of B2B buyer behavior and what B2B companies need to do to stay ahead. But how frightened should B2B suppliers really be? What does this mean? -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012 Marketing Automation: Why You're Doing it Wrong This really is the Holy Grail of marketing automation, and it’s surprising how few companies do it. How long do you put up with marketing emails from companies who you don’t intend to buy something from? It’s something that affects you today -- not the next generation of marketers at your company. guess you could ask Ralphie. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 Pinterest Finally Rolls Out Business Accounts: How to Set Yours Up Today Today on its blog, Pinterest announced that it's not only letting companies set up business accounts (as opposed to personal accounts), but it's also releasing a business-specific terms of service, totally separate from the TOS for regular ol' people like you and me. They're heeeeere. No, its not a Poltergeist sequel. couple of reasons. -
BUZZ MARKETING FOR TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 Why Digital Marketers Need to Get More Personal With the right personalization strategy and tools, companies can create an online equivalent of a brick-and-mortar store, where anything a consumer might want is located in a single aisle. Amazon continues to set the gold standard for best practices in personalization. Posted in behavioral targeting Personalization. It makes sense. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 Why Prospect Research Is Sales Best Practice Most sales managers expect reps to reach a certain number of phone calls, emails, or tweets every day in their efforts to contact prospects, and some companies reward reps for maintaining a high volume of calls each day. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. That being said, doing your research is as important as contacting a lead. - Get Maximum Impact From Your Sales Technologies
What I mean is that most companies only choose one technology, like CRM and don't choose the most appropriate technology at each stage of the sales process. Or, you can go directly to Amazon to get your copy What sales tools do you use to open doors & close sales? Click to download one chapter. ). What are they? -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2012 Internet Outage Crash Your Website? The Marketer's Response Plan Earlier last week, Amazon experienced a significant outage at their North Virginia data center. While you can't really call up Amazon and give 'em an earful (it wouldn't be productive if you could), you can try to prepare for the next time one of these outages happens. Was your business affected by the Amazon outage? Or both. -
BLUE FOCUS MARKETING | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2012 How Does a Brand Become Social? #WeFirst Simon Mainwaring helps companies do just that. He is the founder of We First, the leading social branding firm that provides consulting and training to help companies build communities, profits and positive social impact. His book, We First , is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller. -
THE NEW STRATEGIST | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Return On Influence – A Book Review You’ll also hear how social scoring companies like Klout are constantly working towards more effective measurements and minimizing the chance that the system can be gamed. Find ‘Return On Influence’ on Amazon. It’s pretty easy to see why this would be valuable information to have. The bottom line is: These sites exist. -
THE NEW STRATEGIST | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012 Return On Influence – A Book Review You’ll also hear how social scoring companies like Klout are constantly working towards more effective measurements and minimizing the chance that the system can be gamed. Find ‘Return On Influence’ on Amazon. It’s pretty easy to see why this would be valuable information to have. The bottom line is: These sites exist. -
VIRALLY BLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 How to make your free chapter download go viral Before publishing, she contacted the record company to get permission to use the song titles in her book. In return for her generosity, she got some glowing reviews on Amazon. Then offer them a free gift when they leave a review on Amazon. So, you’ve written your book. Gold sticker for you. Nobody’s reading it? -
WEBBIQUITY | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 The Ultimate List of The Best WordPress eCommerce Plugins “The WooCommerce plugin is built by the WooThemes company. The plugin’s features will make shipping both physical and digital products easy, and you can experience the Amazon S3 integration for all of your digital products. What’s better than getting an expert’s opinion on the best ecommerce plugins for WordPress? -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 Old vs. New: The Evolution of the Term Social Marketing It seems that many companies and marketers have taken the traditional term of social marketing and have begun evolving it to fit a concept that far surpasses the idea of social media marketing. Back in 2010, we released the Definitive Guide to B2B Social Media. Kotler’s Definition of Social Marketing. And this is only to name a few examples. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Top 25 Tweetable Moments From An Unconference #WPPStream 2012 Agencies, brands, ad tech companies, entrepreneurs, geeks, investors, journalists… All on a Greek beach #wppstream. Sir Martin Sorrell: Amazon an undervalued / under-appreciated company. How do you describe an “unconference?” And it was truly one of the most memorable events. All smart as can be. readmark. -
VIEWPOINT | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 PowerViews with Bob Thompson: Evolving from RPM 1.0 to RPM 2.0 It’s generally not been the case that companies have a flash of insight and say, ‘Hey, we ought to do something different.’ It’s customers who are breaking down these silos and forcing companies to take a fresh look. And RPM to me is really embodying how companies are reacting to that change from customers.”. Habit 1: Listen. -
WRITING ON THE WEB | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 How Content Marketing Works on Pinterest Orders from Pinterest are double those of Facebook and the site is the leader in average dollar amount per order , over sites such as Google, Amazon and Bing. Marketers are trying to find the best ways to leverage their companies and clients on this photo-driven site. So how does your content marketing strategy work for this site? -
B2B MARKETING UNPLUGGED | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 Finally, A Marketing Book That Helps The Drag Race is your basic American Graffiti scene but with companies squaring off over qualitative comparisons such as features, price or other directly comparable attributes. Intel, Amazon and Marvel Comics are great examples, as is iTunes (but more on that later). Interesting things happen when we tidy up. Not four. Not six. -
SALES CHALLENGER | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 And The Best Company for Service Is… This year, CCC asked nearly 1,000 customers the question, “What is the best company for customer service?” Not Amazon or Zappos or Nordstrom. Think about that for a minute…when we asked nearly 1,000 customers to tell us who is the best company for providing customer service, the #1 answer on the board by far was “Can’t Think of One”. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 How Dynamic Content Makes Your Marketing a Helluva Lot More Personal The first time Amazon introduced me to the perfect book for me via their recommendation engine, I was completely awed. One of the most well-known examples of smart content is Amazon's recommendation engine, which we talked about in this post's introduction. Many B2B companies offer content behind a form in order to generate leads. -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Don’t be aggressive in your digital marketing strategy Digital marketing is one of the fastest-growing areas of business to customer communications (B2C) today and we have a number of companies to thank – or not – for this sometimes confused and complicated word of digital marketing strategy. The reason for this is simply because that’s where the consumer market is. -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 Don’t be aggressive in your digital marketing strategy Digital marketing is one of the fastest-growing areas of business to customer communications (B2C) today and we have a number of companies to thank – or not – for this sometimes confused and complicated word of digital marketing strategy. The reason for this is simply because that’s where the consumer market is. -
THE FORWARD OBSERVER | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 How To Create Lovable B2B Marketing with HubSpot 3 Artillery B2B Marketing Blog > The Forward Observer Companies who create marketing that their prospects and customers love can sell more, keep their customers longer and be less reliant on price competition. Amazon and Netflix are examples of this holy grail of context marketing. That's a relief. Some are even beginning to love it. -
Never Cold Call Again Review – Frank Rumbauskas Alternative Sales System What’s even worse is…your company or boss is just dead set on cold calling. So if you or your company is struggling to get results then this could be the alternative you’ve been looking for. Unfortunately most company literature does the exact opposite. There are no hard and fast rules in any market. Stand out. -
Never Cold Call Again Review – Frank Rumbauskas Alternative Sales System What’s even worse is…your company or boss is just dead set on cold calling. So if you or your company is struggling to get results then this could be the alternative you’ve been looking for. Unfortunately most company literature does the exact opposite. Building A Lead Generation System Using Flyers And Emails. -
Never Cold Call Again Review What’s even worse is…your company or boss is just dead set on cold calling. Unlike Franks book on Amazon which is merely an introduction into the strategies detailed in this course you’ll find in this a programme with 130 pages of real detail. Unfortunately most company literature does the exact opposite. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 Everything Marketers Need to Research & Create Detailed Buyer Personas [Template] You just need to ask the right questions to the right people, and present that information in a helpful way so your company can get to know your persona better than the back of their hand. You want to balance out your interviews with people who have not purchased your product or know much about your company. Company. Got it. -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Solution Selling For Customers With The Challenger Sale The problem is that most companies can’t actually agree on what that their unique values are. or to put it another way “We are the only company that………………… ” (fill in the missing gaps). More people are involved in the decision making process including 3rd parties. Sales -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Solution Selling For Customers With The Challenger Sale Firstly they found that there are actually 5 types of sales people and the one that most companies believe would be their top performer, otherwise known as the relationship builder, actually turns out not to be. The problem is that most companies can’t actually agree on what that their unique values are. The Hard Worker. -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 Solution Selling For Customers With The Challenger Sale Firstly they found that there are actually 5 types of sales people and the one that most companies believe would be their top performer, otherwise known as the relationship builder, actually turns out not to be. The problem is that most companies can’t actually agree on what that their unique values are. The Hard Worker. Sales -
DIGITAL VOICES | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012 Scaling Up To Handle Big Data Analytics – The Cloud Could Be The Key Amazon recently conducted a Big Data event in Boston where its web services division (AWS) shared with the community how customers are leveraging its cloud platform to process large data and calculation sets. Computing on the scale required to handle Big Data comes with a number of challenges. Store. Analyze. Share. Barriers to Entry. -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012 How Converged Media is Changing Content Marketing We’re spoiled by our experiences with leading brands like Amazon and Zappos. The bar has been raised high by consumer companies and B2B marketers need to satisfy these same expectations. ” Otherwise they risk missing the opportunity to connect with today’s buyers. B2B Buyers are Also Consumers. -
VIEWPOINT | THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2012 PowerViews with Ann Handley: First, Get Your Strategy, Messaging & Story Right Among the findings: while 90% of companies are using some sort of content in their marketing, 40% are struggling with how to tell that story in an engaging way. There are examples of companies that do it pretty well like Dell and Amazon Deals. Companies that are doing it well are doing it particularly well. Stay Tuned -
It’s not just ROI. It’s RELEVANCE! Can you even name another company that made U.S. The company has a minor entry in the GPS device market and are usually grouped under the “other” category in the analyst reports. ” In the last two years, 68 percent of the Fortune 100 companies had a year-over-year decline in their website page views. road maps? -
DELICIOUS B2BMARKETING | WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2012 Four Responsive Email Layouts Lastly, I want to quickly revisit an Amazon email I shared last time and take a closer look at how the layout responds. Million "Cookiegate" Fine Airlines & Telecom Companies Are Best At Facebook Page Customer Service. 10 Ways to Improve Your Companys Communication. Home |. News |. Columns |. Social Media |. Search Marketing |. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012 Brand Logos: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly When it comes to your business' branding strategy , establishing your company's logo is one of the most critical tasks. Your logo will be pervasive throughout all of your marketing campaigns, and it's one of the most prominent branding elements that people will think of when someone mentions your company. Gap's Logo Redesign Disaster. -
Your Business In The Digital Era It’s never been easier to manage orders and while some have already found this helpful software, it will definitely be common in companies within the next few years. Elinext Leverages Latest QR Code and NFC Technologies in Mobile App Development for Retailers, Manufacturers, Advertisers, and Real Estate Companies (prweb.com). -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012 How Small Marketing Teams Can Take Advantage of Big Data You look at what Facebook , Amazon , Target and your credit card company do with your data -- the personalized services, the product suggestions, the targeted marketing -- and you wonder why you can’t do the same thing for your business. For companies, that was an expensive approach that didn’t produce good results. -
Marketing execs falling behind the digital learning curve One of the best parts of my job is having the privilege of observing the inner-workings of companies and their struggle to become a digital literate (and hopefully, digital leading ) company. Some companies aren’t making it. How is your company making the digital transformation? This is NOT an easy process. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012 5 Charts that Say Everything About the Tablet Market by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Earlier this week, Microsoft made waves by announcing the company was entering the tablet wars. They face stiff competition from the likes of Apple, Samsung, Amazon, H-P…. One thing is clear, the industry is doubling down on tablets. First off, the tablet market continues to grow. It took off! -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 Integrated Marketing and a Chat with Gini Dietrich B: What’s the goal of a marketing round, and should it be different for different types of companies? G: The goal is the same regardless of company type, and for-profit companies it is to make money. For example, can this approach work even when the company is weeks away from filing for bankruptcy? Chat with Gini. -
INSIGHTIQ BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012 Data Obesity - the next big corporate epidemic? Every major technology company has jumped on the bandwagon by inking partnerships with the likes of Cloudera and Hortonworks , trying to grab some of the halo as well as the capabilities that will come through an alignment with these "big data" players. . Not so for a lot other companies. -
SAZBEAN | TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012 How to Make More Money From Existing Customers With Marketing Automation One of the simplest ways to use marketing automation to generate more revenue from existing customers — especially for ecommerce companies — is to reference their past purchases. Some businesses invest in sophisticated recommendation engines like you see on Amazon, while others simply set up manual triggers to get the job done. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012 How to Make More Money From Existing Customers With Marketing Automation One of the simplest ways to use marketing automation to generate more revenue from existing customers -- especially for ecommerce companies -- is to reference their past purchases. Some businesses invest in sophisticated recommendation engines like you see on Amazon, while others simply set up manual triggers to get the job done. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 How to Create an Ecommerce Checkout Experience Shoppers Don't Hate This post will show ecommerce companies how to set up their checkout experience for the least amount of pain and agony for their customers, and enjoy better shopping cart conversion rates as a result. Just take a look at what Amazon recommends I purchase based on my addition of decorating bags to my shopping cart: Oh, good call, Amazon. -
DIGITAL VOICES | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Big Data and the New Marketing Paradigm In short, for companies that that decide to use them, solving these Big Data problems can generate significant cost savings and provide a serious competitive advantage. cloudComputing #BigData #Amazon Digital Strategy eCommerce Web SolutionsFirst let’s define Big Data. Tasks like A/B testing (e.g. association rule-learning (e.g. -
SAZBEAN | THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 Is Eliminating the Bargaining Power of Customers More Important Than Working On the Customer Experience? Given that Apple, Amazon, Zappos, USAA, SouthWest Airlines, Zanes Cycles, Richer Sounds, Salesforce.com, O2, American Express. have shown what can be done by focussing on the customer, why aren’t companies focussing on the Customer Experience? Good enough was good enough, even great, for many in the computer industry. by Maz Iqbal. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 How B2B Marketers Can Succeed on the 6 Big Social Networks Visitors to your company page should be greeted with quality content from your business, and LinkedIn makes it easy by letting you provide an RSS of your most recent company blog posts. 3) Promote new content with company status updates. Why not create a YouTube account for your company that features those videos, as well? -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 B2B Marketers: Are You Delivering a B2C-Worthy Buying Experience? We’re spoiled by the experiences we have with leading brands like Amazon and Zappos. Consumer companies have raised the bar high, and B2B marketers need to satisfy high expectations as buyers make their B2B purchases. " B2B buyers also expect their interactions with your company to be seamless every step of the way. -
INSIGHTIQ BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 Damage Control: The Marketing Metric You Forgot About There are businesses that get it, like Zappos and Amazon, which continually reign over customer service and satisfaction. On the other end of the spectrum, companies that focus their efforts only up to the point of sale are being rudely awakened by a stark new reality: there’s no escaping an unhappy customer. -
THE NEW STRATEGIST | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Brand Against The Machine – A Book Review No longer are brands determined by the company’s positioning statement, but rather what your consumers say and think. Find Brand Against The Machine on Amazon. It cuts through the BS and gives you the tools you need to build a powerful brand TODAY. Brand Against The Machine’ isn’t like any other brand book you’ve ever read. -
THE NEW STRATEGIST | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Brand Against The Machine – A Book Review No longer are brands determined by the company’s positioning statement, but rather what your consumers say and think. Find Brand Against The Machine on Amazon. It cuts through the BS and gives you the tools you need to build a powerful brand TODAY. Brand Against The Machine’ isn’t like any other brand book you’ve ever read. -
INBLURBS | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 What is the most effective SEO Tactic? Creating Content! Companies who create content, operate a corporate blog and update it frequently have 55% more website visitors. 57% of companies which operate a corporate blog report to have acquired new customers through their blog. Blogging gets companies 55% more Traffic and up to 97% more Inbound Links. Corporate Blogging. -
WEBBIQUITY | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 Mobile Positioning: A Business Must Consumers are engaging with their favorite companies on Facebook, says Mashable.com. Once upon a time (like a year ago), having a mobile strategy was an option, and revamping your company website for mobile was very progressive. What does mobile mean to your company? Guest post by University Alliance. In fact, by 2015 more U.S. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 7 Clever Email Campaigns That Get Customers Buying Again And ecommerce businesses that don't leverage remarketing campaigns are missing a huge revenue opportunity -- according to Practical eCommerce , only 5% of new customers that make a purchase with a company return to the site, and only 3% make a second purchase. If you have a great product, customers will probably want to buy from you again. -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Amazon Launches B2B Business As the web has grown and more B2B companies have expanded their online presences, they have had to deal with the notion of Amazon as a competitor. B2B companies have also had to contend with the Amazon experience. And rather than treating them like Amazon, treat them as you would any other competitor. Wow, really? -
DIGITAL B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 New Research: B2B Content is a Dead End On third party sites, content from competitors is just one click away, and frequently offered in an Amazon-style “you might also like” module. White papers from the following companies were included in this review: AT&T, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMWare. -
JUNTA 42 | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 Optimizing Social, Search and Content: A Q&A with Lee Odden Each company brings it’s own situation and circumstances into the mix so the pain point can vary. One of the most common issues I see involves companies deciding to implement content marketing tactics as if more content is the solution vs. meaningful content. He is truly one of the stand-up guys in our industry. Business goals. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012 8 Ways to Boost Ecommerce Shopping Cart Conversions It's no accident that the most successful ecommerce companies take a strategic, calculated approach to their product pages and shopping cart usability. Amazon calculated that one additional second of load time on their product pages would cost them $1.6 Simple, oft-overlooked tweaks can yield dramatic results. billion in annual sales. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 7 Customer Loyalty Programs That Actually Add Value If you’re like 65% of marketers, your company has implemented a loyalty program. Companies lose money on time and effort, and customers get no more value from the businesses to which they are "loyal.". One example of a company using a points-based loyalty program well is Boloco. According to Inc. But is it working? | |