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DIGITAL B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 Three Questions for Measuring Social, Not Media am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in online media and analytics. You Manage What You Measure. This should be a call to ensure you measure your social media activities, and to measure them correctly. One of the challenges of measuring social media ROI is the return comes in many different forms. They should be. -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011 Savvy Week in Review: July 15 Google Analytics may not give you the answer. Hopefully your summer has started with a bang! Whether you're looking for ways to escape the heat or turn up the sizzle, we've got a tremendous lineup for you this week. Read on and enjoy! Key Steps to Being Seen as the Best in Your Field by @lizstrauss. Loved this post! Go read the post! -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011 Advanced Online Marketing Tactics – An Interview with Aaron Kahlow Read below for a summary of his Marketo TV interview and learn more about usability, user experience and how to tie it back to analytics. by Katie Byrnes We had the chance to interview Aaron Kahlow, CEO of Online Marketing Summit. Happening right now in San Diego!) Aaron’s tips include: Don’t confuse conversion with usability. -
DELICIOUS B2BMARKETING | WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010 How to measure 5 popular social media channels There are many more such as monitoring tools and more defined analytics. He suggests that brand awareness is the new measuring stick of a successful marketing campaign and says that only the first set of eyeballs are the ones you pay for—everything after that is word of mouth. Social media can offer some very accurate metrics for ROI. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010 40 Bite-sized Insights from the 2010 Inbound Marketing Summit ” Analytics • “In terms of ROI: We need to stop treating social media harder than any other media just because it’s different.” You can’t help but be impressed by the “new marketing” thought leaders in the Boston area, our hosts for last week’s annual Inbound Marketing Summit (IMS).
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B2BMARKETINGSMARTS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010 Four ways to keep your B2B marketing Web site from turning away customers. Recently, the eMarketer Daily Newsletter offered a powerful white paper, “ Don’t Let Your Website Turn Away Customers , written by iPerceptions , a Web analytics company. We B2B marketers are very grateful for Google Analytics and the many other site analysis solutions today. These analytics quickly reveal visitor pains. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 How to Craft the Right Questions for Your Next Marketing Survey These types of questions are great for collating and analytical purposes, which is why multiple choice questions are often a great choice for marketing surveys. This is an excerpt from our new ebook, The Ultimate Guide to Using Surveys in Your Marketing , created in collaboration with SurveyMonkey. As they say on Family Feud, "Survey says." -
AD YOUR COMMENT HERE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 Summary: Social Media Marketing Report 2011 [REPORT] Outsourcing included Design/Development (17%), Content Creation (10%), Analytics (10%), Monitoring ( 7%), Research (6%), Strategy (6%), Community management (4%), and Live tweeting of events (3%). In Overall one third of marketers said that they had only used social media for a year in 2010, while this year that number has jumped to 50%. - Why (Most) Training is Useless > Managing article by David Maister
“Business, as a subject, is about things of the logical, rational, analytical mind: concepts such as ‘the value chain’ or the numerous P’s of marketing. David Maister - Professional Business, Professional Life. jump to menu jump to content. Contact me. Order your copy today! Managing. Client Relations. Strategy. -
MEASURABLE MARKETING | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Webinar Recap - Integrating Facebook Timeline into Your Digital Presence: Tips and Tools Now, marketers have the ability to tell richer, more visual brand stories, with access to deeper insights and analytics. Thanks to everyone who attended this morning's webinar, " Integrating Facebook Timeline into Your Digital Presence: Tips and Tools ". We had a large group in attendance, two engaging presenters, and some great questions. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012 6 Lead Nurturing No-No's to Avoid in Your Email Campaigns Don’t Forget About Your Analytics. few weeks into your campaigns, you should revisit the analytics for your emails and make sure they're working the way you hoped they would. Lead nurturing is a fundamental must-have for great inbound marketing. According to Gleanster Research , 50% of qualified leads aren't ready to buy. -
SAZBEAN | FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 Insights from Four CIOs Who Happen to Be Women Right now there are not enough analytics people — it’s going to be the hottest job skill in the near future (good to hear!). 'I had the pleasure and honor to be invited to the Executive Technology Leadership Forum which was organized by the Michigan Council of Women in Technology. Listening to the 4 women was intriguing. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013 How to Identify Content Topics That Hit Home With Your Readers He's using HubSpot to show the keywords most commonly searched to find his content -- and if you don't have HubSpot, Google Analytics will also show some keyword information. Blank screens are the enemy of inbound marketing. So smug. So taunting. They think they're so great with all that empty, useless space. But you know what? Great! -
DELICIOUS B2BMARKETING | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009 B2B Search Marketing: 5 Must-Read Tips - Online Marketing Blog Personally I am a great fan of using PPC & Analytics to find out what search terms people actually use. am also a great fan of using Analytics to find out which search terms convert into an action and which don't. Enjoy!] Search marketing should be a top priority for organizations in any industry. Content is key for B2B websites. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 An Uncomplicated Approach to Conducting Solid Market Research Dive In to Your Marketing Analytics. Market researchers can get more quantitative insights from their marketing analytics -- about everything from how people consume information, to what they think of your product, service, or brand, to what problems they're facing in your industry that you might be able to solve. do it. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013 How Opting People OUT Can Actually Improve Your Email Marketing But hey, we don't have access to Fab's email analytics, so this is all just speculation! The Next Web published a great article recently calling out a company, Fab, for their pretty remarkable email opt-out campaign. That's right, they run an automated email opt-out campaign. they're straight up opting people out of their emails. Moving on. -
FEARLESS COMPETITOR | TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012 How Social Media Is Changing Advertising As the relationship between social media and advertising continues to evolve, most brands will need to adopt a more sophisticated attitude toward social channel investments, leveraging both web and inbound call analytics to achieve clarity in ROI and other metrics. A guest post by Irv Shapiro, CEO and CTO, Ifbyphone Thanks, Irv. _. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012 How HubSpot Rocked 2011: A Year in Review HubSpot added A/B testing and analytics features , such as the call-to-action module. We recently released HubSpot's 2011 Year in Review slide deck , filled with interesting insights into HubSpot's growth and milestones as a business over the past year. HubSpot Customer Achievements in 2011. HubSpot customers generated a grand total of 12.4 -
DIGITAL B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011 Content Will Not Be King am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in online media and analytics. Nearly every marketer in every industry has heard the cry “ Content is King “ Even the cover of Ad Age was emblazoned with Content is King last month, complete with a crown. The problem is, conventional wisdom is average. Marketing Automation. -
SAZBEAN | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011 5 Social Marketing Lessons from Social Fresh Baltimore As both @seo_girl and @jeannehopkins spoke to for web, and @meladorri spoke to for email, check your web and email program’s analytics to see which platforms and devices people are using to consume your content. Yesterday and today, I joined social media marketers from around the Baltimore area and the country at Social Fresh Baltimore. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 B2B Mobile Marketing – Are we there yet? Review your web analytics to see current metrics for mobile devices to gauge what your customers are using. At the April 2012 BMA Atlanta keynote event, mobile marketing expert and Go Mobile author, Jamie Turner, said YES we are there. These unprecedented stats and projections show revolutionary growth in smart phone usage: 5.3 -
NUSPARK | FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2010 Banner Ads Work; Really URLs from banner ads need to be tagged so that Google Analytics can monitor site engagement and creative tactics. As a business, there’s always a question on the effectiveness of banner ad campaigns (or online display) as a portion of an online media mix. The above is true of a b2b message as well. Please let me know your thoughts. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 6 Reasons Why We Embraced Inbound Marketing Results measurement - critical for gauging success, an inbound marketing system has an established set of performance analytics in place. This is a guest post by Ron Fink, partner at Strategic Marketing Solutions. You can follow Ron on Twitter or via the Strategic Marketing blog. Don't get me wrong. Then something happened. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012 CrossFit Meets Inbound: Your Regimen for Rock Hard Marketing Metrics Considering you have plenty of other marketing tasks clogging up your to-do list -- reviewing your marketing analytics, networking, designing graphics, managing PPC campaigns, talking to vendors, etc. -- you're probably pretty exhausted. Have you heard of CrossFit ? It's a fitness program that publishes a workout to its website every day. -
HUBSPOT | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 Instagram Kicks Twitter's Butt on Mobile, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week Microsoft’s web search engine, Bing, and social media analytics company, Klout, have officially joined forces. Autumn is here! Can you feel it? It’s the time of year for changes all around. Not only are the leaves taking on that nice red hue, but several well-known companies in the marketing world are experiencing some big changes, too. -
LEAD VIEWS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011 Stay Hungry; Stay Foolish To Engage Better With Your Website Visitor Related posts: Identify, Engage & Convert Your Web Traffic Into Qualified Sales Leads Your website analytics tool tells you, there are thousands of. Identify, Engage & Convert Your Web Traffic Into Qualified Sales Leads Your website analytics tool tells you, there are thousands of. Quality is more important than quantity. -
PAUL GILLIN | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 A CIO Who Gets Social Business All this dialog has created a mountain of data and we have to figure out how to apply social analytics and who’s got the toolsets that can help us. One of my favorite CIOs is Tom Murphy , who long headed IT at AmerisourceBergen and who is now in transition to a new role (any company will be lucky to have him). It’s a cultural expertise. -
CONTENT MARKETING TODAY | MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010 Marketing Like the Big Boys—Facebook for Small Business These analytics are one important piece of the puzzle when it comes to determining the growth of your pages. A Quick Guide to Getting Started with this Essential Social Media Tool. Thanks to content marketing maven, Beth Hrusch of Interact Media for this great guest post. You really have no clue how to do it. Don’t worry. And it’s cheap. -
BUYEROLOGY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 The 10 Rules for Creating a Buyer Persona: Rule 6 In organizations where the leadership is mostly analytical in nature, the need for information and analysis can be interwoven into the corporate culture and is a component of every decision. Image by kevinzhengli via Flickr. The quest for information can be addicting. hard lesson learned. Next up: Rule 7. -
FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 Brian Hession Shares the List Intelligence Approach with Marketing Automation Users List Intelligence is our blend of analytics, historical knowledge, and strategic approach, which allows us to determine the optimal portfolio of list sources to reach a target audience. first step in that process is creating your ideal prospect profile. Here’s what he had to say: EM: What led you to start Oceanos? BH: It’s been great. -
ENGAGE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012 50 Tweets to Inspire and Motivate Your Digital Strategy from #iStrategy Complexities of social analytics: multiple sources, lack of standardization then manual work to piece together via @ scissions #iStrategy. If you’re in digital, you probably know about iStrategy. One attendee has even dubbed the event, “the Lollapalooza of digital marketing conferences.” ” #iStrategy. istrategy. Maybe. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011 Enter HubSpot’s Marketing Library Sweepstakes Today! Web Analytics 2.0: These books cover a whole range of marketing topics, from SEO and landing page optimization , to social media and blogs, to analytics and testing. Hey HubSpot, what’s all the hype about this Marketing Library Sweepstakes you’re having? Oh, you haven’t heard? Chapman. UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. -
LEADSLOTH | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2009 MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit Boston My favorite session in San Francisco was presented by Maureen Thorman of National Instruments about customer segmentation based on web traffic: unfortunately this sessions will not be presented in Boston, that’s a bummer, because they used very advanced web analytics to improve the conversation with prospects and customers. -
BLOG MY CALLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 3 Ways to Use Call Tracking That You Haven't Thought Of Forget trying to gather data based from various analytics tools and somehow trying to consolidate that data. Call tracking data can provide you much more than call source, keyword and call duration information. That's really just the beginning. What follows is the best list ever of ways to use call tracking that you haven't thought of. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 How to Painlessly Transition Your Company to Inbound Marketing Look at your website analytics to see how many users were sent to your customized landing pages or landed on your website because of your blog posts. We talk to people all the time that are totally sold on the inbound marketing methodology , but there's just one thing standing in their way from becoming a full-fledged inbound marketer. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011 5 Marketing Lessons from Netflix As a marketer, you need to have clear analytics and return on investment metrics for both outbound and inbound marketing strategies. This week, video distribution company Netflix announced its first quarter earning. How did a company that sent DVDs in the mail become one of the largest media distribution companies in the world? -
MARKETING ACTION | FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 3 Twitter Tools That Help You Manage Your Account(s) There are plenty of search capabilities in the free version, but there’s also a Topsy Pro edition, which provides deep analytics for discovery into the activity, engagement, and influence of your company’s shared content and conversations. If you Google “Twitter Tools,” get ready to be bombarded with about 1.3 billion search results. Topsy. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 The Time-Crunched Marketer's Guide to Creating Lead-Gen Offers HubSpot, for example, might not ( depending on our analytics , of course) want to choose "inbound marketing" as a topic for a blog bundle; not only is it far too broad to be helpful, but perhaps leads that download content about inbound marketing as a general concept don't close at a very high rate. So what gives? Blog Bundle. -
EB2BLEADS | SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011 3 Critical Components Of An Integrated Marketing Automation System Well you need to have business analytics that will automatically measure the results of your marketing in terms of traffic as well as leads and eventually sales. Front of the funnel / marketing automation system. The purpose of your marketing is to get your business found by prospective customers. Article written by eb2bleads. -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011 Top 10 Social Media B2B Posts in First Half of 2011 The following list is based solely on page views, as determined by Google Analytics. We are at the halfway point of the year and it is instructive to review which Social Media B2B posts have resonated with our readers over the past six months. If you are a regular reader of this site, than most of these posts are familiar to you. -
BLOG MY CALLS | TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013 Click-to-Call: What You Need to Know About the Mobile Explosion In other words, ‘traditional’ online analytics like abandon rate, CTR, etc., Call analytics are useful. Mobile marketing is on the verge of a massive explosion. Every marketer is thinking about mobile landing pages, about click-to-call , about mobile search, and mobile PPC. Here's what you need to know. will have a smartphone. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012 20 Common Social Media Marketing Myths BUSTED Instead, focus on finding someone who is both creative and analytically minded to manage your presence -- with a flair for dealing with people, of course. As the former dark horse of the marketing world (I think we're past those days though, right?), social media has had plenty of time to accumulate some big, cuhraaaazy myths. Poppycock. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012 SEO FYI: 9 Tips for B2B Website Lead Generation Improvement To evaluate the effectiveness of your home page, review your web analytics often. The B2B website home page plays a major role in lead generation and positive return on marketing investment. B2B marketers must drive qualified visitors to the website and convert them to qualified leads with a persuasive call-to-action. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011 Adding Marketing Automation to your Digital Mix Integrated analytics. by Carol Fox More and more B2B companies are creating digital mixes to achieve their marketing and sales objectives. digital mix can include blogs, social networks, video channels and/or websites. But simply using these platforms isn’t enough. That’s where marketing automation comes in. Email integration. -
SAZBEAN | WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011 11 Ways to Improve Your Business Website It may be helpful to map out all the various actions that someone may want to do on your website (from the needs above) and take a look at how many steps each takes and whether the next step is clear (good analytics can also help with this). Yesterday we explored 7 reasons why business websites are still important. Does it look professional? -
THE TOP LINE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Digital marketing: How B2B marketers can use it to pick the best marketing strategies In the next post, I’ll share insights Dave provided about how B2B marketers can use analytics to improve the efficacy and efficiency of their marketing initiatives. Your marketing department has limited resources. There’s a lot you could be doing to enable Sales. The question is where should you focus? Where should they focus? -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 8 Universal Traits of a Winning Social Presence Despite the warm and fuzziness of social media marketing, it should be approached with the same analytical mindset of any other marketing channel. Every social media network has a few nuances specific to that network, and it's your job as a social media marketer to master them. Define a clear purpose for each network, and maintain it. -
LEDGER BENNETT | SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013 Sirius Decisions Summit summed up in tweets Furthermore, analytics have played an increasing role in driving strategy, communications and messaging. 'In the aftermath of the Sirius Decisions Summit 2013 , here is a round-up of the current state of B2B marketing and the factors driving the future of B2B marketing. Content Marketing. 176ytlu @ siriusdecisions. Meryl K. kWdqh. sdsummit. -
DIANNA HUFF - B2B MARCOM | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 Consistently Great Marketing More Important Than Ever A colleague and I were talking about the Google Penguin / Panda updates as well as how Google Analytics no longer shows the keywords people use for searching when they’re logged into their Google account. An example of really bad marketing. prospect called a few weeks ago. The template was ugly. It was ugly and poorly designed. -
DIANNA HUFF - B2B MARCOM | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 Consistently Great Marketing More Important Than Ever A colleague and I were talking about the Google Penguin / Panda updates as well as how Google Analytics no longer shows the keywords people use for searching when they’re logged into their Google account. An example of really bad marketing. prospect called a few weeks ago. The template was ugly. It was ugly and poorly designed. -
LEADSLOTH | TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2009 SEO Optimization - 3 Steps to Success Example: search for ‘Good Data’ and Google shows a summary written by Good Data’s marketing team: “Good Data brings easy, flexible, affordable analytics within reach of every company. Then check your web analytics tool to see which keywords bring most traffic. How Search Engines Work. 2) Optimize Your Website. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011 How to Finish Your Monthly Marketing Deck in 10 Minutes Here’s my secrets to a short, yet awesomely powerful, slide deck for marketing analytics. If you’re analytics package is tied to your landing pages and CRM, this should be super easy to show. On their own, they’re fairly useless. Did we have more leads coming from Organic Search? Well, what terms got them here?Less -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Facebook Like Button Gains Better Sharing Functionality Now that the Like button shares articles in a more holistic way, marketers should be looking at their analytics to see how their traffic from Facebook changes. Facebook has been living in a two-button world. When users press the Like button today, a headline, blurb and thumbnail will be posted on their Wall. Marketing Takeaway. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 A Content Conversation with Social Media Examiner Founder & CEO Michael Stelzner So, we came out with a series of articles that were all about the analytics–giving people exactly what they wanted. by Jason Miller When it comes to content marketing and social media marketing, expert Michael Stelzner is always at the top of the list. It’s new, they don’t understand it and it’s highly visual with hardly any text. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012 Conversion Assists: How to Leverage Your Site's Most Influential Pages So for you marketers who have always exercised a bit of a competitive drive as well as a love for analytics , you might just go into marketing shock from all the awesome stuff you're about to learn about the role of assists (and how you can leverage them) in inbound marketing. In marketing, assists can be extremely valuable, too. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 Save the Date! 2010 September B2B Marketing Happenings & Goings-on September 22, Web Analytics Marketing Atlanta, GA: Manish Shah, Director of Strategy and Analytics for InterContinental Hotels Group, will define how the IHG brands are leveraging web analytics to improve guest experience, increase marketing ROI and support a cross-channel approach to interactive marketing at this AiMA event. -
BLOG MY CALLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013 The 5 Most Popular Call Tracking Features in LogMyCalls 5) The Impending Release of Conversation Analytics (Advanced Call Tracking). 'At LogMyCalls we''re all about gather customer intelligence (that''s sort of what we do). We gather fastidious data about the most popular features within LogMyCalls. 1) User-Friendly Call Tracking Reports. They can easily extract the data they want. Holy crap. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013 Five Ineffective Methods to Social Selling on Facebook If you aren’t maintaining a constant awareness of analytics with regard to your campaign, then you need to incorporate this into your social selling tactics immediately. In short, constant awareness of analytics is critical when selling on Facebook. Tomislav Pinter / Shutterstock.com. You are linking to the wrong place. link]. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2013 How Local Search Will Evolve in 2013 [6 Predictions] They’ll fix some of the rampant clustering and review loss problems that have popped up in the last couple of months, and once they do, I expect them to iterate quickly on new business features within Google+, including: Improved analytics about how many views a Google+ business page is getting, and where they are coming from. -
MANHATTAN MARKETING MAVEN | WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010 SEO as a Copywriting Tool But too few creatives mine the insights from SEO analytics. In the old days – 24 months ago – copywriters never heard of SEO. They bridled at the thought of being told where or how to start the creative process. Today, according to Bryan Cummings. What better cue about how to craft messages that will resonate with target audiences. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2011 Communicating With Your Customers: A Marketer’s Analysis Analytic and lead nurturing tools , such as those offered by HubSpot are very useful in tracking inbound marketing leads, but with so much direct traffic coming to your site, it’s hard to track the entire lead cycle from generation (the point of first tracked interaction) to conversion into an opportunity. The Gaps in Your Sales Funnel. -
LOOPFUSE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2010 The Last Mile : Required Fields for JavaScript Illiterati. The Last Mile : Required Fields for JavaScript Illiterati August 10th, 2010 by Matthew Quinlan As marketers we are always building and tweaking lead capture forms. Refining which and how much information to capture based on our percieved value of what we offer in return (whitepapers, free trials, etc.). Not anymore. That’s it. LoopFuse ,Inc. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010 A Lead: An Expression of Interest A Lead: An Expression of Interest October 4th, 2010 by Greg Malpass One of the largest and most frequent problems that plague the sales and marketing relationship is the quality and quantity of leads. Tomes have been dedicated to the subject and some very smart consultants make a lot of coin advising on it. lead isn’t a person. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011 Marketing & Sales: Integrating Social Media and Lead Generation The focus of NuSpark Marketing is proper lead management strategies, starting with research, then lead generation, demand generation, and lead nurturing, with quality content and analytics the umbrella across all tactics. He is certified with Google Adwords and is a Google Analytics power user for his clients. Get the role confusion? -
BLOG MY CALLS | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 A Discussion of Session Keyword Call Tracking Disadvantages So, if you''re logged into your Gmail account and you visit LogMyCalls, Google Analytics will not tell us which keyword you searched to find us. And if Google Analytics won''t even post the keyword data, do you think Google will tell LogMyCalls which keyword was searched so we can marry to a phone call? 3) LogMyCalls offers all three. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 The Top 10 Qualities of High-Quality List Posts 5 Actionable Insights to Extract From Your Landing Page Analytics ". Use your analytics to tell you what's working. For example, we recently wrote a list post entitled, " 9 Ways to Make Your Marketing Analytics Actionable." It's unfortunate, but definitely understandable. But hey -- not all list posts have to suck! Pish posh! -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012 Savvy Speaks: Web Site Pet Peeves (and Best Practices) Instead of "We are a Social Media Company" try "We provide social media support using the industry leading analytics tools to give you better insight as to the reach and return of your social media efforts" Based on that I know if you are the right company I am looking for so I can dive further into your site or go elsewhere. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2011 Walmart Defeats Target in Monumental Marketing Matchup Try to optimize your site for the best scenario by using analytics to determine which pages have the greatest influence on purchase behavior and creating clear paths to those. Nothing says happy holidays like the early December glow of a big box store. Now, let's see how these two holiday shopping giants fared. Website Traffic: Walmart Wins. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012 Marketo’s Greatest Blog Hits of 2011 Announcing the Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Analytics – This 70 page book offers up best practices and techniques for harnessing data to not only prove, but improve marketing ROI. 10 Tweetable Lessons in Marketing Analytics and ROI – Measure the right metrics, improve ROI, and focus on effectiveness and ROI planning. -
LOOPFUSE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 5 Things to Think about Before Hitting the Send Button « Loopfuse. 5 Things to Think about Before Hitting the Send Button September 21st, 2010 by Cindy Ryan There are a variety of different emails that I send out through LoopFuse OneView on a monthly basis. No matter what type of email I am crafting, I always run down a checklist of 5 things before I click the “Send” button. Is there a call-to-action? -
LOOPFUSE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 Marketing Automation Buyer's Guide to Lead Nurturing « Loopfuse. Marketing Automation Buyers Guide to Lead Nurturing September 21st, 2010 by Roy Russo Lead Nurturing is the corner-stone of today’s marketing automation and automated email marketing processes. Implementing a Lead Nurturing program is a serious undertaking that seldom get right the first time. CRM Integration: This is an absolute must. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 6 Ways to Capitalize on Twitter’s Promoted Tweets Also, don't forget that Twitter offers analytics within its Promoted Tweets platform so you can track performance and optimize your campaigns for maximum engagement. ClickZ recently reported that Twitter is rolling out an enhancement to its Promoted Tweets program that will allow brands to reach more Twitter users. Very cool! -
DIANNA HUFF - B2B MARCOM | SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013 For Freelancers: Take Advantage of Your Own Unique Experiences This president was one of two women who headed up the various units with Analytical Instruments. Sandberg, for example, went to work for Larry Summers, when he was Secretary of the Treasury, right out of college, an opportunity and relationship that has served her quite well throughout her career. made sails for sailboats. cleaned houses. -
SYNECORE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2013 Promoting Content with Social Media and eMail Marketing Brands can take advantage of social and eMail analytics, adjusting their message to fit the ever-changing demands of each segment of their target audience. Businesses are increasingly reliant on content marketing to inform and educate prospects and existing customers. SOCIAL MEDIA. EMAIL MARKETING. INTEGRATION IS KEY. Follow @chrshorton. -
KOMARKETING ASSOCIATES | TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013 Top 10 Tools for B2B Marketers Google Analytics: Tracking website traffic, page views, conversions, and leads are all essential to understanding the influence and success of a B2B campaign. Google analytics allows B2B marketers to measure data on any time scale (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) These insights can then be incorporated into the content strategy. - Saffron Technology Organizes Data into Memories
Summary: Saffron Technology provides an analytical database that explores relationships among entities and their attributes. It can explore networks, find similarities and guide decisions. Saffron is considerably more flexible than standard semantic engines. This is an interesting product in its own right. These are complex processes. -
HUBSPOT | SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2013 LinkedIn Answers Kicks the Bucket, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week As an attendee, not only will you get the chance to learn about the latest real world, actionable, in-the-trenches data, but you’ll also get a chance to participate in Dan Zarrella’s latest research, in real-time, through a new tool that collects marketing analytics. The way we optimize is about to change drastically. Let's get started! -
MARKETING INTERACTIONS | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 Sales 2.0 Conference: Creating a More Productive Sales Pipeline Make decisions based on analytics, not gut. Lee Levitt of IDC's Sales Advisory Practice presented the keynote making a case for a measurement framework for creating a winning sales pipeline based on ensuring every player participating in the sales process knows their role on the team to contribute effectively to increasing win rates. -
WEBBIQUITY | TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 Eloqua, TopRank, Demandbase and More – OMS Minneapolis Wrapup Last week’s Online Marketing Summi t in Minneapolis drew an intense crowd of local agency and corporate attendees focused on learning the latest strategies for SEO and search, conversion rate optimization (CRO), QR codes, PPC, social video marketing, integrated analytics, social media measurement and more. Steve Woods , Eloqua. -
MI6 MARKETING AGENCY | MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 2011 Twitter for B2B Marketing It virtually takes little budget (unless you want some of the fancier analytic Twitter apps. Advice from Marketing Peers. Every Thursday night Jeremy Victor and a group of B2B marketers hold a B2B Twitter Chat session. These sessions are a tremendous source of ideas, insights and data. Mining For Gold in the Chatstream. Learn more here ). -
WRITTENT | TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013 20 of the Sharpest LinkedIn Tips for Irresistible B2B Marketing Much like Facebook, LinkedIn conveniently offers analytics and insights to brands. 'LinkedIn doesn’t have the same mass appeal as Twitter, or the billion members of Facebook, but that’s just fine. It remains one of the best destinations for B2B marketers, due to the fact it’s niche appeal. Company Pages. Invest in Banner Images. Groups. -
EARNEST ABOUT B2B | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 This time it’s personal There’s the analytics software to help us gain new insights into our customer data – enabling us to build sophisticated profiles to micro-segment and target individuals rather than markets. It was way, way back in 1993 that Don Peppers and Martha Rogers published ‘ The One-to-One Future ’. Back then we had excuses. who didn’t respond. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 LinkedIn Share Button Now On More Than 100,000 Websites Examine your web analytics software to view the traffic and leads coming from different social sources. Now that the leading B2B social network, LinkedIn is a publicly held company, we're able to acquire a little bit more information around the workings of the service. This isn't the case for HubSpot.com.yet. Sharing Is for B2B Too. -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010 6 Ideas to Get Your B2B Social Media Plans Started All kinds of free analytical tools exist that will tell you how many times your content has been read, and shared, how well your website ranks in web searches, how effective your website is at generating conversions, and other things marketing professionals need to know. The big question now is, “What, exactly, do we need to do?” -
Games as Content in B2B Marketing I felt as if they had broken the silence on this marketing approach in B2B until I took a look around the web. I found a few short posts ( Tom Grant of Forrester , Howard Sewell of Spear Marketing and The Crocodile ) and a good video on the subject. Turns out games have been used in B2B several (many?) times, I’m sold. Thanks. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 How to Run a Last-Minute Holiday Campaign Using PPC An added bonus of PPC is the analytics you get from it. Looking at their AdWords analytics, we find that the keyword phrases with the highest clickthrough rates are the keywords "fancy cat gifts," "Christmas gifts for cats," and "holiday cat gifts." It’s that time of year again. including search marketers ! You guessed it. What Is PPC? -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012 How to Identify Leads' Needs So You Can Segment Emails Like a Pro Once you’ve exported your data, let the analytical fun begin! There are quite a few different ways to segment and nurture your leads. And in fact, the way you choose to nurture your leads really just depends on how you decide to segment and target them. These are obvious and practical ways to segment, target, and nurture your leads. Trust me. -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 Savvy Speaks: Favorite Social Media Tools The app also offers some basic analytics that will help you see which of your tweets had the most cilcks and retweets. While engagement on social networks can be worth its weight in gold, managing all your connections and activities can be a overwhelming and a time drain. Stephanie. HootSuite. Jamie. Buffer App. "So what?" Michele. -
MARKETRI | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 Accountants are Cool (No, Really!).Show the World with Video Marketing Google analytics showed the most traffic to the Web site ever, including media hits. Everyone thinks CPA's are totally boring, right? Well, there's no reason people have to have that impression! As expected, I found plenty of really bad and boring examples out there. even fun…videos from CPA firms. So, want to be famous? -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012 Email by the Numbers Select an email service provider that offers proven deliverability, A/B testing, compliance to SPAM regulations, auto-responders and analytics. We're pleased to present this guest post by Michael Selissen of Case Mountain Communications. Read on for his seven steps to getting started with email marketing. Set the goal. Create an offer. -
ENGAGE | THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011 4 Tips to Develop Engaging Story Ideas Study your website’s keyword analytics. Editors should have access to their website’s analytics not only to see how many page views the site receives, but to discover what content people are looking for. “T hat’s a story idea,” I would often think as a general assignment newspaper reporter and editor. Follow relevant blogs. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011 6 Ways to Waste Inbound Marketing Effort As I hinted at earlier when discussing social media, analytics are a marketer's best friend. Use analytics to your advantage, but be careful not to waste your precious time on useless metrics. Having a "set it and forget it" mentality isn't one that effective inbound marketers are familiar with. But that's only one piece of the puzzle. -
WEBBIQUITY | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 Best AdWords Tips and Tactics of 2009, Part 2 Of note, the “New Conversion button allows you to quickly define new conversion actions or import them from a Google Analytics account, and the “Webpages tab makes it easier to track conversions by page. Learn How to Import Your Google Analytics Goals into AdWords Conversion Tracking by PPC Hero. by Search Engine Land. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010 5 Must-Measure eCommerce Blogging Strategies Metric to watch: Ensure your blog analytics are integrated with your eCommerce funnel to track blog-to-transaction visits. Metric to watch: Just like with same-day sales, ensure your blog analytics are tightly integrated with your eCommerce funnel. It’s critical to have a goal in mind before writing a single word of a blog post. -
WRITTENT | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013 A 15-Step Guide to Creating Viral-Ready Branded Content Metrics and analytics are the modern marketers’ best friend. Content marketing is hot. As consumers increasingly use major search engines to discover brands, companies who provide high-quality information are able to capture interest, and business. 33% of the average B2B marketing budget is currently allocated towards custom content creation. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011 Does Marketing Automation Increase Your ROI on CRM? Comprehensive marketing reporting and analytics. by Katie Byrnes The most recent Marketo white paper, Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM , describes the key features offered by marketing automation systems as well as the various benefits of CRM systems and Marketing Automation systems can provide to your organization. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011 Does Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM? Comprehensive marketing reporting and analytics. by Katie Byrnes The most recent Marketo white paper, Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM , describes the key features offered by marketing automation systems as well as the various benefits of CRM systems and Marketing Automation systems can provide your organization. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 How to Choose the Right Online Channels for Your Marketing The question mark tells your analytics program that the following information carries information about where the traffic that clicked on that link came from. Last year, eConsultancy interviewed marketers at 100 companies to determine how they decided which channels to incorporate into their marketing strategies. Here are two examples. -
WEBBIQUITY | MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 54 Pearls of Marketing Wisdom from HubSpot ” Dave Chafey: With mobile I always start with the current level of mobile usage for a company through analytics – to make sure decisions aren’t swept away by the ‘mobile web access to replace desktop access by 2014′ hype. Quite a lineup. optimize to be read on-the-go with mobile call-to-action and phone number. -
INBOUND SALES NETWORK | THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011 The 3 Laws of Customer Attraction Most importantly, use the shifts you see in your analytics to drive the next steps of your inbound marketing strategy! According to the Law of Attraction , the phrase "I need more money" allows the subject to continue to "need more money". The same is true for attracting new customers. Law #1: Get Found by Potential Customers. Law 3: Analyze. | |