Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

A while back, I read an article by Chris Brogan that discussed 19 chores we could each do daily to help us maintain an online presence. Here's my Lead Generation Tip for today. Comment on a few relevant articles. LinkedIn Q&A - to maintain my top Lead Gen Expert status and to accept invites and other LinkedIn goodness.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

A while back, I read an article by Chris Brogan that discussed 19 chores we could each do daily to help us maintain an online presence. Here's my Lead Generation Tip for today. Comment on a few relevant articles. LinkedIn Q&A - to maintain my top Lead Gen Expert status and to accept invites and other LinkedIn goodness.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. We each have two obvious things in common: We are bloggers and we are lead gen practitioners. You can all maintain a more professional presence in the market, and long-term you will all benefit.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. We each have two obvious things in common: We are bloggers and we are lead gen practitioners. You can all maintain a more professional presence in the market, and long-term you will all benefit.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 26, 2010

Since I was spouting all about LinkedIn at Chris Brogan's New Marketing Experience last month, he has recently been on a LinkedIn crusade to find all the tips and tricks burried inside. Although I love taking a little credit, his recent articles have been full of LinkedIn Goodness.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

I woke up this morning to these three tweets relating to @nivenor1 's recent market2lead blog post titled: The SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management. brianjcarroll : Read post by @nivenor1 : SCOTSMAN vs. BANT for Effective Lead Management asserts "BANT" isn't enough. Does all this mean throw lead scoring out the window?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 12, 2010

I started penning this piece about summer last week when AG Salesworks published a great article touching on some of the tactical issues of lead gen in the summer. The implication for those of us in the B2B lead generation business is crystal clear: DO NOT SLOW DOWN. Not so, my friends.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The highlight of my day was listening to Seth Godin, blogger and author on topics b2b sales and marketing folks devour. Not sure I've got the quote verbatim, but basically he was saying "marketers that build tribes of loyal prospects and customers will win." Quote them in blog articles. Lead with leaders. Prop them up.

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 1, 2010

Measuring the effectiveness of lead gen programs is always at the top of a demand gen expert's list of priorities. One of the gating factors happens to be out of their control -- what does the sales team do with a lead once they start working it?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 22, 2009

It did raise a question though, and before I put much thought into it I decided to ask 7 of my colleagues in the b2b demand gen/sales/marketing space. Nigel Edelshain : "My instinct so far is call or email soon with some value-add (since leads go South fast) but not make direct reference to your tracking for fear of scaring them off."

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

These 5 points may get more Eureka's out of your outbound marketing efforts: List Hygiene - Keep lists clean and ready at all times for prime calling. Check out the article I wrote, Take 3 Hour Lunches , which discusses the day in detail and backs it up with data. Just the tip of the iceberg here.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 23, 2009

It did raise a question though, and before I put much thought into it I decided to ask 7 of my colleagues in the b2b demand gen/sales/marketing space. Nigel Edelshain : "My instinct so far is call or email soon with some value-add (since leads go South fast) but not make direct reference to your tracking for fear of scaring them off.".

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies and the net-gen crowd. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, but in my opinion it is just traditional lead generation, demand creation and marketing with some new twists. Have someone dedicated to providing value to the market.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies, and the net-gen crowd. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, but in my opinion it is just traditional lead generation, demand creation and marketing with some new twists. Have someone dedicated to providing value to the market.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Inbound Marketing is all the rage these days, and why shouldn't it be? Inbound Marketing's goal is to pull potential customers in by all different methods, whether it's compelling content, savvy SEO execution or community interaction via social media. It works, right? Where do you turn? Great stuff. Let us know!

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 28, 2009

Last week we conducted a poll on LinkedIn where we asked: Inbound Marketing & Outbound Marketing - what is your mix for lead gen? The short version excerpted from the article: The experts balance Inbound Marketing with Outbound Marketing. full article on the DemandGen Reports site).

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 10, 2009

Last week we conducted a poll on LinkedIn where we asked: Inbound Marketing & Outbound Marketing - what is your mix for lead gen? The short version excerpted from the article: The experts balance Inbound Marketing with Outbound Marketing. full article on the DemandGen Reports site). Outbound Only.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 14, 2010

That said, you still have hundreds of Google Reader articles to scan, a few new sales enablement presentations to review before publishing them to Slideshare, and two meetings to approve in the Appointment Setting queue. My domain expertise is B2B Marketing and Sales, especially Demand Gen. I can go on, but you get the picture.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Several readers and fans have asked before, what is with the "Green" in Green Leads ? What does b2b lead generation have to do with being green? This post isn't about Green Leads though, it is about Green Marketing and how markets react to it. For the b2b lead gen industry, that is unheard of.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

She asked a bunch of B2B marketing experts for their predictions for 2010. Being one of those tweeps who always barks by mid-January that "if I see one more predictions blog article, I'll puke," I chuckled as I sat down to write. Until then, I give you more thoughts to ponder than predictions: Are marketing's goals aligned with sales?

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2008

Several readers and fans have asked before, what is with the "Green" in Green Leads ? What does b2b lead generation have to do with being green? This post isn't about Green Leads though, it is about Green Marketing and how markets react to it. For the b2b lead gen industry, that is unheard of.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 30, 2009

What can Obama teach us b2b marketers? I was recently in a debate with a friend about Obama's marketing efforts. He had read an article about how the campaign was based on three simple tenants: Simplicity, Consistency and Relevance. The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. The same three pillars apply.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 26, 2009

What can Obama teach us b2b marketers? I was recently in a debate with a friend about Obama's marketing efforts. He had read an article about how the campaign was based on three simple tenants: Simplicity, Consistency and Relevance. The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. The same three pillars apply.

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Green Leads' b2b appointment setting team has even been a client of the Bridge Group. My opinion of Trish as a sales development expert is beyond what I could deliver in this article. Trish Bertuzzi and I have known each other for quite some time now. We've been on stage together. We've been with clients together. Well done Trish!

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

His insight and knowledge regarding sales and marketing was deep. We were talking last week and I asked him if he would put some thought to a few questions regarding sales and marketing alignment. What are you seeing as the top actions sales and marketing execs can do to make this alignment happen and to make it impact their companies?

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2013

Inbound marketing techniques continue to evolve, and HubSpot is the pioneer for Inbound. Almost 6,000 attendees to this year''s Inbound conference were gathered for lots of marketing goodness, not just the orange kool aid. Getting that conversation going has been revolutionized with Inbound Marketing. Score your inbound leads.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If you are a Chief Marketing Officer, or report to one, or aspire to be one, you MUST attend dreamforce. I would not normally make such a blanket statement, but I don''t want anyone to miss the point of this article. Learn - Study new marketing techniques. Face it, event marketing is one of the largest challenges of a marketer.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Having just kicked off, the SiriusDecisions Summit in London will be spanning two days with tons of marketing and sales goodness. I''ll be adding notable thoughts, quotes, and tweets to this article during the two days, so come back! akslipper: Germany leads in budget spent on tradeshows. UK leads in email campaigns.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

His insight and knowledge regarding sales and marketing was deep. We were talking last week and I asked him if he would put some thought to a few questions regarding sales and marketing alignment. What are you seeing as the top actions sales and marketing execs can do to make this alignment happen and to make it impact their companies?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2009

I'll share the intro here, and you can get the rest of the article on the site. Craig is publishing a series of Thought Leader articles and thus far they have been great reading for B2B Marketers. You can find all his articles on his site. Tags: interviews blogs demand socialmedia marketing appointments.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2009

I'll share the intro here, and you can get the rest of the article on the site. Craig is publishing a series of Thought Leader articles and thus far they have been great reading for B2B Marketers. You can find all his articles on his site. Just got an interview published on Craig Rosenberg's funnelholic blog. read more.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 12, 2009

The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0 The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. It’s always tempting to try to make apples to apples comparisons with other marketing automation vendors, but Genius is different. more: Pounce, Pause, Nurture or Wait? ).

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2009

At least that's what Pepsico said the carbon impact was in an article in today's NY Times. Production being the leading contributor, 60% with fertalizers and other energy consumption (heating plants in winter months). Tags: advertising marketing energy green. Distribution followed with another 22%.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

One particular article captured my attention because it stated some basic principles that many sales professionals sometimes fail to heed. The article, Sellers & Marketers: Have Them at Hello! it's different than traditional lead gen. What are some of the measures you look for in your demand gen programs?

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

As buyers become savvier and inbound marketing demands increase, he said, "We see our clients' outbound demand generation initiatives augmenting the process to provide sales with intelligent leads that fully meet the criteria for direct sales involvement. What are your thoughts regarding increased investment in inside sales?

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Craig Rosenberg, the demand gen expert from Focus.com recently asked me to participate in putting together the eBook, The Focus Experts Guide: Sales and Marketing Pipeline and Funnel. I took a different approach to the discussion, and came up with the concept of a Demand Gen Cloud: With the advent of Social, Sales and Marketing 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 27, 2009

After talking with my wife and Green Leads business partner, Linda (who had no problem forgetting work), I stumbled upon the thought of doing those creative projects that I never have time for. Tags: art blogs marketing SEO twitter drivel rss lists. Not much, mind you, but enough so that I wondered if I should pay attention to it.

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