Ambal's Amusings

JUNE 9, 2010

" Companies engaged in a complex sale must link thought leadership to intelligent client discovery. B2B marketers will increasingly realize that one of their key challenges is to guide decision teams through challenging decisions using compelling thought leadership and other forms of decision-driving content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 3, 2010

While lead nurturing generally takes place after you have gathered this information, there are times when qualified prospects are coming to you before you know who they are and how to reach them through, social media. This is what makes social media marketing specifically so important. Not if you’re seed nurturing.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

" Britton Manasco helps firms become thought leaders and trusted authorities through value-rich content such as white papers, success stories and executive presentations. Britton is the producer of the thought leadership marketing blog Illuminating the Future. Click and download FREE eBook from Marketo and ClickDocuments.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 5, 2010

" Jon Miller is VP of Marketing at Marketo , the fastest growing marketing automation vendor. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter jonmiller2. So don’t just send them to sales: be sure to score them to identify the best ones, and nurture and develop the rest with more great content and thought leadership.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 10, 2010

" Maria Pergolino works as Director of Marketing at Marketo , leading their efforts in adoption of social media channels for brand awareness and demand generation html. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter InboundMarketer. Modern B2B Marketing Blog. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Maria Pergolino. Over to you.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 27, 2008

B2B marketing professionals in today's economy are always looking for new ways to do more with less and still gain a competitive advantage within the marketplace. First up in our B2B Marketing interview series is Tom Pick of WebMarketCentral. You've been a B2B marketer since 1992. and StumbeUpon for B2B marketing in early 2007.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2012

by Jason Miller Want to know the ROI of social media? With our latest Facebook campaign, we are doing just that; tying leads generated by Facebook directly into our revenue pipeline via Marketo. We developed a custom Facebook application that generates a special offer and is powered by a Marketo form. How did we do it?

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 21, 2010

How should you adapt to the changing trends in B2B marketing? Galen De Young, managing director of Proteus B2B and Proteus SEO, helps B2B clients integrate content marketing, social media, email, and SEO to generate and nurture leads. Blog B2B Marketing Twitter GalenDY. " Good B2B content writers are scarce.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 14, 2010

As social media providers become more focused on understanding true influence, how will the value and measurement of significant social influencers change? Why should marketers develop your subject matter experts as key industry influencers and thought leaders? Marketing Automation and B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the 2018 B2B research , 62% of the most successful content marketers have a documented strategy vs. 16% of the least successful. But, interestingly, I’ve started to see an increasingly larger opportunity for content marketers to play a true leadership role in that broader marketing strategy. Let me explain.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. But they’re just that: tools. Seed this on Newsvine. Add this to Mister Wong. Share this on FriendFeed.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Since our first entry in August of 2006, the Marketo team has published nearly 300 posts read by hundreds of thousands of marketers seeking to step up their b2b marketing game. We dug into our web analytics to pull out your favorite content on lead nurturing , social media marketing , demand generation and all topics in between.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Price promotions may work in the consumer world, but they usually don’t work well for most B2B businesses. Send them small, thoughtful gifts to help them relax during this hectic time of year. You can extend the impact of these gifts by making it easy for your customers to share the moment on social media.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I have invited our Panel of B2B Marketing Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Tom Pick's blog Webbiquity.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 19, 2010

These days, virtually all marketers – B2B and B2C – at least recognize the potential impact of blogging when integrated into the marketing mix. But for many B2B marketers, the decision to put a B2B blog strategy in motion may not come as easily. B2B blogs provide an avenue for thought leadership content.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 27, 2010

Since the idea of Marketo popped into the minds of Marketo’s founders, Jon Miller and Phil Fernandez, marketing accountability was at the center of their thoughts. Internally at Marketo we began to call these people “The Revenue Masters.&#. These Revenue Masters all have a few things in common.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here are four reasons why: Recommendations - Company specific recommendations on LinkedIn may become the Yelp of B2B Businesses, though you can’t benefit from this new feature until you create your Products and Services Page. You may also want to check out some examples of what others have done.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here are four reasons why: Recommendations - Company specific recommendations on LinkedIn may become the Yelp of B2B Businesses, though you can’t benefit from this new feature until you create your Products and Services Page. You may also want to check out some examples of what others have done.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

Does viral work for B2B marketing? We asked B2B Marketing experts: What are the components of a "good" viral B2B Marketing Campaign? "B2B Marketing Campaigns Need Results Beyond Views" Ardath Albee's Bio. Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Does viral work for B2B marketing?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 24, 2010

The bi-annual BtoB Leading Edge Virtual Event is one of the best thought leadership events for marketers focused on driving leads and accerlerating deals for their company. But by creating a different model powered by social media, you can harness the impact of customer-generated word of mouth, reviews and referrals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

However, what happens when qualified prospects visit your site or social media sites anonymously where you don't necessarily have their names or e-mails? Make valuable content freely available on your site and over social media. This is where seed nurturing comes into play. Conclusion.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

In ClickInsights Expert Interview Series we feature top notch industry experts and thought leaders and get their insights, opinions and predictions. What types of metrics do B2B marketers need to measure a marketing campaign's success? Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the really cool things about the B2B Marketing Zone and Browse My Stuff is the ability of the system to determine hot topics or trends based on the content that is being brought together in topic hubs. Using the system, we found that these are the hottest topics in B2B Marketing for 2009. Social Media.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 8, 2011

Schaub and Marketo’s SVP of Sales, Bill Binch, conducted a Marketo Revenue Masters webinar called ‘ From No Budget to Signed Deal Using Provocation-based Selling ’. Bill Binch and I answered these questions in the Marketo Revenue Masters webinar about Provocation-based Selling. Thanks for your follow-up questions.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? Ardath Albee is a B2B Marketing Strategist. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jim Burns, founder and CEO, as part of our ongoing B2B Thought Leader Interviews. Jim and his company have been helping B2B selling customers create and deliver content, especially multimedia content, for over fifteen years. I get tired just thinking of all this.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

One of the great things about blogging is the opportunity to build relationships with thought leaders I would not otherwise meet. Here is his interview, part of the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series. Inbound marketing is about social media like blogging, Twittering and Facebook to connect to more potential prospects.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

The topic was that which no marketer can seem to get enough of these days, Social Media. It was interesting to see how social marketing has taken a profound shift from being about brand awareness to being about lead generation. Can You Really Generate Leads on LinkedIn? Spy on ‘em too: Find out what they care about.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

This year’s MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit was a great success. Update my buyer personas and use these personas to ‘talk’ to my prospects and customers on my website, in my emails, and in social media. The vendors I chatted with at the event were talking more about thought leadership than their products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2009

As I wrote back in December, 2006, the fact that today's buyers take control of their buying processes using search, social media, and other online tools means that marketers need to move away from a mindset of "generating leads" and towards a model of " managing leads ". Done well, this unlocks serious revenue growth. Be everywhere.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just released Blind Date to White Wedding: Best Practices for Lead Nurturing that creates B2B relationships, builds trust and increases sales , a white paper on B2B lead nurturing. The Win.").

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Design #1 Email Sender: Marketo Email Title: Social Best Practices for Marketing in the Cloud What I Like: Clean design; date and time of the webinar on top easy to find; orange “Free Webinar&# button calls attention to the important action (register now!) Click on the images for larger version. Nothing beats good copy.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In ClickInsights Expert Interview Series we feature top notch industry experts and thought leaders and get their insights, opinions and predictions. One of the many goals of B2B marketing is to continuously forge better customer relationship. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2010

For our latest B2B Thought Leader Interview , we had the chance to talk to Stephanie Miller, Return Path’s email marketing expert. In this post, Miller discusses the latest trends in email marketing, top strategies for subscriber experience and email deliverability tips and techniques for marketers and B2B organizations.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Navigating the social media landscape can sometimes feel like a rock concert as well, with 1.71 So how do you become a social media rockstar to engage and delight your different target audiences? So how do you become a social media rockstar to engage and delight your different target audiences?

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. I think the idea of an iTunes™ -like interface — and pay-as-you-go pricing structure — for viewing, sorting, and selecting B2B contacts is intriguing. Social networking stuff fits here too.

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