The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Content That Sells When talking with lead nurturing and marketing automation vendors they all make it seem very easy. That reminds me of what I see when I visit most B2B companies’ websites.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Reuse all of your marketing materials in your lead nurturing efforts. Having the right content for automated lead nurturing programs can be the most difficult part of a lead nurturing campaign. Another example is to create automated program templates such as an event management or lead nurturing template.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., New media and Web 2.0 Mike: OK, last question, the B2B Marketing Thought Leaders Curry Poll. Fouts presented yesterday in Boston.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 29, 2011

Instead of dismissing those visitors as time-wasters, I suggest that you rethink your online strategy if you are serious about using your industrial Website as a lead generator. At least have a mechanism in place to weed out unqualified prospects and move qualified ones into some kind of a lead nurturing program.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 17, 2010

We are pleased that we were able to catch-up with Andrew Gaffney, Editor-In-Chief of DemandGen Report, an on-line publication that covers B2B marketing and the marketing automation space. We wanted to get his take on all things B2B marketing and what the future holds for this space.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Therefore B2B and industrial marketers continue to favor email marketing over other direct marketing channels. Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power. Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content is Media&#. Building a solid content creation engine is critical to B2B marketers today. I think B2B marketers really need to think and act more like a media house themselves. B2B Marketing Content: Lure or Lasso?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this. Think sales, leads, pipeline. I am so happy you enjoyed the post.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

The request for better quality is made and sales wants to work with fewer and better leads that they can close. My advice is to B2B Marketers is to follow this natural ebb and flow. In other companies lead nurture is a very formal and well-defined process. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. Customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention re-emerge as key metrics B2B marketers will use to measure the performance of their holistic marketing programs. The quality vs. quantity of leads debate will rage on. And what a wild ride it has been.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There is an amazing amount of great content about B2B marketing out there, ranging from trends in demand generation to best practices in lead nurturing, lead scoring, and landing page optimization to how to buy and select marketing automation systems. Seven Lead Nurturing Tools and Resources. blog post).

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. Adam Needles , Director, Field Marketing and B2B Marketing Evangelist, Silverpop. See also her recent blog post Five B2B Marketing Surprises From 2009.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Related Posts: The New Marketing Accountability Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity Confessions Of A B2B Marketer Lead Generation Programs That Work How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

That points to the evolving nature of the market, and the key functions of lead nurturing, scoring, and automated triggers becoming part of email marketing and other marketing solutions. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 This overstates market penetration. ?

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Although this post is mostly from a B2B perspective, the items described here can also be applied in the B2C world. As I outlined in 10 Tips for Using Twitter And Email Marketing for B2B you can add your company's Twitter address, Linkedin groups and links to RSS feeds such as your corporate blog to your autoresponder emails.

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