Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2009

Demand Gen specialists balance their mix of Inbound and Outbound 30% more than generalists. As a side note, a regular feature of my Smashmouth Marketing blog, which is focused on BtoB marketing and demand gen, are product reviews. The experts balance Inbound Marketing with Outbound Marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 30, 2009

I started exploring how the same three guidelines can be applied to marketing, especially as it pertains to demand generation. The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. Blog Marketing - Writing a blog for business purposes isn't just a process of putting thoughts on the internet. Keep it simple.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 21, 2010

What about your B2B sales and marketing blog, though? Here are three ways, as we head into the second half of 2010, that you can improve your B2B sales and marketing blog: Revisit your blog's goals - When you first started writing your blog, you had a goal in mind. I read 20-40 of them a day, do they need improvement?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 26, 2009

I started exploring how the same three guidelines can be applied to marketing, especially as it pertains to demand generation. The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. Blog Marketing - Writing a blog for business purposes isn't just a process of putting thoughts on the internet. Keep it simple.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

Check out the interview of me discussing how having good data impacts lead generation success on ReadyContact's Blog. Tags: data lead gen interviews demand marketing sales2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2010

So here are a few interpretations had the president been talking about Demand Gen. "We Today, in demand gen, we need to get paid on the leads generated and appointments set. As demand gen experts, we have to change. the inside and outside sales team and your outsourced demand gen teams. We do not give up. We do not quit.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Give away lots of relevant info through blogs, twitter, industry events, etc. Quote them in blog articles. As soon as you find out a tribe member has a blog, find a way to help them with a blog article. Be it Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn Groups, or your blog. Most buzzers love to be pumped up socially. Prop them up.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

The topic of Quality vs. Quantity in demand gen has been a constant debate. We wrote a blog post Third Party Vendors for Lead Qualification on this very topic. Trish Bertuzzi of The Bridge Group shared, "Mike, what a great checklist for vendor selection. People need to understand that picking a vendor is picking a PARTNER.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

The topic of Quality vs. Quantity in demand gen has been a constant debate. We wrote a blog post Third Party Vendors for Lead Qualification on this very topic. Trish Bertuzzi of The Bridge Group shared, "Mike, what a great checklist for vendor selection. People need to understand that picking a vendor is picking a PARTNER.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 17, 2009

As a Demand Gen/Marketing junky, if there was one thing I came away with from MarketingProfs b2b Forum it's this: Go to the next MarketingProfs event they host! It was so full of nuggets, all I can say is to go read as many of the blogs as you possibly can on the topic.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2009

Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. Search engine marketing (SEM), search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging and social media strategies all contribute to solid Google rankings. What I'm advocating is for Demand Gen Alignment.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2009

Just got an interview published on Craig Rosenberg's funnelholic blog. Check out his blog and you’ll believe me. Tags: interviews blogs demand socialmedia marketing appointments. I'll share the intro here, and you can get the rest of the article on the site. You can find all his articles on his site. Thanks Craig!

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 8, 2009

agravel : Attending session about demand generation: quantity vs quality #mpb2b BDSolutions : Learn how Twitter will change the way we live - @stephenbjohnson 's Time cover story [link] #mpb2b MitziThomas : I’m wondering how many people in the room listening to Steven Johnson are actively using Twitter, either personally or for marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Comment on a few relevant articles Hubspot Dashboard - finds daily chores for me to do around blogging, keywords, search rankings, etc. Tags: hubspot blogs fast company socialmedia SMM marketing tips facebook b2b marketing twitter b2b drivel demand gen green branding SEO inbound marketing linkedin SEM. I'm in good company!

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Lead Generation Social Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 3, 2009

We thought it might be interesting to augment our thought leader interviews with some demand gen product reviews. I had heard about LeadLander from a competitor (surprisingly, not all competitors are enemies.that's another blog post). Published a blog interview with Joe Galvin of SiriusDecisions.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2009

Smash mouth Marketing has two guest post blog articles this week, writing about Outbound Marketing, Inbound Marketing and Tony Soprano. Tags: hubspot fast company inbound marketing b2b marketing outbound marketing b2b drivel demand gen.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 7, 2009

Thank you to MarketingProfs and Anne Handley ( personal blog ) for what should be a stellar event. Tags: marketingprofs demand marketing b2b sales2.0 I'll be doing some live tweeting from the conference with hashtag #mpb2b , just like from the other two (you can look at conference tweets here: #cmoclub and here: #sales20 ). More later.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 22, 2009

This blog article is obviously not enough to serve every topic, but as an introduction and overview, it will set the stage for future discussion. For generations, Marketing has been focusing on branding, products, communications, creating demand and supporting sales. Tags: demand marketing linkedin facebook twitter sales2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 13, 2009

Wanting to know more about the various speakers from MarketingProfs this past week, I started looking some of them up on the web, subscribing to their blogs, checking them out on LinkedIn and trying to find them on Twitter. Speaker's blogs are listed if I could find them, otherwise their company link is there.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 6, 2009

We'll followup with a blog article discussing the results. Tags: nurturing socialmedia marketing appointments twitter b2b sales poll demand linkedin SEO cold calls inside sales sales2.0 Please spread the word.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Take the Poll , then spread the word by Copying and Pasting the following on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Update, Your Blog: RT @damphoux Contribute to VOICEMAIL Debate. Tags: cold calling linkedin b2b marketing inside sales demand gen polls b2b sales. Take the poll (please RT). Results Thu. link] #sales #b2b #marketing.

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Cold Calling B2B Sales Stats Linkedin 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are some sites that share top-notch practices: The Bridge Group's Inside Sales Experts Blog - Trish Bertuzzi and the team over at The Bridge Group are the gold standard when it comes to advice on making your inside sales team greater than it already is. Definitely worth checking out. Great stuff.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 20, 2009

As a Demand Gen/Marketing junky, if there was one thing I came away with from MarketingProfs b2b Forum it's this: Go to the next MarketingProfs event they host! It was so full of nuggets, all I can say is to go read as many of the blogs as you possibly can on the topic.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

I recently was asked to participate in Ambal Balakrishnan's ( @ambal ) ebook, to be published at year'd end and then available from her blog, Connect the Docs. 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. Cost per lead?

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B2B Marketing Cost per Lead B2B Adwords 100

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. In a previous blog article, I shared poll results showing C Level prospects being more than willing to take their first introductory appointment by phone.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 15, 2009

agravel : Attending session about demand generation: quantity vs quality #mpb2b. ESLundquist : #mpb2b Sandy Carter at #IBM says #google is now rating blogs higher than web sites. They created internal guidelines, but anyone at IBM can blog or tweet. GinnyBartosek : Sales doesn't view quality of leads the same way as Mktg.

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Web 2.0 Blast Campaigns Lead Gen Demand Generation 100

Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2009

Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. Search engine marketing (SEM), search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging and social media strategies all contribute to solid Google rankings. What I'm advocating is for Demand Gen Alignment.

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Inbound Marketing Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Chris Brogan 's recent blog post, Your Lead Generation Methods Have to Change hits on a topic that we all need to be reminded of: The new lead generation shifts your methods as a marketer from “talk about your dumb product” into “empower the users.” Tags: demand marketing sales. That, by the way is the nugget of this whole piece.)

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 15, 2009

The lists were smaller in size than the other two clients, but each contact was receiving valuable contact through white papers, webinar invites, analyst studies, blog links, etc. Tags: data nurturing lead gen demand marketing greenleads meetings appointments sales.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 8, 2009

This blog article is obviously not enough to serve every topic, but as an introduction and overview, it will set the stage for future discussion. Demand Generation. For generations, Marketing has been focusing on branding, products, communications, creating demand and supporting sales. Alignment of Sales & Marketing.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Social Media Guidelines 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 13, 2010

Linda and I got our demand gen start at BAO, and they are a class act with good people. Having read their Sales Tips Blog for quite some time, it was very informative to listen to co-founder, Steve Richard present his tips on how to become a power cold calling machine. The other piece I enjoyed was meeting folks from competing company.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 5, 2009

We thought it might be interesting to augment our thought leader interviews with some demand gen product reviews. I had heard about LeadLander from a competitor (surprisingly, not all competitors are enemies.that's another blog post). Published a blog interview with Joe Galvin of SiriusDecisions. End of independent review.

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Leadlander Jigsaw Marketing Analytics Tools Stats 100

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. Tags: nurturing leadlander demand marketing sales2.0 It is not a one size fits all strategy…that is the beauty of Sales 2.0. The buyer designs the sales process."

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Leadlander Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

sherpab2b09 LaBergeLLC : Acoustics By Design -Great example of using blogging to add SEO content for your web site. Tags: hubspot lead nurturing b2b events socialmedia facebook b2b marketing outbound marketing twitter b2b siriusdecisions demand gen b2b sales lead gen marketingsherpa inbound marketing. sherpab2b09 [link].

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Webcast Lead Gen 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

It was interesting that in both cases, the attendees were buzzing with discussion about the need for alignment of sales and marketing so I blogged an article about it earlier this week. We identified the critical integration points between sales and marketing in demand generation, knowledge management, sales readiness and metrics.

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Trends Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

It originally was a name that sounded great for a demand gen company, and "green" had lots of connotations: Money, greenfield opportunities and of course living green, which my wife Linda and I believe in and do our best to do our part. Last week's blog post sparked another discussion at a client meeting.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Either way, as we b2b demand gen folks know, it's all about the content, so let's provide it. Tweet and blog , record videos , post your slides on slideshare. That said, we want to hear value. Vendors can deliver their message themselves, or they can put customers or industry experts on stage to do it for them. Engage the audience.

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