Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results. For a good example check out these searches for the terms Facebook Marketing and Social Media. Share this on Facebook. For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Facebook Advertising – will continue to improve and unfortunately get more expensive. After 9 years of Search Engine Marketing – I think it is safe to say any keyword you are going to buy is maxed out when it comes to the Google AdWords auction process. So people are looking for an alternative and that’s Facebook Advertising.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 21, 2011

The alignment problem is what drove me into here… BtoB Magazine recently reported on a Forrester survey that proves the point that this is huge challenge: only 8% of B2B companies say they have tight alignment between sales and marketing. Here is an excellent example of a social triage process that can be used a model.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 6, 2013

The conference breaks out into two separate tracks for sales and marketing professionals, coming together to highlight the latest BtoB research and keynote sessions. Let us know via comments below or send us a message on Twitter , Facebook , or Google+. Marketingsherpa Lead Gen Summit. Events Search Engine Marketing Blog'

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Even though more than half of the marketers saw their roles expanded well into the sales process, 58 percent of those surveyed met with sales just once a month or less and 8% or nearly 1 out of 10, admitted to never meeting with their sales counterparts. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Even though more than half of the marketers saw their roles expanded well into the sales process, 58 percent of those surveyed met with sales just once a month or less and 8% or nearly 1 out of 10, admitted to never meeting with their sales counterparts. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 15, 2012

I have found this particularly true with marketing that targets engineers and industrial buyers where the buying process is long and complex with several stakeholders involved. Paul Gillin ( @pgillin ), speaker, writer and social media marketing strategist described this very well in one of his columns for BtoB Magazine.

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Paul Gillin

MAY 25, 2010

I was privileged to moderate the BtoB magazine Social Media Awards Breakfast in New York this week. It took two years for Jim Cahill and Deb Franke to convince the management at Emerson Process Management that a blog was a good idea. Emerson Process Experts was born. Their reticence was understandable. he laughs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint. The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. The report was based on a survey of over 70 BtoB marketers and was conducted by Genius.com.

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markempa

AUGUST 29, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. But I’ve heard the audience demographic of the Facebook is now moving from being focused on college kids to becoming a place for adults.

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MLT Creative

MARCH 2, 2012

One in four marketers has a formal lead generation process in place, and less than 2 in 5 can trace a lead to its source, notes Jen Doyle in a report. "If The clock is ticking on Facebook Timeline for B2B marketers. WEEK OF FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 2, 2012. Top tactics for a crisis-proof B2B lead generation strategy. MLT Creative.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

BtoBmagazine – BtoB Online – The resource for # marketing strategists. BtoBsocialmedia – BtoBSocialMedia (b2b) offers daily tips on using Twitter, Facebook and other social media to increase brand awareness and social influence. . @ ExploreB2B – Explore B2B – A publishing platform for professionals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

web users have Facebook accounts (Source iStrategy Labs). Some 43 percent of users will “like” a brand on Facebook, and there is at least a 17 percent likelihood of purchase (Source: MarketingProfs). 71 percent of U.S.

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Paul Gillin

JULY 15, 2011

The recent example of this disparity ended up embarrassing a prominent PR firm , and I analyzed the story in BtoB magazine. After he posted the e-mail exchange online, some USA Today reporters dug up the fact that Facebook was behind the whisper campaign. What’s your approach?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured. Determine in advance who will be responsible for measuring and who will decide on what fine-tuning actions need to be taken.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries. The best example of an expertise blog that I know of is the Emerson Process Experts blog moderated by Jim Cahill.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle. You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Why is it important?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2011

Social media can also be a very helpful tool in the sales process when Sales is following up with leads and opportunities, especially considering the fact that, SiriusDecisions projects that by 2015, 71% of initial BtoB inquiries will be web-driven, and "a sound social media strategy is key to driving this inbound interest.".

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

However, solving this problem will be difficult for most teams, as sales remains inwardly focused on the traditional funnel based selling process, rather than having a keen understanding of how customers make decisions and actually buy - the buying lifecycle.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

These new customer campaigns include tools to use early in the buying process – to help diagnose and assess customer issues, such as assessment tools for cloud computing, collaboration and virtualized desktops. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:33 AM Email This BlogThis!

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

At the same time, as buyers are becoming more empowered, sales professionals are seen by these buyers as less valuable in the decision making process, and as a result are being invited later and later in the buying cycle. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Generating Awareness In order to start the engagement process with prospects, awareness needs to be created. Buyers clearly want a solution that represents a high value, and will help drive bottom-line impact to the business – helping to drive revenue, reduce costs, streamline business processes or improve productivity.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. When asking over 200 IT buyers what they felt was most important part of the overall purchase process, over 1/3rd of the buyers indicated Vendor Content as key to the purchase decision. Content is King?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Productivity benefits where there is not a direct automation or elimination of a process step or task 3. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog Loading. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 25, 2013

In partnership with the Netline Corporation, the CMO Council surveyed 400 BtoB buyers and content seekers around the world. Their responses show that content has never been more important to the buying process and yet vendors are falling short in creating the kind of content that buyers are looking for. Where are they going?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

3 items that should be in your 2010 email budget by BtoB Magazine. Amanda Gagnon explains how Walden University dramatically increased email subscriptions by simplifying its signup process and reduced the number of clicks required. by BtoB Magazine. Share this on Facebook. Email Marketing Tips and Tactics.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As well, personal productivity applications such as word processing, e-mail and messaging could be considered commodities. IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Network servers, storage and printers have moved towards commoditization as well.

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Paul Gillin

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve spent some time over the last week judging the finalists in BtoB magazine’s annual social media awards. Blogs may be declining in importance in the consumer realm as Facebook and Twitter grow in popularity, but they are still the most valued social platforms for B2B marketers as evidenced by recent research (see p.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2011

and 2) there are more ways for people to search than just Google and Yah-Bing (YouTube is now the second-largest search engine and Facebook SEO is its own emerging discipline). Social Media Affecting BtoB Buying Behavior by The Proactive Report. Sally Falkow reports research on new influences in the B2B buying process (e.g.,

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

When you create your content strategically, you have the ability to more accurately gauge how far along prospects are in their buying process based on which content they view. By creating valuable content mapped to the needs they have throughout their buying process, you both win. One-size-fits-all content won’t accomplish that.

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Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

A large percentage of them are still actively blocking employee access to sites like Facebook and YouTube. ” In the process, they learned the skills that have redefined office productivity. BtoB magazine asked 375 marketers last year who was primarily responsible for social media within their companies. Playing pays off.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

How Facebook’s privacy disasters will change B2B marketing - Chris Koch , May 21, 2010 Have you ever noticed that your Facebook profile page looks like one of those horrible qualification forms that we make our customers fill out? Social media marketing has a lot of moving parts and processes which make it hard to get up to speed.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Marketing automation done wrong is just speeding up a broken process. “Companies rarely have enough of the right content to make marketing automation work,” Jeff Ernst, a principal analyst with Forrester Research , recently told BtoB, the magazine for marketing strategists. Process the Whole Thing. Automate This!

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The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

By making it easily accessible through our Web site, we’re confident more organizations will take advantage of the vital insight it provides to support the decision-making process.&# Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Posted by Tom Pisello at 1:00 PM Email This BlogThis! Powered by Blogger.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In BtoB Magazine , Karen J. Then work with sales to fill those gaps in content and process. In b2b, long term business practice, typified with field sales emphasis, created the classic business process of field sales plus marketing support. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 7, 2010

5 Lessons a BtoB Marketer can Learn from “Breaking Bad” - Fearless Competitor , June 17, 2010 Have you heard of AMC’s critically acclaimed series “Breaking Bad?&# What’s a Facebook fan worth? I’ve had a few clients ask me recently what a Facebook fan is worth. Facebook (165). Seems doubtful. Simplicity.

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