Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

People respect their peers first and foremost and the results of the event exemplified this point: high conversion rates from our email promotions, 55% attendee rate, and people stayed for the entire event — very little drop-off. How to implement lead generation programs on a small business budget?

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Budget Programs Work Management Lead Scoring 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The curious and cautious B2B buyers B2B buyers are curious about how a product can make life easier and business better; however, they are also more cautious when making purchases because a mistake can be costly both for the company and their career. 5% conversion rate of mostly unqualified leads.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The curious and cautious B2B buyers B2B buyers are curious about how a product can make life easier and business better; however, they are also more cautious when making purchases because a mistake can be costly both for the company and their career. 5% conversion rate of mostly unqualified leads.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

While we are being impacted by the rapid rise of social networks and the use of mobile technologies to connect business professionals, we are also being asked to produce more with less. Program Acceleration: the rate at which we move from a marketing concept to a campaign that is driving results. We need to be speed racers. More leads.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. Two recent articles on Harvard Business Review offer some great advice. As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers.

Planning 100

Planning Paid Search Agency Customer Satisfaction Web 2.0 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The funnel is a useful way to analyze the rate at which we are capturing and managing demand. Now there were a few main points I tried to get across in my submission: The division between a marketing and sales funnel is a myth. Marketers sell stuff and sales people market stuff. To our customers there is no funnel.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Demand Digital Marketing Funnels Marketing Funnels 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

All this is starting to create massive and revolutionary changes in the way businesses in general and marketers in particular interact with customers. You can also look to 3 rd party list sources but expect a lower response rate and thus a lower ROI. But social media has opened up a channel. Other channels have not closed yet.

Tactics 100

Tactics Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Leads 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

You must always remember that at some point in every sales discussion, you must “ASK” for the business. Here are brief descriptions of these five closes: Financial Close A financial close is the natural choice when you have successfully helped a prospect quantify the impact of their business problems.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Telemarketing Work Management Marketing Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But which ones are really working to drive our strategy and our business forward? Lists became “tired&# as response rates drops. But strategy to achieve our business objectives! It’s about aligning with sales on business outcomes and working together to craft plans to achieve those outcomes. Cross-sell.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Now I could argue that you need a great product to solve a real customer need: you need some awareness in the marketplace to prove you are “in the game”, you need a website that acts as a viable “store front” for your business, and of course you need great service and support after the sale to keep customers satisfied.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Sales Management Lead Ranking ROI 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

But with marketing automation adoption rates at 5-10% in mid-to-large companies, and less than 1% in smaller companies, not many companies are actually implementing. Actually implementing this approach seems as though you’d have the flexibility to provide Sales with the quantity AND quality they want over time.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 100

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

by HubSpot Rick Burnes notes that without a strong content strategy to back up social media efforts, marketers risk the "all hat, no cattle" syndrome: lots of attention on Twitter and Facebook, but no compelling content to back it up and turn the curious into the converted. Tags: Web 2.0 Social Tagging.

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Burn Rate Web 2.0 20

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I have said it before, when you focus on results it’s easy to see what works and what doesn’t relative to real business goals. This translates to a dismal right party connect rate of 1 to 1.5%. And having a balanced mix is so important to lead gen overall. Great discussion and thanks!

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Telemarketing Work Management Campaigns 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2010

In some cases, emails like this may be the highest converting and have the lowest opt-out rates of all your email blasts. Include thought leadership whitepapers, customer videos, podcasts, case studies, demos and product comparison guides. Now testing all these factors against your own objectives is very important.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Paid Search Agency Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 8, 2010

One place I often turn for mental “fresh air&# is the Business-to-Consumer space where there is certainly no lack of bright, creative minds dreaming up the next big thing. Thanks to a partnership with Zazzle, Stickybits also offers birthday cards, business cards, mugs and shirts with unique, content-enabled barcodes printed on them. #37.

Marketing Management 100

Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Burn Rate Customer Satisfaction 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 8, 2010

One place I often turn for mental “fresh air&# is the Business-to-Consumer space where there is certainly no lack of bright, creative minds dreaming up the next big thing. Thanks to a partnership with Zazzle, Stickybits also offers birthday cards, business cards, mugs and shirts with unique, content-enabled barcodes printed on them. #37.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Marketing Management B2B Planning 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Business Intelligence. E-Business & Web 2.0. Internet Business. Business Intelligence. Business Continuity. Business Intelligence and Analytics. Ryno" is a 50-something ex-sysadmin, by his own account "burned out and living on disability" in rural Australia. Small Enterprise.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Webcast Web 2.0 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Within 12 months of its invention, 1,200 companies entered the radio “business&# in some form or fashion. Social media adoption is happening at an extraordinary rate, and I believe every company will have some sort of social media presence within the next 24 months. This is an adoption rate far steeper than it was for websites.

Social Media 159

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 159

Directive Agency

JULY 26, 2016

I tweet about #marketing #seo and #business – Contributor to @Entrepreneur and @GulfBusiness. I often hear business owners say “I’ll go with the cheapest option and if it doesn’t work out , I won’t have lost much. Go with someone that already knows how to market successfully for your business. James Reynolds. Going cheap.

Paid Search Agency 76

Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Ad Agencies SEO 76