The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

According to Tony Jaros, marketers will typically spend 60% of their budget on demand generation programs. Best Practice B2B Company Rates: Inquiries to MQL: 9.3%. Best practice companies, on the other hand, will typically close 14 deals out of 1,000 inquiries. Inbound marketer. Here are some of my notes. MQL to SAL: 66%.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 2, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Fail at Social Media The challenge of keeping up with the competition in the social media space is not new. Why is it that one company fails miserable while the other gets it right?

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Taming Your Brand Mascot From Tony The Tiger, Trix Rabbit and Energizer Bunny to Ronald McDonald and even John McCain (?!) More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

WordPress Plugins for Marketers (click to zoom) Note: Only WordPress.org (the free, host-it-yourself version of WordPress) allows for plugins. Click to download the WordPress Plugins for Marketers in Excel (XLS) format. Reply WordPress Plugins for Marketers | WordPress News says: February 26, 2011 at 10:29 pm [.] Let us know!

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 14, 2011

A Forrester Research “ How US Maketers Use Email &# Report sheds some light into the use of email by B2B and B2C companies. Author Sarah Glass states: Email is the most mature and most widely used interactive marketing tool. Best Practices in Email Marketing. Marketing Budgets and Email Effectiveness. Online Video.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 7, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Explaining Social Media If you need to explain what social media is and the impact it can have in your company or industry, the slideshow below might help. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Step 2: Buyer Personas.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 18, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking What Type of Marketer Are You? They read about marketing, they talk about marketing outside work, they go to events and try to educate themselves. This bunch sees marketing only as a job.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior How do you change people’s behavior? And how about your staff or your company’s employees? Can you make something fun that will entertain and educate them?

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 11, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Choosing an Email Marketing Software Who’s the best email marketing company/software? Good luck in your email marketing selection process! Slides can be seen below. Good question!

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Magic Quadrant or Magic Numbers? Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. A Judge Will Decide. Like Be the first to like this post.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Web Prototyping With PowerPoint Website re-designs are a common project on the hands of marketers at companies of all sizes. How can we improve this process? Like Be the first to like this post.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 7, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking What Makes a Great Creative Brief? It just goes to show that there is still a lot of controversy when it comes to creative briefs in marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 3, 2011

Based on a recent report on Marketing Technology Adoption for 2011 , the findings of their research shed some light on the challenges we face when it comes to marketing technology. The Goal of Marketing Software The need for marketing software comes from the necessity to better understand customer behavior across multiple channels.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 29, 2011

The old fashioned trade show may not be the hottest topic coming through your inbox these days but odds are that you may still be doing quite a few events and have trade shows as part of your marketing budget. A recent MarketingProfs article, Is Tradeshow Marketing Dead? Continue post-show marketing with an appropriate offer.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Aberdeen Shows How to Do Email Marketing Right The new research report from Aberdeen Group “ Email Marketing: Customers Take it Personally ” has some very interesting insights.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Opposite of Advertising How can a company embark on an branding campaign without prominently displaying its logo? Marketing News article, Marketing Across the Americas (requires login).

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Social Media’s Next Victim? We all like stories of companies that mess up and in the process of trying to clean up their act end up messing up even more. United States License. United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How Success is Misunderstood How do you define success? As marketers we all know it’s not that simple. Number of leads generated? Amount of sales or deals closed? Now let’s go one step further.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking If you’re gonna copy, make it right An interesting blog post by Jason Cohen at OnStartups.com discussed why you shouldn’t copy other companies just because they were successful at what they do.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing By Objectives Objective-Action-Budget In a recent article for the CMO Council’s Newsletter, Nicolas Watkis argues “ Marketers won’t succeed if they don’t have objectives ”.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 24, 2012

A recent research survey, Email Marketing Industry Census 2012 , conducted by eConsultancy and sponsored by Adestra sheds some light into how email marketing is being used and trends facing email marketing as an industry. 70% of company respondents rating email as “excellent” or “good” in terms of ROI”. The ROI of Email.

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The Effective Marketer

APRIL 6, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Get Hired in Marketing Want a marketing job? I was recently hiring a marketing coordinator for my company and once again it became obvious to me that most candidates do a poor job at interviewing.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 3, 2012

My career in content marketing started at age 12. Every day I’d load up my red Schwinn Varsity bicycle with The Aurora Beacon News and head out to make deliveries, learning valuable lessons about digital content marketing that just starting to sink in lately. 1. Content Marketing Is Hard Work. See his bio at the end.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 10, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How Everybody Wins with HubSpot’s Funding As everyone in the marketing industry surely knows by now, HubSpot raised $32 million in additional funding. Everyone Wins But it also means something else.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Marketer Principle 5: Take Responsibility for Communicating To get things done you need to communicate, ensuring the team is aware of the plan, deadlines, and expected results.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Branding used to be a high-level exercise bigger companies went through as part of their strategic marketing processes. You’re not doing passive marketing anymore, you’re actively seeking out, enticing, educating, and engaging your audience. Content marketing experts tell you to find your voice. You are creating content.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 14, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Are You Paid Enough? This is also a good resource for ensuring your staff is being compensated according to the market and for negotiating salary with someone you are hiring. Happy salary negotiation!

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 24, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along Talk to marketing mangers and sales managers about their biggest complaint and you will likely hear “They don’t follow up on leads!&#

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 7, 2011

GE's Ecomagination Ad Campaign - Result of the Marketing Transformation Process. Who would have thought that General Electric (GE), one of the most admired companies in the world didn’t have a substantial marketing organization up until recently. Marketing as a Function. Principles of Marketing at Work.

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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. In the B2B marketing space this is notorious.

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Science of Email Marketing I just attended “The Science of Email Marketing&# online webinar, hosted by HubSpot and presented by social media scientist Dan Zarrella. billion emails sent.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 30, 2012

If you ever hired a recent college graduate for a marketing position at your company, odds are you were amazed at their lack of knowledge. The video roundtable below from CRMSoftware.tv, What Colleges Should Be Teaching Marketing Majors , is worth watching and reflecting upon. What are College Students to Do?

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Although the level of marketing spend doesn’t usually correlate to marketing effectiveness, it is useful to know how others in your industry or other companies of similar size are spending their money on marketing. So if the survey finding that the median of annual interactive marketing budgets is $7.19

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Effective Manager Defined From time to time I go back to some business books I’ve read that had big influences in my career, one of which is “The One Minute Manager&# , by Ken Blanchard.

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