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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

If you see another company being successful (however you define success) and you try to apply the same method, can you guarantee you will also achieve success? A method of selling hot-dog on the street can be used to sell software, but I wouldn’t follow it by the letter. Now let’s go one step further.

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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. The presentation is not only funny is also engaging.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Big companies and small companies have different needs, and so their briefs are also formatted differently. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! If you come from the agency side, you are used to a certain format.

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MARCH 10, 2011

This means that is time to update my previous charts on marketing automation funding (see below) and the funding timeline, because HubSpot just surpassed Marketo as the highest funded marketing software vendor to date. I know these companies well. Everyone Wins But it also means something else. Great images and great ideas.

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MAY 3, 2011

The Goal of Marketing Software The need for marketing software comes from the necessity to better understand customer behavior across multiple channels. Not a new trend, but rather a need that has ben greatly amplified by the prevalence of social media channels which in turn is making companies look for technology solutions.

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MAY 10, 2010

More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. The company reported $9.7 They are one of the most powerful marketing tools a company can use to build a strong brand, if they are designed and deployed the right way. That’s what makes them memorable. United States License.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 An Excel file is available at the end of the post with all this info.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

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. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. United States License.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Corporate America usually relies on some form of compensation system which basically uses a reward/punishment method that tries to coerce people into doing what the company wants. And how about your staff or your company’s employees? The videos on their website (embedded below) are some great examples of what they mean.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

How many B2B vs. B2C companies, industries, and even job titles. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Big companies all turn to Gartner’s reports to help them on emerging trends and technologies. Software vendors like to boast when they are placed in a specific position on Gartner’s famous Magic Quadrant report. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I recently attended the Business of Software conference where I participated in a Pecha Kucha competition. What if we could change the way our companies treat presentations and just give everyone six minutes to tell their stories? Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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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? Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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JANUARY 13, 2011

If you have just started your 2011 campaigns after battling the budget process, I bet you can definitely see some relation to your own company. In their research they also classify companies according to their results in email marketing usage. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. United States License.

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APRIL 9, 2009

The site not only lists top executives based on approval ratings but also shows you reviews that give you some more specifics of the person, the company, and what it feels like working there. One of the more interesting features is the ability to search for salaries paid at a specific company. Like Be the first to like this post.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

Buyer personas and content creation The interaction was great and the fact that we had people from both SMB and large companies was great, we could hear both sides of the story and how different size companies work with marketing automation. One of the interesting points raised during the discussion was about content creation.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Is a valid question to answer in your objective) and although he doesn’t describe what the “marketing objectives” are, I would focus on lead generation numbers (how many qualified leads, for example) although other metrics such as “number of blog posts” or “twitter messages” could be valid objectives for social media campaigns.

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MAY 18, 2010

After interviewing many marketers for different positions at my company and meeting marketing professionals regularly at events, I came to the conclusion that there are two types of marketers: Passionate Marketers Job Marketers The first group is comprised of those that, as the name suggests, have a real passion for marketing.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

I work for a B2B software company and we do regular email blasts. If I were to look at benchmark data from MailChimp we are doing way better than their published rate of 18% for companies in the software industry. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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JUNE 27, 2008

Web Content 2007. Web-based spreadsheet. International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 Luis Suarez posed an excellent running summary of my talk this morning on Twitter. Luis’ main Twitter account is @elsua ; the summary is on his conference specific account @elsuacon ). SocialSoftware. supply chain. Trent Reznor.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Are the tasks you and your team working on going to directly affect the company’s ability to compete in the marketplace? What are the key items in your agenda as a marketer that can have a direct impact in the company’s bottom line? Food for thought. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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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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AUGUST 14, 2009

Although his criticism was towards Wall Street financial companies that complain they need hefty compensation packages to attract talented employees, you decide whether it applies to your company as well. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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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. PowerPoint is something everyone knows how to use, though. United States License.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Then with all the triggers in place, sit back and watch the software do the job of sending the right message to the right prospect at the right time. Yup, it is more complicated when you get to the implementation phase of the program, and that’s where most companies fail. Wow, it’s magical! Yes, except for one little detail.

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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. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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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. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

With the advent of cheap online survey software, everyone it seems is creating and sending out surveys. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! How did you target and fine tune your messages? Like Be the first to like this post.

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MAY 9, 2011

When companies start to tailor content to different audiences and stages of the buying cycle, they greatly increase the amount of content, and the type of content needed changes&# Marketing Roles Are Evolving Marketing used to have clearly defined roles. How you think about what content is for your company will determine how big this role is.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. United States License.

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JANUARY 18, 2009

You probably heard of countless stories of how a company faced a crisis situation and was able to turn it around and come out even better than before (remember the Tylenol scandal? Johnson came out victorious after a well planned management of the crisis that could have cost the company dearly). Like Be the first to like this post.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

How do you get pass that low level gatekeeper and get an introduction to the real decision maker at the company? And PWC is a company with thousands of people from all over the world, so although the fact that they worked for the same company is good, it doesn’t really ensure they know each other. United States License.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Design #11 Email Sender: Tableau Software Email Title: 50 Metrics Every Marketer Should Master What I Like: Small but visible logo on top left identifies the company immediately. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter!

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Lots of statistical analysis about the relative growth rates of Facebook and Twitter and the slowing of uptake for both. There won’t be nearly as much to link to through Twitter in the coming years, and that’s the revolutionary subtext that’s going on behind the evolution of Web 2.0.

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APRIL 21, 2010

To find answers to that question, I went to HubSpot’s Lead Generation Marketing Hub and I found an incredible video featuring Holly Allison , vice president of marketing at Vico Software , a successful Boston-area startup that provides construction software to engineers and contractors. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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JANUARY 17, 2009

In marketing is especially important to ensure that the company as a whole is aware of what is being done. In big companies as well as in small ones Marketing can oftentimes be considered a necessary expense, the department where money gets spent without consideration and where results are difficult to be measured.

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