Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Ultimately it comes down to determining where can we achieve the greatest return from people, process and marketing tools to meet customer needs. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

Try These Traditional Tactics Now How to Nurture The Great Unknown Leads Lead Generation Programs That Work Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Mix Confessions Of A B2B Marketer About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It means listening to what will make our customers lives better. It means allowing as many employees in our companies to interact with our customers as real people. Umair even suggests that if we can achieve this, our customers might actually love us. .&# It means having real conversations with them.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Are we considering the larger implications of social media on the organization as it relates to employee adoption, customer service, product development and innovation? Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2010

These resources include everything from how to get started, tips for building a social media community and how to calculate key social media metrics – just to name a few. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

He goes on to explain how most marketers’ budgets are not aligned to what McKinsey calls the &# customer decision journey.&# It also identifies the increasing importance of loyalty and the lack of marketing focus on this stage of the process. . Related Posts: What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 5, 2010

B2B Marketers cannot ignore this channel and need to continue advocating for our brands and with our senior executives to get more involved, become more visible and to engage with customers in this channel. While not “dead”, email consumption is down.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2010

I am a B2B marketer because I think our job can be made simpler if we simply focus on the customer. As a B2B Marketer, I feel strongly that we (simply) help companies do 2 things: Get Customers Keep Customers Sometimes we do this in a more creative way and sometimes we do this in a very scientific way. But that is all we do!

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2010

I am a B2B marketer because I think our job can be made simpler if we simply focus on the customer. As a B2B Marketer, I feel strongly that we (simply) help companies do 2 things: Get Customers Keep Customers Sometimes we do this in a more creative way and sometimes we do this in a very scientific way. But that is all we do!

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2010

These resources include everything from how to get started, tips for building a social media community and how to calculate key social media metrics – just to name a few. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2010

He suggests you use the common tools of the trade like Twitter, Facebook and Google Alerts as well as more advanced sources like Google trends and Customer Service data. It is important to utilize quality content in these listings such as videos, customer testimonials and other relevant content along with key business contact details.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Along with this higher level of sophistication comes a matching price tag. And along with this price tag, comes a more curious yet cautious buyer. Each B2B customer will be thinking about products in the context of his or her own position. With segmentation you ask “who are you” and “what are you looking for?”

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Along with this higher level of sophistication comes a matching price tag. And along with this price tag, comes a more curious yet cautious buyer. Each B2B customer will be thinking about products in the context of his or her own position. With segmentation you ask “who are you” and “what are you looking for?”

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

My answer: use your customers and sales people to write about, videotape and blog about successes and tips on navigating through the buying process. What are the most successful lead sources? If you weren’t able to attend, feel free to download my presentation Lead Generation Programs That Work.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Strategy Internet Trends , Marketing Innovation , Mobile , Strategy , Web 2.0 Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. Know how they rank.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For the self-employed, blogging is a means to attract new business and new clients to their business, whereas “hobbyists&# are simply looking for “personal satisfaction.&# Compared to the averages, corporate bloggers main goal is to get published or get featured in traditional media.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 24, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Mobile Augmented Reality 4 Comments Post a comment Anol Dec 22 2010 Hey Michael – great post.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

To our customers there is no funnel. I believe we should align our efforts to customer needs. The earlier engagement and continuous activity level will create more efficient demand management by delivering against customer needs. Our customers will tell us when they are ready to speak to a salesperson.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Confessions Of A B2B Marketer 5 Sales Closing Techniques 7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Well, we know that customers will pay a premium for brands they trust or simply will be more willing to spend their hard-earned money with a strong brand. They show how brands with high loyalty and strong social currency command a price premium confirming the need for the tighter coordination of social brand activities.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This misses the point, of course, since social media is about customer relationships and not really about the technology at all. They are: Customers: something that is missing from many social media plans is the focus on customers. And once you have a customer, you need to keep them. Community is how social media scales.

Social Media 100

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Click here to cancel reply. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

When I see B2B Marketers who have forgotten that we serve customers and create marketing campaigns with little research into customer needs or pains or the words they use to express their pains, it makes me crazy. To share the love. I am frustrated every day. I am a perfectionist. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

When I see B2B Marketers who have forgotten that we serve customers and create marketing campaigns with little research into customer needs or pains or the words they use to express their pains, it makes me crazy. To share the love. I am frustrated every day. I am a perfectionist. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning B2B 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. I printed this and passed it out during our last sales meeting.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

“As user-generated content becomes a greater part of professional workflow, it is important for B2B marketers to understand not only where their customers are interacting, but also their motivations when they are consuming or participating in these communities.

Social Media 100

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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. Customer lists provide a tremendous opportunity for selling additional solutions and services or upgrades. Create a compelling offer to lock-in your current customers for a longer term.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Think about the entire lifecycle from new product ideas all the way to customer retention. For example, effective demand generation with high quality content that meets customer needs will produce awareness and will drive consideration of your product. It starts with reaching across functional areas.

Planning 100

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

In contrast to traditional marketing methods that aim to increase sales or awareness through interruption techniques, content marketing subscribes to the notion that delivering high-quality, relevant and valuable information to prospects and customers drives profitable consumer action. Use your existing customers as the base.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Content Marketing 100