Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I just had to have one and it killed me that it took a week to get one when it first hit the market. There is a customer service lesson in here for all B2C and B2B Marketers – this is the type of support customers are expecting today on the social web. I have been an avid iPhone user almost since the day it came out. Bravo AT&T!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 25, 2010

But in the economic situation that many companies find themselves in these days you typically see cost cutting exercises across all departments and mainly those dubbed as cost centers such as Marketing and Customer Service. It pays to provide Support with Social Media In a recent Forrester Report on “Customer Experience Pays Off.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Forrester Research has named Nielsen a leader in brand monitoring solutions, saying “the vendor has the strongest strategic vision and currently competes at a scale unmatched by any other competitor.&#. It provides capabilities for capturing customer insights, response, brand management and social media outreach tracking. Tweet This!

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. " in the marketing mix.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

unemployment rate still near 10%, and uncertain prospects for a quick recovery , marketers need to keep two things in mind. First, that it’s important to continue investing in marketing through the downturn. The bottom line is that it’s critical to continue marketing through economic downturns.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Marketing IT. To combat this, Brad DeLong, CIO for Orix Capital Markets (a division of Orix USA), seeks out the people he calls the groups "emotional leaders.". Comments Digg This. IBM Using Chocolate to Capture African Market. Search Engine Marketing. Forrester Wave: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. It’s too confusing to have a strategy that targets advocates AND people that have never heard of you. That would be two strategies, not one. How Does Your Audience Use Social Media?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I think it is fair to say that Social Media has hit the mainstream these days but the big concern on every B2B Marketers mind has been where is the ROI? As a result I hear of many Social “science experiments” going on across several organizations that may or may not yield the results the marketer is hoping for. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Forrester recently released a report by Laura Ramos and Augie Ray on How to Assess the Impact of Social Media in B2B Tech Marketing. While B2B marketers have been ramping up social media activities over the past 18 months, not all are seeing the outcomes they’d hoped for. Coordinate efforts.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

How 30 minutes a day can result in 250 inbound links by Search Engine Marketing Exposed Anthony Kirlew , a.k.a. How Can Marketers Harness The Social Web? by NxtERA Marketing Blog Ex-Forrester VP Elana Anderson provides five strategies marketers can use to harness, rather than manage, the social web for the benefit of their brands.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. This post suggests that marketers should focus on a different ROI when calculating the value of social media efforts: “return on insight.&# Is Your Online Marketing Strategy All Tweet and No Meat?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 15, 2010

It’s that WOW or should I say WOM that enhanced the value of their marketing and attracted a player like Amazon. Let’s face it, if you successfully implement social customer service, your customer service organization will be engaged with your customer more often and more frequently than traditional marketing channels. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

In a recent Forrester Report on “ Customer Experience Pays Off as Social Media reduces Obstacles for Real Change ” they have really nailed down the argument I have been making over the last year about why Support is the single best place to build your business case for Social Media. Every Industry! Share this on del.icio.us.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 19, 2010

Not only that but a recent Forrester study showed that customers actually prefer a better customer experience compared to everyday low prices, and moreover great customer experiences drive positive word of mouth (WOM). Related posts: It pays to provide Support with Social Media In a recent Forrester Report on “Customer Experience Pays Off.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 2, 2010

Much has been written about content marketing from the delivery side. A B2B Marketer’s Guide to Great Facebook Pages from HubSpot (29 pages). Social Media Marketing GPS (91 pages). Insights from more than three dozen social media marketing experts including Ann Handley, Marc Meyer, B.L.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Marketing IT. Digg this Slashdot Reddit. It is their older peers that I have to repeat that lesson too (no printing the actual network diagram, complete with FW locations and IP addresses on marketing brochures; no giving away product roadmaps at Trade Shows.). Risk Management. Knowledge Management. Compliance. Collaboration.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing for March 2010. We’ve hit a new low: The shittiest social media marketing plan ever - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , March 10, 2010 A local news and media company is getting into the social media consulting business. March 2010.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Build A Great B2B Search Engine Marketing Campaign by The Milwaukee SEO. This is geekier than even most search marketers will go, but can supply valuable insights. This is geekier than even most search marketers will go, but can supply valuable insights. Domain Name Forwarding and Search Engines by Best Domain Names.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? 59% are on Twitter, and 43% use a company blog for marketing.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), How do social media marketing strategies in small businesses differ from those in larger enterprises? Social Media Facts and Stats.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc. 85% of Inc.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Replicate the approach using your own market segment, competitors and marketing partners. Wall Street Journal –Blogs: 30 blogs –Twitter: Hot news –LinkedIn: Company profile –Facebook: Fan page, cross-posts with Digg. EE Times –Blogs: 10 Blogs –Twitter: Hot news; LinkedIn: Company profile, event marketing.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. How are marketers planning to allocate budgets this year? How do B2B social media marketing practices differ from B2C companies?

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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