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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

It was Frank Sinatra singing “ White Christmas “ It’s a great time to be a marketer: Toys R’ Us sent their first toy catalogue this past weekend. Plus one shameless backlink to a story of my own on marketing planning. Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. And I agree with Craig Rosenberg at Focus, that “every organization should make the effort to depict its revenue funnel on one page. To our customers there is no funnel.

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JULY 6, 2010

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Learn more at: [link].

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JUNE 29, 2010

The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals. Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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JUNE 9, 2010

Now like many marketers currently experiencing a similar situation, you probably immediately thought “why me?” According to Duct Tape Marketing , social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration? We need to be speed racers.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Related Posts: Why am I in Marketing? This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Related Posts: Why am I in Marketing? This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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JULY 21, 2010

The study shows that there are specific keyword combinations used dependent upon the buying stage of the person searching on Google. While this study was focused on IT Buyers, the implications for the B2B Marketer should be relevant across the prospect universe no matter which industries you serve. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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JUNE 22, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 22, 2010 1 Subscribe 10 Reasons Why Mobile is Hot! Summit Holy Cow! Need to Drive Leads?

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JULY 1, 2010

It includes an excellent overview of how to maximize your Twitter searches to identify prospects. Social Media Tips for Marketers The highlight of this article is the section on “The Art of Conversation” from Jason Falls, who shares essential tips for everyone that is looking to participate in social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 19, 2010 2 Subscribe Life Is Short! Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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JULY 15, 2010

To summarize my answer: As sales’ priorities shift over time from quantity at the beginning of a quarter to closing deals on quality leads at the end of quarter, marketing needs to have the flexibility to turn those dials as needed to meet the needs of the sales team. How to implement lead generation programs on a small business budget?

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 5, 2010 Subscribe Holy Cow! But what does this mean for the B2B Marketer?

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AUGUST 26, 2010

It includes an excellent overview of how to maximize your Twitter searches to identify prospects. Social Media Tips for Marketers The highlight of this article is the section on “The Art of Conversation” from Jason Falls, who shares essential tips for everyone that is looking to participate in social media.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. 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. First is “ Marketing Can Do Better &# by Umair Haque.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Late last week, I responded to a post by my new friend Adam Needles, VP Marketing of Left Brain Marketing.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

And what role do marketers play in cultivating the brand and maintaining some level of consistency in our brand image? While this sounds very much like the common definition for Integrated Marketing Communications, the author is suggesting that we need to go farther and deeper in coordinating marketing plans.

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JUNE 24, 2010

What does all this mean to the B2B marketer? I will suggest the top 6 opportunities for mobile marketing and the steps you should take now. With this list of opportunities to consider and steps to take, you are now ready to show your peers you are ahead of the game with the next hottest trend in marketing. Need to Drive Leads?

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JUNE 3, 2010

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. Market to them and never forget that even in B2B, human beings still make the decisions. Instead create personas of people that buy your solutions or products.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2010

And fields overflowing with the weeds of bad ideas grown from the seeds of false assumptions… A couple of months ago I experimented with a blog rant on Whatever Happened To Marketing Strategy. It wasn’t inspired by anything other than the main challenges of my peers across the diverse world of corporate B2B Marketing.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?!

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

I wish I knew all the secrets so I could transform the world of B2B Marketing forever with a tell-all book. What I do know is that B2B Marketers have a ton of options today. In this post, I will offer a preview of the thoughts I will deliver during the Focus Interactive Summit on Progressive B2B Marketing. It used to be so easy.

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MAY 3, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy May 4, 2010 7 Subscribe Why am I in Marketing? To introduce myself.

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MAY 3, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy May 4, 2010 7 Subscribe Why am I in Marketing? To introduce myself.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

You can view all the articles posted on socialmedia.org and also in the “Social Media&# category of B2C Marketing Insider. A common theme: almost all the presentations highlighted the importance of identifying and working with the top influencers in your target market as a key starting point and component of success.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 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. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" Your statistics back up my thinking!

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AUGUST 24, 2010

While marketers have embraced these chats as a way of connecting with fellow marketers and sharing ideas, companies/brands have been relatively non-existent in these conversations. This has resulted in marketers focusing on trying to enlist these individuals to become brand advocates. What do you think?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

At the same time, it is just another marketing channel. The reason I believe marketers are so confused about social media is because of this paradox. In the past, I have written about the challenges of Social Media and The Brand , the power of Integrating Social Media and Search and asked Why Do You Tweet?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

Okay, so my objectives for B2B Marketing Insider are: Have a stake in my personal brand’s online presence. Plus, unfortunately, there are a few more well published and highly controversial “Michael Brenners&# out there to occupy the top spot in searches. I am in Marketing so, yes, this is my ego objective.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

Okay, so my objectives for B2B Marketing Insider are: Have a stake in my personal brand’s online presence. Plus, unfortunately, there are a few more well published and highly controversial “Michael Brenners&# out there to occupy the top spot in searches. I am in Marketing so, yes, this is my ego objective.

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JULY 13, 2010

In this post I will review a whitepaper produced last month by Toolbox.com in conjunction with PJA Advertising + Marketing called “ Top 5 Trends in B2B Social Media Usage: What Every Marketer Should Know “ (registration required) on social media usage. and “ what can we achieve ?”

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JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? So what’s a marketer to do?

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