Tue.Apr 23, 2013

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Sales Qualification Isn’t an Event - It’s a Process

ViewPoint

'This article was originally published by Bob Apollo on his blog Accelerating Revenue Growth: the Inflexion-Point Blog. As CEO of UK-based Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners , Bob works with the leadership teams of technology-based B2B-focused companies, enabling them to make the critical connections between their marketing messages, their sales conversations, their true differentiators, and their customer''s priorities.

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8 Steps To Build A Content Hub That Converts [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

'Today’s B2B buyer is overwhelmed with more information than they could ever consume. The last thing they want is to read your product-centric content. Instead, you need to build a content hub that helps your buyers. I have been asked by the good folks behind the B2B Content 2 Conversion Conference to deliver my view on how to build a content marketing hub.

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You’re Not eBay. Why Paid Search Still Makes Sense for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

'A recent study released by eBay, “ Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment ” refutes the value of paid search and claims an overall ineffectiveness both of branded and non-branded keyword ads. Over a specified test period, eBay conducted a series of SEM campaign experiments that stopped running paid queries for brand based keyword strings in search results to determine if organic results picked up the clicks of the forgone advertisements.

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2 Email Campaigns Show How (and How Not) to “Sell” Content

The Point

'Two email campaigns that arrived in my inbox recently serve as useful illustrations of how best to promote informational content. One, a white paper offer from sales tax automation company Avalara , is a plodding recitation of facts that does little to grab the reader. The other, from email marketing software provider ExactTarget , drives action by communicating the value of the content in concise, compelling language.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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You Are Not Building a Community

Digital B2B Marketing

'Picture an old town. There is a town square, a general store, a watering hole or two in the town center and homes scattered beyond. People know each other. More than that, they rely on each other. They gather together in large groups in the town center and in small groups in outlying homes. Now a new family moves to town. They build a specialty store at one end of main street with an apartment above.

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Adopt an Operational Mindset

ANNUITAS

'I have a new hobby. I have a new hobby because the old ones weren’t working for me anymore.

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Unlock the Power of B2B Content Marketing through Video

MLT Creative

'These days, digital strategists know how to incorporate SEO & SEM techniques, build creative & dynamic websites and incorporate social forums such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other. MLT Creative B2B Ideas @ Work Blog. Our ideas, musings, thoughts, reviews on b2b marketing topics.

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Demystifying How Facebook's EdgeRank Algorithm Works [INFOGRAPHIC]

Hubspot

'Aaah. the elusive EdgeRank algorithm. So powerful, yet so misunderstood. But as a marketer, it behooves you to get a handle on how it works, since comScore reports that 40% of the time spent on Facebook is in the News Feed -- and only 12% is spent on profile and brand pages. So exactly what factors does the social network take into consideration when deciding which of your content gets surfaced in a user''s News Feed?

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What eMagine Customers are Saying: Client Recommendations

EMagine B2B Blog

'eMagine is proud to have worked with some of the best and brightest clients on Website Design, Hosting, and Online Marketing in the technology, health care, medical device and other B2B industries. Today we take a look at some client testimonials on our work with them: Tole Keshin VP of Marketing , 3Play Media. “eMagine designed and implemented the 3Play Media website in WordPress.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Facebook Launches New Mobile Design for Business Pages

Hubspot

'If you''re the proud owner of a Facebook business page , your page''s mobile presence is about to get a makeover. Today, Facebook announced some design and layout improvements to the mobile version of Facebook Pages in response to the fact that half of Facebook Page visitors access those pages from their mobile devices. These updates are accessible starting today via mobile browsers and on the Facebook iOS app, with the changes coming soon to the Facebook Android app.

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Integration With iContact Email Marketing Tools

JotForm

iContact is a great email and social marketing service for web sites. Today, we are excited to announce our integration with iContact. You can now setup your forms to send your responses to iContact automatically. Integrating your forms with your iContact account is pretty easy. Open your form.

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3 Tips to Monitor Your Brand Online

Brandfolder

Finding out how people view your brand used to be an expensive, timely undertaking. Between surveys, phone calls, focus groups and questionnaires, you might get enough info to figure out what people.

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Join forces with e-Spirit as one of our North American partners

E-Spirit

Like raising a child, implementing a CMS solution takes a village. In the world of content management systems, that village includes media agencies, integration partners, technology partners, hosting partners and resellers – all of whom must work together to achieve success for each other and for our mutual customers. The starting point for any Web project, be it a corporate website, intranet or extranet is, of course, the CMS itself.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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How to Incorporate Key Performance Indicators Into Your Video Marketing

Convince & Convert

'Recently, we discussed ways to use a call-to-action with videos , but there is one more step to a CTA: measuring its effectiveness. When measuring the success of your video, there are a variety of key performance indicators (KPI) to pay close attention to. A key performance indicator is a tool you use to measure and decide the relative success of your video.

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33 Phenomenal Content Marketing and Copywriting Guides and Tips

Webbiquity

'Content marketing represents the most fundamental and widespread rethinking of marketing practices in decades. Unlike other modifiers attached to the discipline (consumer marketing, b2b marketing, trade show marketing, digital marketing), the term “content marketing” doesn’t describe an audience, tactic, or channel, but rather a completely different approach to marketing.

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What Does a Content Career in Marketing Look Like?

Hubspot

'I graduated from college with a degree in Renaissance literature and European history. Needless to say, I was qualified for nothing. But I thought maybe a career in academic publishing made sense, and wouldn''t be that hard to come by. Quite wrong, evidently (and in retrospect, quite obviously). A few months later, following a deafening silence from every publishing company in the area, I had me some bills to pay.

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Blogger outreach is more PR than social media

Biznology

'The current catch-all these days for what I do is social media; unfortunately, when what you do is described as social media, people tend to think Facebook , Twitter , Pinterest , and maybe Google+. My expertise, however, is online community outreach and engagement. Back in 2006 I developed a strategy of blogger outreach that allowed my to reach out to more than just 25 top-tier bloggers by hand over time but to 2,500-5,000 bloggers.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.