Wed.Jun 11, 2014

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My Next Adventure In Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

'I am very excited to announce today that after nearly 7 years at SAP , I am taking a big step in my journey. When I moved from sales into marketing, my aim was to help more customers – more than one at a time. I have talked about how I believe marketing has a marketing problem. And so I am leaving one amazing company and joining another with the goal of helping more brands create content that customers actually want, to engage with new potential buyers, to build trust and to forge new rel

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Digital Marketing’s Massive Measurement Lies

Digital B2B Marketing

'Digital marketers are getting hooked on reporting bigger numbers, but in the process your marketing may actually be making a smaller and smaller impact. Marketers are making a land grab, including in their reporting big swaths of results that were not driven by their marketing efforts. Many even count the same results twice, all to show that marketing is contributing to results.

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For Sales Blogging and Social Selling – Think Like a Publisher

Avitage

'The practice of social selling has crossed the chasm and entered the tornado stage. (Huffington Post, see Mike Kunkle’s excellent webinar) To fuel this content dependent activity, many are urging sales people to blog, and to become thought leaders. (Lori Richardson, John Jantsch, ITSMA) This is a logical extension from a belief that sales people must think more like marketers.

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Are You Ready for Big Data Marketing?

Biznology

'Yesterday, I presented a webinar about how Big Data has already changed marketing. All the cool kids are talking about Big Data–are you feeling left out? Or hoping it’s another shiny fad that will fade? Big Data is changing marketing irrevocably, like a tsunami disrupting both fundamentals and process, and it’s only just started. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Why Big Data is not a prediction, but a fact.

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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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How to Make Sure Your Emails Land in Gmail’s Primary Inbox

Convince & Convert

'It’s amazing how fads come in go when it comes to methods in bringing in traffic to your site. With social media at it’s peak, the hype has gone wild about how social media determines traffic now days. But you’re smarter than that, and we know where it’s truly at, and that’s your email list. The money is in the list. Unfortunately, there are some challenges with making sure your emails reach your intended recipient.

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How to Run Successful Campaigns on Google+

Convince & Convert

'Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working on the best practices for running campaigns on Google+ and how, as Chris Brogan would say, we can make our buyers the hero of the story. Google+ campaigns are a great way of building trust and relationships with the people who may well become your brand advocates. Campaigns create movements. If you want to be a movement maker, then keep reading.

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The Best Marketing Automation Software

SugarCRM

'The post The Best Marketing Automation Software appeared first on Marketing Automation | Lead Generation | Email Marketing | Salesfusion.

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The Making of Visible Experts: A Path for Seller-Doers in A/E/C

Hinge Marketing

'The seller-doer model is once again gaining traction in A/E/C firms. Some in the industry would even argue that it never left the industry. Semantics aside, how prepared are the seller-doers in your firm? Seller-doers are those individuals that not only build business for their firms but are also technical professionals. The technical professionals are often the same ones delivering on the work.

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When "Good Enough" Is Good Enough

Hubspot

'“Is this good enough?” It’s a question that has at one time or another haunted us all. It''s unique in its ability to be both universally familiar and individually personal due to the way it transcends industries, job descriptions, and skillsets, yet simultaneously elicits in each of us a certain degree of emotional conflict. It’s a question that undoubtedly deserves an answer, or at the very least an exploration, and that is precisely what I hope to accomplish in this a

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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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Developing a Social Media Plan For Your Indirect Channel

Computer Market Research

Social Media – it’s the enterprise buzz word of the decade. More often than not you’ll hear some industry leader boast about the value of using social media for business. You may even hear about companies that have succeeded in acquiring customers from social media itself. However, there’s an inherent difficulty when incorporating social media into a partner relationship management strategy.

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The Problem With Predictive Analytics

Hubspot

'Let''s pretend you need to close 30 more customers to hit your sales target. Luckily, you just so happen to have a whitepaper with a customer close rate of 30%. You might assume that if you get 100 more people to download that whitepaper, you’ll get 30 more customers and everything will be gravy -- because based on its past performance, that''s the outcome you can expect.