Wed.Jun 12, 2013

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Why Good Content Delivers Bad Leads

Digital B2B Marketing

'Congratulations, you are a B2B content marketer. You have created a great industry blog and library of premium content. You promote your content through search, social, emails, newsletters, even banners. You are seeing strong traffic, engagement with your blog content and a steady increase in registrations for your premium content. There’s just one little problem: the leads are crap.

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Better Blog Writing: Attract Clients, Make Sure Your Posts Get Read!

Writing on the Web

'Make Sure Your Posts Get Read!" src="[link] width="300" height="300" title="Better Blog Writing: Attract Clients, Make Sure Your Posts Get Read!" /> You want to Engage your Blog Readers and encourage them to subscribe to your blog and become regular visitors. Ideally, you want to attract a large number of hungry customers who are interested in partaking of this written food for the soul, but how can you rise above the constant online buzz to attract attention to your blog post ?

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BANT is Dead -- Find the Authority

Smashmouth Marketing

'Budget, Authority, Need, Timeframe (BANT) qualification is scrambled and outdated. Having budget was important in the days of "Our contract is up for renewal next year, we need budget". But with so many new products and technologies flooding us, from evangelical to emerging to faster and better, Budget not only doesn''t exist, many times those with Authority don''t even know they have a Need or that they need it now.

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Social Competitive Intelligence: One-Up the Competition

Crimson Marketing

'As B2B companies reach new levels of maturity in their social media marketing, the savvy ones recognize the golden opportunity available to them by studying what their key competitors are doing through social competitive intelligence. Many companies maintain focus on their own social efforts and completely ignore those of their competitors. But there is a unique opportunity afforded to those of you who track competitor activity. .

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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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No Lead Left Behind

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

'Author: Bill Binch Little did I know that when I started selling 20 years ago, I’d end up creating, managing, and espousing Service Level Agreements. While SLA’s were normally applied to the tech support world (i.e. priority 1 tickets get a response time in 60 minutes or less, priority 2 in four hours etc), they are a growing presence found in use between marketing and sales departments.

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TheCUBE is Traveling Tech TV

Paul Gillin

'The folks at Wikibon and SiliconANGLE have been traversing the country for the last two years with a cleverly packaged portable streaming video platform they call TheCUBE. They touch down at the site of a technology conference, stake out a couple of hundred square feet of floor space and start pulling in speakers and attendees for interviews. The interviews are streamed live online and archived on the SiliconANGLE Network channel on YouTube.

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It's All in Your Head: 9 Reasons You Can't Resist a List

Hubspot

'I have a friend who works at a very big national publication and is a genius at making lists for the web. Her lists go viral and generate millions (I mean literally millions ) of pageviews. She sees this as a curse. Because she wants to be a “real” journalist, meaning: someone who writes articles. But she''s so good at lists that her editor keeps her doing those instead.

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Kick-start your content marketing creative process

Integrated B2B

'Content marketing is becoming an increasingly important part of any successful online marketing strategy. The majority of big businesses have already bought into the technique, and SMEs are starting to follow suit. The power of content marketing is that it allows you to reach out and connect with your online audience in an informative, entertaining and engaging way.

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What You Need to Know This Morning: June 12, 2013

Hubspot

'Hump day! You''ve lived through the story of that horrible Dunkin'' Donuts woman , and in just several hours (depending on where you are in the world), you''ll have officially made it over the hump of your week. Unless of course you work Tuesdays through Sundays like my husband, in which case you''re not even close. Bummer. Also, it''s really difficult to find an appealing image of a camel (you know -- to perpetuate the hump joke), so I went with a humpback whale instead.

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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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How to Promote Your Content Across Owned, Earned, and Paid Media

Convince & Convert

'Content marketing evangelists have spoken – “Create great content that appeals to your customers and you’ll profit.”. While this is true, marketers often forget the importance of promoting their content – people don’t find content by mistake, or by accident. Every content plan needs a complementary promotion plan that combines paid, owned, and earned media.

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How 7 Experts Solve Their Most Painful Email Marketing Problems

Hubspot

'Planning email marketing campaigns can be, well, a pain. As much as you may love your job, it can still become tedious and difficult to plan email campaign after email campaign. And what happens when you have more emails on your plate than you can manage? I''d guess that a crafty little outbound devil comes and whispers into your ear a slew of easy tactics to get your message out.

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Are You a Good Online Spokesperson For Your Company?

Biznology

'Photo credit: IAEA Imagebank. One of the more astonishing things about the social media revolution is that companies have had to dramatically loosen the reins on employees speaking publicly about their workplace over just the past few years. Until social media and blogging democratized the creation and distribution of online content, companies relied only on company spokespeople, and it was easy to keep a lid on unofficial communications, because there were few channels.