markempa

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Last week, I was a speaker at MarketingSherpa's B2B Summit in San Francisco. I had a great time learning and connecting with fellow attendees. For me, the most valuable part of attending was hearing what other marketers are doing to drive results in their companies. If you didn't get a chance to attend last week's event here's a summary by the Sherpa team on 8 things you can focus on to improve your lead generation results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It’s not that I’m obsessive, but just to gnaw a bit more on last week’s bone about the coming unification of Web and other marketing data. - a recent survey sponsored by enterprise marketing automation vendor Unica found that “integration with other marketing solutions” was the most commonly cited web analytics challenge (46%). This was followed by “verifying accuracy of data (inflation/deflation)” (41%) and “not comprehensive/missing types of data” (32%).

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WriteSpark

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

In October 2009, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to issue new guidelines for disclosure about a company's use of the testimonials and endorsements received from both customers and expert reviewers. These guidelines present a reminder to all marketers, in the United States and elsewhere, about reviewing your practices and disclosures for using case studies, customer quotes, excerpts from analyst reports, and other content that could be considered a testimonial for your product

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. Next week, Oct. 5 and 6, will be the Boston summit. Find me there and say hello. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

When it comes to content marketing, the power of one simple habit is often forgotten. If you're consistent and genuine, commenting on other blogs and websites is an efficient way to highlight your own content and, more importantly, build relationships and reputation. In a funny guest post on Problogger.net , Josh Hanagarne aka World’s Strongest Librarian , talks about how he has gone from being a commenting skeptic to a believer.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This is the fourth installment in an eight-part series I’m calling the ‘Lead Generation Checklist.’ With each post, I’m addressing a step that in my experience helps improve lead generation efforts. For the first post, I focused changing your mindset to focus on conversations not campaigns. In Step Two, I discussed how to align sales and marketing as one team.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Summary: Acxiom's new social media marketing tool gathers public data about social media links and uses it to segment email lists. It's a different, and arguably more practical, approach to helping marketers take advantage of social media. Acxiom last week released a new “social media marketing” solution called Relevance-X Social. The press release is frustratingly vague (“With the ability to engage socially active customers and prospects in their preferred networks, marketers can link that know

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

1. Title your posts for Google and Twitter. Forget nuance. If your blog post showed up in a Google listing, would someone click on it? Is it short (well short of 140 characters) so that someone can easily retweet it without editing? Does it immediately communicate, in specific, tangible terms, what the [.]. Tags: B2B Marketing Blogs Social Media blog marketing lead generation b2b demand generation b2b lead generation Demand Generation.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. Next week, Oct 5 and 6, will be the Boston summit. Find me there and say hello. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2 One of the speakers was Kim Albee, President of Genoo , a provider of online marketing tools.

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B2B Marketing Traction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

2 weeks ago my sons and I had the opportunity to assist at the U.S. Disabled Championship regatta which was being held right here in Greenwich CT. What we thought would be just a weekend filled with helping sailors get into and out of their boats quickly became much more. What we saw not only impressed us but will leave a lasting impression on us for years to come.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I was somewhat shocked to find out that my 14-year-old daughter had searched YouTube recently for any mention of her dear old dad. She stumbled across a video that included a recent mention of my book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. (Isn’t it just amazing how easy it is in today’s world for our children to get the goods on their parents? It’s something that my generation will never quite adjust to.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Summary: RightNow has extended its social media footprint by purchasing HiveLive, which lets companies build public and private communities. It also released a benchmark survey showing that online channels (email, chat, Web self-service) don't do much to reduce customer service telephone calls. In keeping with my recent posts about broader utilization of social media, I had a chat earlier this week with on-demand CRM vendor RightNow , who updated me on their recent purchase of HiveLive.

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Chris Koch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I helped host an ITSMA round table this week and a near universal complaint from our B2B technology clients was how difficult it is to launch new services in a fast, efficient way. One client summed it up by saying that there are two points of resistance in the process of bringing new things to market. The first comes at the beginning of the process—the “why” battle—where everyone takes pot shots at the new idea.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

This past week Joe Galvin of SiriusDecisions released a study titled " The Rapid Rise of Inside Sales." It shows that Inside Sales teams are overcoming the stigma of a support team and becoming more of a front-line, quota-bearing piece of critical sales strategies. Although buyers are used to traditional relationships with a field rep, the study says, "S ome customers initially perceived the coverage change to an inside rep as being relegated to a lesser status.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking More Free Marketing Training Who doesn’t like free stuff? I sure do, especially when it comes to marketing. That’s why I’m eager to check out two resources: MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World The folks at MarketingProfs held an online trade show that had a great speaker lineup and relevant topics for those in the online world, being very focused on tac

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

“Where do I start?” is the question I get asked most by attendees of the MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit in San Francisco. Marketing Automation is still very new for many companies, and it’s not immediately obvious how you can get started step-by-step. In this post I listed 8 ideas to address this question (and feel free to share yours in the comments!).

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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.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

So, you've put a lot of effort into your lead generation process, and you have a great lead in your hand. Now, what can you do to improve your probability of making a profitable sale from it? Michael McLaughlin , addresses this issue in his new book, "Winning the Professional Services Sale." And, it’s the subtitle that got my attention: "Unconventional Strategies to Reach More Clients, Land Profitable Work, and Maintain Your Sanity." What I really like about Michael is that h

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Summary: Adobe's agreement to purchase Omniture illustrates the on-going convergence of Web content management and Web analytics systems. This puts pressure on marketing automation vendors, who also want to provide Web analytics and content management, and who are already being pressed by customer relationship management (CRM) vendors. That's a pretty unpleasant position.

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Chris Koch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I helped host an ITSMA round table this week and a near universal complaint from our B2B technology clients was how difficult it is to launch new services in a fast, efficient way. One client summed it up by saying that there are two points of resistance in the process of bringing new things to market. The first comes at the beginning of the process—the “why” battle—where everyone takes pot shots at the new idea.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

This past week Joe Galvin of SiriusDecisions released a study titled " The Rapid Rise of Inside Sales." It shows that Inside Sales teams are overcoming the stigma of a support team and becoming more of a front-line, quota-bearing piece of critical sales strategies. Although buyers are used to traditional relationships with a field rep, the study says, "S ome customers initially perceived the coverage change to an inside rep as being relegated to a lesser status.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There's a big difference between getting publicity and getting productive, reveals Wendy Piersall , founder of Sparkplugging.com , a blog network that focuses on work-at-home resources for solo business owners. Sure, it sounds great to be able to say you've been interviewed by so-and-so, or featured on such-and-such. That you're this close to getting on Oprah.

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LeadSloth

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

LeadSloth Marketing Automation Blog – Survey Results. About two weeks ago I posted a survey that asked the LeadSloth readers what they wanted to read about. As it goes with surveys, it took some effort to get people to fill it out. But this week it reached critical mass, so I was able to draw some interesting conclusions. The Most Requested Topics. The top 6 topics mentioned in the survey were: Metrics & ROI.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I’ve started an eight-part series I’m calling the ‘Lead Generation Checklist.’ Each post in the series addresses a step that in my experience helps improve lead generation efforts. The first installment discussed changing your mindset to focus on conversations not campaigns. In Step Two, I discussed how to align sales and marketing as one team. I’ve received a lot of great comments from these posts, and I hope you will refer back to them so you can benefit from the nuggets of wisdom by your fell

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

My son works as a sports researcher at a cable television network. His job seems mainly to be looking things up in online databases and, on broadcast days, watching several games simultaneously. It's nice work if you can get it. In terms of technology, Microsoft Word and Excel meet most of his needs. But I did introduce him to QlikView several years back, and he learned enough to analyze statistics for his college basketball team.

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Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One assumes that in this upcoming training workshop from TechTarget, one of the “common mistakes to avoid” will be: If you’re going to insert variable information (i.e. company name) into a subject line, make darn sure that a) your data is accurate, and that b) the fields actually contain the information you want. BEA Systems was a [.]. Tags: B2B Marketing email marketing lead generation email design techtarget.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

RoyHP : Collaborate with Data Analysts: 4 Strategies to Improve Relationships with IT [link] MarketingSherpa. mvolpe : "design your website first for search engines" use the free tool [link] to check how you are doing #sherpab2b09. NetSuite_Mei : Focus on providing valuable content on your website to drive traffic #sherpab2b09. mvolpe : I agree!! "you can make your website as pretty as you want, but if search engines don't list you, no one finds it" #sherpab2b09. ajdun : Jaren Green: "Not everyo

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I was introduced to Jonathan Kranz by Michele Linn a few months back. Both Jonathan and Michele are regular contributors to our ClickInsights Case Study Experts Interview Series. Jonathan Kranz is the principal of Kranz Communications and a 13-year copywriting veteran. His guest post today focuses on his eBook on case studies - Making Your Case: Everything you and your colleagues need to write compelling, lead-generating case studies (which has a fresh new look!).

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