Sat.Aug 20, 2011 - Fri.Aug 26, 2011

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Get on the fast track to meet, exceed end-of-year goals

markempa

Tweet The graph at right, published in MarketingSherpa’s 2011 Benchmark Report , provides a snapshot of what marketers care about most. And it’s very telling, especially now. As we approach the fourth quarter, I am acutely aware of why marketers believe generating better leads is a higher priority than generating more leads. In an economy that’s more precarious than ever, there’s simply no room to waste time, budget or resources.

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

Webbiquity

Every blogger wants more traffic. How to get it? The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. So where does blog traffic come from, and how does this change over time? Looking at data from the Webbiquity blog, several trends are apparent. This B2B blog isn’t necessarily representative of all blogs of course, but the trends likely aren’t much different for many business blogs.

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Help Our Client Choose a Home Page (Poll)

The Point

Your opinion is needed! One of our B2C clients, Elegant Clutter , is a boutique furniture and home accessories store in Danville, California. Spear is designing a new Website for the company and the client is having a hard time choosing between two home page designs. Just click on the thumbnails below to view the two designs and then vote for your favorite using our instant poll.

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4 Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation

ViewPoint

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. To learn more about The Annuitas Group and their proprietary methodology, the Lead Management Framework™ , go to [link]. Well, we’re in the dog days of August. For many, the planning for 2012 starts next month, right after Labor Day.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Make Lead Nurturing Work For You

Marketing Insider Group

The role of lead nurturing is specifically to move the prospect forward and give information, when they want it, and in a format that they want it in through “calls to action.”. A good lead nurture campaign has many components but the top four are Organization , Consistency , Segmented Database , and Content. Organization – How do you know who you have contacted with, how, when, and what was their response?

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Get Personal: 5 Tips for Putting YOU in Your Blog

Writing on the Web

If you’re writing for your business, how much of yourself should you include? Everyone agrees that blogs are a place to have a conversation. How personal should you be? How do you keep the YOU in Business Blogging and still make it work for business? There’s an ongoing trend to be personal with business communications. Rohit Bhargava’s written a whole book about it, filled with examples of how companies are successfully using personalities to market their business products an

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SEO and Content Marketing Work Together

NuSpark Consulting

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the unique mix of art and science with the ultimate goal to showcase your firm on Google’s first page when users query a term that your firm provides as an answer to that query. However, from a lead generation standpoint, the mechanisms of lead capture for SEO are different from pay per click. Here’s the difference: Tactic Theme Destination Key.

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3 factors in winning the social media horse race

Chris Koch

Seems everyone has an opinion about Google’s G+. And as usual in a situation where little data exists (yet) to support fact-based opinions, most of them are extreme. Some say G+ is dead in the water because it hasn’t generated the mad rush that Facebook did and that growth and use is already starting to slow. Others say that G+ will rule because of its integration with Google’s other tools like Android, Gmail, Docs, and its media properties like YouTube and Google Music —in other words, the colo

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Buyer Personas Require Regular Refreshing

Tony Zambito

Image by zilver pics via Flickr. During a series of articles entitled The Future of Buyer Personas is Social , I referenced several times that the social age will cause a rethinking of buyer persona research and development.   One new important principle is the need to change from a static perspective of buyer personas to an ongoing refreshment of buyer personas.  The constant evolution of buyer behavior is the primary driver behind this principle.  A realization is settl

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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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Does Your Blog Post Answer These 4 Questions?

Writing on the Web

This is important: You want your blog posts to educate, entertain, engage, and enrich readers of your business blog. Aim for all four of these goals when blog writing, and you can’t go wrong. What do you need to remember when writing a post that’s designed to educate ? I wrote about that here: Educate Your Readers , about the four different learning styles of blog readers.

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SEO and Content Marketing Work Together

NuSpark Consulting

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the unique mix of art and science with the ultimate goal to showcase your firm on Google’s first page when users query a term that your firm provides as an answer to that query. However, from a lead generation standpoint, the mechanisms of lead capture for SEO are different from pay per click. Here’s the difference: Tactic Theme Destination Key.

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Affiliate Summit East: How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent several hours this morning at the Affiliate Summit East in New York. This is a corner of the direct marketing industry I haven't examined in depth although it overlaps with lead generation, online advertising, and performance measurement segments I know well. The exhibit hall was enticingly crammed with unfamiliar vendors, although I saw enough to identify a few general categories: offer aggregators who bring together products for affiliates to sell; network providers who assemble audien

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Target your Twitter audiences using a theory of everyone

Biznology

Well, as you all know who read this blog, I am a Cluetrainian.This means I put more trust in the value and impact of the online influencer long tail than I do in the impact of the couple-dozen top-influencers that most social media consultants and digital PR teams recommend. This is the Internet, an efficient [.].

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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The Results Are In…And They’re Not Pretty

ANNUITAS

Over the last week Demand Gen Report & Televerde published reports which reviewed the performance of B2B marketing and sales teams. The results are far from attractive and show that many companies are still lagging far behind. A few highlights from the two studies include: 40% of the respondents did not know their conversion metrics or indicated that their metrics were not applicable or calculable. 61% of the respondents recognize lead leakage as a problem within their organizations. 89%

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Marketing Automation: What Is It & Why Do I Care? (Webinar)

The Point

Do you feign understanding when your CEO talks about “sales and marketing alignment”? Unclear on the difference between lead management and revenue cycle management? Horrified at the responsibility of investigating marketing automation solutions for your company? In a recent study, Marketing Sherpa reported that 54 percent of CMOs have either begun or implemented marketing automation , but that still means almost half of all CMOs (and I suspect the actual percentage is much higher) have yet to t

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Content Curation – 5 Ways to Succeed…Eventually

Convince & Convert

Content curation is the art and science of finding and sharing quality content on a specific topic. Curation helps you build an audience. You then have a larger group of people with whom to share your own content, and who can spread the word. Many among the Twitterati have built their followings in large part through content curation. Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer publicly states his Twitter strategy is “find good shit and share it.

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Can’t Buy Me (Social Media) Love!

Digital B2B Marketing

In social media, marketers buy attention with promotions or discounts. And research shows consumers expect this from marketers. 44% connect with brands on Twitter for discounts ( source ). The problem is, buying attention is an old school mindset, plopped into a new communication paradigm. For social media to become an important part of the marketing mix and create loyal customers, it cannot continue to rely on tactics that reinforce consumer price sensitivity.

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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Should You Blog on Your Website or a Separate Site?

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. As a Marketing Consultant I am frequently asked if businesses should blog on their website or create a separate site with a different domain name and URL. I’ve heard many different answers over the past few years, so I decided to research some expert opinions online. My conclusion is that as long as you are blogging about your company, industry, products and services, you should set up the blog within your business website to add valuable relevant content and drive more traffic to

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Hire an SEO Specialist, Not a Marketing Generalist

Biznology

What some marketing companies don’t seem to understand is that they can’t be good at everything. As Internet marketing takes off and traditional offline marketing like print and PR suffers, generalist marketing companies think that they too, can throw their hat into the SEO ring. They think that they have enough of a marketing background [.].

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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

I was privileged to be on a panel with some outstanding social media practitioners from the insurance industry at the 2011 Social Media Conference for Financial Services put on by LOMA LIMRA this morning. Financial services firms – and insurance companies in general – are often seen as boring, but what these companies are doing within the confines of a heavily regulated business is anything but that.

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3 Questions For When Mobile is the First Screen

Digital B2B Marketing

Mobile devices are expected to be the primary mode of internet access in the next three years. This is worth saying again: Your company’s digital experience will be primarily via mobile devices. The current response from marketing falls woefully short of where they need to be in a few short months. Discussions of mobile marketing quickly turn to apps, mobile sites and how to make content mobile-friendly.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Why a Facebook Company Page Makes You Less of a Dinosaur

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. When you create a company page on Facebook, you create an instant emotional connection with customers, prospects, employees and website visitors. Why? Because those who spend time on Facebook either like or love the brand. And today over 750 million people spend time on Facebook. The largest group on Facebook are from 18 to 34 in age. For all ages, but especially if you have any customers and employees who are 18-34 in age, Facebook can be a cost-effective way to create awareness of your

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Social Media Events Calendar and Advice Guide

Convince & Convert

The social media events season is again upon us. It’s going to be an exciting Fall for me, as I hit the road to talk about The NOW Revolution and other aspects of social media and content marketing. I’m often asked what social media events I recommend. It’s a tougher question than it seems because there are many events I’ve never attended, and what you take away from an event is often – I find – driven by three things: 1.

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MarketingProfs Blog – Lessons from Bono

ANNUITAS

My younger brother once had the rare opportunity to spend time with Bono, the lead singer for the Irish rock band U2. Bono seemed genuinely interested and to quote my brother, “He didn’t break eye contact and his demeanor showed that he was genuinely interested in learning about me.”. The same dynamic applies in the buyer and seller world. I often find it ironic when buyers are shocked when a seller seems genuinely interested in them.

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3 Questions For When Mobile is the First Screen

Digital B2B Marketing

Mobile devices are expected to be the primary mode of internet access in the next three years. This is worth saying again: Your company’s digital experience will be primarily via mobile devices. The current response from marketing falls woefully short of where they need to be in a few short months. Discussions of mobile marketing [.].

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Solving the Biggest Tech Challenges in RevOps

In this eBook, we’ll run through real-world examples that show how RevOps teams can benefit from modern solutions for the access, management, and activation of their GTM data. Whether you need to improve lead response times, boost adoption of core tools, improve lead qualification, or target and automate your GTM motions, you’ll find examples of how revenue teams are solving some of the toughest problems in modern business.

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Apple’s Marketing Genius

The Effective Marketer

With Steve Jobs stepping down from the CEO post at Apple, is inevitable we look back at the history of such an iconic company. Marketing, at Apple, has always been a differentiating point and key to their eventual dominance of the electronics consumer market and their resurrection in the personal computer industry. While Brand Republic’s post “ Appointment to view: Apple’s History of Marketing ” takes us back to the early days of Apple advertising the Apple-1 in 1976 until today’s iPad commercia

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Is Technology Ruining Online Community

Convince & Convert

Online community and our lust for it is at its apex. Companies of every size and description are pondering ways to engage with customers, and interact with their fans. But the big miss in many cases is social media staffing. It’s difficult to recall the age of not-so-long-ago when we didn’t even have websites, much less email newsletters or Facebook pages for our businesses, and other flavors of social media.

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3 factors in winning the social media horse race

Chris Koch

Seems everyone has an opinion about Google’s G+. And as usual in a situation where little data exists (yet) to support fact-based opinions, most of them are extreme. Some say G+ is dead in the water because it hasn’t generated the mad rush that Facebook did and that growth and use is already starting to slow. Others say that G+ will rule because of its integration with Google’s other tools like Android, Gmail, Docs, and its media properties like YouTube and Google Music —in other words, the colo