Sat.Nov 12, 2011 - Fri.Nov 18, 2011

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Marketers Do a Bad Job Selecting Marketing Automation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

I presented my Seven Deadly Sins of Marketing Automation Software Selection during last week’s Webinar with Neolane. (To replay the Webinar, click here.) If you’re wondering how many companies actually commit those sins, the sad answer is: a lot. Here are some statistics. About half of buyers consider only one system , I’m told by various vendors. Some may have known exactly what they needed in advance, but the great majority are just buying the first system that seems to do what they need.

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12 Ways to Avoid Being a Dork on Twitter

Webbiquity

Note: a version of this original post appeared previously on the B2B Twitterer of the Year (B2BTOTY) blog. If you regularly read blogs like this, you’re probably already a Twitter pro. This post will be review for you. But, you also almost certainly come across new followers and others who haven’t attained your level of expertise. You know the type.

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The Death of SEO

Tomorrow People

SEO: never done and dusted. “We did all our SEO marketing last year. We just sat down one evening, looked up some keywords and added them to our site. So our SEO is done and dusted.” It’s a common claim amongst business-owners and it’s one of the reasons that many businesses are still missing out when it comes to website SEO.

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Romi Mahajan leaves Microsoft to Join Metavana as CMO

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Long time friend and well respected CMO buddy of mine Romi Mahajan is leaving Microsoft to join Metavana. Romi has been profiled on my blog several times so its only fitting that reached out to find out why. What follows is a transcript of what I learned. Q: Thanks for taking the time to chat with me Romi, I’ve been a fan of your blogging on ResearchAccess for quite some time and it’s great to finally have a chance to reconnect.

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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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Marketo Raises Another $50 Million: Where Does the Money Go?

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo this morning announced a new $50 million funding round, almost exactly one year to the day after raising $25 million in November 2010. In accompanying commentary, the company also revealed its 2010 revenue was $14 million, that it expects 140% revenue growth in 2011 (meaning about $34 million), and that it has about $70 million remaining of its total $107 million raised to date.

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Why SEO Is About More Than Just Keywords

Tomorrow People

SEO: Much more than just keywords. SEO is now a well known aspect of marketing. The rise and rise of search engines and the growth of the internet mean that companies are keen to get in on the act. But while SEO is well recognised as a valuable source of revenue and reputation, a lot of business-owners and marketers still overlook the all-important detail in achieving results from SEO marketing.

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New eBook: Pay-Per-Click for B2B Lead Generation; The Ultimate Guide to Paid Search

NuSpark Consulting

So I was reading with some interest the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report from Marketing Sherpa because I always like to see B2B marketers’ top challenges in their businesses, which not surprisingly, is generating quality leads. 78% of their biggest challenge is generating quality leads. Second on the list is generating a high volume of leads; 49%.

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Vendor Selection: Writing a Good Requirements Document

Customer Experience Matrix

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. How did we come to this? I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Remember all that yammering about how today’s buyers do their own research, don’t talk to sales until late in the process, and get their information from social media rather than experts?

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Making Marketing Agility Cool

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Chief Marketing Officers take pride in being the trendsetters around the corporate corral – the arbiters of hip, the sharpest dressers, the consummate gadgeteers. But when it comes to using data to support decision making, the CMO is likely not to be the smoothest operator. Each year the Marketing team works hard to distill consumer insights into planning documents that will guide its programs in the months ahead.

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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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Why Businesses Are Failing to Get Results with SEO Marketing?

Tomorrow People

SEO: dead weight or dead cert? In just a few years SEO marketing has grown from an unknown quantity into a staple of marketing activity for many businesses. But do companies actually know what they’re taking on when they reach for SEO or ring that SEO agency for help? SEO is a great example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. Even more so in the light of ongoing developments in search engines and search marketing.

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No Leads from Social Media? No Excuses.

The Point

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns. At first blush, that number is pretty startling, but on reflection, it really shouldn’t be too surprising.

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Marketing Automation Selection: Finding a Future-Safe Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketers can do a better job of picking their marketing automation vendors if they roll up their sleeves and work at it. I wrote yesterday about building a requirements document to define the features you'll look for. But you also need a vendor who will support your long-term success. Here are some ways to identify a “future-safe” vendor. Past innovations: a history of advanced thinking shows the vendor understands marketers’ needs and suggests they'll adapt well to the future.

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Buyerology Trend: Think Demand Fulfillment vs. Demand Generation

Tony Zambito

This is the third article looking at buyer trends that will influence marketing and sales in the near and foreseeable future.  The two previous articles looked the future of experience creation and the rise of BIG insight.  This article looks at how buyers are seeking fulfillment in their efforts to achieve goals and what this means to the future of demand generation.  ( Image by Kenny Madden © All rights reserved ).

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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How to Get Married to Your Clients in 90 Days

Tomorrow People

Two hours to more prospect pulling power? That’s right. In just one two-hour workshop, we’ll show you how you can attract customers more easily and start building a committed customer-base in just 90 days - by applying the power of inbound marketing. Inbound marketing offers companies in all sectors a more powerful and affordable way to draw in new business, providing a 15% increase to top line growth at 60% less cost than traditional marketing methods.

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Content Marketing that Speaks to the Old Brain

Writing on the Web

You get better results with your content marketing when you speak to the “ old brain ,” the one that’s also known as the primitive brain or the survival brain. Knowing how the brain works will help you write better as well as help you with presentations to influence others. There are a few principles to remember, and here’s a great story that makes this come alive… A Marketing Moment with a Homeless Man….

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Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support

Customer Experience Matrix

As I wrote yesterday, no one knows exactly what we’ll want from our marketing automation systems in the future. But it's still worth taking a guess at what looks likely. Here are some trends I expect will be important. Social Media. The first wave of marketing automation features for social media is now several years old. These included making it easier to share emails and Web pages, tracking shares through embedded URLs, and monitoring social media conversations.

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Buyerology Trend: Think BIG Insights vs. BIG Data

Tony Zambito

This is the second in a series of articles planned on looking at buyer trends that will influence marketing and sales in the near and foreseeable future.  This article looks at how understanding today’s conventional and social buyers takes BIG Insights versus BIG Data. Buyer Trend: Buyer Behavior Changing Rapidly and Buyers Are Saying – Get Me Please!

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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The Great British Business Show 2011

Tomorrow People

Want to outflank your competition, generate leads and sales and grow your online reputation? If you happen to be going to attending The Great British Business Show , join us at this seminar to learn about how to apply inbound marketing which uses a “pull” approach to marketing. How to Get Married to New Prospects in 90 Days with Inbound Marketing.

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Entering the World of Social Media: Better Late than Never

Writing on the Web

Better Late than Never" alt=" Entering the World of Social Media: Better Late than Never" />. (A guest post by Frank Anderson.). Better Late than Never" width="150" height="150" /> The younger generation is, without fail, the heaviest participant in social media. Born straight into the world of online dependency, the art of social media is considered just another common form of innate communication.

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Take the Survey: B2B Marketing Trends in 2012

Everything Technology Marketing

With 2011 coming to a close, what do you think will be the major trends and priority shifts for B2B marketers in 2012? Take the 2-minute survey to share your thoughts: [link] You will receive a copy of the survey report as a thank you!

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Ten Ways the C-Level can Positively Impact Marketing and Sales (Part Two of Two)

ANNUITAS

This is part two of our 2-part series on how the C-Suite can help affect marketing and sales for the better. (c lick here for part one ). A recent report published by MarketingSherpa asked B2B marketers what was the top barrier for overcoming their marketing challenges. 17% cited difficulty in getting buy-in or support from the C-Suite. Quite frankly I am surprised that the percentage is not higher.

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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.

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17 Ways to Integrate Facebook and Email Marketing

Convince & Convert

Killer integration of Facebook and Email. View more presentations from Jay Baer. I won’t write out the entire presentation for you in blog post form – that’s what Slideshare is for – but here are the high points of this presentation on Killer Integration of Facebook and Email Marketing, where I offer 17 specific ways to tie these two important programs together. 2 Sides of the Same Coin.

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Content Marketing Starts With Your Brand

The Effective Marketer

Branding used to be a high-level exercise bigger companies went through as part of their strategic marketing processes. You get an agency, brainstorm cute pictures, logos, and tag lines, come up with the visual guidelines, and move on. Every now and then you refer back to those branding guidelines that tell you the correct position for your logo and the approved color scheme.

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My Love for Magazines Lies Bleeding

B2B Memes

MUD day 17: There are days, perhaps when my inner curmudgeon breaks through my usual resistance, when I’m convinced that magazines, as a useful format, are truly dead. Yes, it may just be me or my desperation for a topic in this month of mandatory daily blogging. Ask me tomorrow and I may feel more hopeful. But what has me worried is my oddly sour reaction to this Folio article on magazine design.

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Making the Short List: How to Drive Top-of-Mind Awareness

Marketing Craftmanship

The Key to Making the Short List. For most companies, there is no way to predict when a prospect will purchase their product or engage their services. Sales cycle management is particularly challenging for B2B firms, and for professional services firms in particular, where top-of-mind awareness (getting people to remember you) is a critical part of business development.

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Is Your ESG Communication a Walking Red Flag?

One moment, you're proudly releasing your annual report, and before you know it, six months have passed and attention has shifted. Not communicating your impact consistently to key stakeholders is what we call an ESG communication red flag. Think of red flags as common mistakes that hinder stakeholder engagement. While these slips in communication are rarely intentional, they can have a significant impact on how your ESG efforts are perceived.

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5 Steps to Launch Your International Social Media

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Christian Arno , founder of professional translation services provider Lingo24. Launched in 2001, Lingo24 has clients in over sixty countries, and translated over forty million words in the last year. Even though Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google are American companies, social media doesn’t begin and end at the shores of the USA.

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Google+ for Business doesn’t have a lot of pluses

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. Perhaps you saw the announcement of Google+ for Business–it made big news for a day, but there isn’t that much to say about it. Honestly, if you understand how Google+ for individuals works, it will take about ten minutes to get up to speed on Google+ for Business, which is rather disappointing, because after months of development, Google added just a few fields for a business name and a photo.

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Want to Twitter Better? Diversify Your Pronouns

B2B Memes

One of my favorite Joe Pulizzi sayings is “ it’s not about you.” For the most part, he’s talking to marketers, trying to get them to focus on the information their customers need rather than what the marketers most want to talk about: themselves. Journalists generally don’t see this as their own problem. After all, their role is to point towards other people.

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