Sat.Jun 18, 2011 - Fri.Jun 24, 2011

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI? It’s why posts like 20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog have to be written to help people who are “doing everything right&# but still not seein

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Top B2B marketing challenges – an update

Savanta

I recently posted an analysis of a question to the B2B Marketing LinkedIn group. “Can you use ONE WORD to describe the biggest challenge facing B2B marketing today?”. At the time 162 people had replied. Just two weeks on that’s risen to 246. The original analysis can be found here , but given this volume of response I thought it time to provide a brief update on the key metrics.

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Why You Must Nurture Your Dream Clients

ViewPoint

We are honored to have Anthony Iannarino as a guest blogger this month. Anthony is President and CSO of SOLUTIONS Staffing , Director of B2B Sales Coach & Consultancy , and author of The Sales Blog. Over at The Sales Blog, I write about dream clients. Your dream client is the prospect for whom you can do jaw-dropping, breath-taking, earth-shattering work.

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8 Things Your CEO Can Write About On His/Her Blog

The Point

Launching a CEO blog but the boss isn’t sure what to write about? Here are 8 ideas based on a list we created recently for a client: 1. Opinion/Thought Leadership – opinions/rants/views on the world of [insert your product category here] – the good, bad and ugly. A good place to be controversial. 2. Industry Trends – how is your industry/space changing?

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Dueling Strategies: Adobe and Oracle Take Opposite Paths to Customer Experience Management

Customer Experience Matrix

Adobe on Monday announced a new “ Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management ”. The platform fills the center of Adobe’s three-part corporate mission to “make, manage, and measure” digital content and experiences. The other two pieces were already in place: “make” is Adobe’s original content creation business, while “measure” is Omniture Web analytics.

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The Statistics of Lead Nurturing for B2B

NuSpark Consulting

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. Most importantly, a sound lead nurturing marketing program has proven to increase revenues for firms. It’s why I continually promote the entire lead management cycle, from email capture to sales.

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Mobile Marketing Is A Strategy Not A Tactic

Marketing Insider Group

What has more users than all the TVs, PCs and landlines in the whole world combined ? What is a bigger channel than the 1.7 billion people surfing the internet worldwide? Yup. The answer is Mobile. Our world now includes 5 Billion mobile subscribers! That is nearly half of the entire planet. And it is causing a revolution in business, in media and in the politics and policies that shape our existence.

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8 Social Media Marketing Ideas for Your Trade Show Exhibit

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. Skyline’s recent webinar, “Social Media for Trade Show Promotions,” was full of great ideas. View Skyline’s webinar here or view the slideshow itself. Presented by Skyline Sales and Marketing Trainer Nik Fradgley and Director of Lead Generation and Industry Relations Michael Thimmesch, the webinar included the results of a study of which social media sites were best practice for use pre-trade show, during the show, and post-trade show.

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Content Marketing eBook and Infographics

The Effective Marketer

A Content Marketing eBook. Content Marketing is all the rave, that’s part of what drove me to do some research on the history of content marketing and publish this free eBook, A Brief History of Content Marketing. I was curious to see how marketers of the past have used content marketing strategies to attract and engage customers before the Internet Age.

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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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The Statistics of Lead Nurturing for B2B

NuSpark Consulting

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. Most importantly, a sound lead nurturing marketing program has proven to increase revenues for firms. It’s why I continually promote the entire lead management cycle, from email capture to sales.

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65 Tweetable Moments From The Corporate Social Media Summit New York

Marketing Insider Group

This week I attended Useful Social Media ‘s Corporate Social Media Summit in New York city where hundreds of practitioners gathered to hear case studies from some of the best in the business. There were 11 sessions over two days delivered by 27 speakers. The content was practical and interactive. Each session had short case studies followed by a question and answer session. .

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How to Write with Your Right Brain: 5 Tips

Writing on the Web

?? One of the smartest things you can do to keep up with blog writing is to use your brain well. Use your right brain to tap into your creativity. The third thing I do in the morning when I get up is write on one of my blogs. (First, brew a pot of Cafe de Olla; second, feed Huey and Dewey, our kitties.) When clients ask, “How do you find time to post on all your blogs?

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Measuring Facebook Fan Engagement Beyond the Like

Convince & Convert

Guest post from Matt Simpson , interactive marketing director for Bulbstorm. Bulbstorm executes campaigns for brands seeking to create passionate bonds with consumers. Not long ago, the ultimate measure of a successful Facebook promotion was fan growth. That was sooooo 2010. Fan growth is simply not enough. Disagree? Throw out a sweepstakes app, dangle a free iPad, and buy some cheap Facebook ads.

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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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Innocent and Malignant Typos and the Case of Filloux v. Jarvis

B2B Memes

Overdosed on typos? As one who cares more than he should about such things, I’ve been spending way too much time today mulling over Rob O’Regan’s recent post on eMedia Vitals , “Can you spare 15 minutes in the battle against typos?”. Like O’Regan, I suspect, I have an unhealthy sensitivity to typographical errors. To this day, I’m still suffering post-typographic stress from the discovery 27 years ago that in my first published book review, for the Nashville Tennessean , I asserted that the nove

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A Tough Road for Marketing Automation

The Effective Marketer

Marketing Automation is a hot topic. News about multi-million dollar investments in the space has sparked not only interest from marketers but a multitude of competitors crowding an already jammed market. Is like driving down the highway only to see the traffic stopping right after you take the next curve. As the traffic is slowly moves, some cars faster than others, many drivers start wondering if they should take the next exit.

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Engaging Content: 7 Tips to Get Readers to Think

Writing on the Web

When it comes to content marketing , there are ways to write content so it actively markets you and your business without being “in-your-face” sales copy or boring product reviews or press releases. I’m reminded of an excellent book on creating effective website design called Don’t Make Me Think. The premise is that a customer searching for products and services online shouldn’t have to figure out how to find what they’re looking for on your website.

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Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Bill Murtha, President and CEO of Roberts Communications, a leading independent advertising agency with offices in New York and Minnesota. Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer. He’s been great, taught me and our entire agency a ton about how to develop and deploy social media for our clients and own efforts to grow business.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Five Marketing Changes You Need to Make

Digital B2B Marketing

If B2B marketing isn’t dead, it is changing very quickly. But the real change isn’t the marketing , it is how marketing has evolved in response to the evolving buyer. The biggest factor driving the changes in today’s buyers is the accessibility of information technology has enabled. This change has turned demand creation upside down.

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Four Lessons From IBM’s Centennial Advertising

Marketing Craftmanship

Page One of IBM's 4-Page Insert. “Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the. complex symbol which is the brand image.” - David Ogilvy. In recognition of its founding 100 years ago, last week IBM produced a 2,592-word, four-page advertising insert that ran for just one day in the U.S. issues of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Washington Post.

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When Good Behavioral Retargeting Goes Bad

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. Most of you probably are familiar with behavioral retargeting , a technique where marketers follow up with shoppers who haven't completed purchases. It's become a staple of e-Commerce, where it rescues lost sales that would otherwise never be completed. If you have an e-Commerce site, you should be doing it--and it might make sense even if you don't have an e-Commerce site.

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6 Ways to Show You Give a Damn in a Job Interview

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Elizabeth Sosnow , Managing Director of BlissPR , a New York City based public relations firm. She develops and supervises strategic communications programs for major companies in professional and financial services, with a particular emphasis on the legal, consulting and insurance industries. He was an intelligent, well qualified senior candidate.

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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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OMG: F**K, Sh*T, or Worse in Your Corporate Social Media

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Maria Pergolino The days of a corporation being able to control every word that goes out about its brand are long gone. And don’t get me wrong; I think it’s for the better. People are smart, and they like making decisions based on the truth, even when not everything that shows up is positive. . That said, sometimes b2b social media comments or posts can cross the line, especially when bad language is involved.

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Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads

Industrial Marketing Today

I’ve heard some of my manufacturing clients call their subscribers free content leads. I’ve also read articles by other industrial marketers where they recommend using free content to generate new leads. That is good advice and it is a proven tactic for inbound marketing. However, I do have a problem with classifying these new subscribers as leads. IMO, these people have merely raised their hands to indicate some interest in your company, content and the free offer.

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Local Internet Marketing with Google Places

Biznology

Image by warrantedarrest via Flickr. You probably know Frank Reed from his work as editor of Marketing Pilgrim and from his weekly Frank Friday posts on this blog. But did you know that he also runs LocalBasix , which is a marketing company that specializes in local search. If you haven't kept up with what is going on in local search, you need to. In fact, any company with a physical customer location, large and small, should pay attention to local search.

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Google, Social Media, and the Wisdom of Enigmas

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Daniel Lemin of marketing innovation consultancy Social Studio. He provides brands and agencies with the research, insights and good old-fashioned know-how needed to be more effective marketers. In the early part of my career I was fortunate to land a job on the corporate marketing team at Google. At the time I felt very lucky (pun intended) to be among the 400 employees of a small but well-known and rapidly growing company.

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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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MarketingSherpa SEO Study: While Measurable Results Are Top Priority, Strategy Takes the Back Burner

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Carol Fox MarketingSherpa just released its eighth annual 2012 Search Marketing Benchmark Report – SEO Edition. The 202-page report, which is organized by company size, primary market, industry sector, social media use and SEO maturity, examines the SEO habits and effectiveness of some 1,530 B2B and B2C marketers. Its findings include some nice numbers that support the value of inbound marketing: Using social media boosted leads 30% and revenue 114%.

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Copyright to prevent copy wrongs in B2B content marketing

MLT Creative

You've worked hard researching, writing and editing your content for your B2B website. Publishing unique and compelling content attracts visitors and differentiates you from your competititors. Your site is realizing more visitors and leads for your efforts. Then, while viewing your search engine results pages or your saved Twitter search, you notice another site in has "borrowed" your content and branded it as theirs without giving any attribution, credit or link back to your original site.

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We are in real need of clean air in Internet marketing

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. by Frank Reed. Have you ever heard the expression in business saying that things won't be able to change until we have "clean air"? It's an expression that comes from racing. Since I hail from North Carolina, the home of NASCAR, I am taking liberties and simply applying the term to the Internet marketing industry.