Buzz Marketing for Technology
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Imagine a company that has upscale retail locations around the United States receiving tens of thousands of customer visits. Now imagine not having anyone there to greet and interact with those customers. What’s the point of the storefront? Facebook fan pages are much the same thing. But only 0.2 to 2 percent of fans go back to a page. Why? Because there is nothing going on that interests them.
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 13, 2011
The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. But there’s also a growing realization that many marketing automation systems are used for only simple tasks – often no more than email, landing pages, and CRM integration. For example, LoopFuse found that nearly twice as many used email and web landing pages as lead scoring.
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Tomorrow People
DECEMBER 12, 2011
How to create a home page for maximum impact. Almost every business is on the internet now. The competition for the top spot on Google is increasing and the pressure to compete via a high quality home page and website is growing all the time. Here’s how to create a home page that delivers: 1. Design it around your customers. This isn’t about showing off.
Webbiquity
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Social networks are essential for expanding your web presence —not only for creating social signals now a key component in search engine rankings, which makes your website and blog easier to find in search, but also by giving you more places to be found online. Creating your profile on each of the major social networks is a first step, but just that.
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Marketing Insider Group
DECEMBER 15, 2011
First came digital, then social and now the mobile revolution is taking the world by storm. In many countries, there are more mobile phones than people, homes with electricity, even toilets. There are more mobile users than all the TVs, PCs and landlines in the whole world combined ! And everyone knows that mobile search will surpass desktop sometime in the next 2 years.
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Tomorrow People
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Three ways to create How To videos people want to watch. How To videos. The internet is awash with them. From YouTube to almost every business website you can think of, How to videos are on offer. So what can you do to create effective and engaging How To videos ? Keep these tips in mind for creating How To videos that people actually want to watch.
Writing on the Web
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Guest post by Adam Kosloff. You’re swamped. You barely have time to scan the headlines of your favorite news feeds. Probably the only reason you clicked on this article was to check out whether it might provide instant value to you. Can this article save you time and/or money and/or hassle? Hopefully, it can. And not because this article will tell you anything you don’t already know – rather, it will remind you of business principles that you already apply in your everyday professional wo
Marketing Insider Group
DECEMBER 13, 2011
One of the reasons I was thrilled to be asked to join the Focus B2B Marketing Year In Review round table was that it would allow me an opportunity to discuss my annual predictions for the coming year. First, I did some research and identified some of the top 2012 marketing predictions posts, listed below. Then I reviewed my own thoughts on 2011. In case you missed it, I made 13 predictions for B2B Marketing in 2011 and last week outlined my 2011 B2B Marketing Year In Review.
Biznology
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Image via CrunchBase. In response to Inside a Social Media News Release , Jonathan Rick asked me , “Isn’t this essentially the same thing than what Pitch Engine offers?” Jason Kintzler then added , “Yes Jonathan, exactly! Did I mention you can do it all for free?!” Well, my response is the topic of this post today, “The article is only about the what and why of the Social Media News Release and not the how.
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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.
Tomorrow People
DECEMBER 16, 2011
How to make a website that works. A website that works may sound like an obvious thing. After all, all websites work don’t they? Actually, many websites only work in very basic, functional terms, but fail to work in bringing in web traffic and converting it into sales. Here are three things you need to know about how to make a website that works for you: Bringing in visitors.
Tony Zambito
DECEMBER 15, 2011
This is the final article looking at buyer trends that will influence marketing and sales in the near and foreseeable future.
Convince & Convert
DECEMBER 13, 2011
A cried a little on a plane last week. It wasn’t due to a delay, an uncomfortable seat, or peanut salt getting in my eye. It was because I saw a shining example of “social business” at work in the real world. Mid-way on a Southwest Airlines flight home from a speaking engagement in Ft. Lauderdale, I looked up from my laptop to find Becky the flight attendant standing at the front of plane with a boy of about 9. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry to disturb you, but I
ANNUITAS
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Demand generation and lead management are two terms that companies should be fairly familiar with, but it turns out there is quite a bit of confusion around the two. Software Advice recently hosted this two-part whiteboard session with Carlos Hidalgo, CEO of Annuitas Group and Executive Director of the Marketing Automation Institute to explain the difference and how companies can make sure they develop successful programs for both.
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B2B Memes
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Jesse Noyes. For the past week or so, in the wake of Paul Conley’s skeptical assessment , I’ve been mulling over the future of brand journalism, aka content marketing. His doubts were not, as some readers thought, about the benefits to non-publishing companies of treating content more journalistically. Rather, he was questioning whether most companies were really prepared to be more journalistic, to accept journalistic values.
Ambal's Amusings
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Do you want to learn what it takes to succeed with content marketing, with a drill down into the latest approaches, tools and services that make measurement, content creation, curation, publication and distribution more effective. Are you ready for the 2nd Annual Content Marketing Retreat in 2012 ? What: 2nd Annual Content Marketing Retreat When: January 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM Where: Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA Link: Register Now !
The Effective Marketer
DECEMBER 14, 2011
HubSpot does it again, taking content that is not necessarily new or revolutionary and putting it in a nicely formatted eBook that makes reading it a pleasure. With “ An Introduction to Inbound Marketing Analytics “, you get an overview of what to measure and why. Especially useful for small companies and those who are just starting out with their marketing programs and need some help identifying key metrics, the eBook is packed with good advice.
Biznology
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Image via Wikipedia. The business case for social media in the workplace and the inevitable ROI conversation have polarized innovation advocates and doubters for years. There’s a saying in marketing that we always waste half of our marketing budget, we just don’t know which half. The fact that we are still witnessing the infancy of social technologies leads us to this situation where the ground we’re standing on keeps moving and changing all the time, and very few have been abl
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.
Digital B2B Marketing
DECEMBER 15, 2011
All marketing is integrated, even if it is unintentional, poorly done or working against itself. Marketing activity does not happen in a vacuum void of other influences. What is the ROI of your social media activity? What is the ROI of search? What is the ROI of TV? Most marketers don’t actually know. Traditional marketing organizational structures and measurements are built around individual components.
Marketing Craftmanship
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Lee Levitt, sans fedora and shoulder bag. Lee Levitt, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 80, continues to be remembered as a PR practitioner who gave much to the profession; as someone who lived up to his characterization as an industry visionary. Paging through Lee’s “ Manual of PR Sales Strategy & Tactics ,” the insights he offers are as relevant today as when he wrote them in 1992, and apply across all professional service disciplines, not just PR.
The Effective Marketer
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Despite the fact that trade show attendance is going down and there is less money in your marketing budget for attending physical events, if you do have to go to one you’d better make it worth it. I like how Vanessa Nornberg described in an Inc.com article a few tips to make your trade show profitable: Buy a booth you can afford. Strategically organize your booth.
Biznology
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Image via Wikipedia. If you’re like most businesses, your 2012 marketing plan relies heavily on search engine marketing. Both paid and natural search continue to offer businesses excellent growth opportunities for the foreseeable future. At the same time, that growth could come to an abrupt halt. Search is in big trouble, under pressure from a variety of sources.
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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
B2B Marketing Traction
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Now more than ever, online content is the key to attracting and engaging qualified prospects online. According to a study done in August of 1092 B2B marketers , 60% plan to increase content spend in 2012 (compared to 51% in 2011) and 62% plan to outsource content creation (it was 55% in 2011). But, the biggest challenge B2B Marketers have with content is figuring out what kind engages prospects.
Digital B2B Marketing
DECEMBER 13, 2011
What are B2B marketers biggest measurement challenges? How do they effectively communicate results within the organization? What are the trends they are looking towards in 2012? We tackled these and other questions during the weekly #B2Bchat discussion on Twitter on December 8, 2011. Highlights from the discussion along with additional commentary on each question is below.
Convince & Convert
DECEMBER 15, 2011
The folks at Edelman announced today that they have “ Launched Social Business Planning to Help Organizations Create Business Value in a Connected World.” Amongst the big thinkers, social business is elbowing out social media as the business cause celebre. I even co-wrote a book called The NOW Revolution that is in part devoted to the social business transformation.
Biznology
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Image via Wikipedia. As social media has (somewhat) matured, an interesting culture has grown up around the idea of editing social media content. And for reasons that I don’t understand, it isn’t one culture–it seems as though every kind of social media has developed its own culture around editing content. It is as if we can’t decide whether social media is a realtime force that is stream of consciousness and should never be changed, or it is a permanent record of activit
Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO
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B2B Marketing Traction
DECEMBER 13, 2011
This blog post answers questions you may be having about social media – Why do it at all? How do I do it efficiently? There are good reasons to invest in social media, and there is a way to create a credible presence on social media without a lot of time and money. At a recent presentation I gave on social media, one of the attendees commented that he had just cancelled his Twitter account, because he didn’t understand the value of that social media platform account or how to use it.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2011
by Liz Smyth Imagine being able to automate the routine and repeatable tasks associated with lead nurturing , lead scoring and lead management. Well, that’s the reality! Check out our new video to see how organisations are using marketing automation to nurture leads, trigger behaviour-based communications and collaborate better with sales – and having fun doing it!
Vision Edge Marketing
DECEMBER 14, 2011
'What are your plans when it comes to your marketing investments for the coming year? According to Forrester, Forbes Insights and others, more companies will expand their marketing budgets in the coming year, with one very important caveat, marketers will need to justify the spending, prove the effects of marketing campaigns, and demonstrate program success…or risk losing budgets.
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