Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Two weeks ago, I wrote Five Reasons Lead Generation is on its Last Legs , exploring the reasons why today’s common lead generation tactics are beginning to fail. However, the requirement that marketing deliver leads will not change. Can your marketing compete with my passion? Inbound Marketing.

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Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Enterprise B2B marketers face a conundrum. Businesses needs to drive growth and lead generation is a key way the business expects marketing to contribute. It can take months, even years, before marketing is able to prove the value of lead generation efforts with revenue. Pipeline and Sales.

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The latest #B2Bchat discussion focused on the relationship (or lack thereof) between corporate websites and demand generation. Can corporate websites support demand generation and lead capture? Or do marketers need to build microsites to support demand generation effectively?

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 10, 2012

Lead generation continues to be a top objective for B2B marketers and content syndication is primary offering from publishers. Leads in this post refer to contacts captured through a registration form, in line with the way B2B publishers label their programs.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 3, 2012

Among paid media and advertising tactics, lead generation programs like content syndication are a key source of leads for B2B marketers, especially in the enterprise technology space. For the sake of this post, lead generation programs refer to publisher programs that promote your content and capture registration.

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Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

B2B marketers are so anxious to generate leads from social media they are turning Twitter into a list for cold calls and mass email blasts. In the last couple weeks, two companies have emailed or called me because I follow influential sales and marketing accounts on Twitter. Newsletter or email marketers.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2011

However, for enterprise B2B marketers, these approaches are not mature enough to broadly support demand generation marketing. Published market research differs on the relative importance on audience and context, however the research I have seen does not align with the typical B2B marketing audience experience.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2011

However, for enterprise B2B marketers, these approaches are not mature enough to broadly support demand generation marketing. Published market research differs on the relative importance on audience and context, however the research I have seen does not align with the typical B2B marketing audience experience.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The current trend in digital media is to move online advertising to trading desks, ad exchanges or real time bidding platforms. These platforms provide access to enormous pools of advertising inventory and allow media buyers to cherry pick their exact target audience, based on a wide range of audience data available for targeting.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 23, 2012

If you measure or benchmark B2B demand generation activity across sales and marketing, one of the best benchmark resources just received a major facelift and a number of improvements. The New Demand Generation Funnel Here are the biggest changes in the new Sirius Decisions funnel. Teleprospecting qualified leads.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JUNE 26, 2012

The following 9 terms are so overused or misused in B2B marketing that they have lost nearly all meaning. Thought Leadership Almost any type of content has been labeled thought leadership marketing in recent years. Thought Leadership Almost any type of content has been labeled thought leadership marketing in recent years.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 20, 2014

Marketers bury critical information they need to identify a prospect in the second, or even the third, form. Marketing never gets the opportunity to identify and deliver a lead. For many marketers, this minimum can be as simple as name, email and company. Even the people who ultimately buy from you will never see it!

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Digital B2B Marketing

AUGUST 20, 2013

You have a lead generation program. A marketing automation program. Even though reporting shows you are becoming a better marketer, it doesn’t show how marketing, overall, is progressively improving your company’s position. Since you are in B2B marketing, you probably want them to register.

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Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Perceptions are created by experience with your products, service and people, through what other people say about you (even competitors) and through your own marketing. However, in B2B, the value of perceptions have been set aside, in favor of the new holy grail of B2B marketing: lead generation. All they see are leads.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MARCH 1, 2012

Increasingly, marketers don’t know where their content is either. B2B technology marketers running lead generation programs are finding their content or offers on a wide range of sites they never intended to place their content on, yet they are paying $20 to $60, or more, every time someone downloads their content from these sites.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 31, 2012

B2B marketing is complex. Sales cycles are long, measurement can be convoluted, and segmentation, lead scoring and sales and marketing alignment take traditional marketers into uncomfortable spaces. Amid the details and uncomfortable spaces, the bigger marketing picture is often lost. Buyers need information.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 22, 2012

According to recent research from IDC, lead generation is a top B2B marketing priority , and in the next four years Sirius Decisions predicts 75% of all registrations will be captured online. Sirius Decisions actually labels this as inbound marketing, however I use a more limited definition of inbound marketing.)

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Digital B2B Marketing

APRIL 2, 2013

It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? The problem doesn’t begin with marketing though. Beyond cold, these leads may frozen solid. Peers, consultants and analysts will provide their input.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 3, 2012

Increasingly, marketers are adding content curation to their marketing activity, often with objectives of sharing a certain amount of content each day. Ardath Albee ( @ardath421 ) has a sample to-do list for a content marketer in Show Quantity the Door. Thought Leadership Without attention, your thinking cannot lead anyone.

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

” From the What We Do page: “We have become the leader in vertical marketing and media online by delivering qualified clicks and qualified inquiries at low cost and with great scalability.” ” In other words, QuinStreet is a lead generation company. Are “Leads” the Only Thing Left?

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Marketers have a huge blind spot when it comes to nurturing and lead scoring. It does not matter if you have built a sophisticated lead management and nurturing system, driven by content consumption, engagement and response. The potential of these prospects is not reflected in your lead score. Your blind spot is there.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 14, 2011

Thought leadership is a common marketing topic, but unfortunately thought leadership is not a common outcome of marketing. Part of the problem is that thought leadership marketing has lost all notions of actual thought leadership. Thought leaders understand their own business, clients needs and the larger market context.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2013

One of the challenges with relying on research, particularly research companies use in their own marketing, is that the statistics used have been tortured. Marketing often isolates statistics, removing them from any context that would allow for appropriate comparisons. Content marketing. Lead generation.

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Digital B2B Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I was recently informed that every marketing blogger must publish their predictions for the year ahead. So to claim my status as a blogger and not put my right to use WordPress at risk, here are my 12 serious predictions for B2B marketing in 2012. Content Marketing 1. Video will come into its own for B2B marketers in 2012.

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Digital B2B Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I was recently informed that every marketing blogger must publish their predictions for the year ahead. So to claim my status as a blogger and not put my right to use WordPress at risk, here are my 12 serious predictions for B2B marketing in 2012. Content Marketing 1. Video will come into its own for B2B marketers in 2012.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 21, 2011

Content Marketing should provide valuable information to your market at large and to prospects at each stage of the buying process. Here are the signs your content marketing may be an illusion, it is really just email marketing: Your “best content&# is content you licensed or purchased, not created.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 1, 2012

Your initial inbound marketing results are promising, but you need more. Inbound marketing represents a major investment for B2B marketers. Traditional B2B marketers face a challenge. Their marketing has been built from the start around the idea of inbound marketing (even if they didn’t call it that).

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Digital B2B Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Despite the magic of marketing automation and the ability to collect information on every mouse movement on every page of our sites, we only get a tiny window into the lives of our prospects. We have a better understanding of what people are interested in and our marketing performs significantly better. Of course we get it wrong!

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 31, 2012

In B2B marketing, bad data represents a huge lost opportunity. According to SiriusDecisions , companies with the best quality data drive 70% more revenue through marketing programs than those with simply average data quality. Your Turn What will it take for marketers to change their approach to registration?

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Digital B2B Marketing

MAY 29, 2012

B2B marketing discussions on Twitter and blogs have a tendency to focus on singular topics, such as Twitter, marketing automation , or lead generation , as if they are right for everyone and we just need to do them well. Shouldn’t B2B marketing solutions be just as unique?

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Digital B2B Marketing

MARCH 12, 2013

Looking at most B2B marketing, the answer is clearly “no, you don’t.” Instead, you put your trust in your outbound marketing and sales process. Capture leads. If the real goal for a piece of content, the one thing it must do in order to be considered successful, is capture leads, embrace that goal.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Marketers have a huge blind spot when it comes to nurturing and lead scoring. It does not matter if you have built a sophisticated lead management and nurturing system, driven by content consumption, engagement and response. Your blind spot is there.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Marketers have a huge blind spot when it comes to nurturing and lead scoring. It does not matter if you have built a sophisticated lead management and nurturing system, driven by content consumption, engagement and response. The potential of these prospects is not reflected in your lead score. Your blind spot is there.

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Digital B2B Marketing

JULY 24, 2012

In B2B marketing, standing out from the crowd and getting your audience’s attention is absolutely critical. The investments you have made in building your marketing database, creating content, and developing a nurture program carefully mapped to the buyer’s journey does nothing if your communication doesn’t get through.

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Digital B2B Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2012

Lead scoring and personas are popular topics in B2B marketing. However, the two are generally discussed separately. Until B2B marketers begin talking about personas and lead scoring together they are missing an simple way to identify missed sales opportunities.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Peer-to-peer Leads 100

Digital B2B Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

For more information on purchasing lists, see Buying B2B Email Marketing Data: Challenges and Recommendations. Lists have two distinct disadvantages versus alternative marketing options: A list constricts your message to a relatively small, discrete audience. Expect to pay anywhere from a $0.50 Renting a B2B List.

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Lead generation and demand generation, although related, are at odds with each other. When many B2B marketers say demand generation, they mean lead generation, and the program will be measured on leads and the value of those leads. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.

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