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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEADSLOTH JUNE 23, 2009 Inbound Marketing & Marketing Automation I’ve personally often used Google AdWords to drive traffic to websites: it’s instantanious and you can fine-tune campaigns to target a specific audience. The Marketing Automation industry is evolving continuously. Many digital marketers are using marketing automation tools to automate lead nurturing. But if you want to expand your business, you also need to continuously add new leads to your database. Traditional lead sources are tradeshows or lead programs with magazines. Those are definitely useful, but the number of leads is low and the cost per lead is high. Conclusion. | LEADSLOTH JANUARY 12, 2010 Marketing Automation Trends for 2010 Google adwords, banner ads on sites A/B/C, purchasing prequalified leads from companies like Tippit, purchasing email lists from vendor A/B/C, event sponsorships A/B/C, etc.). 2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. have asked many of the vendors, consultants and thought leaders to give their opinion. predictions. and Web 3.0 | | | | | | | LEADSLOTH FEBRUARY 17, 2010 5 Ways to Use Social Media in Marketing Automation This is already commonplace in office applications like Microsoft Office and Google Docs, where you can add notes in the documents themselves, rather than putting those in an email. In the marketing space, the most well-known example is Google Analytics which lets you add annotations below each graph (click on the small triangle to show the annotation pane). Social Media. Conclusion. | LEADSLOTH AUGUST 11, 2009 B2B Pay Per Click Advertising Do your clients use Salesforce for Google AdWords, Marketing Automation systems or other tools? Interview with Terry Whalen from CPC Search. To generate demand for your products, it’s not enough to nurture the existing leads in your database. You also need a steady stream of fresh leads coming in. There are many ways to find these new leads: inbound marketing, search advertising, tradeshows, lead programs, etc. They all have their pros and cons, and most companies use a combination of strategies. If you have additional questions for Terry, please leave a comment below. | LEADSLOTH FEBRUARY 10, 2010 B2B Marketing Analytics I’d love to have Google Analytics for Marketing Analytics. I’ve seen some promising products, like YouCalc and GoodData (a client of mine), but it’s not as easy and comprehensive as Google Analytics is for Web Analytics. On Saturday I presented a session about B2B Marketing Analytics at AnalyticsCamp in Chapel Hill ( slides here ). Why Analytics? Optimize ROI. | LEADSLOTH MARCH 6, 2010 B2B Marketing Automation Twitter Contest I’ve used Google to count, searching for “Marketing Automation site:twitter.com/username. Genius.com has launched the Marketing Automation Tweeter contest to identify the most popular Tweep who tweets about Marketing Automation. 25 people are nominated, including myself. thought it would be fun to try to find additional criteria for finding the top Marketing Automation Tweeters. used two: Twitter Grader and the number of Tweets containing “Marketing Automation. It is clear most of the nominees belong to the Twitter elite, with Twitter Grades in the upper nineties. | | | | | | | | | -
LEADSLOTH | TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2009 SEO Optimization - 3 Steps to Success You can find keyword search volume with the Google Keyword Tool. You can use SEO Browser to see how Google sees your site: check that all content and links are visible in this text-only view. Add an ‘elevator pitch’ in the META description tag , so Google will display this as a summary on the results page. Example: search for ‘Good Data’ and Google shows a summary written by Good Data’s marketing team: “Good Data brings easy, flexible, affordable analytics within reach of every company. How Search Engines Work. 3) Get links. MORE >> -
LEADSLOTH | MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2009 ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management commerce websites) typically use a dedicated web analytics product such as Google Analytics. Tags: Demand Generation Email Marketing activeconversion Add new tag Google Analytics infusionsoft jigsaw leadlander review salesforce.com VerticalResponse From Web Analytics to Demand Generation. ActiveConversion first became known for its sales-focused Web Analytics, such as identifying companies that visit your website (similar to Leadlander ). So the people behind ActiveConversion gave me a demo to show they are more than a niche player. Anonymous Visitor Identification. Lead Scoring. MORE >> -
LEADSLOTH | TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009 Measure Your ROI on Social Media Leads After that, Google Analytics provided similar tracking features by appending variables to the existing URL (see the Google URL Builder tool ). The Google tracking is from before Twitter, so the URLs were long and ugly. On Tuesday Genius.com announced the Genius URL Shortener (GURL), which makes it easier to measure the results of social media campaigns. At first I thought: “what’s new about that? , and Marketo wrote a post on an alternative way to create tracking links. Lead Source Measurement Needs Improvement. You can’t see data on individual users. MORE >>
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