Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2008

Was it expensive or resource intensive? Thanks for help making our trip a great one!! Going that extra mile for the customer What made the trip was our tour guide Jonathon and driver Daniel from Central American Tours. Whatever we needed, they provided for us. providing multiple touring options that enabled us to do what we wanted.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Perhaps point them to a new resource on your site or to a blog article. The possibilities with chat are endless for B2B lead generation.

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ok, you don't but you should and I have found some good resources. As a blogger, one of my goals is help others in marketing (specifically B2B marketing) better understand the e-marketing landscape. In the meantime, please let me know other resources on web analytics that you have found helpful.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 1, 2007

If you know marketers, they would like to do as much as possible (and will sometimes promise as much) but there is a little thing called resources and reality that pulls us all back to earth. This may require dedicated or partially dedicated resources that seek out customers and industry experts for these podcasts.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

Over Me SiriusDecisions , a leading source for business-to-business sales and marketing best-practice research and data, recently indicated that while the sales team may be suffering, best in class companies are repositioning their marketing strategies and tactics to help them out. chadhorenfeldt Tweet this!

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

There are many factors that go into this including getting sales and marketing working together as well as buy-in from the marketing team and the rest of the company to invest the time and resources in a systemized lead nurturing process. That's it for now - hopefully this was helpful.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2007

Query strings can help out there as well! Again, you need a marketing and sales team that has bought into this concept, the resources to create campaigns and query strings that are integrated with your online strategies and the technology that will allow you to capture this data and easily sync it with a CRM.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JUNE 24, 2007

I myself am not a gamer but was recently handed a free Xbox (the old one) and couldn't help playing a "few" games. As this concept grows, you will start to develop a repository of resources that you can use to post on your site or your blog which is great for new content (think SEO). This is really win win at its best.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2006

Whichever the case, creating a white paper will help your organization generate new leads and help close out sales. Excellent research resources at the end of the book Clearly laid out plan on how to write white papers. The next question is - How do I create a white paper? I wish you all the success at this!

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2009

You will need to push your organization to ensure you have the resources in place to create the necessary content for your lead nurturing efforts. This may mean sequestering experts from all over your company to help create this content or hiring content professionals. It needs to be engaging and be targeted to your intended audience.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2007

person for help. PPS - Here are some additional resources on B2B viral marketing: ClickZ: Can Viral Marketing Be Serious? B2B Online: Word-of-mouth marketing gets people buzzing HP's European viral marketing campaign – meet David B UPDATE: Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) has a great resource library - check it out!

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 11, 2007

I've found a few email tools and resources that you may find useful. If it's a straight up e-commerce campaign in which you can see the exact dollars that come directly from an email campaign, the following email calculator from MPlans may help you plan out your campaigns.

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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2006

If you were smart and started a business blog you can use this to help bring down your e-marketing strategy. If you don't have a business blog, don't bother starting one as it's not worth it if you don't plan on spending any more time or resources on your e-marketing strategy. That was why we created this blog in the first place".

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

This was similar to a situation that in which I discussed the idea of helping a client create a lead nurturing (maturation) program using emails that are sent out periodically based on user activity. The response I received was "I don't have the resources to create this content".

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 15, 2006

Besides having a purpose and objective for having a blog a company needs to dedicate resources and encourage the blog. In addition, ensure that you have a few topics lined up for your exec to help them out. An executive assistant or someone from marketing can help gather ideas on topics to write about.

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2008

This tip is especially important for any resource or newsletter autoresponder subscription emails. Will it drive more traffic and help you get further bang for your email buck? Add a link to your company's Twitter account to all mass email communications. Quick note here: I already assumed that your company created a Twitter account.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2006

buttons for B2B sites: about us, products, case studies, customers, resource, and contact us pages, you can put a real voice behind your company. You need to get into a conversation with them and blogging can help you get things started as it provides an interactive medium. Instead of seeing these same top level web nav.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 7, 2007

Sales also has to be included in the planning process as they need to know that the goal is to help them and not get in their way. You will also need a way to track which marketing initiatives helped get you the sale - in this way you can show your boss that the money you're spending is paying off and is not being "wasted".

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 18, 2007

This depends on what are the type of resources that you have. This type of data won't matter if the actual company is not a good fit for your product or service but can be very helpful by providing your sales team the intelligence to better understand who are your best leads and the leads that should be prioritized.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

While this can be more difficult, it can save you time in trying to determine what is the key element that will help you reach your e-marketing goals. It's best to start slowly and look for small wins and then convince others that testing really does improve performance and is worth the resources. nightmares?

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

If you're a larger organization, I suggest looking at an agency or consultant to help you get moving. Chad H PS: Great resource - SEOmoz PPS: Here's my Anything Goes Marketing tip of the day (I get these the odd time) - does your organization use a type of regular reporting email tool with your customers? Happy searching!

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

They are expected to make the impossible catches, score the winning touchdowns and throw the odd block to help their team move down the field and score. PPS: Some other posts on this topic: Landing Page Strategies and Lead Qualification Resources on Aligning Marketing and Sales for B2B Companies. I'll let you decide.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 17, 2009

megheuer # sds09 megheuer : Sales is protective of customers and late-stage deals; marketing needs give options, not mandates, to help at this stage # sds09 @tjaros jblock : 72% of B2B orgs can segment the customers and prospects in their marketing database.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

Tips to help start your business blog (corporate blog): Starting a Business Blog - BBB Quick Guides Starting a Corporate Blog? OK, I'm exaggerating a bit but you know what I mean. This post isn't for starting just any blog. It provides authoritative tips for those that want to start a business blog (corporate blog).

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

In this post, I want to concentrate on the use case in which a user either signs up for a newsletter or to access resources from your website. Insert company logo here] Dear FirstName, Thanks for registering to receive [insert name of resource] from CompanyX. The Traditional Email Autoresponder Thanks for registering.

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