Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. Element #2 – Email – the most critical element of a lead nurturing platform is email. But Facebook? Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. Related posts: Influencers vs Advocates in B2B Marketing According to Wikipedia – Influencer Marketing is a form of. Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. Related posts: Influencers vs Advocates in B2B Marketing According to Wikipedia – Influencer Marketing is a form of. Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 28, 2009

Last week, I was interviewed by a technology services marketing team looking to improve their Demand Generation activities. They had a very cohesive but small team and they wanted to ramp up activities to drive brand awareness and lead generation. Lead Nurturing - if this isn't high on your list, it should be. And finally.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. It combines a few things you might have read about into one new concept around social media – the 4 P’s of Social Media marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2010

If you ask the members of my leadership team – they will tell you I keep talking about how I think we have B2B Marketing backward. We focus a lot of energy on the acquisition part of marketing looking for new customers and getting them up the awareness to consideration to purchase cycle. Let me explain …. Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 19, 2010

We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing. The four P’s were created mainly to describe the ideal “marketing mix&#. The term “marketing mix&# became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his 1964 article, Concept of the Marketing Mix. Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 6, 2010

Imagine a world where B2B Marketers could target specific decision makers in specific companies using Social Media ads. Tim Kassouf the Director of Marketing at G.1440 This is the kind of innovative techniques marketers and agencies will need to be honing over the next few years. Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

While the industry foresaw change with the DOL fiduciary rule, my marketing team saw opportunity. Better yet, what if we could be the leading consulting firm on the rule and how to implement it? At the time of the announcement, marketing was prepared (at 6 a.m.!) We also scheduled interviews beginning at 11 a.m.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Business and consumer brands have traditionally approached marketing from two totally different vantage points. While there are always going to be distinct differences between b2b and b2c marketing practices, B2B websites must make some B2C-inspired adjustments to keep up with savvy consumers. 2) Start testing, seriously.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

In David Meerman Scott’s ebook Lose Control of your Marketing he talks a lot about the spread of ideas. Artists like Bec Hollcraft who know full well the goal is attracting enough attention and leveraging buzz marketing to get a record deal. It reminds me of the Grateful Dead who were hip to this idea long before Bec was even born.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Check out my podcast with their CEO Court Cunningham … Link to Original Audio Source Signup for this Podcast Series About Court Court Cunningham is the CEO of Yodle, Court oversees all aspects of operations and strategy, including technology, product development and sales and marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

You can call it Inbound Marketing (like the folks at HubSpot do) or you could call it Content Marketing (like the folks at Junta42 do) but whatever you call it its the basis for all your online activity. Related posts: Spray and Pray Marketing 2.0 The lasso part is really about an “away game&# for your content.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 9, 2010

At the recent ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum I was stunned by a presentation given by Sean Geehan CEO of the Geehan Group author of the upcoming book the B2B Executive Playbook. Which is what the CEO and the market wants from you anyway!). Its time to start embracing those few people in ways B2B marketers haven’t before.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Recently I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Leading Companies for Customer Service, On and Off Social.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 1, 2015

This webinar was sponsored by Tracx and featured Nolan Carleton ( @ ParsleyCarleton ) Lead Consultant Program Execution at AT&T, DeShelia Spann ( @ DeSheliaSpann ) Digital Marketing Strategist at Eaton and Danielle Gerson ( @ tracx ) solutions engineer at Tracx.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 14, 2010

It’s a fallacy to think we as marketers can understand the business impact of our programs in a mere 6 month period – after all we are in B2B marketing not B2C. There are dollars sitting in your pipeline just waiting to show your marketing impact – what I like to call the shadow pipeline. It’s a highly considered purchase.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 21, 2010

Ok I know we all talk a good game about Closed Loop Marketing and I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble here but frankly we aren’t there yet. CRM systems, MRM systems, Lead Nurturing systems and the list goes on. But do we really have an all in one Closed Loop market system that does it all? That’s on the business impact side.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 14, 2010

Whether you are a CMO’s of a B2C or B2B Marketing team the key in this next decade is sharing and the key to sharing is Content! Some people call it Content Marketing (Junta42) some people call it Inbound Marketing (HubSpot) but the meaning is basically the same. And I couldn’t help but agree.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Expo Ascentium – A model for the agency of the future I spoke to the CMO, Romi Mahajan who explained Ascentium 's go-to-market strategy to me. No doubt very useful and very powerful when they come together (I read this as an agency mixed with a lead nurturing platform that can track ROI!). Romi was also a speaker on Agency 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content is Media&#. If you have been following my thoughts on the 4 C’s of Marketing – it all starts with content. Building a solid content creation engine is critical to B2B marketers today. Can you stick to it?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Which means Publishers (or Marketers) are now the “white noise” in comparison to User Generated Content. Notice that marketers don’t make that list (duh) but also think about how much more content you have been getting from those sources now that social media has arrived. Last year I wrote about how the balance of content has shifted.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 18, 2010

So I ran across some interesting stats last week when I picked up a tweet from Jeff Bullas on the 15 essential social media facts and figures for B2B Marketing. It’s amazing to see so much written on this topic which leads me to believe the party is over. Related posts: Do you need to be an Extrovert to be in Social Media Marketing?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Have your marketing efforts evolved with them? Marketing at the peak of the television era was relatively simple. As a marketer, how do you possibly compete for attention within this constant stream of information? How do you speak to consumers who don’t want to hear traditional marketing messages? The answer: You don’t.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

But as a Social media marketer, we believe in the power of a world where consumers are more connected to friends and brands, but when it comes to convincing the C-suite how and why, oftentimes they find themselves pointing to indeterminate measures of success such as Facebook Likes. Victoria Harres, PR Newswire.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

One area that few people have written about is how to use social media for solution marketing. 1) Is there a market for your solution? Few marketers do the social-focused research ahead of time to determine the market. The answer is always a bit different depending on the product or service. So there you have it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

When you think about it, the Darwinian idea of evolution is not a far cry from the way we as marketers adapt and change to new technology. And now in the era of rock-solid online competition, we have to evolve even further and ask ourselves: What does it take to lead the online conversion movement?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Marketing is moving from a pure brand image play to something much more interesting. Now the ability to communicate the marketing message to consumers through interactive media is critical.” Add to this what I consider the secret sauce which is tracking and nurturing leads.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Chief Marketing Officers take pride in being the trendsetters around the corporate corral – the arbiters of hip, the sharpest dressers, the consummate gadgeteers. Each year the Marketing team works hard to distill consumer insights into planning documents that will guide its programs in the months ahead. Now that’s cool.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

In the last post we covered how to create a Social Media Lead Flow. For example, if your focus is on monitoring mentions or bird dogging leads as I described in the last post you should seek out vendors that specialize in this type of analysis. Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing In my new advisory role for the members of MENG.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

A recent Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) survey found that only 20% of CMO’s felt social media produced measurable ROI and 62% hoped it may someday. B2B marketers often host bi-annual advisory boards or annual user group meetings and these are just screaming for a way to keep them connected via a tool like on online community.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2009

But this is not a dig at Dell it’s a dig at all of us marketers who say they don’t understand how to calculate an ROI from Social Media. And at this point in social media or even in the development of the web - we have plenty of ways to track and measure lead generation coming from Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I mean real customers of marketing. Let me explain … If you are like me working to drive thought leadership out of our organization and into the hands of would be prospects, then you know the first place that this phenomena of Marketing's Customers happens is online. Which is an interesting notion if you stop and think about it?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Hello affiliate marketing – I love it! For marketers the like button holds some significant promise for extending the lifespan of your content. Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform? When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think. Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

And for good reason – better margins, better awareness, better leads, more qualified leads. Sure you can get someone in your organization to write a white paper for you that you can send to trade pubs, email out to existing clients, post to your website and buy keywords to point at it that drive you leads. He has a B.A.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 18, 2009

This isn’t a new problem – how to measure lead generation from online activity is as old as the web itself. Still others have added click to chat or click to call type of functionality that when combined with a slightly re-engineered process means you can totally measure the leads. Tags: social media Lead Generation.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 4, 2011

I met Luke at the ITSMA Marketing Leaders event back in May of this year and I committed to Luke to train my entire leadership team in the art and science of Innovation Games. Need to prioritize a list of marketing initiatives? – Related posts: B2B Marketing needs a stronger Why Last year I wrote about how the balance of content.

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