Marketing Leads, Media, Twitter and Web 2.0

Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples?

Work Management

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Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

Social Media

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Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? I’ve read several articles about the impending death of email marketing because of the steady decline in open and click-through rates (CTR). Are those predictions a little premature?

Social Media

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Webinars

Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

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The New Marketing Accountability

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. I bet most marketers fail this simple test by getting 0 or 1 of those answers right. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

Paid Search Agency

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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.” Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

B2B Marketing

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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.” Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

B2B Marketing

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The Science of Email Marketing « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Science of Email Marketing I just attended “The Science of Email Marketing&# online webinar, hosted by HubSpot and presented by social media scientist Dan Zarrella.

Planning

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Try These Traditional Tactics Now Lead Generation Programs That Work About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Share your thoughts, post a comment.

Telemarketing

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Lead Generation Programs That Work

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

My answer: spend your budget on great content that the market will value, then use low cost tactics like SEO, email and social media to push that content out. What are the most successful lead sources? It was also interesting to watch the conversation on Twitter both during and after the event.

Lead Generation

Lead Generation Budget Programs Work Management Lead Scoring

B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

Planning

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What Is Marketing Acceleration?

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration?

Top of Funnel

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Enjoy A Demand Funnel Cocktail

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Related Posts: The Future of B2B Marketing: It’s Social What Is Marketing Acceleration? Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

Top of Funnel

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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

Social Networks

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. (See See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.”

Lead Generation

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry. Not so fast!

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Optimization

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives.

Marketing Budget Creation

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5 Sales Closing Techniques

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

Top of Funnel

Top of Funnel Telemarketing Work Management Marketing Management

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

Web 2.0

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101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Distribution

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

Budget Programs

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Branding

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

B2B Marketing

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

Relevance

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

Webinar Metrics

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. Google Analytics is not specifically set up to measure social media activity but you can modify it by adding a free plugin like Social Media Metrics.

B2B

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How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign?

Business Blogging

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring

5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. You make a great point. Good programs need both. Keep it up.

Lead Generation

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Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However, realizing that your sign up forms and opt-in pages must contain both components – an irresistible offer or incentive as well as a clear call to action will go a long way towards boosting your email marketing’s open and conversion rates.

Email Marketing

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec.

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

Sales Cycle

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Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

CMS Development

CMS Development Marketing Websites Work Management Web 2.0

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Sales Cycle

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The Recession is Here - Time to Become an Eco-Marketer

Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Don't miss these great opportunities to build marketing content. Use social media techniques such as Twitter and YouTube to maximize the effect of your webinars, videos and white papers. For example, you can mention on your twitter profile that you've just released a new blog post or newsletter.

Lead Ranking

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

Sales Management

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). Source: ITSMA ) Webinars: This is a very popular content marketing tactic used in industrial and B2B marketing.

Buying Cycle

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The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. So, what should you do to revamp or redesign your current website?

Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Buying Cycle

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Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle

7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

Try These Traditional Tactics Now About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

Work Management

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking

Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Webinars

Trending Sources

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Webinars

The New Marketing Accountability

The Role of B2B Marketing

The Role of B2B Marketing

The Science of Email Marketing « The Effective Marketer

11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Lead Generation Programs That Work

B2B Marketing Summit Shows Old Problems Persist

What Is Marketing Acceleration?

Enjoy A Demand Funnel Cocktail

Business Value of Social Networking

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

5 Sales Closing Techniques

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

The Recession is Here - Time to Become an Eco-Marketer

B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Content Creation Made Easy

7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up

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