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B2B Marketing Mix: Will Online, Social Tactics Lead?

Online Marketing Institute

My goal is to inspire, challenge, and engage marketers at firms that sell highly-considered products and services. I hope this blog brings you a fresh perspective on the future of B2B marketing and best practices that you can put to work today to improve Marketings standing and influence inside your firm.

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Top Takeaways From Blogwell Philly 2010

Marketing Insider Group

They showed that there are many best practices that we can all learn from. A common theme: almost all the presentations highlighted the importance of identifying and working with the top influencers in your target market as a key starting point and component of success. Identify your influencers. Click here to cancel reply.

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B2B Social Media Strategy and Executive Buy-in

Marketing Insider Group

Finally, I provide practical tips for developing your own strategy, gaining the buy-in required to execute the plan and working with your executive team on marketing their own personal brands to your customers. I explain the 5 steps required to gaining executive buy-in. And also discuss the 4 main objectives of a comprehensive plan.

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Aberdeen Shows How to Do Email Marketing Right

The Effective Marketer

According to the research “ email marketing’s ability to provide a high quantity of leads combined with direct revenue gains ” is what makes it still an attractive channel. In their research they also classify companies according to their results in email marketing usage. United States License. Theme: Contempt by Vault9.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

In this post I will review a whitepaper produced last month by Toolbox.com in conjunction with PJA Advertising + Marketing called “ Top 5 Trends in B2B Social Media Usage: What Every Marketer Should Know “ (registration required) on social media usage. You are most certainly not the only one.

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The Future of B2B Marketing: It's Social

Marketing Insider Group

Edelman, who is the co-leader of McKinsey’s Global Digital Marketing Strategy practice. It is transforming the economics of marketing and making obsolete many of the function’s traditional strategies and structures. David starts with this great point: The internet has upended how consumers engage with brands.

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A B2B Marketing Manifesto?

Marketing Insider Group

The eBook offers a call to action for all B2B marketers to take a different path from the traditional “tried and true&# marketing practices of old. So they’ve written a manifesto (reg. required) to prove it. The manifesto also makes a “plea for ambition.&#