Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

It means that search marketing is working! If you're a larger organization, I suggest looking at an agency or consultant to help you get moving. More and more organizations are leveraging their software to use search queries in productive methods. What does this all mean? What can you do? That's OK and should be expected.

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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 1, 2006

We'll see if this works or not but for a "news hungry" world, this is something that should really take off. The one thing to caution everyone is that it requires a lot of work to administer. You;ve got the user generated content down, you need to work on the user organized content.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 9, 2008

One of my readers back then asked me how this concept would work. This approach works for the average blogger but companies need better tools. This process works very well for new subscribers to your site as they can get a newsletter with the latest articles from the RSS feeds that you have defined. Will this work?

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 7, 2007

RainToday which is typically a pretty good source for small B2B companies looking to market professional services almost blew it with their new research report called " What's Working in Lead Generation ". Cold Calling Works. Sales and marketing can work together. Sales and marketing can work together. Has it worked?

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 15, 2006

Working for a marketing software company that focuses on B2B, I find myself more and more talking about blogs. Making this consistent (eg: first week of each month) works best as bloggers will know when your next post will come out. If they don't, it won't work. The people who blog have to want to do it.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Ardath Albee has written a great e-book called Why Naked CRM Doesn't Work on how to "dress up" your CRM by providing better tools for sales and an improved process for sales and marketing. This can come from all aspects of your organization: engineering, support, operations, marketing and sales. Ok, that's a stupid question.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006

I've also added my most popular posts which demonstrates some of my best (or worst work). I work for Eloqua which is a leader in marketing automation software and I'm on the front lines of e-marketing on a daily basis. The trick is to use this! People that land on my blog can easily check out my other content.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 20, 2007

The first line says " Thanks for your interest in our white paper for developing the organization & governance plan ". In this case, the web form was very short and probably worked. PPS: You can take this concept beyond paid search to organic search - are your pages fully optimized to drive web visitors down a certain path?

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2006

One way is to give out free IPods but this doesn't work anymore becuase everyone already and their dog has an IPod (PS - a future bloggy post will depict the sorry state of our nations hearing). Besides the CEO, blogs give the Joe Schmo in your organization a voice as well. Ok - so, how do you get more people to your site?

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 23, 2006

I like the idea of profiling someone who is part of your target audience but 1 post every three months doesn't work and the blatant product placement is terrible. As I previously blogged about, blogs take commitment from the enture organization and a require a strategy that rolls up into the overall marketing plan. This is pure puke.

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Click Rate Traffic Stats Business Blogging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Inside sales gets to do a lot of the grunt work to qualify leads and set meetings but they typically don't close the deals. Coaches: The coaches are the executives in the organization: CMO, CEO, VP of Sales etc. In football terms, these guys can make the difference in the game but typically only pick up short yardage.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Although I'm a big supporter of environmental issues and started my career running an environmental organization , I would like to focus on eco-marketing in terms of demand creation. In a down economy you need to work on further segmenting your campaigns and matching your communications to the right person at the right time.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JUNE 29, 2009

If there is someone in your organization that has a direct relationship with the intended recipient, send it from them. Yes this method requires additional effort and yes it does mean that your data needs to be in order for it to work but it’s a proven method that brings your company closer to your prospects and customers.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 17, 2009

At some point I would like to come back to each category and focus on them specifically but for now, here is some organized Twitter talk for y’all – enjoy it: Sales and Marketing Alignment jblock : Only 32% of sales and marketing orgs work together to define programs for existing customers.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 28, 2006

Since my wedding on May 21 I haven't been basking in the glory of marriage but rather have been working my bum off catching up and planning for my future. Note the things that work and that don't. I've also started to catch up on some of my millions of email newsletters and blog feeds that I get. What do people really want to see?

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2006

Bloggers Can Make New Subscribers Feel Special Too Sending a quick follow up to opt-ins may seem easy for organizations to do this with their regular corporate websites but how can blogs take advantage of this? Try this out and see how it works. If someone has opt-ed in, show then value right away. I'll let you know as well!

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

If the registrant is new to your system, have a generic signature that perhaps is from your CMO or a known figure within your organization. How has it worked for you? As an added tip, include a picture of the sales rep. While these recommendations will require an investment of time up front, it will pay off in the long run.

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