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MANHATTAN MARKETING MAVEN | SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012 Did Google Goof? The three new features are: personal results, profiles in search and people and pages. The so-called benefit is that your Google search results will be even more personalized, thanks to information shared on Google+. Google’s decision to weight its +1 button and display Google+ results has created a very interesting contretemps. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 The Future of Marketing According to the article, we dream of the ability to customize marketing messages to the right person at a specific moment. I was recently directed back to an article from late last year in Fast Company magazine called The Future of Advertising by Danielle Sacks. And it got me to thinking about the marketing industry as a whole. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010 6 Content Marketing Tips That Drives Leads Too often we grab the latest product brochure, sales presentation or case study and post it online. But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. Stay away from arbitrary boundaries like SIC codes and Revenue range or employee size. Know them all. Get creative. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011 Guy Kawasaki's 12 Pillars of Enchantment Can a person still be enchanting after ruining the first impression? Simply put, being enchanting is beneficial- it gets you followers. You want people to consider and interact with you and your content/product/service, right? Exactly. Essentially, you need to view the webinar for the in-depth how-to, but here's the deal in a nutshell: 1. -
DIGITAL B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011 Selling your Lead Generation Content Personally, I would not, here are a couple reasons why this fails the content selling test. You have committed to content marketing, you have invested in creating content, and your website has turned into a veritable content hub. You have enough traffic, but you need more registrations to fuel your nurture program. Your content is not free.
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SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 3 Steps to Make B2B Social Media Produce Sales Prospects are prompted to view videos in a personalized manner via a direct email. Blogging, engaging, listening to customers on Facebook or Twitter. They’re all necessary components of being online. But doing these things won’t help your B2B company generate leads and convert sales using social media. But an incomplete one. -
B2B MARKETING BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2009 From the (former) Editor’s Desk: Pesky PR? “… [Name removed] was by far, the most obnoxiously persistent person I’ve ever dealt with. You’ve gotta love Facebook status updates. Three other editors gave it a thumb’s up. Within minutes, several of my other former colleagues responded: “Wow! You just nailed all my pet-peeves!. Don’t get it twisted. -
MANHATTAN MARKETING MAVEN | FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012 Rethinking Storytelling The story has to relate to the audience and touch a personal nerve. Does the medium dictate how the story is told? That’s a question of increasing urgency as brands develop assets and orchestrate experiences among and between channels and platforms. Stories are the fundamental meme of human communication. Immersion. - Putting for Par’s: Are you practicing properly?
In your role as a sales manager are you taking your personal and professional development as casual as a few practice swings on the driving range? Sales Leadership: Are you practicing properly? Putting for Par’s. happen to be in Florida this weekend, taking a few days off to visit relatives, play golf and enjoy the weather. -
EB2BLEADS | THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011 8 Ways To Avoid A B2B Social Media Marketing Failure Business can be pretty boring at times and if all you do is talk about your business, its messages and how great you think you are then people will switch off, just like the boring person at that party you ran into the other night. So why is it then that B2B companies are still finding it difficult to demonstrate results ? -
LEADSLOTH | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 8 Tips to Get Started with Marketing Automation National Instruments, another presenter at the MarketingSherpa conference, used website behavior to enrich the prospect profile and personalize lead nurturing campaigns. “Where do I start?” is the question I get asked most by attendees of the MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit in San Francisco. Choose Your Products and/or Business Unit. -
LEAD VIEWS | FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2010 Nurture The Leads In Your Sales Funnel – On Social Media For eg – ‘@Leadname – thought you might be interested in this information on ‘ how to score your leads ‘ ’ You see a little bit of personalized messaging will get you noticed. Usually people look up a person’s profile before adding them to their professional network. ’ On Linkedin. -
CONVERSIONATION | MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012 Context Marketing in Context: Beyond Inbound and Content If that’s it, then context marketing is just a mix of content marketing and good old customer-centric marketing automation with a twist of personalization. Everything evolves and so does marketing. Today, things evolve faster. So, yes you read the title right: this one is about context marketing in context. It’s not about content. -
BUYEROLOGY | MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011 Future of Buyer Personas is Social - Part 3 Another person I’m a big fan of is Paul Greenberg (plus he’s a big Yankees fan like me), a leading expert on Social CRM and author of CRM at the Speed of Light. Paul’s Image by Cristiano Betta via Flickr. This is the third part of a series of reflective articles on the future of buyer personas. From Art to Science. on me. - How the Buying Process Has Changed, and How It Hasn't: Notes from the Field
This almost completely eliminated any personal relationship from the equation, as well as blocking traditional dealer tactics like the indirect negotiation with the sales manager. personal response – Dopey Subaru 11:46 a.m. personal response – Doc Subaru 11:26 a.m. Lesson learned: product really does count. 5/28 11:22 a.m. -
ENGAGE | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 Give Me One Reason to Share It and I’ll Spread Your Post Around It expresses the personality of the sharer. T here are a lot of blips on our daily radars. We check our Twitter stream. We drop in on Google+. We comb through our RSS feeds. And for the most part, we ignore most of the content we see. Because we’ve read it before. Because it sounds too familiar. Because it’s obvious. -
ENGAGE | FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011 What to Do with Twitter When You Aren’t on Twitter As a person who recently took a (forced) hiatus from Twitter (in our business, deadlines are killer) I learned a few things about how to leave your Twitter account in a state that still works for you. Make it count, and keep away from ending on a personal conversational note. L et’s face it: Twitter is a bit addicting. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012 How the Big Social Networks Use Email to Increase Engagement But those are all personal alerts. We talk a lot on this blog about how email marketing and social media should be integrated. It helps grow your social reach, increases email click-through rate, promotes lead generation and reconversions, and builds a better relationship between brands and companies. But you know what else it does? Facebook. -
PAUL GILLIN | FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 Palmisano Reflects on a Decade as IBM’s CEO Palmisano has kept a low public profile during his tenure as CEO, so the opportunity to see him let down his guard a bit and talk about his personal style is a rare treat. Palmisano speaks honestly about the mistakes IBM made that nearly capsized the company 20 years ago and how those lessons changed him as a leader. - Centrifuge Systems Offers Powerful, Flexible Link Analysis
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BUYEROLOGY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011 Creating Scenarios About Your Social Buyer Persona Scenarios that contain robust narratives can be very effective in describing as well as imagining the buyer’s interaction with a company’s touchpoints – be they in-person, telephonically, or socially. Image by jasoneppink via Flickr. Related articles. customerthink.com). -
VIEWPOINT | MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 4 Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation This person will lead the cross-functional team in implementing the new process, and selecting (based on the process) the new automation platform. Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. What's the point of that? -
EMARKETING STRATEGIST | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2010 The Power of Negative Attention She informs them that she has been repeatedly threatened by the person who owns the company she has the claim against. I’ve been writing a lot of “cautionary tale” blog posts recently. This was not my plan at all but I keep coming across stories I think we can learn a lot from. It’s a story worthy of a John Grisham novel. That’s right. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 The Four Pillars of Trust Online Through segmentation and personalization, you can provide specifics that are relevant to your audience. The final keynote of the SES Conference was given by Tim Ash, CEO of SiteTuners.com. It was entitled, The Four Pillars of Trust Online. Ash prefaced his lecture by informing us how “it is NOT about technology. Authority. Appearance. -
DIANNA HUFF - B2B MARCOM | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011 The One Reason Your PPC Campaign Isn’t Working But this person is typically doing five million other things. Tweet July, 2011. Published by Dianna Huff. Volume 11, Number 5. Welcome! Is your Google AdWords campaign bleeding cash? Have your conversions gone down over time? In this month's article I interviewed Pauline Jakober, a true pay-per-click / Google AdWords expert. LinkedIn. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011 9 Video Marketing Mistakes to Avoid It provides that personal video the opportunity to pop up as a suggestion after a company video, and you want to promote the brand, not your latest shenanigans with your pal. In case you haven’t noticed, YouTube recently made some design changes , one of which included an updated video end-screen. Not Making Videos. -
TRADESMEN INSIGHTS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013 3 Tips to Help Your Social Media Break Through all the Clutter Don’t let a low-level person who isn’t up to speed on your products be your spokesperson. So you finally got in the social media game and you’re trying to make your mark. With all the clutter and noise out there, you need to differentiate yourself (branding) and engage your potential customers. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011 9 Things I’m Looking Forward To At Marketing Profs B2B Marketing Forum Ardath Albee : while I’m unfortunately going to miss her pre-event training workshop on “contagious content I am looking forward to meeting Ardath ( @ardath421 ) in person and soaking in as much of her B2B Marketing expertise as I can. This year, that show is the Marketing Profs B2B Marketing Forum next week in Boston. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011 40 Awesome Marketing Tweets From 2011 e6e6e6 ;'> December 16, 2011 8:09 am via Zite Personalized Magazine Reply Retweet Favorite. “These are a few of my favorite things…” Now that you have that song in your head, let me tell you a little bit about how I come up with some of my blog content. That’s it. don’t have a fancy editorial calendar. abneedles. -
JUNTA 42 | MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 I Need Your Help – 2012 Golf for Autism Just Weeks Away People with autism, at any age, are capable of making significant progress through personalized interventions and therapy; and can and do lead meaningful lives. This is a very personal issue for our family. Joshua and Dad at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. I’d like to fix that issue here. Please take five minutes and read below. -
BIZNOLOGY | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010 Living the Local Life on the Road am not a good traveler whether it's in business or personal life. suspect that I am not the only person who does things this way, and I was completely dependent on Google's presentation of the businesses I needed to find while on the road. Image by PhotoJonny via Flickr. by Frank Reed. It was worth the wait. Place Pages are powerful. -
MARKETRI | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012 4 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Generate Awesome B2B Content The content matrix generally includes a list of topics, a call to action for each topic and a person who is responsible. Committing to blogging and the process of content marketing is often a big hurdle for our clients. They see the benefits of blogging but it takes some time to achieve buy-in. ” “What if we run out of ideas?” -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009 Sales Lead Management: Thought Leadership with Aaron Ross know social media/etc is sexy, but personally I like the unsexy low-hanging fruit that marketers can tackle right away for much faster, concrete results: improved management of leads and better account base marketing. I've long been a fan of his blog Build a Sales Machine and I learn something new every time we interact. Balls get dropped. -
B2BBLOGGERS | MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010 Content Marketing Is … Personal. About | Advertise | Submissions | Write for Us CrowdsourcedFRD Home Advertising Branding Content Marketing Lead Gen SEO-SEM Social Media More Strategy Design PR eBooks Educational Facebook Guest Posts Twitter Content Marketing Is … June 28th, 2010 | By Jeremy Victor Today, I thought I would run a little blog post experiment. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010 New CMO Survey Reports Marketing Spending to Rise would personally love to know if this spending is still online advertising focused or if CMOs are starting to invest in more content generation and community management to leverage inbound marketing, but that was not included in the survey. Below are a couple highlights from the latest report, released today. What do you think? -
Exploding the “It’s all about the conversation” social media myth It is, at best, an un-moderated, non-representative focus group dominated by aggressive personalities likely to complain and force their view on others. One of the most pervasive mantras of the social media hype circus is that it’s “all about the conversation with your customers. Experienced marketers can see this trap. -
ENGAGE | SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011 7 Common Reasons Email Subscribers Stop Subscribing Reason #2: Your Content Became Repetitive or Boring Over Time Ever told a joke to the same person twice? T he email inbox is a battleground. There’s a lot of competition in the marketplace – nearly a quarter of a trillion emails are sent per day – and keeping subscribers happy is a challenge. Embarrassing, right? -
MARKETING ACTION | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013 The Case For Digital Integrated Marketing And if you’re ready to take an even closer look, just contact us for a one-to-one personalized demo. Today online marketing includes email, websites, social media (in all its many splendors), webinars, search engine optimization, pay-per-click ads, website visitor tracking, and a host of other activities and channels. In real time? -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010 Perfect Timing – When to Call a Prospect This process is important for two reasons: it engages the prospect when they are ready and it helps the sales person spend their time with the right people at the right time. Don't waste reps time or frustrate potential buyers by calling before their ready. When do you call your prospect for the first time? Timing is everything. -
MARKETING EDGE | FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2008 Social media is a movement, not a market This is the pain and agony of have two personalities, which is also the dilemma for marketing professionals right now. This is a follow-up to a conversation I had with Valeria Maltoni and the excerpt that Tom Kephart posted at New Tech Heroes about my “social media is a movement†theme. Is this guy naïve or what?!†Relationships? -
PWB MARKETING BLOG | FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012 Newsjacking: What Is It and Why Should I Care In it the author expressed how the death of a famous person reminded him of a book he was reading. An industry expert or industry leader is a great person to comment or quote in the piece. Find persons that are directly tied to the news story. In this article you’ll get a better understanding of newsjacking. -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 B2B Social Media Breaks Out at SXSW By using social content at each step of the online decision making process, marketers can drastically improve their results, while giving prospective customers the most relevant content personalized to them. Last year there was a B2B track with a day’s worth of sessions in one Standing Room Only room. Digital A-Z for B2B. ” False. -
SAZBEAN | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 5 Questions and 5 Reasons Your Customers Want the Answers The better you know your audience, the easier it is to write a relevant and personable bio or product page. Where are you online? What’s your domain name and what are your keywords? If you don’t choose keywords relevant to your product or service, then your people (your customers and prospects) can’t find you. It’s all about the keywords. -
TRADESMEN INSIGHTS | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011 Trade Shows and ROI Measurement: 5 Key Metrics SAVVY TIP: Find out from the VP of Sales an average cost of a trip for a sales person to give a demo at a prospect’s office. Compare Most of you participate in various trade shows from time to time. If you do, you know that they can be very expensive and management is always looking for a ROI. Enjoy. That’s OK though. Consider -
EARNEST ABOUT B2B | FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011 This is the week that was in b2b Ernie identified that there are four motivations for a person to communicate about brands. In the week that saw a Facebook user jailed for contempt of court, IBM kick start its centenary celebrations and the British PM getting a much deserved berating – what, you may ask, has been going on in the heady world of B2B? Revelation of the week. -
ENGAGE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013 Passion Project: What The Verge and Joshua Toplosky Taught Me About Content Success But I don’t have to know him personally to know what he’s about. I do not know Joshua Topolsky. But I feel like I should—know him, that is. Thanks to the Internet, I end up feeling that way about a lot of people I’ll probably never meet. Take Josh (Do his friends call him that?), for example. He wears dark-rimmed glasses. Not at all. -
INSIGHTIQ BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012 5 Steps to Planning Successful Infrastructure: MSPs & Beyond If someone tells you to skip the documentation because it isn't that important or there is just not enough time to do it, it is probably the same person that told you that you didn't have to send your wife flowers today because it was a Hallmark Holiday (bad idea in my house). Step 1: Virtualize Everything. Step 2: Document Everything. -
INSIGHTIQ BLOG | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011 Customer Data Management with "Big Data" - Part 1 Personally Identifying Information (PII) such as name, email, address, phone and username are the primary drivers behind identity resolution. Customer Data Management (CDM), also known as Customer Data Integration (CDI), is foundational for a Customer Intelligence (CI) or Customer Engagement (CE) system. Change Data Capture (CDC). Household. -
ONPATH | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012 Suck It Up, Buttercup! You see, I don’t really care that you missed a deadline or a goal or a personal milestone in your life. Article by Cale Helmer (Quality and Training Manager, OnPath). Connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter @bluecontra1. hate failing. hate putting my effort into something that doesn’t pan out. But not for the same reasons you might expect. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2011 Is Google Testing A New Feature? Showing Recommendations From Friends of Friends The term "Filter Bubbles" has been coined to talk about how personalization in search engines could potentially reduce diversity of search results , if an engine starts to know more about you and presents the articles it thinks you want to see, instead of a diversity of items. For example, see the query below for the phrase, "Google". -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011 16 Quick Ways to Squeeze More ROI From Your Blog People like to talk to other people, so it makes sense that successful content is often a bit personal. You're a dedicated inbound marketer putting already strapped time and resources into creating content for your blog on a regular basis. And you deserve to get as much return as possible on that investment. Insert calls-to-action. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 4 Clever PPC Opportunities Ecommerce Marketers Won't Want to Miss What I mean by this is that you may want to target certain keywords, but there is only so much you can infer from a person who types in general terms. 'If you’re a PPC veteran, it’s tempting to devote all your time to the bigger picture and finding creative new ways to drive cheap, conversion-friendly clicks. Model Number Campaigns. -
Hey All: Check This Out 15: A Gourmet Life for Personal & Professional Success. How would you like to get sales advice from some of the top sales experts in the world -- at the same time you're making a contribution to the Japanese Disaster Fund. ( Check out the schedule now.). You can attend each session for only $5.00. Who's presenting? - How To Time That Sales Deal
One of the best excuses I heard during a sales meeting was that the person who signed off the PO’s had….wait Deal or No Deal (video game) (Photo credit: Wikipedia). You’ve probably been staring at that sales deal on your forecast now for months. wait for it……gone moose hunting. Guess what, that deal never came in. -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011 Why Business And Sales Proposals Are A Waste Of Your Time A suspect calls you up without having spent much time with your online sales person otherwise called your website and the conversation contained within it. they’re not really interested in buying, but they are interested in picking your brains to see what they can find out for themselves. Never the less you go anyway. Told you so. -
BUSINESS GROWTH DEVELOPMENT | THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011 What is a CRM system really used for ? They occur for various reasons such as shared values, complimentary skills, likeable personality traits and all sorts of other human characteristics as well as business reasons. Technology can be both a crippling or liberating investment for any business big or small. So what is a CRM system ? -
TRADESMEN INSIGHTS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 5 Helpful Hints to Attract New Business Using Your Blog person that still has “wordpress or blogspot” in their domain won’t be able to change blogging platforms without losing traffic. Here are 5 simple steps and suggestions to improve your company’s blog as a major tool for fueling new business leads: 1. Write consistently: is important to creating regular readership. -
MANHATTAN MARKETING MAVEN | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011 Why Living Social Will Crash & Burn Following a yeoman effort at sell-in, we prep the clients, hold endless conference calls, salve internal political and personality disputes and get everybody prepped to handle inquiries, social media reactions, PR, purchases, redemptions and potential competitive responses. National advertisers are extremely skeptical about daily deals. -
BLUE FOCUS MARKETING | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011 2012 Social Media Business Trends Location-based messaging between people, and especially between people and businesses of all sizes, will increasingly be initiated by individuals as they tap into their personal networks and networks of those around them to seek and share information. Besides being highly personal, mobile will become the social conduit.”. for brands? -
INBLURBS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012 HEALING online with VIDEO Video Email is simple to use, online, browser based technology, which enables you to create your own personal Vmails. There are millions of Healing Practitioners around the globe, with much to offer the world in terms of healing, training + moving forward, but many are struggling to put food on the table in these economic climes. MOBILE. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 4 Social Media Lessons From the Emma's Pizza Twitter Fail Be Careful Who You Put in Charge of Your Social Presence: It seems hard to believe that the owner of Emma's Pizza, who offered up the genuine apology two days later, was the same person who tweeted the initial offense. What came next was a Twitter backlash. And Emma's Pizza didn't exactly handle it gracefully. smart. Worse. -
MARKETING INTERACTIONS | SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010 Webinar Q&A: Content is Marketing Currency The catch is transferring people’s attention from interacting with you personally to motivation for them to go online “building traffic” after the fact. On Wednesday, I answered a question that had been asked during the webinar about how to improve a content strategy you already have with the post Take Your Content Marketing Up Stream. -
KOMARKETING ASSOCIATES | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012 Our Favorite Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2012 It was so meaningful to me I referenced it in my personal blog, but the point is it offers 12 simple steps every writer must take to become successful in the digital space or otherwise. For KoMarketing Associates, 2012 was a year of growth, collaboration, successes (and challenges), and good fortune. You can never stop learning and sharing. -
HUBSPOT | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2012 3 Mobile Trends Every Marketer Must Know, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week WhatCounts reported that, “people who had unsubscribed from the 2008 campaign email lists were top targets, among the easiest to pull back into the fold with some personal attention.” We usually use this time to round up some marketing stories that we think you'd like to hear. He served from 2002-2008 in the Navy Band in Washington, D.C., - Research Methods 'Beyond Google' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
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INDUSTRIAL MARKETING TODAY | WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010 Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.” Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word. So curated content is not something new. of Tiecas, Inc. -
MI6 MARKETING AGENCY | FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011 March Mi6 Chart Toppers Mobile Users Check Personal Email (Source: Merkle via @eMarketer). March 2011. Every weekday we share charts from various research reports, articles and posts that are relevant and useful (we hope!) to marketing professionals. They are tweeted via Chris Herbert’s Twitter stream and posted in our chartstream on Posterous. Top 10 Charts. Enjoy! -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011 B2B Book Buzz: Content Rules Even in B2B marketing, find a way to relate to your reader as a person, not a marketer. pre-ordered this book in fall 2010 and have since applied some of its advice with raving success. Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman, chief content officers for Marketing Profs, emphasize that “content is king” online. Think like a publisher. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010 B2B Marketing Events Around The World - Dec 2010 December 2-4, unGeeked San Francisco, California: The goal of this event is to learn how to align the personal and corporate brands by involving sales, marketing, PR and more into your SoMe integration efforts. The changing nature of our industry propels us to stay on top of the latest trends. December 16, BMA Atlanta Holiday Social. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010 The B2B Word on the Street: Creative The first time a person is called "creative" usually happens early in life, and it's sometimes used as an explanation for the child being a bit "different." This Week's B2B Word on the Street is: CREATIVE. Coloring outside the lines" and "marching to the beat of a different drum" are not actions attributed to conformists. -
SALES CHALLENGER | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 8 Ways to Develop an Agile Marketing Team Personality is the biggest factor in determining an employee’s ability to adapt and perform well under change. Our sister program, the Communications Executive Council , found that people are far more agile in their personal lives than at work. Want to develop a more agile team? 2) Use multi-directional career pathing. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2012 5 Holiday Campaigns That Totally Missed the Mark in 2012 It's not for me, or anyone -- that includes Starbucks baristas -- to meddle in your personal life. Ah, the holidays. When all sorts of companies across every industry try to find a tie-in -- any tie-in -- between their product or service and a holiday theme. After all, who cares if someone like Old Navy comes up with a cool holiday campaign? -
FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011 Interview with DemandGen Report: How Financial Service Companies can Benefit from Marketing Automation This vertical has been historically dependent on word of mouth and in-person networking, what are the emerging touch points/components of to Financial Services buying process? DemandGen Report recently added the quarterly “Vertical Deep Dive” section to explore how marketers in various industries can utilize automation tools to drive success. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011 7 Webinar Tricks Every Marketer Should Master Prepare the person helping you with answers to all the questions you can anticipate, along with other pieces of basic info. With inbound marketing, the name of the game is content: plain and simple. And by now, we all know the best practices for creating most of these content types. But what about webinars? Set a Clear Agenda at the Outset. -
WWW.BRAINSHARK.COM | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 Content Tips: Repurposing Blog Posts into Video Presentations As a Brainshark enterprise customer, you can collaborate with others on content production by copying or merging content between presentations, inviting “guests” to add their voice or slides to your presentation, or personalizing presentations by adding or substituting your own custom opening or closing slides. Ideas Blog. Search. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011 7 Reasons Your Blog Isn't Growing Whether you're a one-person show or your have employees, have you ever considered shining the spotlight on outside pros? This is a guest blog post from Michael Stelzner, founder of Social Media Examiner, a leading social media blog and author of Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition. Do you blog? -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011 How B2B Brands Respond to Facebook Attacks Panelists: Bryan Person, Social Media Evangelist, Liveworld ( @BryanPerson ). As B2B companies create Facebook Pages, in addition to creating a content strategy and an engagement strategy, which are processes for what to post and how to engage with comments, they need to develop a process for dealing with a crisis. Dell on Facebook. -
INBLURBS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011 How to create mobile friendly emails and get more response 30% of consumers are already using mobile devices to read personal email. Current analysis show impressive statistics where millions of people will be using advanced email ready phones. Morgan Stanley Research predicts that sales of smart phones will exceed those of PCs within 2 years. Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research. -
INBLURBS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2011 Recruit your employees online and save thousands of dollars Christina Pappas, inbound marketing manager at Zmags said: “Our online footprint will determine our personal brand and potential to employers,. How business has gone the social media marketing way there also recruiting is changing. Business will spend less money in the future on head hunters and advertising to attract employees! -
INBLURBS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010 Identify your buyer persona first, and then start marketing This article describes a few tips of identifying buyer personal first and use marketing strategies to generate business leads. Business online is successful if you follow the basic techniques and use latest marketing strategies. The first step in promoting your business online is to identify the buyer personas. Identify your buyer persona. -
THE CRAP REPORT | FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010 Interview with David Meerman Scott If I were a marketing person for Starbucks, I wouldn’t even talk about the drink. As a new feature here on The CRAP Report, I’m going to start posting interviews every so often. I couldn’t find anything that I thought I should leave on the editing floor, so to speak. I like that. . We had great websites built on content. You needed a .edu -
B2B MARKETING CONFIDENTIAL | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010 Cascading detail for sales enablement have extended the concept to include two more personality oriented traits into consideration. skip to main | skip to sidebar B2B Marketing Confidential B2B Marketing Confidential is published by a ten-year veteran of B2B Marketing who has worked with over 20 Fortune 500 companies. In hindsight, it was ultra-simple. but there was more to it. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011 Hollywood Your Content Marketing: 3 Lessons to Learn from Movie Sequels Brands, whether they have a prominent person visible or not, needs to have character. by Maria Pergolino One of the proven formulas for success in the movie business is the continuation of an existing story via sequels. In fact, in 2011, a record 27 sequel films will be released. Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.”. -
TRADESMEN INSIGHTS | THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010 Pros and Cons of Starting a Blog Infusing your personality can be a great way to connect with your audience on a more human level. use it as the hub of all other activity and get more hits to it than our website. If you’re thinking about doing a blog, here are a few things to consider first. Starting a blog is a great way to show the world your unique identity. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 11 Clever Ways to Nurture Leads With Your Business Blog If your business sells personal tax software, for instance, you could include a link for your blog article, "10 Ways to Get More Money Back From Your Tax Return This Year" on the product page that details the features of your software. Because not all blog readers are brand new visitors, right? That''s right! 1) Implement Smart CTAs. right? -
B2B MARKETING ZONE POSTS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 Top 40 Posts and Hot Topics of Inbound Marketing and Social Media We’ve all created our own personal filters to help us sort through the mess to find content we consider valuable and, most important, relevant to our interests. That would describe some social media personalities. Best of B2B Marketing. June 2010. Some amazing content from June. Enjoy. Is lead generation killing marketing? -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009 Value Propositions: Is Yours Strong Enough to Entice Customers? So being the curious (or nosy) person that I am, I emailed back and asked him why. This article by Jill Konrath first appeared in her Selling to Big Companies e-newsletter. We liked it so much that we wanted to share it with you. few weeks ago I sent out a newsletter announcing my new web site, Selling to Big Companies. It wasn't logical. -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009 Value Propositions: Is Yours Strong Enough to Entice Customers? So being the curious (or nosy) person that I am, I emailed back and asked him why. This article by Jill Konrath first appeared in her Selling to Big Companies e-newsletter. We liked it so much that we wanted to share it with you. few weeks ago I sent out a newsletter announcing my new web site, Selling to Big Companies. It wasn't logical. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 2011 12 Email Marketing Mistakes To Avoid [New Report] Mistake #5: Institution-to-One Messaging - The debate on how to personalize company emails is ongoing. While I was working at MarketingSherpa, we published MarketingSherpa’s Dirty Dozen: Email Newsletter Mistakes Nearly Everyone Makes as a lead generation offer for the 2008 Email Marketing Summit. That’s a big mistake. -
BLOG MY CALLS | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 5 Ways to Create a Culture of Content Marketing at Your Company This person needs to be able to produce content quickly. 'The importance of content marketing and inbound marketing are widely known. Basically content is the new SEO. The more fresh content you have on your site, the more Google respects your site, and the higher you''ll rank. But here''s the question: how do you create the content you need? -
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Is your company creating a social media ghost town? If someone isn’t comfortable using social media or if it doesn’t match their personality, it shows. At the end of our meal, we were impressed to receive a card promoting the restaurant’s Twitter and Facebook profiles with our checks. Certainly, this was a great way to invite customers to connect with the restaurant online. What a shame. -
Is your company creating a social media ghost town? If someone isn’t comfortable using social media or if it doesn’t match their personality, it shows. At the end of our meal, we were impressed to receive a card promoting the restaurant’s Twitter and Facebook profiles with our checks. Certainly, this was a great way to invite customers to connect with the restaurant online. What a shame. -
SALES CHALLENGER | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011 Member Spotlight: How Does “Challenger” Translate Globally? Demonstrating a sales call as a Challenger or using analogies (such as Are Your Reps Bartenders or Personal Trainers) help to deliver the message. (This is a guest post by Bill Skaggs, Global Director of Sales Excellence at Solae, LLC. Bill has more than 30 years of experience in the sales excellence and enablement function.). -
SALES CHALLENGER | MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011 EU Reflections on a Rewritten Playbook Another member commented, “Personally, I’ve seen that buying decisions at our company are involving more and more people, so why should my customers be any different?”. “Consensus isn’t particularly new here in Scandinavia – it’s a way of life! And by the way, what’s a playbook?”. Consider the following: . in a future post. -
SALES CHALLENGER | TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011 Surprise! You’re Not on the Same Page as Your Customers For instance, … if the gate keeper gives a sales person access to a decision-maker, it means they take you seriously and are ready to discuss potential solutions. How do we know where the deal really stands?”. This approach could work, if not for these two big problems. So, what’s left? Please contribute in the comments filed below. -
Communication and Collaboration for Sales Success For example an 8 year old named Manuel said you should do this for the person you are in love with, "Yell out that you love them at the top of your lungs.and don't worry if their parents are right there." Everyone goes to these meetings from the president of the company to the new person that started a week ago. Man I loved that show. -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 Hey Facebook Users – When did Advertising Become the Bad Guy? Personally I would rather see a few ads in the background than pay my share of their electric bill. I’ve heard some fresh grumbling lately about how Facebook is planning to advertise to its users based on information they’ve put in their profile or specific keywords they’ve used in their updates. Magazines and newspapers? -
SAVVY B2B MARKETING | MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009 Giving more than lip service to the integration of sales and marketing goals Mark and Salva O’Renick are eating their own dog food and I personally find that tremendously persuasive. This is the third in a series of reports from Heather’s coverage of the Integrated Marketing Summit. The other posts can be found here. Mark O’Renick , CEO of Salva O’Renick was the presenter for this session. -
DELICIOUS B2BMARKETING | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010 5 Proven Strategies for B2B Social Media Marketing Affect recommended an integrated campaign that combined social media, online video, an online sweepstakes and in-person events. Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise. Learn more. That will increase your following tenfold. | |