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MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013 The Content Marketing Mashup of Writing, Business, and Passion In it, he talks about how to really work on developing your writing skills and how to succeed in content even if you don’t have a writing background. by Dayna Rothman I get asked quite frequently how I became a content marketer. So, who do you choose? think you need a really solid mixture of all of them. content marketer’s career. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012 Managing your Time to Increase Sales Next, identify the time of day you are most productive and use that time to work on tasks related to your big goals. Did you know that on average, only 10% of a salesperson’s time is spent selling? How can you expect profits to increase when such a small percent of time involves true selling? -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011 Is 10 Years Too Long to Meet Your B2B Social Media Objectives? Reporters talked about that it has been nearly 10 years since the 9/11 attacks, and through hard work and dedication, the American military and intelligence community achieved their objective. Make sure you put some parameters around that, so the marketing team doesn’t spend all its time working toward this ultimate pitch. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011 Cloud Connectors & Revenue Performance Management: An Interview with Steven Woods [Video] It saves them a lot of work, but it’s also a bite of the elephant. by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this. First off, what exactly are Cloud Connectors? Simply put, a Cloud Connector is a seamless connection between Eloqua’s marketing automation workflow and any other system. Can you explain the relation between the two? Did they attend? Facebook. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012 7 Awesome Olympics Campaigns to Inspire Your Marketing The way it works? We're knee deep in 2012 Summer Olympics coverage, and billions of eyes from around the world are watching athletes attempt to break records and bring home the gold. seems like a perfect opportunity for marketers, no? And then there are the elite. Enjoy! P&G's "Thank You, Mom" Campaign. Take a look. How appropriate!
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DELICIOUS B2BMARKETING | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010 4 Steps to B2B SEO Accountability What better way to measure the quality of SEO work than to view where the website ranks for target keyword terms on the likes of Google and Bing? But theres an incredible flaw in that approach: it doesnt take into consideration whether the SEO work actually has a positive impact on the organization. And it seems fairly logical. Not so. -
BUYEROLOGY | SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2011 Buyer Behavior Dooms HP in Tablet Market After all, some of the Apple iPad challengers have features that work well, offer more technology than Apple iPad, and synch up well with email. Image by HP PSG APJ via Flickr. This amounts to an outright ceding to Apple and their success with the iPhone and the iPad. But there is more to this story. -
VERTICAL RESPONSE | FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013 Do You Know Your Target Market? How to Find Out… Figure out what works for you, and keep refining your tactics. 'Do you know who your target market is? We mean, really know? And, we’re not talking about, “I sell dresses, so my target market is women.” Knowing your target market allows you to spend your marketing time and resources more effectively. How do they benefit your customers? -
WEBBIQUITY | MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 54 Pearls of Marketing Wisdom from HubSpot Most mobile usage will be around search and the social networks, so make sure these work locally.” ” The assembled pundits weighed in on one or more questions regarding social media strategy, mobile marketing, online content, guidance on allocating resources between social networks and more. Quite a lineup. Start solving problems. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2010 The New Revenue Engine: Drive Predictable Revenue by Managing Your Revenue Machine In the past, this model worked. The new revenue engine works best when all of these processes are in place and working effectively: Lead generation. Any revenue-focused executive who can’t reliably deliver on his or her revenue commitments will soon be out of a job. techniques to grow revenue predictably and reliably. -
MARKETING ACTION | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 How to Link Content Marketing and Sales The main goals of inbound marketing are to attract relevant prospects, convert them into customers, and measure whether or not your strategy works. 'When it comes to content marketing, should your business be creating and sharing more? Can you map content to sales results? Does your customer “bait” stand out from your competitors’? -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011 10 Brilliant Marketing Personalization Tips to Implement ASAP What industry does the lead work in? If you're a Netflix user or have ever purchased something from Amazon, you've experienced the awesome effects of a personalized experience. No need to browse page after page of movie titles; Netflix has a list of suggestions based on your movie preferences and viewing history. And did you return for more? -
A place where bloggers are royalty (video) During my recent trip to France I had a chance to catch up with {grow} community regular and video blogger extraordinaire Michelle Chmielewski , who is now working in Paris. Our friendship started through an innocent tweet (“Go Steelers! ), and has become one of my favorite stories of connecting through the social web. Tweet This! -
ENGAGE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 10 Better Ideas Than Looking at a Top 10 List For Advice Some sites I’ve been working with have had low traffic volume with high engagement from LinkedIn, and vice versa with Twitter. T op 10 lists are like new year’s resolutions. They seem great at first, but they quickly make you feel bored, hopeless, and like you’ve wasted your time. They’re too aspirational. Too shoot-for-the-moon-y. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013 Agencies Anonymous: 6-Step Program to Overcoming Lead Nurturing Failures Our goal is to provide you with steps to help you recover (and uncover) a strategy for lead nurturing that actually works and get over the reluctance of using an agency for lead nurturing. 'by Dayna Rothman We are excited to announce Anne Shaneen as today’s guest blogger. She posts on their blog and regularly rants @annetown. -
LEADER NETWORKS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010 Internal Communities Have An Image Problem If you have a new or underused intranet consider working with the marketing group to create an internal marketing and awareness campaign to help evangelize the community within the organization. Too many of us of a "certain age" remember the knowledge repositories of yesteryear. internal communities intranets -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012 How Even YOU Can Master PPC Campaign Management [TEMPLATE] This is how A/B (and C and D) testing works. There aren’t many guarantees in life, and even fewer in marketing. But in the world of search engine marketing (SEM), using paid search (PPC) to rank on a search engine results page (SERP) for a given term comes pretty close. It comes down to intelligent campaign structure. You use a template. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 4 Tips for Harnessing the Awesome Power of Guest Blogging In the case of Brad, he works at HubSpot as the director of strategy and operations where he works for HubSpot Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah, whose blog is the popular OnStartups.com. Brad clearly understands the VC world and has direct knowledge about how Google Ventures works. That’s the point. -
B2B MARKETING TRACTION | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 The Ugly Truth about Your Website and SEO You heard that SEO is great and it works, you buy the service, but you don’t get the results that were promised. Paying for ongoing SEO services is a lot like going on a bad date. Why is that? The real way to get results from your website is to have great content that visitors need or want. Don’t lie. You won’t get a date. -
B2B MARKETING TRACTION | FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010 Reduce Marketing Time-To-Trust with Twitter Come up with your own ratio that allows you to be credible, reliable, intimate but still accomplish your B2B marketing and sales goals without alienating the B2B prospects you’ve worked so hard to get. Tweet. People buy from people they know, like and trust. You may have met them face-to-face, talked on the phone, and exchanged email. -
MARKETRI | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 The DOs and DON'Ts of Developing an Effective Architecture / Engineering Firm Website Your website should showcase your firm, your people, and your work in a manner that is visually appealing and concise, but also informative. While I stand by everything I wrote in that post, I’ve come to the realization that it has one giant, inexcusable flaw. BONUS: multimedia content is search engine gold.). Help them find solutions. -
MI6 MARKETING AGENCY | SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011 Our Fav Posts, Week of August 22 Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules. Helping Unlock the Marketing Puzzle. Each week Chris Herbert, through his Twitter feed shares charts, infographics and articles that he’s read and annotated. Here’s the posts he read, annotated and shared last week. Our Favourite Marketing Posts for Week of August 22, 2011. -
B2BBLOGGERS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010 Podcasting As Content Marketing: An Interview With Podcast Pro. think any kind of business to business content can work. They could be people who work for you, because you have multiple offices. It’s helpful to have a moderator who has some understanding of how broadcasting works. For business purposes that doesn’t work…. It can happen when you a create podcast. Consumers too. -
CHRIS KOCH | TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011 3 factors in winning the social media horse race For example, just when I was lamenting having to do over all the work I’ve done to build up a Twitter community with some true interaction and conversation in G+, along comes a browser extension called SGPlus that lets you post on G+ and share it across Twitter and Facebook at the same time. Seems everyone has an opinion about Google’s G+. -
CONTENT MARKETING TODAY | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012 How Content Marketing Wins Over The Most Brutal Business Buyers Print advertising worked because your message was integrated into trusted business magazines which targeted exactly the buyers you needed to reach. Classic Truths about Skeptical Customers Remain Modern Business Realities. don’t know your company. don’t know your company’s product. Now, what was it you wanted to sell me? -
LEADER NETWORKS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011 How B2B Companies Are Using Online Communities to Get Closer To Their Clients They will suggest the possibilities and awake the imaginations of those firms who seek to work more closely and collaboratively with their customers through online customer communities. Business-to-business companies have always needed closer relationships with their customers than business-to-consumer firms. Thanks to all who attended! -
CONTENT MARKETING TODAY | FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010 Content Marketing Today Hits #15 on the Junta42 Top Blogger List Here we worked to weed out posts that fell short of adding value to the collective body of knowledge about content marketing. Joe Pulizzi’s 8th Installment Reviews Record 353 Blogs to Select Content Marketing Thought Leaders. We are delighted to have earned another strong ranking among the content marketing blog elite once again. Web Ink Now. -
HUBSPOT | SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011 Marketers Experiment With New Uses of Social Media Tools [Marketing Update] In the meantime, they are working with some companies such as Ford and Mashable to figure out how the new tools can be applicable for businesses. The social media world is all abuzz with recent developments from both Google and Facebook. Brands Experiment With Google+. Obama Hosts a Twitter Town Hall. Marketing Takeaway. Connect with HubSpot -
INBOUND SALES NETWORK | THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2011 Don’t Forget - Your Prospects Are Humans Too Both may work in the same industry, but they have very different objectives and ways of looking at the same problem. Let’s say you look at your prospect database and see 30,000 contacts. Beyond your largest customers, you probably have not thought about who those contacts are and their individuals needs. But this is just not true. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 The RIGHT Way to Weave Product Mentions Into Your Marketing Then, she notes one possible tool is HubSpot's, and if you use it, this is how that step would work. Everyone wants to market their product like Apple. No surprise there. But last week, Salesforce.com celebrated the 10th year of it's annual user conference, Dreamforce. And you know what? Makes sense. Me too. Let's get started! couple ways. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Is it really elementary, my dear Watson? Think about a doctor researching a diagnosis – how much time would it take this Dr. to scan all of the available sources, work through differing opinions, and make an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan? Watson isn’t the only cool thing under works at IBM. by Amber Stevens | Tweet this. Not likely, and here’s why. -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 5 Recent B2B Social Media Posts Making B2B social media trends work for you. In the context of B2B social media, if it doesn’t appear to be working for you or your organization, examine what and how it’s being done, look at “groups” joined, the individuals being followed (and who follow you), and how often you engage (versus just being a social voyeur)? from bizcomm. -
SYNECORE | FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013 Inbound Marketing: A Salesperson's Perspective 'Wednesday night is volleyball night for this guy, and like many people in their mid-20s in a new city, my team consists of people in the same work field, in my case salespeople. After our domination (or lack thereof) on the court, we started discussing the things salespeople talk about: prospecting, leads, how much we hate cold calling, etc. -
INTEGRATED B2B | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 A2SEA makes the most of its knowhow: Part 2 of 3 Working closely with A2SEA’s management team, our B2B consultants identified a very tightly focused objective for the A2EA Advantage project. We identified the building blocks of a new internal and external communication strategy based on the way in which A2SEA’s people work together and with its customers. new communication objective. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011 Proof That Your Audience Is Online They demonstrate how top-of-the-funnel content (ToFu) & middle-of-the-funnel (MoFu) intelligence can work together to bring in engaged leads and facilitate the day-to-day conversations our sales organization has. Let me guess -- you are reading this article because you doubt your audience is online? Welcome to the club! -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 Will Marketing Technology Look Like iOS Someday? Companies could have the benefits of a consolidated infrastructure, sparing themselves expensive custom integration work at every turn, while simultaneously leveraging a plethora of specialized marketing applications that combine to give them a unique set of superpowers tailored to their distinct brand vision of the ultimate customer experience. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011 Why HubSpot Acquired Marketing Automation Company Performable We have admired the product development folks working at performable for some time. (and what does this mean for the marketing software industry). Today we announced that we acquired the marketing automation company Performable. Inbound marketing is about ToFu (top of the funnel) and MoFu (middle of the funnel). What’s next? -
MARKETRI | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 New Content Curation & Content Marketing Tool “TrapIt” Does this stuff really work? You may be saying to yourself (as I assume our clients often do), “Does this stuff really work? ” I’m happy to report that content marketing really does work! This is just one example of how content marketing has worked for us. Is this just the next marketing fad?” -
MANHATTAN MARKETING MAVEN | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011 6 Roadblocks to Data-Driven Marketing The really good math guys don’t want to work in marketing or advertising, even if it’s a target rich social environment. Nobody gets promoted or wins awards for smart database work. Data is being touted as the new marketing darling. Here are 6 reasons; we need to get out of our own way. Math Phobia. - 4 Perspectives About Millenials
it gets you thinking about the younger people you work with and the target audiences you seek to influence and persuade. They don’t want to be bored or have to work their way up along a well-trodden path. Every younger generation knows better. Every younger generation brings its own POV to the party. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 Are Free Giveaways a Worthwhile Business Strategy? The volume play works well for marketers that do lead nurturing well. The giveaway hound who visits your booth with a backpack to collect toys for his kids may work for one of your target companies, and he may work directly under the VP you’ve been trying to reach for three months. Collecting Leads. Low Cost Advertisement. -
Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps If you feel stuck for ideas, you can type in the URL of your closest competitor’s website into the research tool, select website content and let Google do the work for you. My Take: This is the make or break step – “build it and they’ll come” doesn’t work anymore. What has worked for you? How can you accomplish all that? -
SYNECORE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2013 HTTPS Encryption Will Kill Organic SEO - And Make Google Richer For example, if I am a marketer working for a client and cannot prove ROI by tracking organic keyword performance, I am forced into the welcoming arms of Google’s paid advertising. This could be very bad for organic search” (and marketers), I thought to myself. The move had SEOs and digital marketers all over the blogosphere crying foul. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011 4 Essential Steps to Sales Lead Follow-Up You must continually work to improve your sales lead follow-up process. This is a guest post written by Andy Paul, the CEO of Zero-Time Selling , Inc. and author of Zero-Time Selling, Ten Essential Steps That Every Company Should Take to Accelerate Their Sales. sales lead is simply a question. How does it do it? Will it do what I need? -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012 4 Content Marketing Lessons from the Kony 2012 Campaign From the screen that fades to black as Jacob breaks down in tears when talking about his younger brother, to the carefully flashed images of mutilated children, it’s not hard to see that this is the thoughtful work of an experienced filmmaker. Within five days, it had more than 70 million views on YouTube and 16 million on Vimeo. - Are Your Prospects Qualified For A Face To Face Sales Meeting?
went as far as to ask my reps if they would set me up with only face to face meetings for one month to see how it worked out. In the world of sales nothing is more exhilarating than face to face meeting. used to go for face to face meetings as much as possible. After a couple of weeks of my team banging the phone my calendar was jammed. -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 How to Change Your Google Ranking Through B2B Social Media The Benefit of High Profile Coverage of B2B Industry You have been working hard to grow your community through. Janet Driscoll Miller , President and CEO, Search Mojo spoke at MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Forum on Your Social Presence and Its Impact on SEO. few tools she recommends using are Trackur and Radian6. -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011 B2B Marketing Research: Getting Started She is a Social and Behavioral Scientist who is currently working on her PhD in Communications, and uses her strong theoretical background in order to show how scientific theory should be used to develop strategy and effective B2B marketing campaigns. Well, now it’s time to get started! Who Holds the Keys? To Whom Are You Talking? -
B2B IDEAS @ WORK | MONDAY, MAY 17, 2010 Meeting IRL Makes Social Media More Meaningful Chris is president of New Marketing Labs and a leading authority on all things social media - particularly how to make social media work for large and mid-sized companies. Nothing compares to good old fashioned face-to-face networking, but the days and weeks leading up to, and even after, a recent trip to Memphis, Tenn., Alys is awesome! -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 The Critical Difference Between A/B and Multivariate Tests There's seemingly no end to the things you can test in your marketing, and if you've laid a solid framework for your inbound marketing programs, now's a great time to start optimizing and making what works pretty well work amazingly well. And the best way to get started is to conduct some A/B tests ! Or.multivariate tests? But no fear! -
LEAD VIEWS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011 From Action to Engagement: The Call2Action Button Comes of Age C2A as defined earlier do not work anymore. A version of this post was first carried in MarketingProfs. The most significant change has been the adaption of C2As across all types of marketing collateral, the C2A buttons today can be seen on emails, videos, online brochures etc. C2A tabs like. ? Ineffective. Buttons like, Click here. Useful. -
INBLURBS | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 10 Great Ways How to Reach Global B2B Customers with LinkedIn Her you have the opportunity to ask for recommendations of your network members you already have worked with. LinkedIn has about 100 million users from all over the world and the majority of 56% comes from outside the US. LinkedIn offers a wide toolset of features to get seen from future business partners. Twitter stream. Publications. -
INBLURBS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011 5 ToDos for your Social Media Success in 2011 Marketing only works with a budget! You should focus on major trands to market your business. Here below are 5 todo's for you to be a step ahead of your competition! Shift your employee recruitment to social media. Let your employees find you! You need to be there before you offer a job. This spreads your reach. Measure your results. -
INBLURBS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011 4 Easy ways to make your brand more social 4 check your performance: The main thing is you must know about performance of your brand so that you can work on making your brand more and more social. If you want to make your brand more social, you can look at marketing consulting or business consulting sites and take advice from the marketing consultants. Tweet this on Twitter! - How to Save the World
Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. Understanding How Gaia Works. Working Smarter. Finding & Creating Meaningful Work. Working Smarter. Is it useful? -
SALES LEAD DYNAMICS | THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 You Found Your Niche. Now, Craft Your Message. That’s why a trusts and estates lawyer may position himself as an elder law expert or a financial advisor may position herself as working with families with special needs children. In my last blog post Find Your Niche! I offer tips on defining your business: your services, your target market, the problems you solve. You took a whack at it. -
SALES LEAD DYNAMICS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 Your Niche: The First Step to Networking Success Remember, having a niche doesn’t preclude you from working outside your niche. In Seven Rules for Effective Networking , I argue that a successful networker must be: Distinctive. Strategic. Systematic. Responsive. Prepared. Helpful. Thankful. But behind “Distinctive” and “Strategic” is the most important building block of all: your niche. -
SALES LEAD DYNAMICS | MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011 The Telephone: Your Best Networking Tool Here is where the phone works best: Building Relationships – You won’t get to know someone well via email or LinkedIn. In a world of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, instant messages, and text messages, the telephone seems like a quaint relic of a bygone age. It’s not. Remember, you can reach people via email and social media. -
SALES LEAD DYNAMICS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011 Don’t Be A Digital Lemming. Send Your Prospects Letters, Not Emails. But it works. Email is a remarkably efficient communications tool. It’s fast. It’s free. It can reach hundreds of people at once. That’s why we use email for prospecting. It’s so easy. But we’re all doing the same thing. We’re digital lemmings. Our prospects are on the receiving end. They are bombarded by email. Guess what Ms. Boorrring! -
SALES LEAD DYNAMICS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Your Best Referral Sources Fish In The Same Pond Let’s say you’re a training consultant who helps teams work together more effectively. Don’t rely exclusively on clients and networking colleagues for referrals. They may not be your best referral sources. client may not know of opportunities at other companies. Your best bet may be other professionals who serve your market. Make a List. -
SALES LEAD DYNAMICS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010 Hate Cold Calling? You May Not Have a Choice. Mike Schultz, publisher of Rain Today, and an expert on professional services marketing, argues in an article Cold Calling Works: You Just Do It Wrong that cold calling is one of the most effective lead generation tactics available. I wrote last week about the alternatives to cold calling: Email, Online Events, Social Media. Do It Right. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 9 B2B Mobile Marketing Mistakes to Avoid Have your technical team explore options for optimizing content so your mobile website works well all the time, no matter what device your customers and prospects use. "We're in the early innings of a massive phenomenon," said Mary Meeker recently in regard to the mobile revolution. On the contrary, 72% of the U.S. Connect with HubSpot -
SOCIAL MEDIA B2B | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2011 4 Tips For B2B Social Media Management Changes If the new administrator has already used his or her e-mail address with another personal or business account, consider setting up a twitter@yourdomain.com e-mail address that can be forwarded to the Twitter manager’s work e-mail. In a new space that changes by the hour, it’s easy to forget to plan for internal changes. Access. -
SALES LEAD INSIGHTS | FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009 How to Write Good: 12 tongue-in-cheek rules and a proofreading service And speaking of writing good, consider putting the folks at Proofread NOW to work. If you write for fun or profit, you’ll want your very own copy of Frank Visco’s tongue-in-cheek poster, How to Write Good. Originally published as an article in Writers Digest, How to Write Good. Learn more at www.proofread NOW.com. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011 7 Inbound Marketing Stories to Read Right Now Questions to Ask Before You Spend a Dime on Graphic Design - Thinking about doing new marketing work that is going to involve some design skills? Spring is around the corner and while we are in high season for marketing events and strategy execution, education is still important. Inbound Marketing Stories to Read Right Now. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 How Workflows Take Marketing Automation to the Next Level Just set up your campaigns, and once they’re live, they’ll simply keep running with no active work required on your part. Lead nurturing is a crucial part of any effective marketing strategy. Because if you’re not managing your leads properly, you're wasting your time, marketing resources, and money. What Are Workflows, Exactly? Saving time? -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011 What is Dreamforce? #DF11 by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Today marks the kickoff Dreamforce 2011 so, if you work anywhere in the cloud computing space, you’re probably hearing something about it. But you may be asking, “What is Dreamforce?”. There’s the short answer and a longer answer. But what does that mean? What Dreamforce Is. The Eloqua crew at Dreamforce. Facebook. -
THE POINT | THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions Furthermore, an inside sales representative can offer real world perspective on lead quality, sales cycles, common objections, audience segmentation, even content strategy – that marketers often lack when they work at arm’s length from the sales process. Here are the top 5 questions to ask about your current lead management process: 1. -
ILLUMINATING THE FUTURE | SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011 The New Logic of High Impact Selling Then, the deal can be handed back to your sales team and the decision-maker's buying team to work out the details. Are you struggling to accelerate sales cycles and meet your sales objectives? Maybe Maybe it's because your people aren't reaching enough senior decision makers. . You may even be pressing your people to sell higher. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010 Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success Make sure you don’t miss this opportunity to make the thank you page work for you. A great addition to Marketo’s Resources has been the Spear Marketing Group white paper, Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success , written by Howard Sewell. For a quick summary of the 10 tips, read below. Read more to learn the top 5 questions to ask. -
FEARLESS COMPETITOR | TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011 (Don’t) Get Caught Snoozing: Reducing List Churn By offering a Snooze option by itself or combining Snooze with other alternatives to unsubscribing, such as changing frequency, channel and/or interests, you’ll help maintain many of the precious relationships you’ve worked so hard to cultivate. Find New Customers is a Gold Silverpop partner. click the Unsubscribe button a lot. -
CONTENT MARKETING TODAY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 4 Email Promo Practices to Avoid: A Marketing Campaign That Shows Us Exactly What Not to Do The sender: The sender was Pearl Collier , but I neither know her nor can determine who she works for by looking at the sender name. A Sadly Wasted Effort for a Mystery Event That Might Even Have Been Worth Attending. just received an email promotion that was so wrong-headed that it makes a perfect negative case study. That makes me nervous. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2011 Picking Your Best Marketing Automation Vendor: One Size Won't Fit All The new VEST will help, but whether you buy it or not, you still have to do the work to make a good choice. Summary: Vendor scores from our new B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool offer new proof of an old truth: there's no one best system for everyone. The assumption is wrong but it’s hard to shake. Back to the education part. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011 What’s the Difference Between “Sales 2.0? & “Social Selling”? Does cold calling work? The sales environment continues to evolve. Most if not all companies are familiar with the term Sales 2.0 and now we are introducing Social Selling to the vocabulary of sales leaders. So whats the difference? Like I mentioned in the post Sales 3.0 In the case of Sales 2.0, Sales 2.0 Sales 2.0 customer 2.0 -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011 Driving Sales Productivity with Social Selling Is cold calling working great for you? Social Selling University has continued to grow in numbers. After a great launch of the program at the beginning of this month with an All-Star series of webinars focused on leveraging social media for sales. We have also started building a community of sales 2.0 Recent Social Selling Webinars. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013 Think Creatively About Your Search Ads With These Top Questions Many fast-growth companies that we work with enjoy success in an initial market segment and then seek to diversify and expand their reach into adjacent segments. by Dayna Rothman Today’s guest post is from Marlin Gilbert, Industry Head of Advertising and Sales at Google. Marlin manages a team responsible for B2B Technology clients nationally. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010 11 Simple Ways B2B Companies Can Be More Social Today Make Marketing Documents Social - It is likely that your work computer contains dozens of documents that could be valuable to current or prospective customers. When making the transition from traditional to online and social media marketing, B2B companies will need to make major and minor changes to their marketing strategy and tactics. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 4 Enchanting Ways to Improve Your Inbound Marketing What one thing do you think you could work on next, inspired by this talk and book? A big personal highlight from the recent Inbound Marketing Summit was seeing my friend and mentor Guy Kawasaki speak in person for the first time. As can be expected, all of these can be applied to inbound marketing. Here are my top takeaways. What do you do? -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010 46% of B2B Marketers View Social Media Engagement as Irrelevant Do you work for a B2B company and believe social media engagement doesn't make sense for your company ? Well, you're not alone. According to a recent report from digital marketing agency White Horse , 46% of B2B marketers surveyed indicated they thought social media was irrelevant to their company , compared to 12% of B2C respondents. -
Why sales deals go sour and how to forecast sales with better reliability. The majority of sales people I’ve met over my career want to make things work, and mostly for the right reasons. However, poor sales training and education along with bad leadership forces sales people into difficult positions. Time gets wasted discussing and chasing down deals that aren’t a good fit and are never going to happen. -
HUBSPOT | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 How to Promote Your Blog With Only $100 Lior also works for a web hosting company that lists the best web hosting companies available online. This is a guest post written by Lior Levine, a marketing advisor for a company that offers innovative new cancer treatments. It’s not just important for new bloggers though. It’s a top priority to all bloggers -- even the pros. -
ENGAGE | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013 Journalism’s Future: Serve Your Audience, Not Just Your Advertisers There are still great journalists that work at this paper, don’t get me wrong. To any number of journalists working outside of the newspaper system. The truth is, with journalism, you need money to make all this work — to keep the lights on and function efficiently. Just take a look at this thing — what can be said? -
ENGAGE | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013 4 SEO Reasons Why You Need to Stop Ignoring Google+ Some ways to use Google+ to increase the number of social signals for your content include adding the Google+ One Button to all of your work, creating a Google+ Brand Page in addition to personal profiles, and encouraging recommendations and reviews of your content or brand page. However, it might be time to reconsider such hasty judgments. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 3 Creative Ways to Spread Content to People On the Go Don't make your audience work hard to get that information, especially at conferences and trade shows where there is often an overload of content. A couple of weeks ago at Dreamforce , HubSpot made quite the impression. You have to provide ways to get them the information you want them to receive. Use QR Codes. Create Foursquare Locations. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 From Zero to Hero: Quality of Data VS Quantity of Data While the sheer amount of data available is impressive, quantity by itself typically only translates into more work. Most would welcome a large quantity of new leads to work with because they know that gives them a statistical advantage when it comes to closing a new deal. That is until it is shaken down into something useful. Sales 2.0 -
THE TOP LINE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011 Fresh perspectives in health care James says that this methodology is effective because standardization allows clinicians to spot what works–something they can’t do when everyone practices medicine a different way. Social media works—more than 600 attend Boston health care conference. Measurement, analysis, and communication are imperative. -
BUZZ MARKETING FOR TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012 Personalizing With Purpose So, as hard as some have worked to blend their operations and business data across their brick-and-mortar, call center and Web operations, many gaps still exist. Posted in CRM eCommerce Personalization. Most e-commerce sites still struggle to leverage the growing wealth of customer data to which they have access. billion. -
HUBSPOT | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 A Marketer's Guide to the Google News Standout Tag It’s important to keep in mind that this tag will only work for Google News' subscribed publishers. Have you ever imagined a world where you could talk to Google? Well now you can. Sort of. The tag’s syntax is as followed: Now, why should marketers care about this? Marketing More Like a Publisher. Staying Current. -
WRITING ON THE WEB | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011 The Real Truth About Mexico In terms of US-Mexico trade, in 2009 Mexico had a positive trade surplus of $55 billion dollars against a negative deficit of $55 billion for the United States, showing that the NAFTA agreement has now began to work more for Mexico than the United States. Violence touches the lives of many everywhere. Crime in Mexico. per 100,000 inhabitants. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 28 Quick Tips for Customizing Your Email Preference Center Truth be told, now that the HubSpot software supports customized email preference centers , we're still working to better customize our own! Sure, the email subscription preference center may seem like a boring, utilitarian part of your email marketing , but things aren't always what they seem, are they? 1) Retain Subscribers. -
SALES CHALLENGER | FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011 Deciphering Today’s Alphabet Soup As a global population, we’re busier than ever before and the efficiencies gained through acronyms might be small but maybe make us feel like we are working faster. NSFW : not safe for work (commonly seen in the subject line of comic e-mails from co-workers who do not want you to get fired). Maybe it’s a sign of the times. Diversion -
TRADESMEN INSIGHTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 Insights on How Manufacturing Can Have a Competitive Edge Eric works as a distribution manager at EJOT UK providing high tension custom fasteners to the aerospace and defense market. Avoid leaving any worries or doubts in your customer’s mind when they opt to work with you in the future. Eric Willis follows my blog and is a manufacturer of fasteners in the UK. Eric works -
WEBBIQUITY | MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2011 Best Twitter Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 For example, people are following me and when I respond in kind, their first tweets are frequently to pitch me on a website they want me to visit or a service they provide…If you want a formula for how marketing via Twitter and other social networks should work, it’s this: Connect > Converse > Convert.. by Ask Aaron Lee. -
HUBSPOT | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 3 Ways to Make Inbound Leads More Effective for Sales and Marketing They would rather work on moving an existing opportunity further along than find a new opportunity. Is inbound marketing working in its present form? This is a guest post written by Dave Kurlan , the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group , the leading provider of sales force evaluations and sales candidate assessments. But how? -
DELICIOUS B2BMARKETING | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2013 B2B's Digital Evolution Throughout 2011 and 2012, Google worked with CEBs Marketing Leadership Council to survey 1,500 business leaders who have recently been involved in major purchases for 22 large B2B organizations. Take a look at the story we began with, and it becomes clear why this approach wont work. Think with Google. Search. Featured Insights. Forum. -
HUBSPOT | WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2012 How to Separate the Good Marketing Leads From the Bad For more information about how to implement an effective lead scoring system, check out this comprehensive blog post about how to score your leads so Sales works the hottest prospects. Unqualified leads don't mean any harm, but the truth is, they can be a drain on internal resources and can muck up your marketing data and campaigns. -
ENGAGE | TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011 3 Ways Less Content Means More to Your Audience By making use of existing content in shrewd ways (and sometimes even saving work in the process) your readership or fans will reward you. I made a surprising observation on my last trip to the grocery store. Spring water? Contain your astonishment: it also comes cheaper in large size. Abdominal limitations are a factor. As a content creator -
WRITTENT | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013 4 U’s of Web Copywriting: Tips for Writing Great Headlines & Copy Originally developed by business coach and serial entrepreneur Michael Masterson , this formula works wonders for headlines, titles , and email subject lines, but with a little tweaking, it can be a powerful blog writing formula, too. So what are the 4 U’s and how can you use them to write more powerful headlines and copy? Urgent. Unique. -
SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011 InsideView Brings Sales Intelligence to International Sales Teams “We are excited to be working with an offering that truly answers the ‘What’s in it for me?’ After tremendous growth in the US, InsideView, the leader in sales intelligence and social selling, announced today the beginning of its global expansion beginning with its InsideView UK and Ireland Edition. -
THE EFFECTIVE MARKETER | FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011 Getting the most out of conferences and events « The Effective. know, it sounds like work but unless you are prepared to approach it as a project, you won’t be able to really take adavantage of the learning experience after the event is over. Sharing the Knowledge If this process works for you, it is a good idea to show your team what you’ve done. It doesn’t need to be a full 8.5 | |