markempa

MAY 8, 2007

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markempa

JUNE 29, 2007

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

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markempa

MAY 8, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Its important to note that these tools will help users begin conversations but they wont do the hard work of building relationships for you.

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Just like blogs and podcasts , e-books are a terrific way to spread ideas, engage conversations and generate demand.

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markempa

JUNE 16, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Just like many marketers resist changing the way they do lead generation from “campaigns” to “conversations.”

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markempa

JUNE 19, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. percent higher Conversion rate from leads to first calls is 16.5

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markempa

NOVEMBER 8, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. It begins with the mindset that lead generation is really a conversation rather than a series of campaigns.

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markempa

APRIL 3, 2006

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markempa

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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markempa

JANUARY 25, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. An interesting conversation started on podcasts vs. webinars at the Church of the Customer Blog. Comments Podcasts vs. Webinars which is better?

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markempa

MARCH 30, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. I have found marketers often overlook the lists and data they already have in search of new contacts rather than building upon relevant conversations.

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markempa

JUNE 14, 2006

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markempa

JULY 10, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Brian Carroll and others extended the conversations so I thought I’d revisit the topic with some more thoughts. Every salesperson loves leads.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Prior to joining ITSMA in 1995, Dave held field marketing and sales positions with Oracle and Apple and started his career in 1984 as a market research analyst at The Ledgeway Group, now part of Gartner Group. 2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. There is greater alignment of those goals and metrics.

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markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In contrast, if those same reps are coached or scripted to inquire after the underlying issue, challenge, or topic that the white paper addresses, then you’ll be setting the stage for some very fruitful conversations. Taking the time to progressively qualify them during nurturing helps to create that sales-ready state.

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markempa

MAY 18, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Where is your sales team getting stuck?

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

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markempa

JULY 7, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Companies that make closed loop feedback work have higher lead-conversion rates than those that do not.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. I did a webcast with Jeff Thull on how to have relevant conversations with executives in mid-size to Fortune 500 companies.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2006

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2005

Its really a dialogue - a conversation. Lead nurturing keeps the conversation going with relevant and meaningful personal touches regardless of their timing to buy. Its really a dialogue - a conversation. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Lead generation is a conversation, a dialogue; it is not a series of campaigns. Think relationships. Again, companies dont buy; people do.

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markempa

AUGUST 11, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Grams, suggests that marketers may want to rid their sites of registration pages for their “juicy” content. So how can we do both?

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. As a result, most marketers are focused on improving their organic search engine visibility and trying to get top rankings via SEO.

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markempa

JUNE 23, 2005

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markempa

APRIL 3, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. I interviewed Anne Holland on how marketers can improve their landing page conversion rates and attract more sales leads.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. April 13, 2009 12:55 PM Axel Schultze said. Very insightful.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Sure, social media is rooted in conversations, and listening to your customers and then responding on the social Web is a pillar of social media. But, it's not all conversational. That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media. link] Samuel Fagan Great post.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

But the true measure of depth of engagement is in making the transition to conversations. Velocity's The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. B2B Marketing Fundamentals Don't Change. Marketing and Sales Alignment – Marketo eBook (New!). Marketing Edge podcast.

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markempa

MAY 24, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. They have an amazing lead conversion rate, which is triple the amount of their industry peers. Does that seem a bit too militant for your taste?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The faux testimonials on the back of the book are priceless, including: “This book is the greatest business book in the world, besides mine.&# - Author who only gives testimonials for people who give him one in return Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better!

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markempa

JULY 11, 2005

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. For the same reason, I think it is silly that many marketers are trying to setup blogs because their bosses told them so. Uh, that’s not the point.

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B2B Marketing Savvy

AUGUST 25, 2009

An August 2009 study was just released which categorized a sample of 2000 tweets as falling into the following categories: News, Self-Promotion, Spam, Conversational, Pass-Along Value, and Pointless Babble. Would like to other professionals weigh-in on this, focusing here on the B2B consequences rather than consumer or personal use.

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