markempa

DECEMBER 7, 2006

The challenge that many organizations face is that their sales process is a black box. The challenge that many organizations face is that their sales process is a black box. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Listen to podcast now (MP3 24 min 5.5

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markempa

OCTOBER 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. For this reason, most leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded. There is a difference.

Lead Qualification 120

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 29, 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. Teleprospecting teams often improve ROI because they create functional bridge between the sales and marketing to increase accountability and results.

Telemarketing 120

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markempa

MARCH 2, 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. Over 93% of the live audience (200 marketers and sellers) strongly agreed or agreed that they found value in attending this session.

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markempa

JANUARY 24, 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. The bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to be highly personal. The bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to be highly personal.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic. Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM).

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

markempa

MAY 21, 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. In lead generation, the job of the marketing department is to develop leads to match the buyer’s readiness to buy and the seller’s expectations of selling.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. While many organizations have got social media religion, there are many others still swimming against the stream. Change takes time. Yes, there are strong parallels. Enterprise 1.0

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markempa

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

During the summit, senior marketing executives were challenged to improve the influence of marketing by building more efficient and accountable marketing organizations. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

You may recognize these five states from the research I’ve been doing over the past few years How to Organize for Social Media Measurement Read the report, print it out, and share with others. The more you share it, the easier it is for us to produce more. Read Susan’s post announcing this report. Will send you a ping.

Analytics 40

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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.

Landing Pages 120

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markempa

JANUARY 4, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

JUNE 13, 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 Trigger events matter for two key reasons.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 23, 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. The challenge is to create a dialogue from sales and marketing, and we need to be a lot more intelligent with our approach.

Sales Qualified Leads 120

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markempa

JUNE 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. The challenge that many organizations face is that their sales process is a black box. Webb, President, Sales Performance Consultants.

Lead Generation 120

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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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

Lead Generation 120

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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. Rather, think critically about your unique situation and what make senses for your organization.

Lead Generation 120

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve even left the stat breakdown public so you can see all the views are organic, not off-shored to get views (like some video companies have done). [link] and you can “independently verify&# the 80,000+ views so far in the past 10 days since uploading it since this one is hosted on YouTube. All rights reserved.

Social Media 115

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting. They like it. They’re pretty good at it. All rights reserved.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 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. I plan to ask Jill the following questions: Why has it become more difficult to sell to large organizations? Are elevator speeches useful?

Lead Generation 120

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Your votes count for 30% of the “scoring&# when organizers determine who gets to speak at the mighty SXSW Interactive festival in March in Austin, Texas. Please click the little thumbs up icon. On behalf of Amber, myself, and especially Make-A-Wish Foundation, thanks for your help! All rights reserved.

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markempa

MAY 23, 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. In my experience, conflicts between sales and marketing organizations are over stated and artificial. Sure, there are conflic.

CMO 120

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline. Great post!

Social Media 141

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Buy your own product.

Social Media 150

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

However, the data base of the concerned company should be in good shape. Once, that blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

Social Media 114

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Are you suggesting that any use of software or databases to help organize and scale your social outreach is invalid? That seems short-sighted and workable only for very small companies with a minimum of online chatter about them. And of course product improvement ideas are important. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to print out all your key metrics on one piece of paper, for easy distribution and circulation within your organization? Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? ™ RT @upwardaction: Great tool!->A

Social Media 117

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

This allows to know and analyze the response, reaction and behavior of the contacted person within the lead organization or your customer. Posted by: Jeff Paul Internet Millions | February 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM The comments to this entry are closed. I have checked out Hubspot and LeadLander. Have you shopped Visitor Track yet?

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

If it had the organization of the #3 one I think that would be most intuitive. [link] jaybaer yes, Danny's redesign was really well executed, IMHO. link] jaybaer Best. Referencing. link] David Spinks Who's doing these designs? I like em. I like #1 the best. People look to the top right for the search bar first. All rights reserved.

Paid Search Agency 109

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

I have seen far too many organizations fail, from the outset, for not having had a clear understanding of the discipline and rigor needed to keep their social media marketing efforts on the tracks. [link] [link] Jim Alexander Good insights – solid advise. link] Jim Alexander Good insights – solid advise.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Consequently, if someone searches for “Colorado River Whitewater Rafting&# on Google, they’ll likely find that version of the Western River blog, which contains only posts about “ Colorado River Whitewater Rafting “ The software automatically harvests and organizes topically similar posts for maximum search effectiveness.

Social Media 142

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Understand Your Frequency Schema The key to a content ladder is organizing your rungs. This is a great outline of how to best organize your content action plan.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Most organizations aren't embracing and are missing wonderful insights. Most organizations aren't embracing and are missing wonderful insights. Most organizations aren't embracing and are missing wonderful insights. Most organizations aren't embracing and are missing wonderful insights.

Social Media 138

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

link] (via @jaybaer) [link] Jose Huitron The approach that an organization takes in regards to their social media initiatives is just as important as taking that first plunge. Some organizations just get it… Jay, I enjoyed your post. [link] [link] OneCoach Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

In my exuberance and passion for social media and the impact it can have on non-profit organizations I lost sight of what was important. Embracing social media should not mean organizational change, it should change the organization. Social media exists and organizations are in it whether they choose to be or not.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. Top B2B marketing posts for 2009 (hint: social media) =-.

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