Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 28, 2010

How will social media marketing evolve in 2010? We have invited 2 Social Media Icons - Pam Brossman and Chris Garrett - to shed light on the following question: "What do you foresee as the biggest change that will happen in social media marketing in 2010? How should marketers and businesses adapt to this change?"

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B2B Marketing Traction

AUGUST 29, 2011

Now is the time for B2B Marketers to invest small amounts in marketing programs - by doing research to find new or validate existing market opportunities, confirming or updating marketing messaging, or identifying new marketing technologies and media that might offer better or more cost-effective results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 21, 2012

Experian Marketing Services yesterday announced its acquisition of marketing automation vendor Conversen. This is the third marketing automation acquisition in the past month, following Intuit’s purchase of Demandforce and FICO’s purchase of Entiera. See my review from February 2010 for a more detailed explanation.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

The post is called B2B Social Media Strategy – 5 Steps to Gain Executive Buy-in and will show you how to develop your company’s B2B social media strategy. I explain the 5 steps required to gaining executive buy-in. Related Posts: Top Takeaways From Blogwell Philly 2010 Holy Cow! Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As I threatened – I mean, promised – a couple of weeks ago , I’ll be writing about marketing measurement systems over the next month or two. The hottest topic within this segment is probably algorithmic attribution, which uses advanced statistics to calculate the incremental impact of each marketing contact on final results.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Or maybe it’s just the opening line from a 2010 Old Spice commercial. But it’s honestly the feeling I get every time I pick up a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s—the largest organic soap company in North America, and the most batsh*t, inspirational, and actually meaningful example of marketing I’ve ever seen.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. What if you're an enterprise marketer? per share, which comes to $871 million.

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Contently

APRIL 5, 2022

Rather than pursue Google’s in-out expansion, Facebook has bolstered its own innovation by buying other social media platforms, the biggest of which are WhatsApp and Instagram. However, perhaps the company’s most significant marketing innovation is using sites like Media Labs as giant white papers. All of which is great.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. That would force other CRM and marketing automation vendors to follow suit, although it's hard to imagine them matching the depth of LinkedIn's data.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 14, 2010

Why should marketers develop your subject matter experts as key industry influencers and thought leaders? We asked Steve Woods "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" Steve Woods' Marketing Action for 2010. Recommended Resources.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 27, 2013

Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). I’d say that reflects a lack of enterprise systems available for Adobe to purchase, more than any particular desire to target the mid-market.

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B2B Marketing Directions

APRIL 23, 2023

Earlier this month, I published an article discussing the importance of the 95:5 rule for B2B marketing. This rule states that up to 95% of business buyers are not in the market for many goods and services at any given time. And that they mentally associate your brand with the need or buying situation that brought them into the market."

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B2B Marketing Directions

JANUARY 14, 2023

Marketing success in 2023 and beyond will depend on marketers' ability to leverage the capabilities of technology and data science and to effectively apply the principles of behavioral science that describe how people make decisions. The yin-yang concept can also be applied to several issues in marketing.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2011

B2B marketing and sales has lived in a neat framework centered on the purchase transaction.    In others, there has been a mix of complex buying and selling cycles put into play to ultimately reach a purchase transaction.  A funny thing is also happening along the way to this transformation in B2B Buying. 

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Martech

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So, if Twitter does implode, marketers will lose a significant, useful tool. Google understood that and offered $10 billion for the company in 2010. Why did he buy it? That is the amount Musk paid for Twitter and double its estimated fair market value. Take Steakumms, for example. That did not end well either. Processing.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

I feel comfortable doing things by the book and following marketing best practices. Every once in a while, however, at NuSpark Marketing we stray from the best-practice guidelines. The anecdotal evidence that breaking the rules sometimes pays off comes from the world of email marketing. Breaking the Rules. Here’s why it may not.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Your content marketing strategy must connect your audience and your brand. ” A content marketing strategy must not be stagnant. A flexible content marketing strategy helps to improve audience engagement. It’s true that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all marketing content strategy. The result?

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The earliest Customer Data Platform systems were introduced before 2010; the term CDP was coined to describe this emerging class in 2013. Even the major marketing suite vendors, who initially argued a separate (“persistent”) database wasn’t necessary, eventually discarded that position and introduced products that matched our criteria. (As

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Sales Engine

JUNE 28, 2016

They’re not interested in engaging with prospects who are not ready to buy. Marketing, on the other hand, often has a different definition of a qualified lead. In fact, according to Gleanster , 30 to 50 percent of leads in a pipeline are not ready to buy. What is a marketing-qualified lead (MQL)? Next, agree on a process.

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Stevens & Tate

MAY 27, 2021

The media Millennials interact with should make up your media buys. This is where you should be centering your media buys around. Where are you putting your retail media dollars and are you pushing your claim to capture a huge market share? In 2010, NBC’s Community aired an episode that prominently featured KFC.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

That’s the case because, in an increasingly competitive and noisy market, buyers care not so much about what you sell as about what you know , and what you are passionate about. It helps move a prospect along the buying cycle. . • It helps move a prospect along the buying cycle. Content Marketing Strategy and Tactics.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

LinkedIn is firmly ensconced among the “big 3″ social networks for marketing and business purposes, and though its base of 80 million members is far smaller than the 600 million users of Facebook, its impact in B2B marketing is larger. Mark Walsh reports on company pages, another new feature added by LinkedIn in late 2010.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Since you don’t want to take the chance of buying a sleeper however, or a book that’s inappropriate for the recipient, here are nine ideas—books reviewed on the Webbiquity blog this year. Despite its airy title, Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day by Dave Evans is anything but a lightweight treatment of this topic.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

AI and Machine Learning for B2B Marketing. You may not think artificial intelligence and B2B marketing are a match made in heaven. With new changes in AI, you can improve lead generation, establish a marketing database, track behaviors and more. For instance, someone might code for a way to tie every time in tic-tac-toe.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Inbound marketing is more than a buzzword. It’s a way of life for marketers, and it’s undoubtedly the most effective form of marketing used today. The question is, where did inbound marketing come from? And how did it evolve into the marketing powerhouse it is now? First, Some History. According to Peter F.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Summary: Teradata's acquisition of Aprimo takes the largest remaining independent marketing automation vendor off the market. The market will probably split between enterprise-wide suites and more limited marketing automation systems. Given the previous Unica deal.

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Martech

MARCH 25, 2024

No, I’m stuck in 2013 because many of the small, mid-market and enterprise marketers I’ve been speaking with over the past month are fretting over Gmail’s Primary tab, which was the big burning issue that year. They might even resent having to comb through marketing emails to find the messages they want.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Teradata today announced it plans to sell its Marketing Applications business. It’s only three weeks since Teradata expanded its marketing suite by buying a new Data Management Platform – a move I felt made great sense. Point of reference: Salesforce.com reported $505 million revenue for its B2C marketing cloud in 2015.)

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here are some statistics related to edtech marketing: According to GlobalData estimates , the EdTech industry will grow from US$183.4 Online education is the fastest-growing segment of the edtech market, with revenues expected to reach $350 billion by 2025 (Source: ResearchAndMarkets ). 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. This is the main reason that brands and marketers spend huge sums of money on digital promotion. This is the main reason that brands and marketers spend huge sums of money on digital promotion.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, ZoomInfo discussed the emergence of video as an effective vehicle for B2B marketing communications. Today video remains a hugely successful tactic in the B2B marketing world. In fact, nearly 76% of B2B marketing professionals report including video content in their overall digital strategies ( source ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Engagio

JUNE 3, 2019

Be honest, you didn’t become a marketer just to create something that buyers toss out, tune out, or opt out of, right? Unfortunately, when many people think of marketing, their perception is largely negative. I’m in marketing,” you likely said. “Oh, To many, marketing is simply not a noble profession. What a buzzkill.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

What’s the problem with b2b email marketing? billion in 2010, to over 3.8 In 2010, the typical corporate user was found to send and receive about 110 messages daily. unwanted newsletters, alerts, etc.) ( Source: The Email Statistics Report, 2010, The Radicanti Group ). billion by 2014. Follow @sookieshuen.

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B2B Digital Marketer

MARCH 30, 2023

Overcoming Common Mistakes to Elevate Your Digital Marketing Strategy In today’s episode, we are joined by digital marketing expert and author, Jay Baer, to discuss common mistakes digital marketers make and how to overcome them. Jay was a direct mail specialist and managed all mailing for U.S. in the southwest.

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