Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social Media is Email Without the Database Because social communication feels more authentic and timely in most cases, email marketers must fully embrace testing, personalization and optimization to boost relevancy for recipients. Follow/fan/friend is just opt-in – and all you've done is agreed to be sent direct marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. But, I’m not.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2016

Most businesses now use social media for marketing and those efforts are expected to continue to increase, yet many marketers and top executives alike find the business value difficult to quantify. 46% of B2B marketers say they’re not sure whether any social channels have generated revenue for their businesses.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 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. When I see the challenge that marketers face when it comes to getting their budgets approved, I wonder why it has to be so hard?

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markempa

AUGUST 24, 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. He explained that his company had invested "big dollars" to install a new marketing automation software system. It just doesnt happen.

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markempa

AUGUST 29, 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. We were in a big meeting discussing some marketing initiative or other, a. Why or why not?

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markempa

AUGUST 22, 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 " Let me see. " Let me see.

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markempa

MAY 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. If marketing is a profitable activity, it still doesnt mean that what it is communicating to the universe of buyers is building the business.

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markempa

JULY 16, 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 The author then writes the following:IR.

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markempa

JANUARY 23, 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. This podcast was conducted for the marketing alliance partners for Sage Software , makers of ACT!, Peachtree and SageCRM software.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 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. « Target Marketing: What’s a Lead? Show Agenda Why did you write Tradeshow and Event Marketing and what were you hoping to address?

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markempa

MARCH 6, 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. Watch my complimentary webcast on, " How to Precisely Define a Lead Before Marketing Begins."

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markempa

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

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 1, 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. To be successful, sales and marketing efforts must be better aligned. To be successful, sales and marketing efforts must be better aligned.

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markempa

APRIL 18, 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. Be sure to let them know about your favorite Marketing, Advertising, and PR blogs. Anyone can nominate. Anyone can nominate.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 1, 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. « Targeting Your B2B Lead Generation | Main | Podcast: Tradeshow and Event Marketing with Ruth Stevens » Target Marketing: What’s a Lead?

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markempa

JUNE 14, 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 read a good article on " What’s Wrong With Social Media For B2B Marketing " by John Miller who also writes the Modern B2B Marketing blog.

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markempa

AUGUST 18, 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 29, 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 Very useful stuff. Very useful stuff. Teleprospecting works.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. In this podcast, Todd interviewed me and Jill Konrath on the critical interface between marketing and sales.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 22, 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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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

This resonates with me, since I've been saying for a while now, “Stripped down to its essentials, new media marketing is about participating in the conversations that will go on with or without us.&# There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM.

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markempa

OCTOBER 6, 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 many B2B marketing pros (especially those in technology), a time-tested tool is the white paper.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 5, 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. This is the first of three podcasts 800-CEO-Read is doing on B2B sales and marketing. Listen to podcast now (MP3 43:47 min 30.1

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markempa

MARCH 6, 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. All Marketers Are Liars ??? All Marketers Are Liars !!! Et vous, quen pensez-vous? Seth Godin en live, rien que pour vous. Cest pas beau, çà

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 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. B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more. B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more.

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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. They must, in one way or another, generate their own leads to meet their revenue and sales targets that’s independent of corporate marketing programs.

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 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 And Ive got a lot of great feedback and questions.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. It’s in our DNA.

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markempa

DECEMBER 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. This makes it particularly challenging for marketers who are trying to measure their revenue contribution and lead generation ROI.

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markempa

JANUARY 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. Link: Marketing Spend Shifting to Below-the-line. Link: Marketing Spend Shifting to Below-the-line.

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markempa

DECEMBER 21, 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. Many financial executives still view marketing as an expense, a.k.a. cost center, rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue.

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markempa

MAY 8, 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 « On Lead Nurturing: Looking for a "hot" date?

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markempa

JULY 3, 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. Later, we met up with our friend, Dan Janal, of PR Leads fame for dinner. Later, we met up with our friend, Dan Janal, of PR Leads fame for dinner.

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markempa

JUNE 28, 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. Guys writes, “The backbone of traditional marketing has long been the 4Ps: product, pricing, placement and promotion.

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markempa

JANUARY 3, 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. Though there are scores of books on direct marketing, branding, advertising, marketing tactics, PR, varied sales approaches, cold calling, etc.,

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