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

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

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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. 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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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.

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markempa

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

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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. Validating direct marketing lists. Following up on direct mail campaigns. Centralizing leads for profiling and scoring.

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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. What we try to spend time on in this call is "space" shared between marketing and sales. " Listen to podcast now (MP3 35:56 min 24.68

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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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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. whats causes sellers to have difficulty getting into BIG organizations? whats causes sellers to have difficulty getting into BIG organizations?

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2012

There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs. sources in 2010. Flickr image from Jurischk.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2012

There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs. sources in 2010. Flickr image from Jurischk.

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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

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

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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 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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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markempa

MARCH 30, 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

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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.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This Blog is an initiative of the CMA Digital Marketing Council. All marketing-related topics are fair game: branding , strategy , online, offline, marketing trends, technology , direct marketing , market research.and more. 3 factors are driving organizations large and small to focus on ROMI today: 1.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

Christa Carone, CMO of Xerox Corp in her Direct Marketing Association’s Digital Marketing Days keynote indicates that “Xerox is faced with the same challenges as every other company, which is cutting through the clutter in a world of information overload.” Seems like this same challenge is dawning on others as well.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

With ready access to an unprecedented wealth of on-line information, and skepticism toward vendors as a result of direct marketing overload, buyers have revolted and taken the buying cycle into their own hands. 08, 2010 IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales & Marketing Strategies for 2010.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

link] Ari Herzog A 3-day Labor Day festival occurred here over the weekend, and the organizer — because the event included many musical acts — set up a MySpace URL advertising its activities, artists, and times. link] The Four Semi-Truths of Social Media « Direct Marketing Observations [.]

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Our strategies and expectations for social media are in reality a complement to what we’re doing in email and lifecycle marketing. The fundamental shift within the organization towards transparency and customer service is the bottom of the iceberg, while tweeting is just a tip. Twitter and Facebook are not strategies.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. Featured Sources. Like hooking their toilet up to Twitter.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. 2010 was the year social media moved from cutting edge to mainstream (right?). The one thing that concerns me is that sales and marketing alignment continues to be an issue. Typically the organization gets labeled as a “marketing led&# or “sales led&#.which

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. All rights reserved.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

Add WordStream’s Advanced Keyword Tools to Your Website for free , June 8, 2010. Pricing Based on Customer Expectations , May 26, 2010. June 7, 2010. CK’s B2B Blog ( SMS Mobile Marketing Mix Audience ). Great B2B Marketing Stats (in a GREAT format!) , June 13, 2010. March 18, 2010. June 8, 2010.

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markempa

MARCH 2, 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

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markempa

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

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

If we match IT investments with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a new understanding can be developed which proves Nicholas Carr right - basic levels of IT capability and maturity have been met in most organizations, and indeed have commoditized. Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle Is there an ROI from Social Media?

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Although the idea captured the imagination and interest of several brand-name organizations, the timeframe was just too tight this year to line up sponsorship. We’re proud to acknowledge these 50 women from 41 different organizations as the top #Nifty50 women of technology on Twitter for 2012. Stacey Acevero. Abby Bailey.

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