Ambal's Amusings

MAY 12, 2010

We asked Stephanie Tilton "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Stephanie Tilton is a seasoned white paper and case study writer who helps B2B companies advance the sales cycle by engaging prospects and customers. Stephanie Tilton.

Microsite 100

Microsite Buyer Personas Buying Cycle Emarketing 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. Drive traffic – Don’t expect your prospects to find your blog just because you’ve built it. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

markempa

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

2:55 – Find out the length of the sales cycle for most webinar attendees; it happens to be aligned with how 935 marketers responded to Marketing Sherpa’s 2010 Benchmark Survey. You can significantly shorten your sales cycle by selling to those who know and like you. View and download slides via slideshare.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Cost per Acquisition Sales Cycle 120

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. That means less copy/pasting of cold-call sales emails, and more information you can gather from prospective buyers in less time. The 2020 buyer journey is an online journey. Define your audience .

Top of Funnel 136

Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 136

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

We asked Sarah Mitchell "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" ” Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Prediction for 2010. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) continues to drive consumer behaviour in 2010. Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Action for 2010.

Copywriting 100

Copywriting Sales Cycle Marketo Social Media 100

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

We asked Sarah Mitchell "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" ” Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Prediction for 2010. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) continues to drive consumer behaviour in 2010. Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Action for 2010.

Copywriting 100

Copywriting Sales Cycle Marketo Social Media 100

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

We asked Sarah Mitchell "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" ” Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Prediction for 2010. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) continues to drive consumer behaviour in 2010. Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Action for 2010.

Copywriting 100

Copywriting Sales Cycle Marketo Social Media 100

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

We asked Sarah Mitchell "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" ” Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Prediction for 2010. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) continues to drive consumer behaviour in 2010. Sarah Mitchell 's Marketing Action for 2010.

Promotion 100

Promotion Copywriting Sales Cycle Marketo 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

You must always remember that at some point in every sales discussion, you must “ASK” for the business. Here are brief descriptions of these five closes: Financial Close A financial close is the natural choice when you have successfully helped a prospect quantify the impact of their business problems.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Telemarketing Work Management Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 20, 2010

By far the leader was “outbound prospecting”, which is a bit frightening given the high cost of such leads. I suspect that sales people have always felt they must rely on their own outbound prospecting to be successful. But sales cycles are still growing: 59% said they were longer than last year vs. 16% saying they were shorter.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Customer Surveys Sales Qualified Leads 120

B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 19, 2010

Why should you consider Inbound Marketing in your 2010 marketing programs? Inbound Marketing Is… …the art of creating inbound marketing interest from your prospects when they have a need or interest in your product or service. Instead of the sales cycle, Inbound Marketing recognizes the buy cycle.

Inbound Marketing 100

Inbound Marketing B2B Marketing B2B Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

Speed is essential for the follow up Obviously the critical success factor for any responder program is the speed to which we call the prospect. There are 3rd party companies that boast the “Immediate warm transfer” of a prospect searching your web site, but this is not always the case, and can be costly.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

All major analyst firms are predicting better times ahead for technology vendors in 2010, with many estimating a modest 3% growth. Forrester however thinks these estimates are low and is indicating that 6.6% growth for US tech market, and 8.2% growth for global tech market should be expected.

Budget Programs 40

Budget Programs Spending Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 40

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

Help sales fill their pipeline funnels. As the quality pressure starts to rise, you can only send to sales those opportunities that are further along in the sales cycle. Maybe this works for your company as long as the number of marketing touches does not annoy the prospect to the point that they want to walk away.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 100

Influitive

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Referrals are an important part of a healthy B2B sales pipeline. Referred prospects are also 30% more likely to convert than leads generated through other marketing channels, and have a 16% higher customer life-time value. As a result, the company saw its membership skyrocket by about 60% in 2010.

Budget Programs 100

Budget Programs Examples Peer-to-peer Lead Ranking 100

markempa

OCTOBER 6, 2006

« Webinar: A Multimodal approach to Lead Nurturing for Complex Sales | Main | How to Become a Thought Leader and Attract Customers » White Papers and Lead Generation, Key for BtoB Marketers Complex sales cycles make the development of multi-modal marketing strategies critical.

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BtoB Lead Generation Paper Generation 120

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. How has your role changed? Leave your comments below. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

markempa

MARCH 21, 2006

« Lead generation and the number | Main | Reaching Decision Makers » Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department For the complex sale you need enthusiastic referrals to help you build your reputation, differentiate yourself, demonstrate your value proposition, shorten your sales cycle, and drive revenue.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Peer-to-peer Lead Scoring 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To a packed room in the Georgetown University conference center in Washington DC, Manish Goel and Craig Spiezle kick off the Online Trust Alliance’s (OTA) 2010 forum. In the B2B selling space, marketers must establish trust to support long sales cycles, ensuring prospects continue to receive email and believe in sales people once they engage.

Promotion 48

Promotion Privacy Trust Marketing Broadcasting 48

markempa

AUGUST 1, 2007

Does the sales team either ignore your hard-won leads or complain about their quality? Could you have helped move it along by going deeper in the sales cycle? Does the sales team either ignore your hard-won leads or complain about their quality? Could you have helped move it along by going deeper in the sales cycle?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel 120

Outreach

MAY 11, 2018

In October 2010, I got the news that no healthy 24 year old wants to hear: I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma Nodular Sclerosis. You can only pout about it for long because there’s another sales cycle out there waiting for you to crush! To put it in simply: I had cancer. Could you control any aspect of that?

Sales Cycle 75

Sales Cycle Differentiation Act-On Intent 75

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

Webinar Metrics 60

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects?

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief. But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. Here’s what it does.

Creativity 60

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

markempa

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

« The halo effect and lead generation | Main | Macs Tasty Recipe for Lead Generation Success » Teleseminar on Selling to BIG Companies with Jill Konrath The biggest challenge most of us with a complex sale face is getting access to executives, especially those in BIG companies. So would you like to hear what really works?

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Paid Search Agency Companies Generation 120

markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

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

Webcast 120

Webcast Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Generation Generation 120

markempa

JANUARY 4, 2006

Exposure is not enough; there must be a value proposition that resonates with prospects. Less selling time : Because of longer sales cycles (and theyll get longer), sales people cannot afford to spend time on unqualified leads. Exposure is not enough; there must be a value proposition that resonates with prospects.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

ANNUITAS

MARCH 22, 2011

This week we are fortunate to have the winner of the 2010 B2B Twitterer of the Year, Michael Brenner , guest post and share his thoughts on Marketing ROI. The ability for your organization to offer the information required for a prospect to make a decision will determine the conversion rate as well as the velocity or time it takes.

ROI 100

ROI B2B Thought Leadership Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

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.”

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

Features 60

Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management 60

Webbiquity

MARCH 9, 2010

TechCrunch predicts that “by this summer (2010) well over half of all Internet users will likely visit Facebook each month.&# Many employees within b2b companies have email communication with customers and prospects, but never actually talk to them. It’s now the second most-visited site on the web , behind only Google.

Facebook 100

Facebook B2B Marketing Effectiveness B2B 100

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

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.” Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Any help that I can provide to my clients to alleviate the problem is greatly appreciated and rewarding for my business.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management 60

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. April 2009.

Effectiveness 40

Effectiveness Forrester B to B Sales Cycle 40

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60