markempa

AUGUST 11, 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. I like people to opt-in to entering our sales stream. Our sales team is very busy. Do you agree with him? Why or Why not?

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 31, 2011

I have invited our Panel of White Paper Experts to reflect on 2009 and answer the following question: What was your aha moment in 2009 ? Jonathan Kantor is the principal and founder of The Appum Group, " The White Paper Company ", and has been producing commercial white papers for the past 11 years.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. A marketing automation solution is one tool B2B marketers use for succeeding at these lead management challenges. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 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. Unfortunately, if you have a lot of content this can be tedious process. How do you build your library of relevant lead nurturing content?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Savvy buyers are using on-line content to set strategies, explore and select solutions, all before ever engaging a sales representative. In a do-more-with-less environment, IT buyers view on-line content as essential to the buying process, a facilitator to help make better decisions more quickly. Content that Matters Most?

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The Point

AUGUST 18, 2014

A 2010 study concluded that fewer than 70 percent of exhibitors have any formalized plan or process in place for how leads are followed up after the show. Most trade show leads are routinely ignored by sales. Someone who’s attended a tradeshow may be ready to contact sales directly. Any response (e.g. But don’t overdo it.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We asked Gordon Graham "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Gordon Graham is That White Paper Guy , an award-winning writer who helps B2B technology firms tell their stories with crisp, compelling white papers. Gordon Graham.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Talk to sales to identify what kind of support they need from marketing in order to deliver their annual numbers. Well we need to focus on wringing out every lead and every deal from our funnels. So we started throwing more money at digital tactics that could show a real return on the investment. This is not about tactics.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Bob has three decades of experience in sales, technical support, consulting, research, and online community development. Sales Quotas & Optimistic Expectations for Quicker Economic Recovery. The Role of Revenue Performance Management in Marketing and Sales Alignment. My guest today is Bob Thompson.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.

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Rev

APRIL 17, 2019

I mean the coin toss stuff is true, but the rest of it was made up for Disney’s 2010 Secretariat movie. I’ll be the first to admit that this is a wild oversimplification of an incredibly complex process. B2B marketers are tired of targeting that sucks and delivering leads that the Sales team hates. I did, and WHOA you guys.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site. A white paper would fit the bill nicely here.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In social media content is not necessarily about creating white papers or videos. Context: this is important because some traditional marketing assets like white papers or product demos do not perform very well in social media. All the best, Steve O Michael Brenner Sep 16 2010 Hi Steve, thanks for your comments.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

The white paper also showed that business professionals are using social media more than online editorial and vendor content. Special thanks to George Krautzel , Co-Founder and President, Toolbox.com for providing us with a copy of the white paper. Looking forward to sharing some more insights with you and your team.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The apparent disconnect is even more telling as seen by these key findings from the study: The two traditional interruptive marketing tactics, advertising (25%) and direct (20%) are still receiving the biggest share of the budgets, indicating that marketing budgets are misaligned with the CMO’s priorities.

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markempa

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Hold some in reserve to use as an offer during an inside sales call to follow-up. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

So I actually started my career as an inside sales rep at a startup in the early 90s when Windows 3.1 “Shortly after, in 2010, I decided to do some independent consulting and I kept running into this guy named Matt Heinz. “We Then it’s about building that into the funnel and eventually measure the results.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 15, 2010

We wrote about the typical concerns of a C-level executive, such as strategy, leadership, organizational design, and change management. Could have been bibles or vacuum cleaners, but they didn’t need sales guys for that stuff anymore. Except that today many of those sales guys are gone. The funnel becomes electric.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). White papers: Without a question, this continues to be the most effective content to build your in-house list.

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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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markempa

JULY 10, 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. He shows the folly of marketers who throw sales leads over the wall and expect sales people to catch them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

2 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman July 18, 2010 at 11:22 am Achinta; This is a great article – thanks for posting it! The tools are wonderful – they do indeed automate many of the tasks you listed (email handling, lead management, nurturing, etc.). He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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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.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

People said they couldn’t remember downloading the white paper.” The common thread amongst these complaints is lack of 1) sales satisfaction and 2) lead quality. So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? “We couldn’t reach half the contacts.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Because of Frugalnomics, an environment where buyers now demand bottom-line value from every investment, B2B sales teams are challenged more than ever to deliver expected results. Sales enablement seeks to address these challenges, providing the practices, resources, training and tools needed to help fight Frugalnomics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. Non-core functions such as sales and distribution should be outsourced.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.) This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

In the video below, Holly explains their process. Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Understanding and building accurate profiles of different personas requires a close alignment between sales and marketing. The sales team has a much better understanding of the needs of various stakeholders because of their customer-facing role. They have the insight on pain points and issues surrounding the customer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers? Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog. That’s all you need for now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness?

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