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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? That sounds ominous.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. Why is this important? This is a foundational activity.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Late last week, I responded to a post by my new friend Adam Needles, VP Marketing of Left Brain Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

You will see a diminishing return on every call made outside of 48 hours, and after 7 days you will see a 60-70% drop in leads generated. One responder can lead us to several opportunities within the company if the discussion we have is centered around the needs and pains of the company and not only one product or service.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Challenging conventional wisdom in a respectful way can lead to the kind of insights that most people miss. In the marketing strategy post I referenced above, I mention an old boss. He was the marketing leader of a former company. I actually followed him on my own career path as he rose through the ranks.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

But how do you measure brand value in the social age? And what role do marketers play in cultivating the brand and maintaining some level of consistency in our brand image? In the FastCompany Expert Blog post “How to Measure Brand Value: Likes, Followers, Influencers, Views? Related Posts: Why Do You Tweet?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2010

With this approach you will reap the rewards of understanding your audience and providing them value which they will return in the form of leads and sales. Summary by: Michael Brenner * *This post originally appeared on B2C Marketing Insider and has been summarized with the permission of the author. Need to Drive Leads?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration? More leads. More sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

According to Duct Tape Marketing , social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

Focusing solely on your own agenda will not help you grow your audience – you MUST provide value to the community. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Campaigns Click here to cancel reply. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2010

This has resulted in marketers focusing on trying to enlist these individuals to become brand advocates. However for it to work successfully, the intentions must be to add value to the community. Would you incorporate tweet chats into your marketing campaigns? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

While this study was focused on IT Buyers, the implications for the B2B Marketer should be relevant across the prospect universe no matter which industries you serve. In this post, I will provide an overview of the study and summarize the key actions you should take as a B2B Marketer responsible for driving leads for your business.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

Do these 2 things and you will find valuable leads. In this post I will explain the 4 most common mistakes marketers make. In the next post , I will list the actions you can take today to deliver targeted leads to sales. So these are the top 4 most common mistakes B2B Marketers make in Content Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

When I see B2B Marketers who have forgotten that we serve customers and create marketing campaigns with little research into customer needs or pains or the words they use to express their pains, it makes me crazy. In essence, this is therapy for me but hopefully creates some value for you. I know how to generate a lead.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

When I see B2B Marketers who have forgotten that we serve customers and create marketing campaigns with little research into customer needs or pains or the words they use to express their pains, it makes me crazy. In essence, this is therapy for me but hopefully creates some value for you. I know how to generate a lead.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If the prospect’s answer is five or lower, you should ask, “Based upon what you’ve told me so far, I don’t understand why you say (score). Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

While social media is all part of a consumer revolution of peer-to-peer conversations and consumer-generated content, the Toolbox.com report states there is room for marketers to contribute since “online communities are open for participation and welcome the information and insights that their companies can add to the conversation.”

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 9, 2010 9 Subscribe Finding The Time To Tweet or Blog? Keep up the good work!

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? OK, but WHY.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? OK, but WHY.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In my 20 years of sales and telemarketing experience I have implemented all different types of telemarketing tactics and found that appointment setting provides high value for multiple reasons. Lead Conversion to Pipeline & Acceleration This tactic has consistently provided the best conversion to sales pipeline.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In terms of both department size and budget, Marketing is on the rise. Just take a look at how the size of business' marketing departments has more than doubled -- in fact, almost tripled -- since August 2011. And as the role of marketing grows, it also continues to evolve. Lead Nurturing Specialist.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. Attribution modeling will become a hot topic as digital marketers begin to understand and recognize the real cost of the “last click&# problem where results of marketing activities are tied to the last tactic a lead touched.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For marketers, the news is good overall. According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2010

But there is tremendous value in these contacts as they are telling you exactly what you need to know, when you need to know it – if only you will listen. So how do you mine these contcts for leads? by Michael Brenner, July 27, 2010 Related Posts: How To Use Paid Search To Target Buyers By Stage Need to Drive Leads?

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nDash

AUGUST 20, 2020

It gives you the opportunity to include a lot of keywords for SEO while text-based web pages are superior in terms of page speed and mobile loading, which can also improve search engine ranking. There are many ways to use written content to engage your audience, generate leads, nurture relationships, and increase conversion.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

In their book The Service Profit Chain – How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth To Loyalty, Satisfaction and Value they have proved that there is a direct financial link between superior service experiences, customer loyalty, and financial performance (profit and growth). Heskett and Leonard Schlesinger). One that is engaged.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

In their book The Service Profit Chain – How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth To Loyalty, Satisfaction and Value they have proved that there is a direct financial link between superior service experiences, customer loyalty, and financial performance (profit and growth). Heskett and Leonard Schlesinger). One that is engaged.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Main tips include going on sales calls and to provide them the “best possible leads (as defined by them)”. One of my most popular posts ever includes the big challenge all marketers face: Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity. Let’s start a discussion: what do you think? Why does the sun rise in the East?

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As we steam forward into the 2020s, we wanted to put our spin on the top trends for digital marketing in the 2010s through the eyes of some marketing pundits. Data-Driven Marketing, Martech Opens Doors. Since 2011, marketing technology has evolved from a small group of vendors to a global $121.5

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 4, 2010

Finally, the post from Daniel Flamberg, “Who Owns Social Media Monitoring” , suggests marketing should orchestrate social media for the organization and bring together a “collective” of functional silos in marketing, PR, and across our agencies to add value to marketing and communication activities.

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