Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 20, 2013

This is a guest post from CRM Analyst Ashley Verrill. This is the first ever guest post on this blog in its seven year existence so you know the content is going to be good. Much of this verifies what I've been saying for years but it's always good to see this data for yourself for a sanity check. For example, before you go upload that list of emails that you just bought, read the data below.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2012

After having my kids I took a step away from social media except for posting adorable pics of my kids on Facebook. That's about all I had time for - so I thought. My thought process was driven by a severe lack of sleep (which still exists) and a desire to focus on my core tasks which included leading my team. Here's the problem: my role is all about helping out customers and providing the best.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I've had the following conversation a few times with clients who have implemented marketing automation: "so now that we have marketing automation in place we want to do ROI reporting - TODAY". Jumping into ROI/closed loop reporting right away can be difficult. You need to have the right processes in place including a strong relationship between marketing and sales as well as a focus on revenue.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having worked with B2B marketers for many years, it's typically a no-brainer when someone asks me "should we implement lead scoring?". Lead scoring, which is the process of automating the qualification of leads that you generate, is a key stepping stone to get marketers to the next level. Having said that, your company may not be fully ready for it and there are some steps to start moving in.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I was recently asked about approaches to take for creating a cross-sell nurturing program - what are the best practices? I could highlight a few examples of some well crafted emails and messaging but getting a good conversion rate goes well beyond a good email design and an engaging call to action. Amanda Hinkle wrote a great a simple yet powerful article over at MarketingProfs "Three.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2012

As you’re gearing up for a great new year, I wanted to highlight some webinar/event best practices from the marketing team over at VMware. VMware has found that this marketing channel is one of their most successful when it comes to ROI so taking a few pointers and optimizing your own efforts could pay off big time this year. They achieved an ROI of 1324% in 2010 - not too bad!

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you've recently rolled out marketing automation or are considering it, have a look at this two part series that was orginally published on the "It's All About Revenue" blog: So You Think You Know Marketing Automation Part I Have you recently rolled out a marketing automation platform like Eloqua, have you been using one for awhile, or are you considering one in the near future?

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I had the pleasure of guest blogging on the “It’s all About Revenue Blog”. Here is a snippet from that post: If you haven’t logged into LinkedIn these days, it’s time to get back in there and see some of the cool stuff that is now available. This post will provide tips for sales professionals and marketers to get the most out of LinkedIn so you can stay on top of your customers and prospects and.

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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2010

With my son Matthew turning one this week, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic. I dug up and started contributing to a personal online journal that I hadn’t touched since 2004, reviewed pictures from past trips with my wife, and reflected on memories that I’ve had in my first year as a dad. Taking a look back and reliving great times in your life provides perspective and helps explain how things have.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 4, 2010

Hi everyone. Between taking a nice vacation, recovering from the vacation and then work travel, the ‘old blog was collecting some dust. During my travels and discussions with customers, one of the items that keeps coming up is the need for clean, complete and accurate data. When you have the right data you can laser focus your marketing efforts and achieve a higher response from your marketing campaigns.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2010

I have the pleasure of welcoming a new bunch of Eloqua team members who we start off with a boot camp here in Toronto so they get to know each other and the rest of the company. I’m going to outline some of the cool things our customers do but I’ll also provide a short intro on what I do in my day to day. To make it easy for everybody, I like to describe my role as a sherpa for our customers.

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2009 has been a long year but as I reflect back on my many conversations, I've created a top 5 list of items to avoid in 2010: 1. Not having a defined social media strategy You would be surprised by the number of companies that say “yeah, social media is important but it’s not important to us at the moment”. In 2010 you will not have a choice but to make social media part of your overall marketing strategy.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Earlier this month I left my newborn and poor wife at home for an unforgettable week at Eloqua Experience in San Francisco. This sold out event brought together some of smartest marketers from all over the world. While there were a few keynote speakers, the conference focused on having the Eloqua community share their experiences so we could all learn from each other.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Are any of you out there new fathers? How about new parents? I’m still getting the hang of holding my 2 month old son while I check my emails or read a book. I’m getting much better at this juggling act and on some of those nights when he stays up I’ ve been able to generate some blog post ideas – I just didn ’t have the two hands needed to type until now. :) So here we are.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

If you weren’t aware, Canada (Vancouver specifically) will be hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. I was inspired to write this post by a group of brave Canadian ski jumpers that are have been denied permission to compete in the upcoming games. You may be saying – wait a minute, ski jumping is an Olympic event so what’s the problem? The “problem” is that these athletes are women and the IOC has not sanctioned women’s ski jumping as an official event making it the only Winter Olympics activity that

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Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2009

Are you already tired of Twitter? Do you think it’s just a fad? Well think again because the popularity of Twitter is growing at an alarming rate. I’m always trying to think about how marketers can better leverage the social media technologies that are out there and then share them with you. As you read these, you need to think about your end goals.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

I just read what I thought would be an intersesting article on successful email newsletters but ended up being a waste of my time which is ironic as the article states that email newsletters can be wastes of time. In the article: [link] it states that IBM uses the ever popular video newsletter called ForwardView. Has anyone actually heard of this (please let me know)??

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

Ever read anything by the "Experts" at Click Z? By experts I mean people trying to sell their stuff. Here is a "great" article titled " Email Creates Awareness ". Really? Is that what it does?? Wow, I didn't know! I read everything on this site with a huge, enormous grain of salt. There are only a few experts that I really trust. I'll point them out to you when I see them.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

I read this interesting case study on Marketing Sherpa recently on how changes to a website resulted in a much higher conversion rate. Great article but then at the end I realized that the site had changed! I emailed Marketing Sherpa and asked the obvious question "Why did it change and why didn't you tell us that?" Anne is very classy in her next email, she sent out an article that explained that she really didn't know why.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

Check out this email on MarketingProfs (they have a great little marketing forum BTW). The email is completely ridiculous! It talks about how you can graduate in 6 weeks and how there are plenty of jobs out there etc. Here's the thing: the marketing campaign worked becuase we're talking about it right now! Hmm. The mice in my head are starting to move.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

This was the kvetch from a marekting prof user. Take a look at the site and you can tell for yourself: [link]. The picture of person in the top left hand corner who is suppossed to represent someone who is "vibrant" looks old and decrepit. I think that losing your hair can be very gracefull but it's doesn't seem to be helping online sales. That's my marketing tip for today.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

This really stupid simple site caught my attention: [link] (hey, it doesn't take much). C.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

You have to love the idea of Google Romance. How better to keep people from using your product (especially the techno geeks) then by offering the best offer of them all: love. Crazy smart!! What will they come up with next?? C. PPS - The joke is on you because it was actually an April fool's joke by Google but wasn't it awesome??? Great way to drive traffic to your site and use humour.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 4, 2006

Here's a great new viral campaign from Staples featuring the "Easy Button". Not only is the site very creative, and practical it's actually fun! For an administrator who needs to order office supplies quickly, what better way then the using an easy button that you can download to your desktop! Great job Staples! Chad H.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 3, 2006

This is the first post of a very exciting (I'm being optimistic) start to my blog. The goal of my blog is to record my travels through the world of marketing. I figure I keep reading all of this stuff and I need somewhere to store it 'casue let's face it, I'm getting older (30) and my brain cells have rotted from all the beer that I consumed during university (or just yesterday actually).

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 4, 2006

Great post here on optimizing your blog. I'll start to implement some of the items that are mentioned. C. I just added my first blog tags. Blogger doesn't make it that easy Tags [Blog optimization] [Blogs] [Feed Blitz] I also added that feed subscribe thing on the right side from from Feed Blitz. Thanks again!

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2006

I felt left out when every other frikin' blog had these cool links in which you can subscribe to their RSS. Thought I would add that as well. Why not! Thanks Feedburner for making this easy. C. Tags [Feed Burner] [Beer] Mmm. Beer! I like that tag.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2006

Wow, I think people have run out of content to write on Click Z. Here is a terrible article on the 25 things that that this "expert" hates about Google. Danny, I agree that Google has many short comings but it's these types of short comings that have turned it into a 6 billion dollar company! Furthermore, you know that you just killed your company by insulting Google becuase your site ratings are dropping as we speak.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2006

When I read B2B's article that claimed that Go Daddy's (a web domain company) recent success was due to their CEO's Blog , I thought it was BS becuase I think we all know about that famous 2005 Super Bowl commercial. However, once I went to the blog, I realized that this guy does have something to say (unlike me) and it was an intersting read. He has this great article in which he vents his frsutrations about rising costs in his industry using a story about bisons in Montana I have a story about

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2006

Marketing Sherpa put out another great article on viral campaigns. I suggest checking it out. If you're into marketing, get their weekly newsletter. Their tips are deadly (in a good way - just like "viral" campaigns). We all know that before we can sell people on the great products and servies that we're offering, we need to get the word out. There's no better way to do that then to go door to door and bug the shit out of people so that you start to build brand awareness.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 9, 2006

For all those into those cool experience website, check out Nike's area designed specifically for women. Not only do you have some cool music to inspire you while you shop, there are some great work out videos, good offers for a workout DVD, exercise tips as well as videos explaining how to do certain hip hop moves. Great use of media and flash lead to an amazing online experience.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 10, 2006

Here's how not to create a home page: [link]. Anyone have any idea what the heck this site is about? Perhaps if you invest some time in the site, you can infer that it's some sort of portal but you shouldn't have to! Make sure home pages have a clear message as to what your site is about. For example, if it's a company site, give us a small blurb (1 liner) about your company.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 16, 2006

Here's a new blog that you should be aware of by Marketing Profs. There are some good articles and they have some pretty good writers such as Seth Godin. BL Ochman also has an awesome article on how she keeps up with all of the information out there. She uses Bloglines for her RSS feeds. I found outthat you could susbcribe to Dilbert which made me happy (doesn't take much).

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 16, 2006

I was playing around with some RSS feeds such as My Yahoo and Feed Reader but I really am loving BlogLines. It's helping me keep track of a bunch of feeds without sending me 2000 emails. I may even start unsubscribing from email newsletters and just use the RSS reader. Who's with me? Have you started to do the same thing? Chad H.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 17, 2006

In the interest of keeping my job :), let me qualify my last post. In push/pull marketing you are either sending out information to your customers/prospects or allowing them to choose the information that they want to receive (this may also be wrong so feel free to correct me). Both have their advantages as push marketing typically allows the marketer to craft the message that is received while pull makreting means that the end user has opted-in and perceives value in the information that they h

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 17, 2006

I really liked the discussion that I was reading on the Marketing Profs forum regarding one company's attempt to discover ways to do marketing research on the cheap. There are some good examples on and really the main point that came out of it is that you really need to understand the customer to sell to them. It seems that most people felt doing an online survey was the best solution in this case.

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Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 19, 2006

An intersting article in DM News states: "According to Pew Research, more than 50 percent of consumers trust e-mail less and nearly 25 percent use it less. E-mail’s reliability has taken a big hit, too, as 20 percent to 30 percent of legitimate, opt-in e-mail gets caught in the filters intended to prevent abuse. These are not healthy indicators for a medium that we increasingly depend on for communication and commerce. " While this author is biased of course, this is something that should be not

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