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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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. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I also need to mention that I cannot take credit for my funnel depiction as there was much discussion by the leaders in our organization about the shape of our funnel and the need to increase the velocity of our demand activities by moving from a wine-glass shaped funnel to one shaped more like a champagne flute or a shot glass.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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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? Traditional Pipeline Acceleration.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

If you use your CRM system to track marketing activities from inquiry to close, then you know how many opportunities you have created and how much sales pipeline that has generated. For example, effective demand generation with high quality content that meets customer needs will produce awareness and will drive consideration of your product.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

They show how brands with high loyalty and strong social currency command a price premium confirming the need for the tighter coordination of social brand activities. In simpler words, a brand’s social activities need to help your prospects with something that is relevant to your brand. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Content: in building strong customer relationships, you have to provide valuable information that meets your customer needs. In social media content is not necessarily about creating white papers or videos. And something that is often overlooked: simply sharing the valuable content of others. The reason is context.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

The question is whether we are actively participating in it online. I know how to create content that people respond to. Share: Read more from Strategy B2B Marketing , Content Marketing , customer , Inbound Marketing , objectives , Online Demand Generation , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. I know how to generate a lead.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

The question is whether we are actively participating in it online. I know how to create content that people respond to. Share: Read more from Strategy B2B Marketing , Content Marketing , customer , Inbound Marketing , objectives , Online Demand Generation , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. I know how to generate a lead.

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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? This takes no more than 15 minutes.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

This is one of the most positive outcomes of the social media activity in B2B marketing. Which is more important: channel or content strategy? It’s all about content! ROI: How do you link social media activity to the bottom line? Social media is just another channel and just another tool to reach customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Time Line Close The Time Line close is effective when a product or service will impact a prospect’s project plan, especially if the purchasing decision is a prerequisite to other activities in the project plan. He has demonstrated success in the creation and active management of aggressive marketing and sales plans.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

The details page should show all available sizes, options and other selection criteria with active links to downloadable PDFs of datasheets. Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

This agrees with what I am hearing from my engineering and industrial clients, they are seeing a lot more activity but the average sales cycle has grown by an additional 90 ~ 120 days. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results. It’s a combination of tools, methods or procedures, and analysis and activities. Number of campaigns sent out, trade shows attended or press releases published do not generate revenues.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

This is a foundational activity. Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. Step 4: Identify or create valuable content and offers. If you have content- test which pieces work best.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

Lead scoring is a key component so that once a lead meets a quality threshold, it is sent to sales with all the relevant history such as marketing tactics responded to, content viewed, solution interest, budget or timeframe. Marketing automation might be used to help setup triggers and automated touch points. hot lead management.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! Once there, make sure your content fulfills their search queries and encourages them to engage with you further.

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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? Who should we market to?

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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? Who should we market to?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 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 October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?! Search is really hard to explain.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The Representative must specifically address the content that was viewed Each person that searches the web has a specific purpose. The search term used and the content they found are big clues.” The Representative also needs to have the specific piece of content available in case the prospect would like it re-sent.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP. How many good sales people do you know that CAN’T turn 69 good meetings, with 35 of them active, into 15-20 deals? If not more?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Content Management (2). Therefore, when you’re setting up a goal for yourself or your business, build knowledge sharing into your performance metrics — devote a certain amount of time per week to knowledge sharing and innovation-related activities. What kind of knowledge sharing activities are the most beneficial?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

“We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors. Collaboration 2.0. Enterprise Web 2.0. Recommended.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 25, 2010

4) Content has become the lynchpin. Marketing automation vendors should align themselves with content creators. We’ve written extensively about aligning with the buying cycle and targeting content to the buyer’s stage on the B2B Marketing for Faster Sales blog. This has serious ramifications on pricing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Comments on this article can be sent to the author at chris_dede@harvard.edu and/or can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. The term Web 2.0 Whereas the twentieth-century web centered on developer-created material (e.g., Interactive media that facilitate these Web 2.0 tools (e.g.,

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 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 July 29, 2010 8 Subscribe Why Do You Tweet? It is not another vehicle to SPAM unwanted content.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

While some have predicted the consolidation of Twitter and Facebook or the demise of Foursquare, I am sticking to the practical topics most B2B Marketers I know are talking about: Marketing automation and automated lead nurturing will become a foundational B2B marketing activity as we are expected to accelerate deals through our funnels.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

Yet, how many of us measure it, take steps to improve it, and hold ourselves accountable for ensuring this feedback loop is active, constructive and ultimately effective? The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing Why Do You Tweet? It is not highly complex. It makes sense to anyone who hears it. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

Yet, how many of us measure it, take steps to improve it, and hold ourselves accountable for ensuring this feedback loop is active, constructive and ultimately effective? The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing Why Do You Tweet? It is not highly complex. It makes sense to anyone who hears it. All rights reserved.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2008

to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation. Keywords : Wiki, Course Management, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Content Creation, Student Learning. solutions for faculty to post course content, assignments, and student grades. course content for students to access.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Practices post-mortems – learning organisations build in a review after just about every activity to capture the learning. Includes learning in every job description and performance review – make it clear that everyone needs to be actively helping the whole group get better and better at everything. Learn more.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

BlueDot also has recently introduced a new service, Blue Dot Buzz, which does data mining of the activity of users in your friendsâ?? s bookmarking tool, a drop down menu automatically appears that allows users to search for that highlighted word on various search engines, social bookmarking sites; blogs, on the active site and more.

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