Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Even links to their blogs and favorite books. (and of course I already knew that). I'll send you an invite right now." Forget about the business cards and save some trees. Topics : Instant backgrounders popped up. Their work history. Incredible for conversation topics.

Linkedin 196

Linkedin Tips Conference Profiling 196

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

To read the farewell note from Green Leads Founders/Co-Owners Mike & Linda Damphousse head to the Green Leads Blog. To read more about the acquisition check out the press release. Want to talk further? Schedule some time with me to chat. Mike Farrell, CEO. Green Leads.

Sales Qualified Leads 191

Sales Qualified Leads Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 191

Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Even links to their blogs and favorite books. (and of course I already knew that). I'll send you an invite right now." Forget about the business cards and save some trees. Topics : Instant backgrounders popped up. Their work history. Incredible for conversation topics.

Linkedin 130

Linkedin Tips Conference Profiling 130

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are some sites that share top-notch practices: The Bridge Group's Inside Sales Experts Blog - Trish Bertuzzi and the team over at The Bridge Group are the gold standard when it comes to advice on making your inside sales team greater than it already is. Definitely worth checking out. Great stuff.

Inbound Marketing 100

Inbound Marketing Lead Qualification Marketo Marketing & Strategy 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 27, 2009

I'm stimulated by creative work such as writing a fun blog article or doing a souped up graphic that is needed for a presentation, creative work for me is relaxing. I came back refreshed, despite the three days of rain: Write a couple blog articles - not the tough, fact filled kind, but the light ones that come easily.

RSS 100

RSS Blogger Tagging Twitter 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Comment on a few relevant articles Hubspot Dashboard - finds daily chores for me to do around blogging, keywords, search rankings, etc. Tags: hubspot blogs fast company socialmedia SMM marketing tips facebook b2b marketing twitter b2b drivel demand gen green branding SEO inbound marketing linkedin SEM. I'm in good company!

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Social Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 30, 2009

The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. Blog Marketing - Writing a blog for business purposes isn't just a process of putting thoughts on the internet. Don't overwhelm a blog topic. There is nothing worse than following someone's blog for months and then seeing it go blank for weeks.

Relevance 100

Relevance Cold Calling Demand B2B Marketing 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

We read Fantasy blogs; we also read B2B sales and marketing blogs. If you know what scores you points you''ll make better decisions. Ask the commissioner (your boss) if it''s unclear. Learn from the pros. Look for raw talent that requires the least maintenance. Find the studs that, head to head, will overperform every week.

Ad Building 100

Ad Building Stats Paper Statistics 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 7, 2009

We've just migrated the Green Leads site and the Smashmouth Marketing Blog over to a new platform from Hubspot. Tags: blogs. Tons of great features and inbound marketing goodness, but unfortunately, the one thing we can't do is redirect our old RSS feed. So please, please, please, update your RSS Feeds and Bookmarks.

RSS 100

RSS Inbound Marketing Tagging Hubspot 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 18, 2009

Wanting to know more about the various speakers from MarketingProfs this past week, I started looking some of them up on the web, subscribing to their blogs, checking them out on LinkedIn and trying to find them on Twitter. Speaker's blogs are listed if I could find them, otherwise their company link is there. Amy Africa. Brainshark.

Thought Leadership 100

Thought Leadership Advertising Agencies Mobile Advertising Forrester 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 13, 2009

Wanting to know more about the various speakers from MarketingProfs this past week, I started looking some of them up on the web, subscribing to their blogs, checking them out on LinkedIn and trying to find them on Twitter. Speaker's blogs are listed if I could find them, otherwise their company link is there.

Thought Leadership 100

Thought Leadership Advertising Agencies Mobile Advertising Forrester 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2009

Just got an interview published on Craig Rosenberg's funnelholic blog. Check out his blog and you’ll believe me. Tags: interviews blogs demand socialmedia marketing appointments. I'll share the intro here, and you can get the rest of the article on the site. You can find all his articles on his site. Thanks Craig!

Opinions 100

Opinions Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Ads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2008

I advocate leveraging the thought leaders or subject matter experts that you have on staff to create compelling content for your blog. Also – don’t forget to integrate your blog, Twitter page and social networks in every element of the Marketing mix. Paul May explained this beautifully on the BuzzStream blog.

Budget Programs 100

Budget Programs Social Media Paid Search Agency Social Marketing 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

We wrote a blog post Third Party Vendors for Lead Qualification on this very topic. Trish Bertuzzi of The Bridge Group shared, "Mike, what a great checklist for vendor selection. There are literally dozens of vendors in this space both domestically as well as off shore. People need to understand that picking a vendor is picking a PARTNER.

Marketing Management 113

Marketing Management Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 113

Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

A week after the election, the topic surfaced again after reading a recent article on HubSpot's blog, Are You Unwittingly Making This Disastrous Sales Mistake? And it sparked a controversial thread of blog comments led by Luke Brown , who signs his comment posts "Sales Pro", but the comments soon turned to mudslinging.

Marketing & Strategy 100

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Amazon Traffic 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Give away lots of relevant info through blogs, twitter, industry events, etc. Quote them in blog articles. As soon as you find out a tribe member has a blog, find a way to help them with a blog article. Be it Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn Groups, or your blog. Most buzzers love to be pumped up socially. Prop them up.

Lead Gen 100

Lead Gen Elasticity Ad Building B2B Thought Leadership 100

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

One of my favorite publications/blogs is Make , the ultimate read for geeks, creative types, do it yourselfers and artists. Tags: art blogs. This recent post regarding a guerrilla art piece in Dresden, Germany called the Funnel Wall demonstrates their ability to bring interesting stories to us. Check it out. It's on my daily read list.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Tagging Creativity Examples 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Mike: Blogging seems to be the communications platform of the future. In fact, our new site's press section will basically be a blog. Our focus with blogging, though, is to spread prolific content about demand gen and appointment setting. For example, blogs help us solicit input about new products. New media and Web 2.0

Gartner 100

Gartner Social Media Social Marketing Planning 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Mike: Blogging seems to be the communications platform of the future. In fact, our new site's press section will basically be a blog. Our focus with blogging, though, is to spread prolific content about demand gen and appointment setting. It brings value to our readers and credits for SEO. New media and Web 2.0

Gartner 100

Gartner Social Media Social Marketing Planning 100

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

I LOVE reading Lifehacker , Treehugger , Engadget and Wired RSS feeds, but over the years they have migrated from blogs with fantastic posts 8-12 times per day, to massive media sites that publish 30+ posts per day, at least a third of which are drivel. Tags: blogs tech drivel green. It's all baked up.

RSS 100

RSS Aggregators Tagging Organization 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

We wrote a blog post Third Party Vendors for Lead Qualification on this very topic. Trish Bertuzzi of The Bridge Group shared, "Mike, what a great checklist for vendor selection. There are literally dozens of vendors in this space both domestically as well as off shore. People need to understand that picking a vendor is picking a PARTNER.

Sales Qualified Leads 100

Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Marketing Management Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 20, 2009

It was so full of nuggets, all I can say is to go read as many of the blogs as you possibly can on the topic. There is a thread of blog articles on MarketingProf's , a page of MarketingProfs speaker's social media contact info on my blog, and the whole twitter feed of #mpb2b hash tag comments.

B2B 100

B2B Tagging Social Media Twitter 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 17, 2009

It was so full of nuggets, all I can say is to go read as many of the blogs as you possibly can on the topic. There is a thread of blog articles on MarketingProf's , a page of MarketingProfs speaker's social media contact info on my blog, and the whole twitter feed of #mpb2b hash tag comments.

B2B 100

B2B Tagging Demand B2B Sales 100

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

I recently was asked to participate in Ambal Balakrishnan's ( @ambal ) ebook, to be published at year'd end and then available from her blog, Connect the Docs. Being one of those tweeps who always barks by mid-January that "if I see one more predictions blog article, I'll puke," I chuckled as I sat down to write. Cost per lead?

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Cost per Lead B2B Adwords 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 5, 2009

I'm stimulated by creative work such as writing a fun blog article or doing a souped up graphic that is needed for a presentation, creative work for me is relaxing. I came back refreshed, despite the three days of rain: Write a couple blog articles - not the tough, fact filled kind, but the light ones that come easily.

RSS 100

RSS Blogger Opinions Creativity 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2008

I post both topics here on my blog and I believe that the coexistence of business and personal identities given today's social media is the way to go. There is the business me, and there is the personal me and always the two have mixed. It's obvious by the two feeds you see on the right. We are all connected one way or another.

Opinions 100

Opinions Social Media Personalization Media 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2008

I post both topics here on my blog and I believe that the coexistence of business and personal identities given today's social media is the way to go. There is the business me, and there is the personal me and always the two have mixed. It's obvious by the two feeds you see on the right. We are all connected one way or another.

Opinions 100

Opinions Social Media Personalization Media 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. Chris Snell of AG Salesworks: The CRAP Report blog. In fact, we bring value to each other. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0: Collection of Sales 2.0

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Tips 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. Chris Snell of AG Salesworks: The CRAP Report blog. In fact, we bring value to each other. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0: Collection of Sales 2.0

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Tips 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 26, 2009

The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. Blog Marketing - Writing a blog for business purposes isn't just a process of putting thoughts on the internet. Don't overwhelm a blog topic. There is nothing worse than following someone's blog for months and then seeing it go blank for weeks.

Relevance 100

Relevance Demand B2B Marketing Cold Calling 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Hubspot Dashboard - finds daily chores for me to do around blogging, keywords, search rankings, etc. Fast Company Blog - share an article. Smashmouth Marketing Blog - write an article. LinkedIn Q&A - to maintain my top Lead Gen Expert status and to accept invites and other LinkedIn goodness.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Social Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Hubspot Dashboard - finds daily chores for me to do around blogging, keywords, search rankings, etc. Fast Company Blog - share an article. Smashmouth Marketing Blog - write an article. LinkedIn Q&A - to maintain my top Lead Gen Expert status and to accept invites and other LinkedIn goodness.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Social Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

If I had just one slide to present, it would talk about where social media fits in with all the marketing channels: Websites, blogs, and microsites, to podcasts, slideshare, video, email marketing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Public Relations, direct mail, and other efforts. They can all work together.

Social Media 100

Social Media Lead Gen Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 19, 2010

To read more about this, check out SEO/Blogging/Twitter guru Lisa Barone of internet marketing company Outspoken Media. There were a lot of great blog articles this week surrounding B2B sales and marketing - which one got you thinking? People like Slash understand that they need to be seen. What did we miss?

Demand 100

Demand B2B Blogger B2B Sales 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If I had just one slide to present, it would talk about where social media fits in with all the marketing channels: Websites, blogs, and microsites, to podcasts, slideshare, video, email marketing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Public Relations, direct mail, and other efforts. They can all work together.

Social Media 100

Social Media Lead Gen Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 9, 2010

Live tweet or live blog from the event and include the Hashtag in all posts. If you aren't at the event, follow it on Twitter and the live blogs (links will be on Twitter). Some recommendations to those of you attending, and even to those that aren't, on how to get the most out of a live event: Announce that you are attending.

Inbound Marketing 100

Inbound Marketing Tips Twitter Linkedin 100

Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 9, 2010

Live tweet or live blog from the event and include the Hashtag in all posts. If you aren't at the event, follow it on Twitter and the live blogs (links will be on Twitter). Some recommendations to those of you attending, and even to those that aren't, on how to get the most out of a live event: Announce that you are attending.

Inbound Marketing 100

Inbound Marketing Tips Twitter Linkedin 100