NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 19, 2010

BtoB Magazine, a national trade journal, recently conducted a survey of 400 B2B Marketers, and found that half of them were dissatisfied with the return on tweets. That’s despite the fact that 70% of them spend less than 30 minutes a day managing their tweet stream. To its enthusiasts, however, Twitter is a powerful channel.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 17, 2012

If a company wants to spend money that is unaccountable, just divvy up the marketing budget between regional sales managers. DuPont VP works on revamping brand identity. It takes constant training and learning to stay even with the new lead generation opportunities. Kate Maddox. Digital Edge. Maddox and Hosford. Tech enables.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. As could be expected, Forrester indicates that the majority of 2010 IT spending went to support existing operations – essentially “keeping the lights on&#.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The other day, Sophie feigned sleep until the exact moment Abe opened the door to leave for work, at which point she dashed over to the cat’s food dish and helped herself to a delicious snack. Which of the above suggestions have worked for you? What can we learn from Sophie? Perseverance pays! So, in other words, a literal tweeter!

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The Effective Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be. Is this good?

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EMagine B2B Blog

JANUARY 3, 2013

eMagine is proud to have worked with some of the best and brightest clients on Website Design, Hosting, and Online Marketing in the technology, health care, medical device and other B2B industries. They listened to us, provided feedback about what they thought would and would not work, and kept the project on time and on budget.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 28, 2012

Rich earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, and he’s twice been named to BtoB Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential people. As a result, the CEO and CFO look at non-cooperation and say, “You guys have got to figure this out because you’re spending together 12% to 15% to 20% or more of revenue.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

First, companies that sell to other companies tend to be more conservative and bottom-line focused overall, and measuring the impact and results of social media strategies is still a work in progress. to online publications dedicated to the practice like BtoB Online can testify.

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markempa

MAY 23, 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. A new study that was covered in BtoB Magazine showed that CMOs who are effective at measuring their marketing performance are more empowered.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. What we try to spend time on in this call is "space" shared between marketing and sales.

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markempa

JULY 9, 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. Often when prospects have an identified need, they can spend months researching and seeking information on solutions that may satisfy that need.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 1, 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 didnt know that he explained how the halo effect works. " He didnt know that he explained how the halo effect works.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011 Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 With social media spending continuing to increase this year, CMOs are being tasked to justify the investment. As CMOs seek to optimize their spending, doing more with less, it is important to learn which channels reveal the greatest payback. Latest Research.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 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. You dont need to spend a ton of money on direct mail to reach top executives. 3: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

I once worked for a great guy who I was lucky enough to follow up the ranks as he became Chief Marketing Officer of a large company. This was one of my great work-life lessons: never lack a strategy. They spend too much time thinking about what should be in the plan rather than writing/building the plan itself.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

I once worked for a great guy who I was lucky enough to follow up the ranks as he became Chief Marketing Officer of a large company. This was one of my great work-life lessons: never lack a strategy. They spend too much time thinking about what should be in the plan rather than writing/building the plan itself.

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markempa

JANUARY 4, 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. Less selling time : Because of longer sales cycles (and theyll get longer), sales people cannot afford to spend time on unqualified leads.

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markempa

DECEMBER 21, 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. It seems they would rather spend their budgets on things that drive activity (which is often wasted) over results measurement.

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 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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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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markempa

APRIL 3, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Spending on IT cloud services will triple in the next 5 years, reaching $42 billion and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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markempa

JUNE 14, 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. Those who spend more time talking about the trendy marketing mediums (ie. You can’t do that with Hawking.” Blogs, podcasts, WOM, etc.)

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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markempa

JUNE 7, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

JUNE 7, 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. On average, web visitors spend just 8-seconds scanning a website landing page before they decide to leave.

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markempa

JANUARY 24, 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. « Marketing Spend Shifting to Below-the-line | Main | Podcasts vs. Webinars which is better?

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ▼ 2010 (118) ▼ December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

ROI 40

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markempa

NOVEMBER 15, 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. Ive found that most of them dont work well for companies that have a complex sale. Whats a lead generation dashboard?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For the next post in our series of B2B marketing thought leader interviews , we interviewed Matthew Schwartz, an independent journalist with more than 20 years’ experience working in the media, who is currently a contributing a writer at Crain’s BtoB and BtoB’s Media Business magazines. Another popular topic is time management.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2011

Social media can also be a very helpful tool in the sales process when Sales is following up with leads and opportunities, especially considering the fact that, SiriusDecisions projects that by 2015, 71% of initial BtoB inquiries will be web-driven, and "a sound social media strategy is key to driving this inbound interest.".

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JULY 9, 2009

BtoB Leading Edge: 10 Sharp Tips taken from the Cutting Edge Demand Generation Virtual Conference - Modern B2B Marketing , June 24, 2009. Get Back to Work Faster - Marketing Interactions , June 11, 2009. Connect Direct - Demand Generation That Works , June 29, 2009. - Content Marketing Today , June 26, 2009. June 4, 2009.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

ROI 40

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markempa

MARCH 27, 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. He writes, "I dont have to spend my day with my head buried in Salesforce.com. " Here is his original concept. Bloggers over-hype RSS.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Carl Wilhelm, Director of Product and Client Experience - former software development director with FedEx, Carl is leading Alinean ’s commitment to continuing to deliver valued platform capabilities, working with clients on new requirements, launching new solutions and assuring superior service-level delivery. Latest Research.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Cold, hard decisions are being made on where to trim personnel, hardware and software spending. Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut.

Enterprise Management 40

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. IT Spending on the Rise, Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer ► 2010 (118) ► December (5) Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices f. ► November (8) Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Con. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

ROI 40

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