The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social media may be a hot topic in B2B marketing circles, but most of that buzz focuses on the role of social media advertising. And yet, at most B2B companies, social media is still relegated to a role loosely defined as awareness, community-building, or even PR. Are B2B marketers ignoring a huge opportunity?

Top of Funnel 203

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Lead Scoring 203

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

2020 was a tough year for B2B marketers – and everyone else. A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. But there were some bright spots.

Demand Generation Agencies 236

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Marketing Budget 236

SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? There’s a lot to navigate when searching for the best marketing practices for your emerging company. Knowing when and how to get a realistic and effective marketing strategy off the ground may even seem daunting. Start-Up Marketing Fundamentals.

Paid Search Agency 97

Paid Search Agency Paid Content Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Management 97

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

And as any blogger can tell you, PR pros understand this, as witnessed by the incredible increase in blogger outreach “pitches&# from corporate PR departments and firms over the past two years. by MediaPost Marketing Daily Commentary. For example, “PRO: Twitter gives us a great way to leverage PR.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 5, 2022

Your marketing team has spent months partnering with product management to understand the roadmap and build messaging and positioning. That trust expands to increased awareness and buzz for your new product’s capabilities. How to create a marketing launch. As a marketer, the sales team is your main audience for a GA launch.

Product 98

Product Work Management Case Studies Marketing Management 98

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 23, 2014

You have more than your fair share of opportunities to generate buzz and publicity for your new album. This involves a big reveal followed by a series of engaging content that drives buzz and reminds fans that a new product is coming, or event is happening, etc. The Best Marketing Is Personal. Social Media Case Studies'

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Contingency Planning Campaigns Buzz Opt-out 167

ClearVoice

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Important study. But in some cases, for example, if a business has a popular product that is successful enough to draw users who are only interested in that product, they may keep a microsite up and running just to accommodate those users. Social influencer campaign. Infomercial. Book launch. Example of software microsite.

Microsite 98

Microsite Landing Pages Case Studies Buzz 98

Outgrow

MAY 21, 2020

Founded in 1968, Hill Holiday is a one-stop solution for all your advertising and marketing worries. They specialize in marketing communication, creatives, brand strategy, social media, etc. Case Study: Cracker Barrel wanted to create some buzz on their 50th anniversary and called in Hill Holiday for help.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 13, 2014

There are many elements to creating a program that produces a high quantity of high quality leads: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, and more. Lead generation and PR: Why it matters. There are two factors contributing to the importance of PR in B2B marketing strategies: B2B companies need more leads of higher quality.

Public Relations 100

Public Relations Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B2B Thought Leadership 100

Outgrow

APRIL 30, 2020

Losing your market share? The Motion Agency is an integrated marketing & advertising agency based in Chicago. Case Study. Moreover, Motion used traditional media but also used paid social and influencer marketing to advertise Gladiator’s services. Case Study. Case Study. Case Study.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 28, 2014

Once again 2014 will be a year that Content Marketing is front and center for a majority of B2B marketing departments. While the buzz about content marketing continues, it still seems to be quite a challenge for most marketers. Content must be scored according to where in the buying cycle it is consumed.

Demand Generation 100

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B2B Marketing Savvy

AUGUST 27, 2009

Hoping this summary case study will prompt some feedback and additional learning as others plan first-time social media experiences. A traditionally conservative marketing mentality. A virtual marketing community operating from multiple offices/multiple time zones. A skittish legal department.

Case Study 40

Case Study Case Studies Barriers Buzz 40

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 24, 2014

Earlier this month MarketingSherpa released a chart from last year’s Email Marketing Benchmark Report, highlighting budget priorities across various B2B marketing programs. Email Marketing. SEO can certainly be augmented through and augment email marketing campaigns. Social Media Marketing.

Paid Content 120

Paid Content Budget Programs Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation 120

Biznology

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Pearson Education reached out to me to read and make make notes on Mike Moran’s and James Mathewson’s upcoming book, Outside-In Marketing. When I started, what I did was called viral marketing , buzz marketing , and new media. It looks like social media strategy is evolving into social marketing strategy.

Marketing Websites 80

Marketing Websites Wikipedia Work Management Blogger 80

Biznology

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Digital marketing is an umbrella term for the marketing of products or services using a digital strategy, technologies and tactics that include search, paid advertising, social media, and many other properties. Here are the 10 most inspiring digital marketing stories of 2016. PWC : Has managed Oscar -balloting for 82 years.

Paid Content 80

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Planning Advertising Agencies 80

The Lead Agency

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Machine learning is the future of marketing, but what can you do today to apply it and get an edge over your competitors? There is a lot of buzz around machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Imperial College of London is studying the applications of deep learning to analyse and predict crime.

Marketing AI 100

Marketing AI Paid Content Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Hubspot

MAY 24, 2017

But the rules surrounding content production as well as our understanding of it as marketers has changed. However, if you can consistently produce great content on a regular basis, that's enough to dominate the online marketing realm. Owned media may also come in the form of case studies, whitepapers, and ebooks.

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User-Generated Content Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Marketing Budget 78

Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. This 40-something Florida Mom found he… [link] [link] I Marketing Exposed Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads.

Social Media 126

Social Media Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Media 126

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. Every social media consultant , corporate marketer and PR professional was challenged to keep up with the latest writing on the topic. Study: Social Media Pays by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Ryan Walker. Jason Burby. Mark Walsh.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Budget Programs Media 100

Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Among other things, I argued for the importance of developing a corporate keyword database for digital marketers. Keyword collaboration isn’t just important for digital marketing. Brand marketers need the right keywords to do a better job naming products and writing messaging guides. Case Study: US Open Marketing.

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Keywords Paid Search Agency Digital Asset Management Enterprise Management 80

Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

You’re probably familiar with the story of Green Eggs and Ham, but just in case, it’s the story of one (unnamed) character trying earnestly to get the character Sam to try green eggs and ham. I feel like the other guy in the story- will you try social media if I give you some great case studies? And that’s just it.

Paid Search Agency 121

Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies CAN-SPAM PR 121

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 12, 2009

42 content marketing tactics, over 50 case studies and hundreds of resources - The Content Marketing Playbook: 42 Ways to Connect with Customers is packed with lots of ideas to execute on your content strategy. Joe Pulizzi is a leading author, speaker and strategist for content marketing. Joe Pulizzi.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Content 100

Golden Spiral

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The biography Steve Jobs — or any of the, books, movies , or documentaries made about him — is a case study in failure and success, products launched too soon, and products that didn’t launch soon enough. Here is a proven, ten-step method for bringing your product to market. Don’t develop your timeline in a vacuum.

Product 90

Product Webinar Metrics Cross-Selling Planning 90

Webbiquity

JULY 28, 2010

Despite its airy title, Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day by Dave Evans is anything but a lightweight treatment of this topic. At roughly 340 pages of text plus another 42 pages of worksheets, this is a meaty book, but the end result of following Dave’s hour-a-day guide is a solidly justified, strategic social media marketing plan.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Planning Media 100

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Business Paid Search Agency 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

However, I did get a lot of speaking opportunities, PR opportunities, book comment opportunities, even books people would mail to me unsolicited (aka Schwag!) Wiley contacted me about becoming an author and after some back and forth on the title of the book we settled on Facebook Marketing for Dummies (due out in the fall).

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Network Marketing Buzz 100

Contify

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Therefore, we should understand how Google Alerts works and why it doesn’t in some cases. I heard myself saying, “Google, why don’t you treat my keywords as case-sensitive. Maybe there is a way to create case-sensitive alerts that I don’t know of. The quality of our decisions depends on the information that we have.

Work Management 60

Work Management Google CMS Development Enterprise Management 60

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!).

Facebook 122

Facebook Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics Advertising Agencies 122

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Peer-to-peer 115

Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Certainly, it’s not a comprehensive influence formula like Klout , or other Twitter-influence arbiters ( interesting study this week from Sysomos ), but it’s easy to calculate, and I think it makes sense. Yes in all cases BTW). Yes in all cases BTW). Gary Vaynerchuk has a FPT of 39.26. Have a learned a ton?

Twitter 126

Twitter Paid Content Paid Search Agency PR 126

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Home » B2B Marketers Have Little Social Media Engagement B2B Marketers Have Little Social Media Engagement Almost 60% of B2B marketers have little or no engagement in social media, according to a recent study by digital marketing firm White Horse.

Social Media 40

Social Media Paid Search Agency Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Bluetext

MAY 5, 2023

In today’s blog post, we’ll cover how to launch your new brand into the market and how to ensure your employees are ready to be your top brand ambassadors. You’ll want to have a clear sense of the rationale behind the rebrand and how it impacts the broader narrative you want to communicate to the market. Prepare Ahead of Time.

Activities 26

Activities Tactics Brand Identity Branding 26

SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

Lead Ranking 107

Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. Very helpful post, Jay. Very helpful post, Jay.

Webinar Metrics 132

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Blogger 132

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

Social Media 142

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 142

Hubspot

JANUARY 15, 2013

If the goal of inbound marketing is finding people who are excited to learn about your product or service, then your CTAs are the big (occasionally red and blinking) heralds telling your site visitors where to go next. PR and Social "Buzz" Campaigns. Calls-to-action (CTAs) are the directional signals on your website.

Lead Gen 28

Lead Gen Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Leads 28

markempa

AUGUST 17, 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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 What can you send via email?

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Lead Nurturing Lead Generation Tactics Lead Scoring 120