Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Late last week, I responded to a post by my new friend Adam Needles, VP Marketing of Left Brain Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

In my 20 years of marketing, sales and Telemarketing experience I have created many “Tele Web” programs, and here are the top reasons they succeed. One responder can lead us to several opportunities within the company if the discussion we have is centered around the needs and pains of the company and not only one product or service.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. It serves as the basis for your sales and marketing strategy.&# Marketers sell stuff and sales people market stuff. Marketing spend is much more efficient.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. I refuse to answer cold calls at work or home.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

Finally, I provide practical tips for developing your own strategy, gaining the buy-in required to execute the plan and working with your executive team on marketing their own personal brands to your customers. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. Having crafted a few myself, I am writing this article to share my experiences and tips on what has worked and what didn’t. The Hunter – Gatherer Model One of the biggest mistakes a marketer can make is to create a plan in a vacuum.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This post also appeared recently in B2C Marketing Insider. I have been a student of selling and sales management for more than twenty years, and I have used a grand total of five “closes” during that time. If you find it’s not working out for you, just bring the puppy back.”

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

Some creative marketers call these lists suspects. Inbound marketeering requires 2 simple things: First you need to be found and that requires the basic techniques of understanding how prospects search and the keywords they use. In this post I will explain the 4 most common mistakes marketers make. Sounds easy right?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

You can view all the articles posted on socialmedia.org and also in the “Social Media&# category of B2C Marketing Insider. Crisis Management is a huge opportunity. This Tweet from Cecily Kellogg says it all: “What I learned at #Blogwell, and why I’m no longer advocating sponsored posts.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 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. I hope you can make it.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I wish I knew all the secrets so I could transform the world of B2B Marketing forever with a tell-all book. What I do know is that B2B Marketers have a ton of options today. But which ones are really working to drive our strategy and our business forward? Here is a copy of the presentation Confessions of a B2B Marketer as well.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. But the same content will not always work in both mediums. It also allows the marketer to track who is responding. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" Learn more at: [link].

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2010

While marketers have embraced these chats as a way of connecting with fellow marketers and sharing ideas, companies/brands have been relatively non-existent in these conversations. This has resulted in marketers focusing on trying to enlist these individuals to become brand advocates. What do you think?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2008

At Openeducation.net, we have taken a definitive stance regarding the use of web 2.0 We think that teachers should be tempted to put web 2.0 tools to work as a method for increasing engagement in students. In other words, unless the course being taught is a technology course, the web 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

‘This is my conjecture — more work needs to be done on that.’&#. This research work has been published by Microsoft under the name “Worldwide Buzz: Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network.&# Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 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 19, 2010 2 Subscribe Life Is Short! So on average, we will spend just half our lives working.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. I have summarized here my takeaways on her five steps. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

And what role do marketers play in cultivating the brand and maintaining some level of consistency in our brand image? While this sounds very much like the common definition for Integrated Marketing Communications, the author is suggesting that we need to go farther and deeper in coordinating marketing plans.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 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 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 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 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. Simplicity Of Programs These programs are notoriously simple to create as you only need to provide a list of target companies and a product, solution or service you want to sell.

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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?! Hard to explain.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Copyright Violation. Other Terms Of Service Violation. ));"/> " style="display:none;" align="center">. Knowledge Management. entreprise 2.0. Web 2.0 @ Work. Enterprise 2.0. Collaboration Tools and Web 2.0. I Am Knowledge Worker 2.0. Knowledge Management 2.0

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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? This is not hard.

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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? This is not hard.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

According to David Rosen from Makovsky + Company: I called it the “Forbidden Dance&# because the primary obstacle (in my view) to B2Bs adopting social media is no longer the question of whether it works. Those are being worked through, but I wanted to have the panel focus on these issues to speed it up. It’s all about content!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. He has outlined what is wrong with the theory of mass marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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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? Keep up the good work!

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