Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Are we considering the larger implications of social media on the organization as it relates to employee adoption, customer service, product development and innovation? Recognize that traditional interruption techniques have limited effect by providing relevant distractions to your prospects daily grind.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Share: Read more from Strategy marketing plan Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

All this is starting to create massive and revolutionary changes in the way businesses in general and marketers in particular interact with customers. Customer lists provide a tremendous opportunity for selling additional solutions and services or upgrades. Create a compelling offer to lock-in your current customers for a longer term.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

Social media can produce the same effect. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Email is a proven and somewhat traditional technique for getting the word out. Learn more at: [link].

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The following guest post is another important topic for sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. 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. That is so true!

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

However, it is difficult for companies to gain inbound responders in large volumes, and too many companies do not have an optimal responder program in place to drive whatever responders they receive to an eventual sale. Need to Drive Leads?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It means listening to what will make our customers lives better. It means allowing as many employees in our companies to interact with our customers as real people. Umair even suggests that if we can achieve this, our customers might actually love us. .&# It means having real conversations with them.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2010

.&# He suggests you use the common tools of the trade like Twitter, Facebook and Google Alerts as well as more advanced sources like Google trends and Customer Service data. These insights will guide the content you need to create for an effective campaign. These tools can all be used to monitor industry and competitive conversations.

Social Media 100

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 5, 2010

B2B Marketers cannot ignore this channel and need to continue advocating for our brands and with our senior executives to get more involved, become more visible and to engage with customers in this channel. While not “dead”, email consumption is down.

Social Media 100

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Web 2.0 Customer Satisfaction Telemarketing Lead Qualification 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

Too often we grab the latest product brochure, sales presentation or case study and post it online. But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. Remember the tip from yesterday about surveying and interviewing your customers?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

So…Demand Generation cannot stop at the sale. Real value comes from producing customers who stay and who have an amazing customer experience so they buy more. That is why customer lifetime value to me is a much more important metric.

Paid Search Agency 100

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2010

These resources include everything from how to get started, tips for building a social media community and how to calculate key social media metrics – just to name a few.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

[link] #mobile #augmentedreality » RT @B2CMKTGInsider : 3 Effective Ways to Use Twitter for Business (Without Annoying People) [link] » The 7 Burning B2B Social Media Questions [link] » Tags Augmented Reality B2B Marketing B2C Marketing Blog Blogwell Brand Management Content Marketing customer Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty Digital (..)

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Ultimately it comes down to determining where can we achieve the greatest return from people, process and marketing tools to meet customer needs. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

[link] #mobile #augmentedreality » RT @B2CMKTGInsider : 3 Effective Ways to Use Twitter for Business (Without Annoying People) [link] » The 7 Burning B2B Social Media Questions [link] » Tags Augmented Reality B2B Marketing B2C Marketing Blog Blogwell Brand Management Content Marketing customer Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty Digital (..)

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

He goes on to explain how most marketers’ budgets are not aligned to what McKinsey calls the &# customer decision journey.&# Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2010

These resources include everything from how to get started, tips for building a social media community and how to calculate key social media metrics – just to name a few.

Social Media 100

Social Media Resources Media Web 2.0 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

B2B Marketing 100

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Strategy Internet Trends , Marketing Innovation , Mobile , Strategy , Web 2.0 Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For the self-employed, blogging is a means to attract new business and new clients to their business, whereas “hobbyists&# are simply looking for “personal satisfaction.&# Compared to the averages, corporate bloggers main goal is to get published or get featured in traditional media.

Marketing Mix 100

Marketing Mix Marketing Report Blogspot Blogger 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2010

I am a B2B marketer because I think our job can be made simpler if we simply focus on the customer. As a B2B Marketer, I feel strongly that we (simply) help companies do 2 things: Get Customers Keep Customers Sometimes we do this in a more creative way and sometimes we do this in a very scientific way. But that is all we do!

Planning 100

Planning Paid Search Agency Customer Satisfaction Enterprise Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2010

I am a B2B marketer because I think our job can be made simpler if we simply focus on the customer. As a B2B Marketer, I feel strongly that we (simply) help companies do 2 things: Get Customers Keep Customers Sometimes we do this in a more creative way and sometimes we do this in a very scientific way. But that is all we do!

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Customer Satisfaction 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 24, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Think about the entire lifecycle from new product ideas all the way to customer retention. An effective marketing strategy focused on one goal will have a halo effect on other marketing metrics. Our customers do not decide to start searching for solutions to their problems because we decided to run a campaign.

Planning 100

Planning Marketing Plans Work Management Budget Programs 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Marketers sell stuff and sales people market stuff. To our customers there is no funnel. I believe we should align our efforts to customer needs. The earlier engagement and continuous activity level will create more efficient demand management by delivering against customer needs. And customer lifetime values increase.

Top of Funnel 100

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Mobile Augmented Reality 4 Comments Post a comment Anol Dec 22 2010 Hey Michael – great post.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Web 2.0 100

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Confessions Of A B2B Marketer 5 Sales Closing Techniques 7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

Business 100

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

Paid Search Agency 100

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This misses the point, of course, since social media is about customer relationships and not really about the technology at all. They are: Customers: something that is missing from many social media plans is the focus on customers. And once you have a customer, you need to keep them. Community is how social media scales.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Customer Satisfaction Web 2.0 100

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Well, we know that customers will pay a premium for brands they trust or simply will be more willing to spend their hard-earned money with a strong brand. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

Social Media 100

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Paid Search Agency Customer Satisfaction Telemarketing 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

When I see B2B Marketers who have forgotten that we serve customers and create marketing campaigns with little research into customer needs or pains or the words they use to express their pains, it makes me crazy. To share the love. I am frustrated every day. I am a perfectionist. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning B2B 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

When I see B2B Marketers who have forgotten that we serve customers and create marketing campaigns with little research into customer needs or pains or the words they use to express their pains, it makes me crazy. To share the love. I am frustrated every day. I am a perfectionist. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning B2B 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

“As user-generated content becomes a greater part of professional workflow, it is important for B2B marketers to understand not only where their customers are interacting, but also their motivations when they are consuming or participating in these communities.

Social Media 100

Social Media Peer-to-peer Social Marketing B2B Marketing 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

our job is to support sales in their goal to acquire more customers and to keep our customers. Our marketing processes should support and even expect this natural shift by our sales colleagues. So when our “customers&# in sales ask for more leads, give them more. When they ask for better leads.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 100