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15 B2B Marketing Books You Need to Read

Directive Agency

Your social media presence is one of the most important parts of your marketing strategy, which is why Dave Kerpen’s book focuses heavily on creating a “likeable” social media presence. The Fundamentals of Business to Business Sales and Marketing by John M. Business to Business Marketing: A Step By Step Guide by Ray Wright.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But unless it’s a very enlightened company, the “generation of product improvement ideas&# alone is not a very compelling “give me budget dollars to work on this program&# argument – at least not over the long term. And of course product improvement ideas are important.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. link] [link] Jeff Deibel Consumers generated over 500billion online impressions about products. link] [link] Jeff Deibel Consumers generated over 500billion online impressions about products. population.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. I’m sure this post will generate its fair share of comments, outrage, and controversy.

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

Our friends at Janrain , all kinds of interesting social signing and social media database marketing. But the opportunity for scale is getting your customers to do your jobs for you as advocates, or through word of mouth or sharing , so maybe that’s perhaps the lens that Reggie’s thinking about.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

If this is a marketing exercise, you’re neutering its impact from the beginning. There’s a reason why everybody has adopted account-based, but traditional demand generation is fishing with a net, whereas account-based marketing is fishing with a spear. The account-based revolution isn’t over. Matt: Yeah.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.