Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Nurture your email list with an invitation to visit a resource center that provides thought leadership from well-known experts, webcast and podcast replays, short videos and product demos, customer testimonials and case studies. You can also look to 3 rd party list sources but expect a lower response rate and thus a lower ROI.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Finally, take a poll: ask marketers if they can a) recite the company’s 30-second elevator pitch on why a prospect should pick them vs the competition b) demo their product c) talk to a customer. This also brings marketers into the dicussion around real value created for the organization.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Context: this is important because some traditional marketing assets like white papers or product demos do not perform very well in social media. And something that is often overlooked: simply sharing the valuable content of others. The reason is context. People do not “like&# brands on Facebook because they want to be marketed to.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2010

Include thought leadership whitepapers, customer videos, podcasts, case studies, demos and product comparison guides. One trick is to compile a list of all the best content from previous campaigns that you already have on hand. Make sure you cover each buying stage. Now testing all these factors against your own objectives is very important.

Sales Management 100

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Next, make sure you go on a sales call but I’ll go further to state that marketers should know how to demo products and how to make that 30-second pitch on why customers should chose you and your company. I would add that the first meeting for any new marketing person is to sit down with the head of sales and ask “what do you need?”

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