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A good read I discovered recently is a post by Lauren Carlson, What Do You Wish You Had Asked Your MA Vendor? , on the Marketing Automation Software Guide blog. MORE
As CMOs go full-force into planning mode for their 2012 marketing strategy , a recent report suggests that they are ill-prepared for the changes taking place in the larger business world. This is according to the Global Chief Marketing Officer survey from IBM. MORE
Image via Wikipedia. Last week I asked my management team if what we do at Abraham Harrison is inbound marketing. MORE
Tweet Warning: If you watch only the first few minutes of this webinar, you might get discouraged about the state of marketing today. However, if you watch the webinar through the end, you’re going to be excited about marketing’s potential for driving more revenue than ever before. MORE
Tweet I am especially looking forward to the next B2B Lead Roundtable webinar. You should be, too, if you’re eager to find out how you r peers are responding to today’s marketplace, and how this represents an unprecedented opportunity to drive the highest performance from your marketing efforts. MORE
Tweet A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to combine sales and marketing knowledge to improve lead generation. MORE
Are you normal? . As a business I mean. . If you’re running a B2B marketing agency do you really know how your firm performs relative to competitors? It’s tough to answer this question with confidence. After all, your competitors only share the legal minimum of information about performance. Information which is also usually opaque and outdated. . Despair not though. The 2011 B2B Marketing Agency League Table , compiled by B2B Marketing Magazine and Circle Research , fills in the gaps. . MORE
I don’t have much of a post today. I’m sleep-deprived from my newborn ‘s late-night party habits and juggling new projects, old projects and 2012 planning at work. But I do have a question for us all to consider: Are you telling or selling? MORE
Everyone uses a search engine! And yet, not everyone in marketing understands the difference between SEO, PPC, metatags and keywords. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click. MORE
Image by markhillary via Flickr. Celebrating at a funeral is in bad taste, so I’m sure the folks at B&N had to think carefully about to address the contacts they got from a recent acquisition of Borders customer data. MORE
Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. She is a pioneer in marketing automation—first as a beneficiary of the technology and now as an advocate and expert. Her first book, " The Rise of the Revenue Marketer ® ," will be published in 2012. MORE
An interesting post by SoftwareAdvice.com’s Derek Singleton— What Does Social Manufacturing Look Like? —noted the Dreamforce announcement of Salesforce.com’s support for Kenandy , a cloud-based manufacturing solution that incorporates the social tool, Chatter. MORE
With inbound marketing quickly gaining recognition as the most innovative and cost effective form of marketing for business, plenty of people have something to say on the subject. So we’ve carefully selected the best 30 quotes from the world’s greatest branding experts, marketing thinkers and creatives to save you time. Here’s what they have to say on the subject: Why the web takes the lead (and the leads). MORE
Why buyer behaviour has changed. “To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.” ” Brian Halligan , Co-Author of Inbound Marketing, Chief Executive Officer, Hubspot. “as you’ve noticed, people don’t want to be sold to. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.” MORE
Effective B2B marketing processes plus automation yield outsized returns. MORE
Marketing has changed drastically since I started almost 18 years ago. And if you speak to senior marketers and advertising agency heads they will generally agree that finding and keeping talented marketers is one of their toughest challenges. MORE
by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Phew! What a night. There were cheers, screams and “OMG-I-can’t-believe-it”s. Achieving finalists status for the Markie Awards is tough enough. Winning is especially special. MORE
Staying ahead is what business is all about. But how can a five step inbound marketing approach help you get - and stay - in front of your competitors? What’s actually involved with this innovative and proven approach to outflanking the competition? MORE
Image by markhillary via Flickr. Celebrating at a funeral is in bad taste, so I’m sure the folks at B&N had to think carefully about to address the contacts they got from a recent acquisition of Borders customer data. MORE
Know your customers. Positioning yourself as the solution to your customer’s needs is central to effective revenue performance management. To achieve this you need to understand your particular customer-base completely. This vital insight covers several key aspects: A specifically identified target market. An understanding of that market's prioritie s and levels of discretionary income. An understanding of that market's core values, wants, needs and desires. MORE
Every year I look forward to the amazing insights provided by Mary Meeker at the Web 2.0 Summit. Mary moved from Morgan Stanley to join the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. MORE
Ken Murray is a 30 year veteran of the Inside Sales space. He has designed and built inside sales campaigns for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His sales teams have sold over 168,000 products annually and produced north of 700 million dollars in annual sales. MORE
by Steven Woods | Tweet this There’s no doubt that social media has been a disruptive force on B2B marketing. Yet, many marketers struggle with how to use social media to go beyond awareness, to actually drive revenue. I’m here to tell you it’s not magic. MORE
Thou shalt not direct people to “Learn More.” ” “Learn more” is the worst possible call to action. It means absolutely nothing. Be specific, be tangible. What is it that you’re offering exactly? Thou shalt tell people What, Why, and How. MORE
My last post, What is Web Presence Optimization, and Why Should I Care? laid out the definition of and rationale for a web presence optimization (WPO) strategy. But what do the real-world results look like? MORE
Web presence optimization (WPO) is the art and science of being found online. As indicated in the masthead of my blog, it has both an explanational definition (The fusion of SEO, search marketing, social media, reputation management, content marketing and social PR) and a reasonal one (Being omnipresent on the web for the search phrase that uniquely describes you or your organization.) It’s the evolution of search engine optimization (SEO), or alternatively, SEO on steroids. MORE
B2B Lead Generation
OCTOBER 21, 2011
Tweet Warning: If you watch only the first few minutes of this webinar, you might get discouraged about the state of marketing today. However, if you watch the webinar through the end, you’re going to be excited about marketing’s potential for driving more revenue than ever before.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 27, 2011
Every year I look forward to the amazing insights provided by Mary Meeker at the Web 2.0 Summit. Mary moved from Morgan Stanley to join the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
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The Point
OCTOBER 12, 2011
Thou shalt not direct people to “Learn More.” ” “Learn more” is the worst possible call to action. It means absolutely nothing. Be specific, be tangible. What is it that you’re offering exactly? Thou shalt tell people What, Why, and How.
ViewPoint
OCTOBER 24, 2011
An interesting post by SoftwareAdvice.com’s Derek Singleton— What Does Social Manufacturing Look Like? —noted the Dreamforce announcement of Salesforce.com’s support for Kenandy , a cloud-based manufacturing solution that incorporates the social tool, Chatter.
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Data normalization. It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot. In this eBook, we’ll break down the ins and outs of data normalization and review why it’s so critical for your marketing strategies and goals!
Sales Lead Insights
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Effective B2B marketing processes plus automation yield outsized returns.
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B2B Lead Generation
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Tweet A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to combine sales and marketing knowledge to improve lead generation.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Everyone uses a search engine! And yet, not everyone in marketing understands the difference between SEO, PPC, metatags and keywords. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click.
Biznology
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Image by markhillary via Flickr. Celebrating at a funeral is in bad taste, so I’m sure the folks at B&N had to think carefully about to address the contacts they got from a recent acquisition of Borders customer data.
ViewPoint
OCTOBER 20, 2011
A good read I discovered recently is a post by Lauren Carlson, What Do You Wish You Had Asked Your MA Vendor? , on the Marketing Automation Software Guide blog.
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Webbiquity
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Web presence optimization (WPO) is the art and science of being found online. As indicated in the masthead of my blog, it has both an explanational definition (The fusion of SEO, search marketing, social media, reputation management, content marketing and social PR) and a reasonal one (Being omnipresent on the web for the search phrase that uniquely describes you or your organization.) It’s the evolution of search engine optimization (SEO), or alternatively, SEO on steroids.
Tomorrow People
OCTOBER 21, 2011
Why buyer behaviour has changed. “To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.” ” Brian Halligan , Co-Author of Inbound Marketing, Chief Executive Officer, Hubspot. “as you’ve noticed, people don’t want to be sold to. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.”
B2B Lead Generation
OCTOBER 12, 2011
Tweet I am especially looking forward to the next B2B Lead Roundtable webinar. You should be, too, if you’re eager to find out how you r peers are responding to today’s marketplace, and how this represents an unprecedented opportunity to drive the highest performance from your marketing efforts.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Marketing has changed drastically since I started almost 18 years ago. And if you speak to senior marketers and advertising agency heads they will generally agree that finding and keeping talented marketers is one of their toughest challenges.
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Biznology
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Image by markhillary via Flickr. Celebrating at a funeral is in bad taste, so I’m sure the folks at B&N had to think carefully about to address the contacts they got from a recent acquisition of Borders customer data.
ViewPoint
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Ken Murray is a 30 year veteran of the Inside Sales space. He has designed and built inside sales campaigns for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His sales teams have sold over 168,000 products annually and produced north of 700 million dollars in annual sales.
Savanta
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Are you normal? . As a business I mean. . If you’re running a B2B marketing agency do you really know how your firm performs relative to competitors? It’s tough to answer this question with confidence. After all, your competitors only share the legal minimum of information about performance. Information which is also usually opaque and outdated. . Despair not though. The 2011 B2B Marketing Agency League Table , compiled by B2B Marketing Magazine and Circle Research , fills in the gaps. .
Tomorrow People
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Know your customers. Positioning yourself as the solution to your customer’s needs is central to effective revenue performance management. To achieve this you need to understand your particular customer-base completely. This vital insight covers several key aspects: A specifically identified target market. An understanding of that market's prioritie s and levels of discretionary income. An understanding of that market's core values, wants, needs and desires.
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By using the power of intent data, capturing buyer interest has become more feasible for sales. Not only that, but using it will save immense time during your workflow; a win-win on all fronts.
Modern Marketing
OCTOBER 26, 2011
by Steven Woods | Tweet this There’s no doubt that social media has been a disruptive force on B2B marketing. Yet, many marketers struggle with how to use social media to go beyond awareness, to actually drive revenue. I’m here to tell you it’s not magic.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 18, 2011
I don’t have much of a post today. I’m sleep-deprived from my newborn ‘s late-night party habits and juggling new projects, old projects and 2012 planning at work. But I do have a question for us all to consider: Are you telling or selling?
Biznology
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Image via Wikipedia. Last week I asked my management team if what we do at Abraham Harrison is inbound marketing.
ViewPoint
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. She is a pioneer in marketing automation—first as a beneficiary of the technology and now as an advocate and expert. Her first book, " The Rise of the Revenue Marketer ® ," will be published in 2012.
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Webbiquity
OCTOBER 18, 2011
My last post, What is Web Presence Optimization, and Why Should I Care? laid out the definition of and rationale for a web presence optimization (WPO) strategy. But what do the real-world results look like?
Tomorrow People
OCTOBER 19, 2011
With inbound marketing quickly gaining recognition as the most innovative and cost effective form of marketing for business, plenty of people have something to say on the subject. So we’ve carefully selected the best 30 quotes from the world’s greatest branding experts, marketing thinkers and creatives to save you time. Here’s what they have to say on the subject: Why the web takes the lead (and the leads).
Modern Marketing
OCTOBER 21, 2011
by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Phew! What a night. There were cheers, screams and “OMG-I-can’t-believe-it”s. Achieving finalists status for the Markie Awards is tough enough. Winning is especially special.
Marketing Insider Group
OCTOBER 13, 2011
As CMOs go full-force into planning mode for their 2012 marketing strategy , a recent report suggests that they are ill-prepared for the changes taking place in the larger business world. This is according to the Global Chief Marketing Officer survey from IBM.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns. And to begin the targeting process, marketing teams must develop an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) with appropriate firmographic and behavioral data to ensure they’re going after the correct audience.Download this eBook to learn how to start improving your marketing team's data!
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