August, 2011

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Build Backlinks – 14 Easy Ways

Convince & Convert

Google optimization is based on the premise that the more people that like to your website, the more valuable it must be and the higher ranking it deserves in search results. And almost two decades since it was devised, beneath the sophisticated mathematics, the hordes of MIT grads swallowed into the research and development department, and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue lies a simple principle: Google optimization works.

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Fresh Ideas to Reignite Stalled Leads and Accelerate the Sales Funnel

markempa

Tweet Longer selling cycles and stalled deals are impeding sales funnels everywhere. Use these three practices to convert more leads into revenue: Use Funnel-Specific Market Research. If you really want to understand what’s happening with customers at a particular point in your funnel, then you have to ask them while the last interaction with you is relatively fresh in their minds.

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Insights from Eloqua's IPO Registration Statement

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Eloqua's registration statement offers new and interesting details about its business. My analysis is below. Hopefully it's accurate -- I think that SEC rules prevent them from commenting if it's not. Eloqua last week filed for an initial public offering of its stock. The registration statements accompanying these filings are like a striptease: often more interesting for what they hide than what they reveal.

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Dealing with the New Customer Acquisition Challenge

ViewPoint

Jim Dickie is the Managing Partner with CSO Insights ; a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. CSO Insights recently completed our 7 th annual Lead Management Optimization study , gathering data on over 65 metrics from over 600 companies.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Death by Content: How Press Release Abuse Killed Public Relations

Marketing Craftmanship

Self-serving Press Release Content Has Killed PR. The origins of the press release are unclear, but in the not too distant past, this communication tool was called a “News Release.” And its sole purpose was to provide the press with information likely to be of interest to the public; containing what journalists still call “news value.”. Prior to popularization of fax machines in the 1980s, news releases were delivered by human messengers to major wire services such as AP, UPI and Dow Jones, whic

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5 Reasons Social Media Measurement is Making You Lie to Yourself

Convince & Convert

Social media measurement causes unsavory (and ineffective) marketing behavior because unlike the rest of our marketing key performance indicators, social media metrics are out there for anyone to see. Was it a surprise last week when Presidential wannabe Newt Gingrich was (allegedly) busted for having 1.3 million followers on Twitter, most of which were bots and fake accounts ?

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Get on the fast track to meet, exceed end-of-year goals

markempa

Tweet The graph at right, published in MarketingSherpa’s 2011 Benchmark Report , provides a snapshot of what marketers care about most. And it’s very telling, especially now. As we approach the fourth quarter, I am acutely aware of why marketers believe generating better leads is a higher priority than generating more leads. In an economy that’s more precarious than ever, there’s simply no room to waste time, budget or resources.

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Affiliate Summit East: How to Stand Out in a Crowded Market

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent several hours this morning at the Affiliate Summit East in New York. This is a corner of the direct marketing industry I haven't examined in depth although it overlaps with lead generation, online advertising, and performance measurement segments I know well. The exhibit hall was enticingly crammed with unfamiliar vendors, although I saw enough to identify a few general categories: offer aggregators who bring together products for affiliates to sell; network providers who assemble audien

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4 Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation

ViewPoint

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. To learn more about The Annuitas Group and their proprietary methodology, the Lead Management Framework™ , go to [link]. Well, we’re in the dog days of August. For many, the planning for 2012 starts next month, right after Labor Day.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Is It Reach and Engage or Listen and Engage?

Tony Zambito

Cover via Amazon. I have been thinking about this question for some time.  I have been thinking that there is something wrong with all the titles I see that begin with Reach and Engage for numerous articles and blog posts.  To me at least, it seems that in the social age the terms Reach and Engage cancel each other out.  One can make an educated argument that reach belongs in the push column of marketing.  Whereby engage can be placed in the pull column.

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Four Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation

ANNUITAS

Well, we’re in the dog days of August. However, for many B2B marketers, 2012 planning is right around the corner and usually starts right after Labor Day. And for many of you, one of your goals will be to finally implement a marketing automation tool. Unfortunately, too many marketers begin this process with the question, “Which automation tools should we look at?

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Nobody Said Social Media Should Be Simple

Convince & Convert

Simple isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Social media is unique in that it is the only medium yet conceived where companies are playing in the exact same sandbox as we’re playing personally. Your employees and customers aren’t making TV ads on the weekend. Nor are they making their own magazine ads for fun at night, while watching Real Housewives of Omaha (a new show where everyone is sensible and nobody wears makeup).

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Do You Expect Your Inside Sales Team to Practice Alchemy?

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Tweet Too many marketers think that their inside sales teams are alchemists. They dump data that’s absolute garbage into the top of the sales funnel and expect sales lead gold to come out the other side. This came to mind when my teleprospecting team was struggling with one of our lead-generation clients. They had promised us a “high-quality list” from their database: tens of thousands of names of c-suite executives who were in their target-market sweet spot.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Can CRM Add-Ons Replace Marketing Automation?

Customer Experience Matrix

I’ve long believed that B2B marketing automation is just a passing phase: that, ultimately, B2B marketing automation systems will be absorbed into CRM systems instead of operating independently. It’s a view I discuss sparingly in public, since so many of my friends in the marketing automation industry have a vested interest to the contrary. But there are also a few vendors who have bet in favor of merged systems, so it wouldn’t be fair to ignore their view entirely.

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Improve Sales Performance with 3 “Art of Sales Management” Functions

ViewPoint

This article has been selected for DeFinis Communications’ “Sales Coaching: Top Tips for Increased Productivity” Blog Carnival. You can enjoy even more posts from other exceptional bloggers at their website. Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three.

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The Importance of Woozles in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

Woozle's live in the hearts and minds of Pooh and his friends. And most importantly, woozle's change behavior in the Hundred Acre Wood. Like woozles, your brand lives in the hearts and minds of your audience. It impacts deals, but you can't create it today in the traditional ways.

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The Annuitas Group and Harte-Hanks Announce Strategic Alliance

ANNUITAS

The Annuitas Group and Harte-Hanks Announce Strategic Alliance. Relationship expands end-to-end demand generation and lead management service offerings for clients. Grand Rapids, MI – August 30, 2011 – The Annuitas Group, an expert provider of lead management process services, today announced that it has formalized an alliance with Harte-Hanks, Inc.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Don’t Be a Content Marketing Grinch

Convince & Convert

This is the first of what I hope will be a regular series of Webinines: short Webinars of 9 minutes or fewer. Because it’s seemingly 150 degrees throughout most of the country, I went with a cool weather holiday theme on this one. Your Content Should Be Centralized and Decentralized. The default state for most content marketing initiatives is to focus on content that we OWN, that resides on web properties we control.

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The Biggest Challenge in Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

I am bummed that I will not be able to attend Content Marketing World next week, so I’ve been reading all the great content coming out from the amazing team over at the Content Marketing Institute. If you missed the posts, some of my favorites include an overview of the technology that excites the speakers , their 12 Content Marketing Predictions For 2010 , and my favorite one is where Content Marketers Reveal Their Toughest Challenges.

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CRM Evolution Conference: Social CRM Takes Center Stage

Customer Experience Matrix

I caught an all-star panel on social CRM today at the CRMEvolution conference in New York. Up on the dais were Jim Berkowitz of CRM Mastery, Esteban Kolsky of ThinkJar, Brent Leary of CRM Essentials, Ray Want of Constellation Group, and Denis Pombriant of Beagle Research Group. You won’t find a more distinguished set of gurus, and moderator Berkowitz asked appropriately incisive questions.

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Generating Qualified Leads is Number One Issue for New Members of the SLMA

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. From a recent survey of new members to the Sales Lead Management Association, we found that generating qualified leads is the biggest issue facing the new members. More than just new inquiries, or managing inquiries or working with sales management on follow-up or even proving ROI, qualified leads are king.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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7 Blog Writing Steps BEFORE You Check for Keywords

Writing on the Web

This is a little story I share with new blogging clients who get hung up about keywords. One client in particular (let’s call him Ted) had written about 10 blog posts which were saved as drafts because he was worried about keywords. Let me say that there’s a learning curve involved in writing for your blog, and there’s no way around it.

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The Importance of Woozles in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

The role of brand in enterprise B2B marketing can be a subject of debate (my friend Maureen Blandford even wrote a book “ Branding Doesn’t Work in B2B “). With complex buying processes, multiple stakeholders, and a high touch sales process, how important is a brand? And what does that have to do with a woozle? Woozle’s live in the hearts and minds of Pooh and his friends.

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Content Curation – 5 Ways to Succeed…Eventually

Convince & Convert

Content curation is the art and science of finding and sharing quality content on a specific topic. Curation helps you build an audience. You then have a larger group of people with whom to share your own content, and who can spread the word. Many among the Twitterati have built their followings in large part through content curation. Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer publicly states his Twitter strategy is “find good shit and share it.

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B2B Marketers: It’s Time to Buy a Vowel

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. Now is the time for B2B Marketers to invest small amounts in marketing programs - by doing research to find new or validate existing market opportunities, confirming or updating marketing messaging, or identifying new marketing technologies and media that might offer better or more cost-effective results. I read a great HBR blog post by Stephen Wunker, Five Rules for Innovating in a Shaky Economy.

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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Review: Six Small Business CMS and Web Marketing Systems

Webbiquity

What’s the best web content management system (CMS) for your small business? Should you look at something beyond a CMS—a web marketing system (WMS), that provides additional functions like customer relationship management (CRM) and email? There’s no shortage of options, and the decision is an important one: you’ll be “married&# to the platform you choose for as long as your current site is up.

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SEO and Content Marketing Work Together

NuSpark Consulting

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the unique mix of art and science with the ultimate goal to showcase your firm on Google’s first page when users query a term that your firm provides as an answer to that query. However, from a lead generation standpoint, the mechanisms of lead capture for SEO are different from pay per click. Here’s the difference: Tactic Theme Destination Key.

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MarketingProfs Blog – Lessons from Bono

ANNUITAS

My younger brother once had the rare opportunity to spend time with Bono, the lead singer for the Irish rock band U2. Bono seemed genuinely interested and to quote my brother, “He didn’t break eye contact and his demeanor showed that he was genuinely interested in learning about me.”. The same dynamic applies in the buyer and seller world. I often find it ironic when buyers are shocked when a seller seems genuinely interested in them.

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