markempa
MAY 6, 2012
Tweet To successfully ride the winds of change, emphasize the positive: Look at what your customers value most about you, and make that the focus of your marketing communications. This approach enabled Celarity , a marketing and creative services staffing and recruiting firm, to double the number of candidates it places and increase revenue by more than 35% over the past two years.
Tomorrow People
MAY 10, 2012
Using content to market your business? Want your content to create results and help boost your company’s performance? Here are three copywriting tips you’ll want to know: 1. Insight creates better content. It’s tempting to ask your copywriter to quickly create content to fill that gap on your website or your blog. But this creates content with a limited shelf life and low commercial value.
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KoMarketing Associates
MAY 11, 2012
Earlier this week, Seth Godin wrote a catchy blog post about how to make money online. While there were several worthy points to remember, one that struck out to me was, “ Hang out with people who aren’t looking for shortcuts. Learn from them. “ SEO is filled with the notion that there are shortcuts. When I first started SEO consulting it felt like the reason a large percentage of companies were interested in SEO was because they believed it was a shortcut to online marketing s
Writing on the Web
MAY 11, 2012
Don’t Be a Pinterest Pinhead. 5 etiquette tips for pinning on the world’s favorite social pinboard. It’s true that Pinterest is fun—designed to be a simple, beautiful way to pin all your favorite ideas, products and places on the Web —but it’s also true that it’s powerful. With a registered user base that includes over 10 million and grows every day, Pinterest represents great potential for influence.
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.
Webbiquity
MAY 8, 2012
Guest post by Hernán Gonzalez. Experienced marketers understand added benefits are what make a sale and features are what provide value. That meant that campaigns with lots of bells and whistles were assumed to be more productive. Each accent added to a brand’s “wow” factor and more updates meant more sales would soon follow. However, the creation of modern day analytics tools has changed the marketing environment from hopeful anticipation to anxiety.
B2B Marketing Zone brings together the best content for marketers in the B2B industry from the widest variety of thought leaders.
ViewPoint
MAY 10, 2012
Today's PowerViews guest is Christopher Hosford. Christopher is an award-winning business writer and editor based in New York City. He is East Coast Bureau Chief for BtoB Magazine. He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Magazine, Multi-Housing News and Hospitality Design.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
MAY 9, 2012
Let’s be clear. Most people who write on social media outlets don’t do so just for the sake of doing it. Some might, but the vast majority of people who share content, post comments, or offer sentiments and opinions online do so because they are in what Andrew Jeavons of Survey Analytics calls “the point of emotion.” In other words, they are emotionally invested in the product, service or experience about which they are opining.
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 10, 2012
As promised, here is the second infographic addition to my 8 great marketing infographics to inspire you in 2012. The first one, 18 Stats on the Mobile Market You Need To Know , was posted earlier this week and hopefully caused you to consider your mobile strategy. This next one is called “ The Inbound Marketing Process Infographic.” It comes from Impact Brand and Design and includes 6 steps to inbound marketing success.
Tomorrow People
MAY 8, 2012
SEO copywriting is popular right now. No wonder, when you consider the impact of targeted content on search engine rankings and the growing value of well crafted content in general. But there is something wrong with SEO copywriting. Something that stops many companies from gaining the kinds of results they want from their SEO. Here’s what it is: The mystery of the missing strategy.
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker
Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.
ANNUITAS
MAY 8, 2012
According to a 2011 study by MarketingSherpa , 74% of B2B marketers stated that their biggest challenge was generating high quality leads. The next biggest challenge was a distant second: 49% cited “generating a high volume of leads”. One of the reasons that generating high quality leads continues to present itself as the top challenge (it took #1 honors in 2010 as well) is that marketers are focusing on the wrong thing – lead generation.
B2B Memes
MAY 9, 2012
What’s the way forward for journalists? Doubling down on the traditional ideals of objectivity and impartiality? Embracing the subjective, personality-driven approach of social media? Or is there some uncertain, ill-defined middle way? Those are some of the questions being raised recently by a number of new-media observers, most notably GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram , who’s lately been rolling out one must-read blog post after another.
Biznology
MAY 8, 2012
They always say that the parents who put in all the boring, taken-for-granted time are the very best. That it’s not even about quality time, it’s about persistent time, time spent. I don’t want to compare parenting to social media community development and management but I guess I just did. Folks tend to have the zeal of the newly-converted when they first adopt social media into their communications, sales, and marketing plan; however, the truth of being a “parent”
Digital B2B Marketing
MAY 7, 2012
View original on Pinterest You are ready for social media. You have staff, tools and resources. You have a clear strategy, well-defined goals and an execution plan. You have executive support. But how long will it last? How long will you have the resources and support you need? Your social media program needs time. The old-fashioned time that is measured on a calendar, not in staff hours.
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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.
The Point
MAY 8, 2012
An effective landing page does two things, I would argue: 1) it validates the viewer’s decision to click on whatever ad it was that led him or her to the page in the first place, and 2) it closes the deal. The amount of copy that it takes to accomplish these tasks: make the reader feel good about the decision to respond, and drive him or her to complete the required form, varies widely.
WriteSpark
MAY 8, 2012
What can a catalog about sewing threads teach a technology marketer about writing effective sales content? A lot about missed opportunities for engaging prospects and motivating them to make a purchase. I create art quilts as a hobby and at a recent trade show I eagerly picked up a catalog from a well-regarded specialty thread manufacturer. With hundreds of threads on the market, I was looking for detailed guidance about the qualities of each thread, its best application in terms of projects and
Biznology
MAY 7, 2012
Panda (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Post Panda (Google’s one-year-old revolutionary search ranking algorithm that has upended old-style SEO), optimizing individual pages is more difficult and less effective than it was before Panda. Google now pays more attention to overall site cleanliness and architecture. And duplicate content is ever more problematic.
NuSpark Consulting
MAY 5, 2012
Hi, It’s Paul Mosenson, President of NuSpark Marketing. I welcome a guest post from our chief SEO tactician, Elizabeth Donkus. You’ll find this interesting. Most SEO people aren’t marketers. They may be great technicians, but we need help when it comes to writing compelling content that drives leads. I am NuSpark Marketing’s chief SEO strategist, but I rely on the NuSpark content team to review my content recommendations and implement content within the SEO framework.
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In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.
ViewPoint
MAY 10, 2012
Today's PowerViews guest is Christopher Hosford. Chris is an award-winning business writer and editor based in New York City. He is East Coast Bureau Chief for BtoB Magazine. He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Magazine, Multi-Housing News and Hospitality Design. Chris has served as editor-in-chief or senior editor with Meeting News, Corporate & Incentive Travel, and Life Extension.
Tomorrow People
MAY 6, 2012
Guest Blogger. I'd like to welcome Kate Wilsson who will be a contributor to our blog.
Biznology
MAY 10, 2012
Photo credit: Wikipedia. The concern we hear most frequently from clients just getting started with content marketing is some variation on “What the heck am I going to write about?” So let’s start off talking about what kind of content you can and should be generating. Before long, you’ll be able to identify what you are uniquely suited to write about–and your audience will likely respond.
Convince & Convert
MAY 8, 2012
Jessica Malnik is a PR/marketing coordinator, social media specialist, videographer and an avid blogger. Visit her blog for social media, technology, public relations and marketing ramblings. What are the defining characteristics of a community? It’s a topic I’ve been pondering more and more lately. Is it about geography, common interests, socio-economic similarities, or similar viewpoints?
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WriteSpark
MAY 8, 2012
What can a catalog about sewing threads teach a technology marketer about writing effective sales content? A lot about missed opportunities for engaging prospects and motivating them to make a purchase. I create art quilts as a hobby and at a recent trade show I eagerly picked up a catalog from a well-regarded specialty thread manufacturer. With hundreds of threads on the market, I was looking for detailed guidance about the qualities of each thread, its best application in terms of projects and
B2B Marketing Traction
MAY 11, 2012
I’ve never been much of a believer in focus groups for market research. They are expensive and, like some, I believe that focus group dynamics lead to group think, which may not amount to true customer response. Now with research being done in neuroscience and the emerging practice of neuromarketing, there is more thought that focus groups are not effective.
Biznology
MAY 11, 2012
Photo credit: Wikipedia. If you try to keep up with the Internet and social media marketing industry throughout the week, you already know that there is too much information for people to ingest let alone digest (that is unless you don’t have a job or a family or hobbies or a life in general). People like to talk about signal to noise ratios which sounds really cool but if you would like to hear it in layman’s terms I’ll spell it out for you.
Convince & Convert
MAY 5, 2012
Do you sell advertising on your website? No? Then why are you so excited about your website traffic? Late in the third quarter it's Pinterest 17, Facebook 13. The most overrated social media metric is traffic from social outposts. This blog post is symptomatic of this problem, although there have been hundreds (thousands?) like it. Here’s the highlight: With only 1% of Facebook’s user count, Pinterest sends 13% of the traffic that Facebook does.
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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
Ambal's Amusings
MAY 10, 2012
Content Marketing Showcase Series # 5 My Starbucks Idea. Name: My Starbucks Idea. sap. Normal. sap. 1. 1. 2012-05-10T02:27:00Z. 2012-05-10T02:28:00Z. 1. 131. 753. personal. 6. 1. 883. 10.2625. Clean. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui>. Name : My Starbucks Idea. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, based in Seattle , Washington.
B2B Marketing Traction
MAY 9, 2012
About to jump off and launch a new product or service? You should “look before you leap,” and do some market research. Business to consumer (B2C) companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on market research before they brand and launch new products. Business to business marketers should do the same. You don’ t have to spend that much or take months or a year in research.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MAY 9, 2012
by Rajiv Kapoor Lead lifecycle refers to how we manage the life of a lead (or contact or prospect depending on your terminology) from the moment it shows up in the system to deal close. The lead lifecycle defines where a lead can live, how a lead moves along, and what we do with a lead at each stage. Companies typically use a lead lifecycle model for two primary reasons: 1) Preventing sales leads (and potential sales leads ) from falling through the cracks. 2) Reporting on conversion rates throu
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