Sat.Aug 21, 2010 - Fri.Aug 27, 2010

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Could AT&T kill the iPhone Brand?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

According to a study conducted by Gartner , the first quarter of 2010 witnessed a whopping 707 percent increase in Android sales. As a result, the sales of the Google Android OS-based smartphones have surpassed the sales of the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handsets around the world. And this month I saw a stat that said the sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, that they have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record and it got me thinking.

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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

Everything Technology Marketing

Marketing segmentation is about subdividing markets into segments of customers that have similar needs and behaviors. This way, vendors can optimize their product offering, marketing, and sales approach to meet the specific requirements of the segment better and more cost efficiently than the competition. But the craft of identifying and selecting the right segments is too often rushed and under-appreciated.

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Lead Scoring Has Drastically Changed – How do You Measure up?

Anything Goes Marketing

With my son Matthew turning one this week, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic. I dug up and started contributing to a personal online journal that I hadn’t touched since 2004, reviewed pictures from past trips with my wife, and reflected on memories that I’ve had in my first year as a dad. Taking a look back and reliving great times in your life provides perspective and helps explain how things have.

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DataMentors Offers Low-Cost Marketing Database

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: DataMentors has launched a low-cost marketing database product with limited functionality. It's an interesting test of what marketers really want. Marketing database software and service vendor DataMentors last week tossed its hat into the ever-more-crowded ring of marketing automation for small(ish) businesses. The new product, DataPoint, is a limited version of the company’s flagship PinPoint system.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

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.

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How should B2B content differ for Business and Technical Decision Maker?

Ambal's Amusings

B2B Marketing Content falls under 2 broad category - 1. Content addressed to a Technical Decision Maker 2. Content addressed to a Business Decision Maker. We asked B2B Marketing Experts the following question - "How should content that is addressed to a Technical Decision Maker be different from content that is addressed to a Business Decision Maker?

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Mental Skills Make Better Content Writers

Writing on the Web

Content marketing, even with a strategy and a plan , has a lot of decision points along the way. It’s easier with a map and a system, but there’s still a million choices that need to be made. How do you decide what to write about? You’re a busy professional, you have a lot to say, you read a lot, you think a lot. You probably work with a lot of clients and they have problems that you try to help them solve.

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The Ultimate Social Media Information Destination: Social Media Informer Launches

Webbiquity

Want to stay up-to-date on the latest social media news and thought-leadership commentary without visiting a gazillion different sites, relying on an RSS feed (or someone else’s filter) that inevitably misses important news, or following aggregation sites that regurgitate the same over-exposed content from a handful of popular sites? Now you can, at Social Media Informer , a social media content hub launched today.

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Content Marketing: Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device

Ambal's Amusings

In the new world marketing, Russell Sparkman, of Fusionspark Media , urges us to use transmedia storytelling. We asked Russell Sparkman "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" Russell Sparkman of Fusionspark Media is a veteran New Media marketing communications producer & consultant, having produced content marketing projects for the web since 1999.

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Tweet Chats: Organized Chaos or Untapped Marketing Opportunity

Marketing Insider Group

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 24, 2010 3 Subscribe Tweet Chats: Organized Chaos or Untapped Marketing Opportunity Share While tweet chats can appear to be organized chaos from an outsider’s perspective, they are a fantastic way to enhance your experiences on Twitter by connecting and sharing with other

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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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Content Marketing Tips from Computer Games

Writing on the Web

What can we learn from online computer games about content marketing for business? A lot, apparently. If you write content designed to trigger action in readers, pay attention to this. My husband, Attila the Honey , plays World of Warcraft , an online game that’s part of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry. If you think computer games are just for kids or young people with too much time, think again.

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A Hodgepodge of eMarketing enhancement tips

NuSpark Consulting

I thought it would be a good idea to summarize a few tips and tricks that can help optimize eMarketing performance or enhance tactics. I preach optimizing the “micro&# elements of an entire eMarketing strategy. These are just little items, but nevertheless can be helpful in your strategy. So here we go: Pay-Per-Click. Geotargeting: If you’re geotargeting a certain area of a market, I encourage local advertisers to also test a new campaign targeting the … [ visit site to read mo

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What Lead Nurturing Content to Send When?

LeadSloth

On Thursday I’m presenting a webinar with Treehouse Interactive , called “Lead Nurturing 101″ One of the registrants sent me the following question: How much of this webinar will be about content, i.e. exactly what to say in each subsequent email in a series designed to move someone from prospect stage to buying stage? The webinar will only cover this briefly, so therefore I’m giving some more details this blog post.

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Why Marketing Content is Key to Getting Found Online

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. The major search engines are placing more emphasis on content, not so much on tricks and behind-the-scene tactics, to rank web sites higher for keyword searches. Let’s say you are a metal-stamping company, and your prospective customers are searching for “flat springs.” It’s all well and good to have text, meta tags and even photos with alt tags about flat springs on your web site, but it’s even better if you have written a blog entry, produced a video, sent

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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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Blogger’s Block Strikes Blog Squad…Blogger Bites Back

Writing on the Web

Grrrrr… I’m going nuts. This hasn’t happened in a long time. I’ve been sitting at the computer for the last 2-3 hours wondering what to write about. I’m the gal who says blogging is easy, 1-2-3, done in 20 minutes. I admit lately it’s been taking me more than hour to post. Some days longer. And I call myself The Blog Squad…I’ve even got a great little package you can have called Time Saving Tips for Smart Bloggers , audio, transcript, PDF handouts.

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A Hodgepodge of eMarketing enhancement tips

NuSpark Consulting

I thought it would be a good idea to summarize a few tips and tricks that can help optimize eMarketing performance or enhance tactics. I preach optimizing the “micro&# elements of an entire eMarketing strategy. These are just little items, but nevertheless can be helpful in your strategy. So here we go: Pay-Per-Click. Geotargeting: If you’re geotargeting a certain area of a market, I encourage local advertisers to also test a new campaign targeting the … [ visit site to read mo

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Social Media & Marketing Automation

LeadSloth

This week there was a discussion about Social Media and Marketing Automation in the LinkedIn Group of the Marketing Automation Association. Around the same time I got an email announcing Marketo’s Chatter for Sales Insight , integrating sales notifications in the Facebook-like interface of Salesforce.com Chatter. Then I remembered that Pardot also recently announced new social features, called Pardot Social Insight.

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Top 5 Reasons to Re-Do Your Legacy Website

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. This week I talked to two different organizations whose top managers have a serious difference of opinion. On one side, some of the managers cannot believe their colleagues would allow an outdated, un-optimized-for-search-engines website represent the organization to prospects and customers! The other side doesn’t believe they will ever get qualified leads online and just don’t see any need whatsoever to update the website, let alone optimize it for the search engines.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Ghost Blogging for Executive Coaches

Writing on the Web

If you’re a busy professional, you know how hard it is to run your business and provide quality services to clients, and have enough time to take care of your online marketing and publishing tasks. You may be a thought leader in your field, but if you’re not publishing content on the Web, you’re not going to get found, get known, and get clients.

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Millennials: Coming Soon to a Cubicle Near You

Paul Gillin

This weekend I’ll pack my daughter off to college, so as a little celebration, I took her and a friend to a Six Flags amusement park this week. As we drove west on the Massachusetts Turnpike, I took the opportunity to eavesdrop on the conversation in the back seat, affording me one of my too-rare glimpses into the world of Millennials. During the 75-minute drive, I listened to the girls talk excitedly about the people they would soon meet in person for the first time.

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Finding Untapped Revenue in Your Marketing Database

LeadSloth

It’s sort-of like living on top of a goldmine, but you have to dig to get to the gold. Lead Nurturing takes a lot of effort, but it’ll pay itself back ten times over. With a solid nurturing strategy you’ll find new sales opportunities from leads who you thought were not interested. But how do you create a solid lead nurturing plan?

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Top 10 Social Media Questions Businesses Have

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. B2B marketers are adopting social media, but they have a lot of questions about it! In a recent blog post, Paul Dunay referenced Jeff Bullas ‘ blog on B2B social media statistics. The stats referenced on Bullas’ blog are from an Ernst Agency video – including one that says 81% of B2B marketers have social media accounts compared to 67% of B2C marketers !

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Content with Intent: Re-Create Yourself

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. by Frank Reed. The Internet helps companies and individuals do many things, not the least of which is the ability to re-create yourself. You may ask why in the world this is important and what's the connection to content, which is fine. One thing I am learning more and more quickly every day is that EVERYTHING is related to content, whether it's business or personal.

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The Ghost Blogging Debate Done Right

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Ghost Blogging Debate Done Right If there is a discussion that will never die is the Ghost Blogging debate. I recently listened to the best arguments both in favor and in opposition of ghost blogging via a Six Pixels of Separation podcast, expertly conducted by Mitch Joel who discussed the issue with Mark W.

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MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit

LeadSloth

San Francisco: October 4-5 / Boston: October 25-26. Just like last year, I will be a blogging partner for MarketingSherpa's B2B Marketing Summit. Again, they have created a great program for B2B Marketers, covering both lead generation and lead nurturing strategies. What is nice about this summit is that most speakers are marketing practitioners, not vendors.

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Please Help Me Support Make-A-Wish Foundation | Convince & Convert.

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Please Help Me Support Make-A-Wish Foundation August 24th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet I need your help please.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Content with Intent: Entertain Your Audience

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. by Frank Reed. OK, I am about to share a very well-kept secret. There will be many people that will be angry with me that I have decided to share this with the world at large. (Well, at least our readers but who's counting?) I risk being ostracized by just about everyone when I reveal the following: Business can be very boring. Wow!

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6 Rules for Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketers are working hard to create great content that can be used to create sales leads , drive website traffic, promote brand, and educate customers and prospects. Unfortunately, not all content is created equal. To ensure you get the most out of your content marketing efforts, you must follow these six rules: It is not promotional – promotional materials will neither excite nor inspire, both critical com­ponents of content marketing.

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NuSpark Consulting

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