Marketing Insider Group

MAY 19, 2014

Oops. I forgot! On October 9, 1999 I married the love of my life. The following day we were whisked off to beautiful Hawaii for an amazing honeymoon trip we still talk about now almost 15 years ago. 2 days into our trip, I was videotaping the sunset and noticed on the date stamp on the old camcorder screen that it was October 12 th – OMG I forgot it was my birthday! How could I forget my own birthday? Thankfully, it was mine and not my wife’s!). But it’s easy to see how this happened.

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Oracle

MAY 20, 2014

by Amanda Batista | Tweet this Video marketing: You know you need it. Your audiences love it. But for many marketing organizations it’s difficult to strategize. And even when you do create cool brand videos loved by your team and audiences alike, you want to make sure that you can understand the video’s performance. After all, you’re data driven!). Metrics! These are pesky words that often seem to crush video marketing dreams.

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The Forward Observer

MAY 19, 2014

Artillery B2B Marketing Blog > The Forward Observer Are you faltering at the goal line when it comes to closing sales qualified leads? The B2B sales lead game has changed. Here''s how you can score big. Anyone who has been in a sales situation is familiar with this situation. It’s the sure thing. It’s first and goal. You’re about to score. The prospect says they love what you’re offering, they have a budget and plan to move ahead. They just need to “think it over.”.

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B2B Lead Generation

MAY 19, 2014

Tweet At MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2014, we added a new feature, the Media Center, where MarketingSherpa Reporter Allison Banko was able get behind-the-scenes interviews with presenters, attendees and event vendors.

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Speaker: Matthew Hawk, President of B2bTrainers

The term “sales enablement” applies to a dizzying array of best practices and technologies. In addition, there is tremendous competitive pressure not to fall behind. No matter where you are in your current sales enablement strategy, one thing is key: success ultimately rides on the habits of your sales managers & marketers. In this webinar, Matthew Hawk will lay out an in-depth schematic for your next-level sales coaching, demonstrate the key activities that comprise success, and walk you through several examples of sales coaching cadences that apply to all salesforce sizes.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 21, 2014

I have been to a lot of events. I’ve been to conferences and tradeshows and expositions. I have experienced events as an attendee, an exhibitor and been honored to attend many events as a speaker. From all that experience I have found there is one mistake so many conferences make that limits their potential more than any other: planning your event as happening in a limited space and time.

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Writing on the Web

MAY 22, 2014

Content marketing through blogging is like playing tennis. You get results through consistency, practice and persistence. Is your blog like my tennis, a hit or a miss? Are you writing posts that are clear winners for your readers? Are you serving quality, relevant content within the lines of your readers’ needs? As I mentioned in my previous post , I recently returned from tennis camp in Texas. It was great: I played good tennis, and all the players that were there were good.

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Crimson Marketing

MAY 21, 2014

With more than 1.5 billion smartphones in use around the globe and content consumption on smartphones increasing at a breathtaking pace, opportunities are fast emerging for brands to engage buyers more. The post Shrikant Latkar, InMobi’s Marketing VP: How To Stay Relevant In The Mobile Era [Podcast] appeared first on. Digital Marketing Podcasts

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Biznology

MAY 20, 2014

BuzzFeed released an internal memo from the New York Times titled “Innovation” (you can read it in full and in color on Scribd ). I have done a cursory read and have come up with a number of quick takeaways for you that you can start implementing today: Digital first, traditional optional – while digital is not as fire-and-forget as story-writing is, it’s entirely more sticky.

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Oracle

MAY 22, 2014

by Contributor Friendly | Tweet this Editor's Note: Today's post comes courtesy of Jennifer Igartua , Marketing Automation Consultant at Bluewolf, an agile business consulting firm. She focuses on the implementation and ongoing innovation of marketing automation tools, and their integration with CRM solutions. Through the optimization of marketing technologies and processes, she helps her clients better understand and engage their customers. Follow Jen on Twitter @Jenny_Iggy.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2014

Any industrial content marketing strategy that is based on “one size fits all” content is likely to fail. That statement may seem like an overgeneralization but I have seen it happen one too many times to ignore. Sure, there are many common types of content assets used by manufacturers and industrial companies but how they [.] The post Industrial Content Marketing — Different Strokes for Different Folks by Achinta Mitra appeared first on Industrial Marketing Today.

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The Point

MAY 20, 2014

I wrote recently in this space about the decisions that today’s B2B email marketers are facing as they strive to ensure that their campaigns are optimized for an increasingly mobile audience. The Webinar invitation below from Janrain , a software company in Portland, Oregon, illustrates some of the perils inherent in those choices.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 22, 2014

Being able to reach and interact with your audience anywhere and at any time via mobile apps can be a huge tactical advantage for any company (Apple alone reported more than 10 billion dollars in mobile app sales for 2013). The issue, however, is that there are currently one million other mobile applications vying for user attention. Mobile application stores from the two big players, Apple and Google, are cluttered with apps from a wide variety of categories.

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Biznology

MAY 22, 2014

How do you check written content for plagiarism? At some point, every serious webmaster asks this question, and you should too. Plagiarism can hurt website rankings in a big way, not to mention your reputation and your pocket. It can also land you in hot water with the law. The legal repercussions for copyright infringement can be surprisingly severe. Plagiarizers depend on the vast and anonymous nature of the Internet to conceal their unscrupulous deeds.

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Speaker: Christopher Ryan, Founder and CEO of Fusion Marketing Partners

Sales & Marketing departments that work together guarantee higher acquisition, better nurturing, and more effective sales. Join Christopher Ryan for this insightful webinar, presenting the wide funnel lead nurturing model. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get your teams working together and your revenue performance optimized.

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Oracle

MAY 22, 2014

by Contributor Friendly | Tweet this Editor's Note: Today's post comes courtesy of Jennifer Igartua , Marketing Automation Consultant at Bluewolf, an agile business consulting firm. She focuses on the implementation and ongoing innovation of marketing automation tools, and their integration with CRM solutions. Through the optimization of marketing technologies and processes, she helps her clients better understand and engage their customers. Follow Jen on Twitter @Jenny_Iggy.

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Crimson Marketing

MAY 23, 2014

Shouldn’t your beer be happy to see you? BADMarketing Image: Courtesy of PSPrint. The post #BADMarketing from Ursus appeared first on. BADMarketing

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DiscoverOrg

MAY 21, 2014

These best practices are important to any and all organizations utilizing outbound email marketing for lead generation. Over the years, marketers have amassed a plethora of knowledge surrounding email deliverability. Your email marketing strategy cannot afford to ignore the laws, guidelines and best practices surrounding this topic.

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2014

59% of marketers agree SEO has the biggest effect on lead generation. 22% say social media. 20% say pay per click (source: SiteProNews ). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is is the process of getting website traffic from “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” listings on search engines. Social Media Marketing refers to the process of gaining website traffic or attention on social media sites in the same way. In both cases, traffic comes from earned media as opposed to paid media.

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Speaker: Jay McBain, Principal Analyst – Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems

We are in the middle of a major transformation of how companies go to market – in fact, 76% of global CEOs feel that their current business models will be unrecognizable in the next 3 years. Join Jay McBain from Forrester as he unpacks these future trends.

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Chris Koch

MAY 19, 2014

MakerBot , a manufacturer of desktop 3D printers priced at the level of a decent laptop, is the best known of companies producing a product that has already been raised to PC-level stature in terms of its potential impact on business and society.

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Fathom

MAY 21, 2014

As a hospital website, you likely have the same goals as your competitors. You want to rank well in search engines for local terms about hospitals. You want it to be easy for patients to find information about your physicians. Finally, if you provide cancer care, you’d better rank #1 for “cancer care [insert city]” right? At Fathom, we work with a lot of different hospitals, and have noticed that despite these common goals, hospitals also make common mistakes.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 22, 2014

After my first full day at the #SDSummit, I’m more excited than I’ve ever been at such an event. This is an incredibly exciting time in marketing. While marketers have been saying that for the past 4-5 years, in my opinion we’re finally truly poised for success — with the technology, data, and processes to enable transformation. The key remaining element is the “how”. Malcolm Gladwell kicked off the conference as the keynote speaker yesterday (without powerpoint slides….a

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Biznology

MAY 23, 2014

I have to admit that my knee jerk reaction to this question used to be “no.” ” Social media is above all, social, and I never understood why anyone would block comments. I know Seth Godin blocks comments on his blog because he explains that he would feel compelled to answer everyone who posts a comment. To me, that’s the point.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.

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Measure Up Marketing

MAY 20, 2014

The Sales Playbook, Defined. A sales playbook is a collection of tactics or methods that characterizes the roles and responsibilities for you (and your sales team), lays out clear objectives, identifies metrics for measurement, and provides a common framework and approach for closing sales. The playbook helps you implement a common sales methodology that leverages the processes used by high performers. The outcome?

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 19, 2014

Last week Casie wrote a column for Search Engine Land on tactics we used for acquiring “good links” in the recent past. I love these ideas but most importantly enjoy how they integrate much more cohesively with our client’s broader marketing initiatives. An important factor in the amount of success in execution relies on effective outreach communication. There is preparation involved in securing the conversations that make these link building tactics possible.

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Fathom

MAY 22, 2014

Tuesday, Google confirmed the launch of two updates, Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0. This followed a weekend of heavy speculation due to some major signals that an algorithm update was coming. Matt Cutts announced, via Twitter, that Panda 4.0 launched while Search Engine Land confirmed the Payday Loan 2.0 update. So, what impact will these updates have? Payday Loan 2.0 began rolling out over the weekend and will target “very spammy queries” usually associated with excessive web spam.

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Biznology

MAY 21, 2014

Yesterday, Lori Weiman of The Search Monitor presented our latest webinar with 10 tips to improve your pay per click (PPC) results. Imagine how well your PPC campaigns would perform if you had full visibility into the activity of competitors and industry leaders. Most marketers don’t realize these tools exist, but it’s not hard to see what ads they’re running, where they run, the ad’s duration, what they say, what click through rate (CTR) they get, and even what they spend.

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Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

In a pandemic, it’s more important than ever to focus on retaining and expanding current customers. So, how can sales and marketing support the retention effort? Join Ruth Stevens as she dives into this fast-paced session and reviews the 7 key strategies for current customer marketing, to enable sales and expand customer value.

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