Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 5, 2014

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Transforming Events into Meaningful Experiences: Lessons in Real-Time Marketing. Amber set the stage with a discussion of Real-Time Marketing (RTM) and some examples of companies doing it right.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 7, 2012

After last weeks show, guest host Jeff Ogden and B2B marketing expert, Paul Dunay discuss: - Marketing at a small company versus a larger company. How writing a book can help generate awareness and build reputation. MadMarketingTV is sponsored by Act-On Software: Marketing Automation for the Fortune 5 Million.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Which means Publishers (or Marketers) are now the “white noise” in comparison to User Generated Content. Our messages are being drowned out by user generated content. So I have been thinking a lot this summer about the effectiveness of our demand generation efforts this year. Enter Simon Sinek. Enter Simon Sinek.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 6, 2010

Imagine a world where B2B Marketers could target specific decision makers in specific companies using Social Media ads. Tim Kassouf the Director of Marketing at G.1440 This is the kind of innovative techniques marketers and agencies will need to be honing over the next few years. Think that sounds like the future years from now?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 19, 2010

We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing. The four P’s were created mainly to describe the ideal “marketing mix&#. The term “marketing mix&# became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his 1964 article, Concept of the Marketing Mix. Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Moneyball , a book by Michael Lewis and now a movie starring Brad Pitt, is an amazing story of how Billy Beane, the then Oakland Athletics General Manager, chose to abandon baseball’s collective wisdom and applied what many considered to be “outsider” thinking to develop a winning team. We’re card counters.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2010

If you ask the members of my leadership team – they will tell you I keep talking about how I think we have B2B Marketing backward. We focus a lot of energy on the acquisition part of marketing looking for new customers and getting them up the awareness to consideration to purchase cycle. Let me explain …. Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Have your marketing efforts evolved with them? Marketing at the peak of the television era was relatively simple. As a marketer, how do you possibly compete for attention within this constant stream of information? How do you speak to consumers who don’t want to hear traditional marketing messages? The answer: You don’t.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. It combines a few things you might have read about into one new concept around social media – the 4 P’s of Social Media marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

You must keep a constant eye on mentions of your brand, your products and your services in order to survive in this market landscape. Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing. Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing In my new advisory role for the members of MENG.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 21, 2010

Ok I know we all talk a good game about Closed Loop Marketing and I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble here but frankly we aren’t there yet. But do we really have an all in one Closed Loop market system that does it all? Seeing and getting data in real time, with a closed loop return on marketing dollars invested system.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 9, 2010

At the recent ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum I was stunned by a presentation given by Sean Geehan CEO of the Geehan Group author of the upcoming book the B2B Executive Playbook. Which is what the CEO and the market wants from you anyway!). Its time to start embracing those few people in ways B2B marketers haven’t before.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Join guest host Jeff Ogden and special guest Paul Dunay, CMO of Networked Insights and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies, as they discuss: Recent changes in B2B marketing. Facebook’s IPO and what it means for marketers. New social media tools for B2B marketers. Social data and what it means to B2B marketers.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2009

No matter how you look at things these days marketers are becoming more like publishers than ever before. And their tactics are shifting from more Outbound Marketing like email and direct mail to more Inbound Marketing using SEO, Blogging and Social Media. Tags: social media Content Marketing Blogging. So what can you do?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 18, 2012

But when it comes to marketing, there has always been a bit of the “black box” effect. Marketing is the one major budget item that traditionally has been the hardest to understand and measure from a traditional business performance standpoint. Download this report to learn about the emerging role of social media analysis.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

So that begs the question - what’s on the horizon specifically for BtoB for marketers next year? Here are 10 concrete ways I think the environment in which BtoB Marketers operate will evolve in 2010. Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for BtoB for marketers next year? Here are 10 concrete ways I think the environment in which BtoB Marketers operate will evolve in 2010. Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

On the other hand, if you seek alternatives to traditional market research, then you need a vendor that specializes in sentiment capture and community analysis. If you are focused on market research, or messaging effectiveness then you should work with a vendor that tracks social media and user-generated sources.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Posted in Branding Buzz Marketing Conversational Marketing Crowdsourcing Innovation Interactive Marketing Mobile QR Codes Visual Recognition. The custom app was easy to use and built around Red Bull’s main priorities for the event: driving guest engagement, generating new content and building athlete awareness.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 7, 2013

Posted in Blogging Business Intelligence Communities Content Marketing Conversational Marketing Enterprise 2.0 Facebook Lead Generation Lead Nurturing People Sales Social Business Intelligence Social Media Social Networking Strategy Thought Leadership Twitter. There is NO Passive Marketing with Social!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 5, 2013

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Business Intelligence Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Interactive Marketing Internet Search SEO Strategy User Generated Content. Don’t be afraid to track mobile marketing separately from other web campaigns; according to Google’s study, mobile-only campaigns perform 11.5%

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution. But for B2B Marketing fans I think you need to expand your game around search to start include what I am calling … LinkedIn Search Optimization (LSO). For a good example check out these searches for the terms Facebook Marketing and Social Media. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

to learn more see my blog post on generating a buyer persona with Facebook ). Related posts: Generating a Buyer Persona with Facebook Advertising I am a big fan of David Meerman Scott’s work. Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly. Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 28, 2009

Last week, I was interviewed by a technology services marketing team looking to improve their Demand Generation activities. They had a very cohesive but small team and they wanted to ramp up activities to drive brand awareness and lead generation. But as you might expect they had limited funds and bandwidth (don't we all).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2009

In a blog post last week, Dell revealed that it has generated more than $2 million in revenue from @DellOutlet, one of its many Twitter sites. But this is not a dig at Dell it’s a dig at all of us marketers who say they don’t understand how to calculate an ROI from Social Media. Tags: social media Lead Generation.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

This week I had the pleasure of reading a new report from Smart Insights on the State of Digital Marketing 2015 and decided to dig in a bit further with an interview. 1) What do you think the biggest change to Digital Marketing for B2B firms will be in the next year?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 18, 2009

This isn’t a new problem – how to measure lead generation from online activity is as old as the web itself. A more recent example is Naked Pizza, a New Orleans healthful-pizza shop that has been marketing itself via Twitter. If we can get affiliate marketing right – paying people based on traffic flows.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 4, 2010

Generating a Buyer Persona with Facebook Advertising I am a big fan of David Meerman Scott’s work. Why is Google Scared and What it means for B2B Marketing! Tags: Advertising Branding Customer Experience Lead Generation Media Online Advertising Pay Per Click. At a recent dinner with a buddy of mine from.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

A recent Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) survey found that only 20% of CMO’s felt social media produced measurable ROI and 62% hoped it may someday. B2B marketers often host bi-annual advisory boards or annual user group meetings and these are just screaming for a way to keep them connected via a tool like on online community.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 14, 2010

It’s a fallacy to think we as marketers can understand the business impact of our programs in a mere 6 month period – after all we are in B2B marketing not B2C. There are dollars sitting in your pipeline just waiting to show your marketing impact – what I like to call the shadow pipeline. It’s a highly considered purchase.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Hello affiliate marketing – I love it! For marketers the like button holds some significant promise for extending the lifespan of your content. Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system? Tags: Applications Buzz Marketing Content Marketing Crowdsourcing Facebook Social Media Social Networking.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 14, 2010

Whether you are a CMO’s of a B2C or B2B Marketing team the key in this next decade is sharing and the key to sharing is Content! Some people call it Content Marketing (Junta42) some people call it Inbound Marketing (HubSpot) but the meaning is basically the same. And I couldn’t help but agree.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Fan pages are a unique marketing canvas to connect with avid consumers. Other brands are working harder to tap their pages’ potential, inviting fans to post on the page, using brand-generated posts to ask them questions, and offering promotions that capitalize on the fan base’s affinity. Facebook fan pages are much the same thing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

In David Meerman Scott’s ebook Lose Control of your Marketing he talks a lot about the spread of ideas. Artists like Bec Hollcraft who know full well the goal is attracting enough attention and leveraging buzz marketing to get a record deal. It reminds me of the Grateful Dead who were hip to this idea long before Bec was even born.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 5, 2010

B2B marketers should add a new years resolution to their list to work on enabling their customer service to be as good and as socially agile as possible. Related posts: Hey Marketer – When was the last time you talked with a customer?? Tags: Communications Customer Customer Support Social Media User Generated Content.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 30, 2010

In a recent speech by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research at the ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum it occurred to me that customer acquisition is no longer an “end state” for marketers its somewhere in the middle. B2B Marketers need to examine and invest in this area of the spectrum – the customer retention area. Let me explain ….

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

But as a Social media marketer, we believe in the power of a world where consumers are more connected to friends and brands, but when it comes to convincing the C-suite how and why, oftentimes they find themselves pointing to indeterminate measures of success such as Facebook Likes. Victoria Harres, PR Newswire.

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