Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This post also appeared recently in B2C Marketing Insider. I have been a student of selling and sales management for more than twenty years, and I have used a grand total of five “closes” during that time. If you find it’s not working out for you, just bring the puppy back.”

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

At the time, I was leading a large online demand generation program and had some thoughts about the state of the marketing and sales funnel. It serves as the basis for your sales and marketing strategy.&# Marketers sell stuff and sales people market stuff. Marketing spend is much more efficient.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. I refuse to answer cold calls at work or home.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

Finally, I provide practical tips for developing your own strategy, gaining the buy-in required to execute the plan and working with your executive team on marketing their own personal brands to your customers. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. Having crafted a few myself, I am writing this article to share my experiences and tips on what has worked and what didn’t. The Hunter – Gatherer Model One of the biggest mistakes a marketer can make is to create a plan in a vacuum.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. Simplicity Of Programs These programs are notoriously simple to create as you only need to provide a list of target companies and a product, solution or service you want to sell.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

Some creative marketers call these lists suspects. Inbound marketeering requires 2 simple things: First you need to be found and that requires the basic techniques of understanding how prospects search and the keywords they use. Do these 2 things and you will find valuable leads. And this is where many B2B marketers stumble.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

You can view all the articles posted on socialmedia.org and also in the “Social Media&# category of B2C Marketing Insider. Crisis Management is a huge opportunity. This Tweet from Cecily Kellogg says it all: “What I learned at #Blogwell, and why I’m no longer advocating sponsored posts.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. I hope you can make it.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. But the same content will not always work in both mediums. It also allows the marketer to track who is responding. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" Learn more at: [link].

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I wish I knew all the secrets so I could transform the world of B2B Marketing forever with a tell-all book. What I do know is that B2B Marketers have a ton of options today. But which ones are really working to drive our strategy and our business forward? Here is a copy of the presentation Confessions of a B2B Marketer as well.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2010

While marketers have embraced these chats as a way of connecting with fellow marketers and sharing ideas, companies/brands have been relatively non-existent in these conversations. This has resulted in marketers focusing on trying to enlist these individuals to become brand advocates. What do you think?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 2010

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 19, 2010 2 Subscribe Life Is Short! So on average, we will spend just half our lives working.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

And what role do marketers play in cultivating the brand and maintaining some level of consistency in our brand image? While this sounds very much like the common definition for Integrated Marketing Communications, the author is suggesting that we need to go farther and deeper in coordinating marketing plans.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

When I say that you should become an eco-marketer, I don't mean that you should add some corny green recycle image to your website (who would do that?) Although I'm a big supporter of environmental issues and started my career running an environmental organization , I would like to focus on eco-marketing in terms of demand creation.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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 December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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 December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2010

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 October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?! Hard to explain.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

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 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? This is not hard.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

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 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? This is not hard.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

According to David Rosen from Makovsky + Company: I called it the “Forbidden Dance&# because the primary obstacle (in my view) to B2Bs adopting social media is no longer the question of whether it works. Those are being worked through, but I wanted to have the panel focus on these issues to speed it up. It’s all about content!

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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 December 9, 2010 9 Subscribe Finding The Time To Tweet or Blog? Keep up the good work!

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2010

In this post, I will explain how you can use your best content to nurture these early stage leads to the point where they are ready to take the next step in their buying journey – and to take it with your company. And like the person browsing in a retail store, they are not ready to speak with a vendor.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. Customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention re-emerge as key metrics B2B marketers will use to measure the performance of their holistic marketing programs. The quality vs. quantity of leads debate will rage on. While the rest of us catch on to what works.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

This is a unifying principle for both marketing and sales teams and should act as the starting point for all of our discussions. In B2B marketing organizations, the single most important way to keep customers is to build satisfaction and loyalty. What is the Service Profit Chain? Next the question becomes- how do we do it ?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

This is a unifying principle for both marketing and sales teams and should act as the starting point for all of our discussions. In B2B marketing organizations, the single most important way to keep customers is to build satisfaction and loyalty. What is the Service Profit Chain? Next the question becomes- how do we do it ?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 2010

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 July 29, 2010 8 Subscribe Why Do You Tweet? To me, social media is all about personal branding.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

If you think marketing is much more important than sales, update your resume. If you think marketing objectives are about something other than sales, then it’s time to start networking. And…Marketing needed lots of help. So I followed my frustration into a marketing career and have never looked back.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 4, 2010

In his purely interactive session, Frank received this question: Do you see social media creating a convergence of marketing, PR, and customer service? She even references Frank and @ComcastCares as an example of Customer Service folks doing some PR. Frank answered that he did not believe these areas would “converge”.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Reflecting back on a long week I had the pleasure of meeting a number of new clients and seeing what they have accomplished as part of their online marketing initiatives. I am extremely lucky to see some of the most cutting edge marketing tactics being used and wanted to highlight some of them here. Email Autoresponder 1.0

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