Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

Now like many marketers currently experiencing a similar situation, you probably immediately thought “why me?” According to Duct Tape Marketing , social media is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value. This strategy should include a mix of tactics that will provide support to the campaign.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to. I concluded with a discussion of the tactics to consider in future demand generation efforts. Which is more important: defining marketing process or implementing marketing automation?

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Budget Programs Work Management Lead Scoring 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals.

Telemarketing 100

Telemarketing Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Late last week, I responded to a post by my new friend Adam Needles, VP Marketing of Left Brain Marketing.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Planning Lead Qualification Lead Ranking 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 24, 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 November 24, 2010 Subscribe A B2B Marketing Manifesto? required) to prove it.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning B2B Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. Market to them and never forget that even in B2B, human beings still make the decisions. Instead create personas of people that buy your solutions or products.

Lead Scoring 100

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel 100

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.

Social Media 100

Social Media Brand Identity Branding Media 100

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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Organization Planning Paid Search Agency Allocation 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. If you are looking for a more formal approach, check out The Marketing Leadership Council which offers a marketing planning tool called MarkPlan and recently held a series of workshops on marketing planning. It starts with reaching across functional areas.

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Planning Marketing Plans Work Management Budget Programs 100

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. In this post, I will offer a preview of the thoughts I will deliver during the Focus Interactive Summit on Progressive B2B Marketing. It used to be so easy.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 100

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?!

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Budget Programs Marketing Budget 100

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.

Marketing Strategy 100

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Planning Paid Search Agency 100

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.

Marketing Strategy 100

Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Planning Paid Search Agency 100

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. In this post I will explain the 4 most common mistakes marketers make. Sounds easy right?

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Content Marketing 100

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.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Sales Management Lead Ranking ROI 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

How do you overcome internal fears, politics and budget battles in integrating social media into marketing? This is one of the most positive outcomes of the social media activity in B2B marketing. How do you divide and conquer social media across sales, marketing, customer service? Quite simply: Executive buy-in.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media B2B Budget Programs 100

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

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. Cost efficiencies The appointment setting tactic is on a strict pay for performance model.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Telemarketing Work Management Campaigns 100

Directive Agency

APRIL 19, 2017

When it comes to generating leads for B2B via content marketing, syndication is a must. If you’re familiar with the 80-20 rule of content marketing, you know that the real work doesn’t start until after you’re done writing. B2B content marketing requires walking a fine line between SEO and lead generation.

Sales Management 53

Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Content Ideal Customer Profiles 53

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

So marketing sends more. So marketing tightens the quality standards and sends fewer but higher quality leads. My advice is to B2B Marketers is to follow this natural ebb and flow. Maybe this works for your company as long as the number of marketing touches does not annoy the prospect to the point that they want to walk away.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

In my 20 years of marketing, sales and Telemarketing experience I have created many “Tele Web” programs, and here are the top reasons they succeed. There are 3rd party companies that boast the “Immediate warm transfer” of a prospect searching your web site, but this is not always the case, and can be costly.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Learn the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles from last year on Twitter techniques, tools and tactics. A Twitter Marketing Sanity Check by iMedia Connection Yes, another Twitter "sanity check." Tags: Web 2.0 What are the "secrets" of top corporate Twitterers?

Twitter 20

Twitter Tactics Web 2.0 Tips 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 24, 2009

Poking fun at Web 2.0 Search engine rap (oxymoronic, but true). Stupid marketing copy mistakes by iMedia Connection Christopher Richards provides an amusing tour of common mistakes made when ad copy strays, under categories such as "sloppy copy" and "beyond clich é." Poking Fun at Web 2.0

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 Creativity Copywriting Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

10: The 8 Layers of a B2B Web Marketing Plan , October 8, 2008 The most recent post to make this list presents B2B marketing as a series of concentric layers, with SEO at the core then moving outward from highly measurable online direct response tactics to broader brand advertising. #9:

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 SEM CTR Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros.

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 iCrossing Optimization 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. ROI Is Dead by StraightUpSearch This post suggests that marketers should focus on a different ROI when calculating the value of social media efforts: "return on insight."

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Burn Rate Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

While most marketers have now embraced social media for monitoring and participating in brand conversations, questions still abound. What's the best method for approaching social media marketing? Video search 101: Marketing and optimization by iMedia Connection Noting some statistics on the explosive growth of online video, David L.

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Forrester 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year. In Facebook Adding 'Fan' Pages To Public Search Listings , Mark Walsh of MediaPost provides additional detail on this announcement and its implications for marketers.

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What common mistakes should you avoid in social media marketing? Get the answers to these questions and others here in the final set of the best posts on social media marketing from last year. Domains for SEO and Reputation Management by Search Engine Journal Loren Baker describes how to use a.tv Take Advantage of.TV

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Media Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? Find those answers and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts about social media marketing from the last year. How can you optimize your use of social networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIn?

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. That’s great, but what does it have to do with search marketing? Don’t send blanket solicitations to bloggers in the same general industry.

Online Marketing 40

Online Marketing Blogger PR Digital Asset Management 40

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2010

The buying process begins with a stage of discovery where buyers are searching for clear definitions to problems and general information that will enable their teams to be better informed. According to the TechTarget and Google Study on Search by Buying Stage , almost half of all search responders provide incorrect contact details.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Paid Search Agency Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Optimization Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Optimization Paid Search Agency 100

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. Too many marketers and business executives still question the value of social media (mostly in private).

Paid Content 100

Paid Content B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency B2B 100

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.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Planning Paid Search Agency 100

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Or one to help you find just the right word, or submit content to all of your favorite social networking sites at once, or grab screen images, or test landing pages, or instantly perform special searches on Google? You'll find all of these and others in this final set of cool web tools and resources from last year.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices Web 2.0 Adwords 20