May, 2011

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity

Few phenomena have ever spread as far and grown as rapidly as social media; obviously, this has tapped into something essential to our nature. What is it? The answer may come from the email marketing field. According to a recent study by email service provider Aweber, four simple words virtually guaranteed to get an email opened are: “You are not alone.”.

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Marketing Mistakes: Focusing On Activities Instead Of Results

Marketing Insider Group

Ask sales people what they think is wrong with marketing and they will say the biggest mistake marketers make is too much of a focus on marketing activities instead of results. I have explained already that I think the biggest B2B marketing mistake is putting your company and not your customers first. And focusing on internal activities and fighting the latest internal fires instead of solving customer problems is the other side of the same coin.

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Paid Owned and Earned media – the benefits of owning them all

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Few marketers today have the luxury of being about to combine all forms of media under one umbrella. It takes a certain size company to be able to take one individual and let them control all forms of media. If your company is too big then you get owners of each media and the silos they create – minimizing your chance to optimize across them all. If your firm is too small then the paid media budget is meaningless and you’re really just maximizing your earned and owned media mostly.

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SME marketing channel preferences revealed

Savanta

SMEs. There are 1.3 million of them, they generate half of the UK’s GDP and employ 60 per cent of the private sector workforce. Moreover, they’re big buyers of B2B products and services. Just ask Sage who’s built a £1.4 billion business on the back of them. SMEs are a potentially significant opportunity for many B2B marketers then, but how best to open a conversation?

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Top B2B Email Marketing Tactics to Drive Engagement and Pipeline in 2025

Speaker: Speakers:

Ready to become the email wizard your team didn’t know they needed? Join our live webinar to uncover the secrets of mixing AI magic with human flair, crafting emails so good your audience can't help but write back. We'll spill the beans on: Scaling personal touches Tracking metrics (like revenue, duh) Building smarter campaigns that actually work Oh, and we’re throwing in multi-channel tips too—think LinkedIn ads and webinars that wow.

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Market Research: The First Step to a Lead Generation Strategy; Interview with Carolyn Frith

NuSpark Consulting

Lost in all the buzz on social media and lead generation is the importance of market research as the seeds to a content marketing strategy. Too often, this key approach is not thought of when developing a lead generation or a social media strategy. Below is an interview I recently conducted with our Research Strategist, Carolyn Frith. Paul: Why is it important to conduct market research before developing a content marketing strategy?

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Trust Me: Why Trust is Crucial for Business Success, and How to Built It

Webbiquity

According to a recent presentation from HubSpot , “selling is 10X easier once you have established trust.&# Other than having something of value to offer, trust is the most essential element for business success. It removes psychological barriers and objections to buying, and makes people want to do business with you because they are comfortable.

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Marketing For The Small Business: How To Get Started

Marketing Insider Group

I’ve recently spoken to a number of small business owners about how to get started in marketing. Maybe you have hired a freelancer to setup your website or asked anintern to build a Facebook page. But if you’re wondering where to focus your efforts to get marketing results for your small business such as leads or brand awareness, then this article might be for you.

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There really is an ROI in Social Media – I’ve seen it!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I really don’t get it. I recently saw an article from MarketingSherpa that said 62% of CMO’s believe that social media marketing will pay off … eventually! That’s 6 out of every 10 CMOs. All I can say is what are you reading and where are you hiding yourself? In my mind this is the reason why the CMO tenure is a tender 22 months because they aren’t able to find a way to deliver meaningful results.

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Pirates, Train Wrecks, and Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Selecting a marketing automation system is an adventure. Here's the screenplay. Ready when you are, CB. I spent most of this week at the inaugural DemandCon conference in San Francisco. My presentation, How to Avoid a Marketing Automation Train Wreck , was based largely on the Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Workbook I released last month (available for free on the RaabGuide Web site ).

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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How to Get Started with a Content Marketing Plan

NuSpark Consulting

A content marketing plan has now become an integral component of any digital or traditional marketing strategy. Without a content plan, your firm can lose focus on its messaging objectives, its outreach tactics, its social media strategies, and more. Since the Internet is the number one source for product and service information, valuable content has become the reason buyers purchase from vendors.

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Green Leads Acquires Target 250 – Forms Fastest-Growing B2B Demand Gen Company in North America and Europe

Smashmouth Marketing

Merger Provides Global Enterprise Software and Technology Companies with Deeply Integrated, Quality Pipeline Generation Services. SCOTTSDALE, AZ (Marketwire – May 4, 2011) – Today, at the SiriusDecisions Summit, Green Leads announced the acquisition of Target 250 to form the fastest-growing pay-for-performance demand generation company in the industry.

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What Does B2B Social Media Success Look Like?

Webbiquity

Until recently, most social media case studies have focused on consumer brands. It’s not that B2B companies aren’t finding success in social media marketing, but more (in my experience at least) that they are less willing to publicly reveal their strategies for competitive reasons. Recently, that’s begun to change a bit as blogs like TopRank and Marketo have highlighted b2b social media success stories.

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Top Tips For Driving Marketing And Sales Alignment

Marketing Insider Group

What is the biggest issue facing Marketers today? Tons of recent reports, the latest coverage of major industry conferences, threads on Twitter and also my own site analytics point to the same issue as the biggest challenge for marketers: Marketing and Sales alignment. I have spoken and written on this subject a number of times so here I will include all my notes on the subject in one overview post… According to “ The Sales Machine &# author Geoffrey James Sales “Hates&# Market

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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New Response Databases - Valuable Resource for B2B Marketers?

ViewPoint

Today we're honored to have guest blogger Ruth Stevens share her thoughts on database marketing. Ruth is Founder of eMarketing Strategy , a consulting practice that assists companies build their customer acquisition and retention strategies. Business marketers are always suspicious of the data they are getting from list and data companies, whether its prospecting lists or data elements purchased for “append,” to fill in gaps.

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Social Buyerology: Understanding Buyers in the Social Age

Tony Zambito

Image by aafromaa via Flickr. The pendulum has been swinging rapidly during the past two years with respect to understanding buyer behavior and interactions in the social age.   What we know for sure is that the dynamics and interactions between businesses and buyers are undergoing their most significant transformation in many years and decades.  How groups of buyers as well as individual buyers are interacting with each other and with sellers continue to metamorphosis anew mon

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An Interview with Jon Miller, Co-Founder of Marketo

ANNUITAS

We recently had the opportunity to connect with Jon Miller, Vice President of Marketing and Co-Founder of Marketo. Jon leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo’s hyper-efficient demand center (powered by Marketo’s solution, of course). In Marketo’s popular blog, Modern B2B Marketing , he explores everything from lead nurturing and social media to marketing ROI and revenue performance management (RPM).

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New Report: 2011 B2B Content Marketing Trends

Everything Technology Marketing

SlideShare views for the new report " 2011 B2B Content Marketing Trends " are off the charts - looks like we have a topic that is really resonating with B2B marketers. This new report is the result of a survey I conducted with the 20,000 member B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn to better understand the current state of content marketing, and to identify key challenges as well as best practices.

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4 Simple Decisions to Unlock Your Post-Cookie Targeting Strategy

The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity

The “ROI of social media&# (or lack thereof) is a hot, and still hotly contested, topic. I summarized arguments from both sides a few months ago in The Social Media ROI Debate. More recently, numerous writers including Olivier Blanchard , Neil Glassman and Mark Schaefer have tried to make the case that social media ROI is real, can be measured, and must be measured.

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B2B Marketing Predictions – 3 Actions To Achieve Your Goals in 2011

Marketing Insider Group

Is 2011 turning out the way you expected? Is B2B Marketing tackling the big strategic challenges or just slogging along and fighting the organizational fires that tend to consume too many of our days? Over the last week, I received two separate requests to update my predictions for how this year is turning out. So figuring these two data points are pointing to a trend, I thought I would offer my update on the state of B2B Marketing in 2011.

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9 Surprising New Facts About Social Media in America

Convince & Convert

Social media is growing up fast. No longer a niche plaything of the digerati, social media is firmly entrenched as a societal game changer of historical importance. For many, social media and social networking are so ubiquitous and pervasive that we presume we have it figured out, that we have a finger firmly on the pulse. But we don’t. Data about how social media really works, who uses it and how, continues to surprise.

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Oracle Real-Time Decisions Empowers Business Users

Customer Experience Matrix

One of the few dependable rules in the software industry is that Suites Win. When a market first develops, it is filled with “point solutions” that do one function – say, send emails or analyze Web traffic. Over time, products emerge that combine these functions and displace the individual point solutions. Even though the point solutions may be better at their particular task than the corresponding suite components, the time, cost, and risk savings of preintegrated products are irresistible to m

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Philadelphia Content Marketing Summit Recap from May 13

NuSpark Consulting

It was a wonderful day at the Philadelphia Content Marketing Summit held May 13 at the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. It was the first of I hope many such workshops that I put together to help businesses large and small optimize their marketing and lead generation strategies properly. NuSpark Marketing founder Paul Mosenson at the podium visit site to read more ].

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The Science of Creating Demand, Upon Demand, When Demand is Needed

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Not everyone can do it. Not everyone has the talent to do it. But when they do it, they do it exceedingly well. You see there is a science in creating demand and I’m not talking about where to place “Click Here” versus the word “Register,” I am talking about more strategic issues.

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The Nifty 50 Makes the Local News, Sort of

Webbiquity

The good news, particularly for the Minnesota-based Tweeters highlighted in The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011 , is that the list was highlighted in a morning news segment on WCCO, the Minneapolis CBS affiliate: On the other hand, the piece doesn’t actually cite the blog name (Webbiquity) or identify Cheryl Burgess or me (we are “well-known marketing bloggers&# which is flattering, but…).

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The Circle of Trust in B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

A wickedly lucky reorganization thrust me into leading a b2b digital marketing practice about 2 years ago. Good move. Rude awakening. To adapt to the role, I had to reprogram about 15 years of marketing imprinting from my memory. Not the fundamental skills that stand behind marketing. You know what I mean – curiosity, strategy, creativity, or whatever your 6th sense is.

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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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Content Marketing and Sales Enablement Must Get Married

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. The raging waters of the sales and marketing alignment debate continues to make its’ way through the halls of corporate America.  This is despite recent entrance of social technology enabled systems and processes all professing to be the cure that remedies this debate.   This is definitely becoming like the $60m question we all hope to win with an answer no one has come up with yet.  Having spent the last decade or more in the arena of buyer persona d

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How to measure influence in social media marketing

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. Measuring influence is the new obsession in the social media world—adding another layer of anxiety to the dark cloud of existential dread that is marketing ROI. Social media present us as individuals seeking status within a community, which is something that humans have been working at since our days as monkeys. Indeed, science tells us that monkeys would rather look at pictures of high-ranking members of their troop than eat.

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Why You Should Be Happy Before You Blog

Writing on the Web

Three Keys to Blogging When you Are Happy. A guest post by Erica Nelson. You know how your smile is written all over your face? Your emotions are imbedded in your words and how you write. Just like when you walk into a restaurant, the waiter immediately communicates without saying one word what your service experience might be like, the opening phrases of your blog or website are going to speak volumes about how you are thinking and what you are feeling.

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