Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 23, 2011
by Maria Pergolino The magnitude of the Internet’s size and scope can be overwhelming when determining how to incorporate the countless B2B marketing facts and strategies you can find on the Web. Take a look at these 5 B2B marketing infographics that help breakdown the reams of information into memorable images and data you can use to boost your online marketing efforts: 1.
Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 15, 2011
You know you’ve seen it. Like rock stars, actors, or sports stars, chillin’ in the VIP section of that exclusive club, getting comp’d bottles of the priciest vodka and champagne. They are roped off from us mere mortals and surrounded by an entourage of beautiful people. You know they exist. And you struggle with whether you want what they have.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 17, 2011
by Maria Pergolino I know what you’re thinking – the seven ways marketers should be using social will be all about Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Digg or Reddit, and YouTube, right? NO! These channels are just the places where we network with others online, not the best ways to do it. By participating in these channels doesn’t necessarily mean you are taking the right steps towards truly leveraging social media to your benefit.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 8, 2011
by Phil Fernandez On this blog, I have written frequently about how digital communications and especially social media have sparked a growing revolution in the sales and marketing process. The widespread embrace of social media has put even more information – and ultimately power – in the hands of the buyer, and that has drastically altered the jobs of the salesperson and the marketing professional.
Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing
Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
by Jon Miller Strategic marketing consultancy, CMG Partners, recently released its 3rd Annual CMO’s Agenda ; a body of work that shares key ideas and best practices extracted from one-on-one conversations with over thirty marketing executives. It got me thinking about what it means to be a marketing leader in today’s chaotic world, and reminded me of some key lessons in leadership and innovation.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 14, 2011
by Maria Pergolino Online marketing has become a cornucopia of opportunities for B2B marketers. Because digital media has been proven so effective in the lead generation process, many companies are pouring dollars into the marketplace, believing they’ve found a demand generation goldmine. At closer inspection, you may find there are still several areas of opportunity to explore and reap rewards.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 29, 2011
by Phil Fernandez Recently I was speaking with a Marketo customer, who recounted an experience she had attending a seminar sponsored by one of the well known sales training organizations. You undoubtedly know the kinds of seminars I am talking about. They’re promoted with emphatic headlines, screaming things like, “GET THEM TO YES!” and “SELLING HUNGRY!”.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 3, 2011
by Maria Pergolino It’s one thing to generate leads. It’s another to close them. The industry wide statistic of 70% of leads never receiving effective sales follow-up is astounding. With the mass amount of resources devoted to lead generation, the act of following up on leads has to be improved to experience growth in conversion rates. The key to generating, nurturing and closing leads is communication.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 28, 2011
by Maria Pergolino Internet math question: If you get 200,000 viewers to your website and 80% of them just check out one page, would you consider your website a success? In some cases (with bloggers for example), a one-time visit to the website means checking out the latest blog, then taking off and that may be okay. However, if you are a B2B company dedicated to quality lead generation, a one-page hit won’t do you much good.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 2, 2011
by Caroline Ruggiero I recently heard Dr. TR Rao of Market Probe speak at a Market Research Bulletin webinar. He posed an interesting question – Does customer advocacy exist in the B2B world? He believes that, yes, there is. However, what was also enlightening to me was the discussion of just how crucial it is in today’s business world. Why is it important?
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker
Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 1, 2011
by Andrew Spoeth This post is a follow up to our earlier post titled Frequently Asked Questions about B2B Social Media. It is based on one of our most successful webinars to date, titled Social Media for Business Marketers – the real ways B2B marketers can use social media to drive success. It featured Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman, co-authors of the new B2B social media marketing book , Social Marketing to the Business Customer.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 21, 2011
by Andrew Spoeth. Marketers love looking at the results of A/B landing page tests. We’re almost addicted to it. But what is it about landing page tests that fascinates us? I’ve been thinking a lot recently about landing page design and landing page testing. One of the reasons being a webinar that Marketo is hosting with Anne Holland, founder of WhichTestWon.com, on March 23.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 7, 2011
by Bill Binch To create the best lead generation process, you’ve got to keep sales and marketing on the same page. There is a continuing challenge for marketing to fill the sales lead coffers. But before marketing can bring in the right leads for sales to close, both need to agree on what constitutes a qualified sales lead. There are three truths behind sales and marketing agreements that must be recognized for effective alignment: 1.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 18, 2011
by Bill Binch As the economy improves, more companies will start to add to their B2B sales forces. Many companies will be expanding into and testing new markets by adding remote sales people. While adding remote salespeople is a lower-cost way to enter a new market, it does come with its share of management challenges. We’ve identified three areas that challenge sales teams and potential solutions to drive more sales from remote salespeople below: 1.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 2, 2011
by Josh Aberant This week Marketo released an Email Design and Creative Checklist. This document provides a comprehensive set of email marketing best practices in a nice, actionable and easy-to-use checklist. With this checklist, marketers can consistently ensure that best practices are implemented and checked-off before their marketing campaign launch.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 4, 2011
by Maria Pergolino According to the Radicati Group, Inc., over 90 trillion emails were sent in 2009. B2B spending on email marketing is estimated to have grown by 2.4% to $206 million in 2010, according to Metrics 2.0. B2B marketing efforts everywhere have joined the email surge making it the number 2 marketing tool (just a tick behind SEO – according to The Ad effectiveness Survey by Forbes Media in February/March 2009).
Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 8, 2011
You know what they say, “there’s no such thing as bad PR.” But for marketers, there is nothing better than good press coverage in a respected trade publication. Recently I saw that one of my Twitter friends Rachel Macik ( @RachelMacik ) scored a huge win for her company Atos Origin with this article coverage in the highly-coveted CIO.com media property: “ Killing Email Softly – How One Company Is Planning Its Demise.&#.
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MARCH 29, 2011
With Twitter’s Fifth Birthday now behind us, there are still plenty of B2B Marketers considering whether Twitter is a place to engage with customers, prospects, partners and future employers. People are always asking me “why tweet, who to follow and how to get started on Twitter?&# A few weeks ago I wrote my Top 10 Twitter Tips blog post and based on the volume of traffic that post continues to receive, I thought it was time to tackle the more basic questions: Why Tweet?
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MARCH 24, 2011
Avoid The Ego Trap In Digital Marketing. In the old day s of traditional marketing, you conducted some research, consulted with your colleagues and agency partners and in the end, decisions were often made on gut feeling. I mean there were what 3 TV stations, a local newspaper or 2 and some trade pubs. How hard could it be? The promise of Digital Marketing was going to change all that.
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MARCH 30, 2011
How to measure B2B Marketing. This question was asked recently on Focus.com. I am cross-posting my answer here since this is a GREAT question. But I encourage you to add your thoughts as well either in the comments below or on their website. While you’re at it and since I’m not shy about asking for help: if you think I answered it well, I would appreciate it if you give me a thumbs up.
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MARCH 22, 2011
Happy Birthday Twitter! Twitter turned 5 yesterday. They announced on their blog that there are now 400 employees to support the 140 million Tweets per day and 500,000 accounts created every day. Did you celebrate? I know far more people who are NOT on Twitter than who are. I know people who outwardly question Twitter’s utility or ability to connect people from around the world in an instant.
Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 31, 2011
This is a guest post from sales professional Kenny Madden. In today’s environment, it is absolutely critical to approach prospects in a new way. The days of cold calling “put me through to the decision maker please” calls are well and truly over. ( Good riddance.). The traditional numbers-focused sales and marketing model has fallen apart. Especially when selling or marketing technology products to savvy, tech folks.
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Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 24, 2011
Avoid The Ego Trap In Digital Marketing. In the old day s of traditional marketing, you conducted some research, consulted with your colleagues and agency partners and in the end, decisions were often made on gut feeling. I mean there were what 3 TV stations, a local newspaper or 2 and some trade pubs. How hard could it be? The promise of Digital Marketing was going to change all that.
Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 3, 2011
This post originally appeared on the Savvy B2B Marketing Blog … Why is content marketing so important? I started my career in B2B sales and quickly grew frustrated with the content being produced by my marketing colleagues. I then took a field-marketing role because I knew it was crucial to have the right content for each customer situation. How hard can that be, right?
Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 1, 2011
Want to know what B2B marketing mistake makes me the craziest? When I see marketing content that adds an unnecessary or inappropriate qualifier to try and get a specific segment of people to read, register, or interact with the piece of content. For example, if I say this blog is only for “B2B marketers&# - will that focus the target audience of the blog?
Marketing Insider Group
MARCH 10, 2011
Are you wondering how the recent news in the SEO world might affect you? I will outline the announcements in simple terms and provide some tips for the B2B Marketer to ensure all your hard work pays off in the form of inbound traffic to your personal blog or company website. You may have heard that Google recently changed its search engine algorithm.
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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
by Jon Miller The Definitive Guide to Sales Lead Qualification and Sales Development. One of the best pieces of organizational wisdom I’ve ever received is to pay the most attention to “batons” that cross functions. Wherever two or more departments share ownership and responsibility, conditions are ripest for problems. This is especially true in the handoff between marketing and sales.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 25, 2011
by Maria Pergolino This post has been contributed by Cristine Colton, who works in public accounting in Raleigh, NC. She has specialized in tax accounting for over 8 years and is passionate about helping others understand tax complexities. April 15 is quickly approaching and I’m sure you’ve spent hours pouring over all of the recent legislative changes to the tax laws in order to ensure that you’re not giving Uncle Sam (or H&R Block) a big bonus this year.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 16, 2011
by Katie Byrnes There is no such thing as no budget. Every single senior executive has a budget, they just might not have a budget for you. The problem isn’t that there’s no budget, it’s that they don’t want to give it to you. In Marketo’s most recent Revenue Masters webinar with Kathleen Schaub, former VP at Sybase, and Bill Binch, SVP of Sales at Marketo, these two thought leaders discuss the provocation-based selling methodology published in the Harvard Business Review to help you
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
MARCH 29, 2011
by Katie Byrnes While in Austin, on Marketo’s Revenue Rockstar tour , Jon Miller had the chance to rock the whiteboard at the Software Advice offices. This is just the first video out of three whiteboard sessions (so stay tuned for more!). Read below for a quick summary, or watch the video at Software Advice or on YouTube. The single biggest opportunity for business today is Revenue Performance Management.
Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service
Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.
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