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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Instead of scouring the web in search of the latest insight on B2B marketing tactics and trends, consult our list of 25 must-read B2B marketing posts. Find out what these influential marketing bloggers have to say about B2B social media , landing page optimization, search marketing, marketing ROI , and other B2B marketing techniques. Tips on Using Twitter to Boost Your Marketing Efforts - Anything Goes Marketing blogger Chad Horenfeldt shares unique tips in this marketing post on how B2B markete

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Yesterday, I described the important role that strong, risk-mitigating brands plays in inbound lead generation. This is where B2B social media marketing comes in, since it provides a way for any company, not just large multi-national corporations, to build strong brands that in turn generate quality inbound leads. Here are four key ways that social media builds brands. 1.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Social media can be many things: a place to network with friends, a way to follow market trends and monitor brand sentiment, a customer service tool for identifying unhappy customers. But is it a tool for demand generation? I believe the answer is yes, but that it requires a different mindset for lead generation and measuring ROI. Over a series of posts the next few weeks, I’ll be exploring the topic of B2B social media marketing from a variety of perspectives, including how companies can use so

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NOVEMBER 28, 2009

This session, my favorite of the whole week, included two awesome marketers at Salesforce : Tricia Gellman and Rasmus Mencke. Tricia narrated the event and Rasmus gave a demo of Salesforce for Twitter. In the demo, we learned that while Salesforce for Twitter is part of Support Cloud 2 , it should be an important part of your marketing toolkit. The application searches Tweets by keywords and then allows the Tweets to be added to campaigns or turned into leads. .

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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.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The B2B buying process is far from rational or simple. Enquiro's groundbreaking research into the B2B buying process. found that managing risk plays a much bigger role in buying decisions than previously thought, and that companies that can manage the "risk gap" will be at a significant advantage for driving new business. There are a variety of "risk control mechanisms" that buyers use to mitigate risk: Personal experience.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A key metric every marketer should consider is the conversion rate of raw leads to sales-ready opportunity by type of lead. Here's the conversion rate we see here at Marketo for the last 12 months: A few comments: Word of Mouth, Partner, and Employee Referral are leads we can attribute directly to a direct referral; Inbound Call and Website are "inbound" leads where we may or may not be able to identify what caused the prospect to seek us out.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Once again Salesforce.com has delivered a great set of new features for Marketers in the Winter 10 release. You will see that you are using the new release because your system will have a new image at the top left of your home page of a snowman with the number 10 in his hands. If you are still catching up from the last release check out this post on Marketing features from Salesforce.com Summer 09.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

At this Dreamforce 2009 session led by Fernando Obregon Almazan, salesforce.com; Lorena Vales, salesforce.com; and Jonathan Hersh, salesforce.com, marketers learned about how and why companies should participate in social networking to generate brand awareness and create a viral effect when clients or prospects recommend their products. Why should I care about Social Networks?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Are you a B2B Marketer planning to be in the San Francisco Bay area next week? If so, on Thursday night you will want to attend what is going to go to be remembered as the Marketing Party of 2009 ! Why? Three Reasons: Awesome Location! I don’t think it gets much cooler than the St. Regis in San Fran cisco. We’ll be out on the beautiful terrace, but don’t worry- it will be tented to keep everyone warm.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Are you ready to improve sales, maximize marketing efforts and collaborate with 12,000 customers, partners and employees? Attend Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009, one of the year’s premier sales and marketing events, to gain proven best practices, how-tos and practical training on the latest Cloud Computing solutions. Held Nov. 17-20 in San Francisco, Dreamforce will teach attendees to use Cloud Computing solutions to maximize results and lower costs through lead generation , marketing automatio

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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.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Last Wednesday I attended the Dreamforce session Using Lead Nurturing and Scoring to Deliver More and Higher-Quality Sales Leads. My boss, Jon Miller, VP of Marketing at Marketo was presenting with two of our awesome customers, Emily Salus of CollabNet, Inc. and Dyke Hensen of PivotLink. In this session, they discussed how to use lead scoring to identify and prioritize sales-ready leads.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Last Thursday at Dreamforce, I had the chance to attend The Secrets to Email Marketing Success: Marketing Panel. This panel session focused on how to get more from email marketing as well as discuss the latest trends and strategies in email marketing. The panel of experts included: Brian Vass, Sant Corporation; Robin Daniels, salesforce.com; Rasmus Mencke, salesforce.com; Wouter Hoeberechts, WorldMedAssist LLC; Paul Uppal, ActiveConversion.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

This panel of B2B search engine marketers at Dreamforce 2009 talked about how to take your search marketing to the next level, including SEM tips and tricks, landing page strategies, Web site analytics, and more. It included Sean Whiteley, salesforce.com; Howard Brown, Demand Results, LLC; Jason Stewart, Demandbase Inc.; Terry Whalen, CPC Search; and Lauren Vaccarello, salesforce.com.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Last week I helped moderate the webinar, Marketo’s Secret Sauce for Sales Success. It is a sequel to one of Marketo’s most popular webinars. The Secret Sauce to Demand Generation , given by Jon Miller, VP of Marketing at Marketo about how we generate leads and nurture them through the buying process. This webinar has had hundreds of views and shares the exact reports, plans, and scoring that Marketo uses to prepare leads for our sales team.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Last Wednesday at Dreamforce, I had the chance to attend the session entitled, Delivering B2B Marketing Excellence in a Socially Connected World. Forrester research analyst, Laura Ramos led a great presentation on how B2B’s can make best use of social media to drive demand. She started the session by stating what marketers are struggling with including their needs to: Improve company reputation and standing.

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