August, 2012

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Understanding Edgerank: The Importance of Affinity

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by Dayna Rothman I am pleased to introduce our guest blogger, Tiffani Frey. Tiffani Frey is a serial entrepreneur and marketing strategist with over 20 years in the trenches. When not chin deep in creating content for websites, blogs and email campaigns, and managing over 75 annual trade shows, she can be found hosting webinars, directing video shoots and composing music.

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What Is Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s face it, to the average business person, marketing equals promotion. Marketing is what you say and how you say it when you want to explain how awesome your product is and why people should buy it. Marketing is an ad. Marketing is a brochure. Marketing is a press release. And more recently, Marketing is a Facebook page or a Twitter account.

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3 Facebook Tips You Should Be Using Right Now

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Keeping up with all the changes going on in the world of social media, or even in the singular world of Facebook, is a task. Instead of trying to keep up with and report on every little tweak, I like to focus on and test out the things that I think will give me the greatest bang my time buck and then share those with you. With that in mind, here are three simply Facebook tips that I think you can easily benefit from employing right now. 1) Use images for updates.

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How Do You Explain Marketing to a Six-Year Old?

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by Jon Miller The other day, I was trying to explain to my six-year old son what I do at Marketo, and he asked “what is marketing?” I thought for a second, and said “Marketing is what you do in business when you want to help convince people to buy what you have to sell.” I thought that was a pretty good explanation – good enough that I posted it as a LinkedIn update.

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.

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Creating an Influencer B2B Marketing Strategy to Fuel your Local Buzz

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by Kieran Flanagan Finding and succeeding in new markets is essential for any B2B company that wants to grow. Entering a new geographical market can open up significant opportunities to increase revenues and profits, and to offset slow growth in mature or economically sluggish territories. But this can be a challenge as you won’t have the same level of brand awareness as you do in your core country.

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Internet Marketing Expert Brian Carter on Facebook Strategy & Engagement

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by Jason Miller Brian Carter is respected as one of the elite internet marketing experts in the world. He has 12 years of experience with Google, Twitter and Facebook marketing, both as a consultant and marketing agency director. Brian develops strategies and builds search visibility and social marketing fanbases for companies of all sizes. He is author of The Like Economy, the forthcoming LinkedIn for Business: How Advertisers, Marketers and Salespeople Get Leads, Sales and Profits, and co-

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The Art of Social Sharing: 5 Social Campaign Ideas to Get Your Audience Engaged

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by Dayna Rothman As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it “our best thoughts come from others”. An excellent way to get your audience engaged, is to provide them with a reason to share your message on their social networks. A recent Nielson Survey showed that only 15% of buyers believe what a brand has to say about itself. In contrast, the same study showed that 76% believe what their peers have to say about a brand.

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5 Marketing Tips That We Could Learn from Celebrities

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by Ravali Ravulapati I have to admit, I usually don’t have too much time to watch TV. But when I do, I usually watch shows that don’t require much focus and after a long day of work I often resort to reality shows or random celebrity news. However, I think I can justify this by saying that I have taken away a few “marketing” lessons from these shows or celebrities.

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Networking at Dreamforce: Daytime Vs. Nighttime [Infographic]

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by Jason Miller Dreamforce is just a couple of weeks away and top of mind for many B2B marketing professionals. One of the most valuable aspects of Dreamforce, or any conference for that matter, is the cornucopia of networking opportunities. It’s prime time for meeting and greeting new people and building relationships that you can bring home with you.

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Four “New Marketing” Skills You’d Better Learn Quick

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by Dayna Rothman I am pleased to introduce our guest blogger, Matt Heinz. He brings more than 15 years of marketing, business development and sales experience from a variety of organizations, vertical industries and company sizes. His career has focused on delivering measurable results for his employers and clients in the way of greater sales, revenue growth, product success and customer loyalty.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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Centralize your Social Media Strategy: 6 Steps to Creating a Social Media Governance Board

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by Dayna Rothman If you are from the IT world, you may have heard the concept of creating an IT governance board. However, this is a concept that can easily translate to other aspects of your business, particularly social media. Everyone is jumping on the social bandwagon. But, many marketers don’t know how to proceed or how to organize their efforts.

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Don’t Stop A-Meme-In’ – Using Memes for Lead Generation and Buzz Building

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by Jason Miller Looking for a fun way to engage with customers and prospects through your social media channels? Try using a meme tied back to a specific offer. You might be surprised with the results. Memes work well in B2B social media because they are often witty, funny, nostalgic or all of the above. When creating a meme it’s important to not only have fun, but to tie back to your brand or services.

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6 Parameters to Keep In Mind When Designing a Lead Nurture Program

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by Rajiv Kapoor According to a recent DemandGen Report nurtured leads are 20% more likely to turn into sales opportunities than non-nurtured leads. Lead nurturing allows you to communicate in a more regular and more targeted way, and as a result more prospects will move through your revenue cycle / lead lifecycle. This 2 part blog is the result of a series client lead nurture workshops.

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Marketing Automation and Social Integration: Hand-in-Hand or Hand-to-Hand Combat?

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by Dayna Rothman We’d like to welcome Justin Gray as a guest blogger in today’s post. He is the CEO and chief marketing evangelist at LeadMD. The company helps businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technologies. He can be reached at jgray@leadmd.com. When it comes to social media, questions about its usefulness to B2B marketers rage on.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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A Legal Perspective: Who Owns Social Media Profiles?

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by Dayna Rothman I am excited to welcome David Lizerbram as a guest blogger for today’s post. David is an attorney in private practice in San Diego with a focus on contracts, business transactions, trademarks, and copyrights. When he is not assisting clients or working on his blog, David enjoys watching movies, playing bass and guitar, and winning handily at pub trivia nights.

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4 Tips To Build Your Personal Brand

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So what do I know about personal branding? I have only been blogging for a little more than 2 years, and tweeting for just over three years. Well, that is actually part of my story… This is why I updated my slides on personal branding and challenge everyone in business to wake up and get social and to realize that there is no separation between our work and personal lives.

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The 8 Step Guide to Making your First Local Event a Massive Success

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by Liz Smyth Events are an important part of most B2B marketer’s bag of tricks. In fact, according to BtoB Magazine*, event marketing accounts for one fifth of the marketing budget. (*State of Event Marketing, July 2011). If you are looking to take your marketing international by opening up offices in other countries, they can form a core part of your strategy.

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Mastering the Monster that is Mobile Marketing: An AMA Virtual Xchange Summary

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by Rick Siegfried Yesterday, the American Marketing Association (AMA) hosted another installment of their ongoing Virtual Xchange series, Going Mobile: Integrating Strategy and Design for Success. As you can probably tell from the title, this virtual event was all about mobile marketing. Not necessarily a new area of marketing, but one that is under-utilized, under-optimized, and more often than not, just not considered when planning a b2b marketing campaign.

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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The Content Marketing Bucket List

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Content marketing is a hot topic of discussion in almost every marketing organization. As business buyers and consumers continue to tune out the increasing noise of product promotion from brands, content marketing is being called out as the answer to the declining response rates and increasing costs of outbound marketing. But hey, change is hard. And many organizations are struggling to keep up with the new rules of the digital age.

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Integrated Marketing Virtual Conference Recap: Get Maximum Results with Multi-Channel Marketing Messages

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by Jessica Langensand Do you have a marketing presence across multiple channels? Are you being consistent with your brand messaging? Integrated b2b marketing may not be top of mind for many marketers, but yesterday’s Integrated Marketing Virtual Conference showed that it should be. Integrated Marketing is an approach to marketing communications that synthesizes different methods together to present a consistent message with a similar style.

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Dreamforce 2012 is Coming – Are you ready?

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by Maria Pergolino For those that don’t geek out on all things salesforce.com as much as I do, I thought I’d write a quick post to update you on the fast building buzz around Dreamforce 2012. First, if you did not catch it, salesforce.com did an exciting blog post to highlight all the changes to Dreamforce in 2012. Make sure you check out this post if you missed it.

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Marketo + Column Five Webinar–Visual Content Marketing: Capture and Engage Your Audience

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by Dayna Rothman In B2B marketing , content creation is a must. But we are drowning in a world of text, and your prospects will typically just scan over your content instead of reading every single word. So what to do? How do you quickly grab the attention of your audience and reel them in? Telling a story through visual content is the answer. Join Maria Pergolino, Sr Director of Marketing at Marketo, and Jason Lankow, Co-Founder and CEO of Column Five Media for our visual content webinar and le

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

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Are you struggling to highlight your impact and showcase the results of your team’s marketing efforts? Do you find it challenging to build more effective campaigns that drive meaningful results? The key may lie in unlocking the power of marketing technology (martech)—but as a non-technical marketing leader, navigating this landscape can feel daunting.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Visual Content But Were Afraid to Ask

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by Dayna Rothman We had a great webinar last week on visual content with Maria Pergolino, Sr. Director of Marketing at Marketo, and Jason Lankow, CEO and Co-Founder of Column Five. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to answer all of the great questions about visual content that our audience asked during the webinar. So, we wanted to do a follow-up blog and share our answers to all of our readers.

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4 Tips For Successful Demand Generation

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I have been writing about Demand Generaton and Demand Management since I started blogging a few years ago. Successful and effective marketing creates value for the business. And so, occasionally, my colleague Rob Krekstein , who is a Senior Director of Global Inside Sales here at SAP, provides his amazing perspective on how to create successful demand generation programs that produce real business results.

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My Favourite Marketing Metric

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by Fergus Gloster Companies today can measure almost every aspect of a business process or investment with a variety of interesting metrics. As the amount of computing power and number of solutions targeted at the front office increases, so too has the appetite to measure sales and marketing productivity and effectiveness. ERP and other back office systems have provided manufacturing, finance, logistics and other departments with key measurements which have allowed those functions to achieve hug

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The Multi-Channel Marketing Mandate: Be Where Your Customers Are!

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There are a few benefits of focusing on “B2B Marketing” as a topic. One of my best perks is that I occasionally get the honor of speaking at amazing industry events like Content Marketing World and the MarketingProfs B2B Forum (shameless plug: please join us!). Another benefit is that I obtain access to research reports that cover some of the key challenges for the Business Marketer.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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6 Social Media And Search Articles You Missed When Life Was Just Too Hectic

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Search and social. These are 2 topics that you cannot separate. I should add content marketing to the list but I want to cover that next week. Last week I covered the 8 Marketing Strategy articles you missed when you were too busy. So in this post, I will review the most popular articles this year on the topics of social media and search engine marketing.

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7 Questions That Lead to Incredibly Effective Marketing Campaigns

Duct Tape Marketing

If you’re launching a new product, designing a sale or getting your business ready now for your version of Black Friday or Small Business Saturday, there are series of steps that you need to include in the planning process in order to create the most effective campaign. photo credit: khalid almasoud via photo pin cc As you design a new campaign, brainstorm these questions with your staff and use the answers you come up with to create a series of launch action items. 1) What do we want our custom

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How to Build an Insanely Profitable Coaching or Consulting Business

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Over the past ten years I’ve worked with hundreds of consultants and coaches teaching them how to market their businesses. I’ve spent twenty-five years learning how to build my own marketing consulting and coaching business and I’ve developed a network of independent marketing consultants and taught them how to build their businesses. Many businesses, even those that don’t call what they do consulting or coaching offer consulting in the form of services or information.

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Is Media Manipulation the New Media Relations

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Join me for a Google+ Hangout live streaming to YouTube at 1:30pm ET today for: Media Manipulation – fact or fiction – a frank conversation with Ryan Holiday (@ryanholiday), author of Trust Me I’m Lying – Confessions of a Media Manipulator and Peter Shankman (@petershankman), VP, Small Business Evangelist at Vocus. You can tune in by going here at 1:30 ET – [link].

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

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Ever wonder what really makes B2B buyers tick? Spoiler alert: it’s not just logic. Join us for our next session of the B2B Growth Show, "Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices" with Grant C. Gooding, where science meets strategy. You'll get the insider scoop on how emotions secretly drive decisions and how you can tap into them to win buyers over.