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MAY 16, 2012

by Jason Miller With over 100 million albums sold worldwide, KISS is arguably one of the biggest and most successful bands on the planet. Led by the marketing genius that is Gene Simmons, they continue to reach new audiences while engaging lifelong fans. Gene Simmons may be best known as the fire-breathing, bass playing demon in one of the most influential rock bands in history, but he can also teach us a thing or two about content marketing.

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MAY 22, 2012

Next week brings Memorial Day and the unofficial start of the 2012 summer season here in the United States. Since my son and 4th child, Luke was born last October , I have not had a chance to keep up with my reading list. So I have been keeping a list of books I wanted to read in my head for the past 8 months. Now that he is starting to show signs of a slightly more regular schedule, I am ready to start reading again in earnest.

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MAY 23, 2012

Today marks the middle of National Small Business Week in America and I find it an appropriate time to reflect on my twenty-five years as a small business owner. Small Business Is a Path. I started my business in 1987 and I distinctly remember my friends remarking at the time that I should keep looking, maybe a good job would open up. So much has changed in the past few decades.

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MAY 30, 2012

Facebook Insights is a powerful tool for those wanting to track user interaction on their Facebook business page. Facebook Insights can be seen by all the admins of your page, and it can provide a wealth of information about your content and audience. By using Facebook Insights, you’ll be able to determine the best time of day to post , the best day of the week to post, and what type of content is most popular.

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MAY 7, 2012

by Chris Russell Want the skinny on using Pinterest to promote your b2b marketing ? Follow these five tips and kick-start your brand’s expansion into this emerging social media phenomenon. 1. Advertising and infographics rule the b2b marketing pins. Today, B2B marketers can get tons of great examples of award winning infographics and advertising campaigns on Pinterest.

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MAY 21, 2012

by Jon Miller Recently I was interviewed by content marketing expert and co-author of Content Rules C.C. Chapman on his Content Conversations cinchcast. Content Conversations is a series of one-on-one discussions with today’s top content marketers that digs into content marketing strategies, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid. In the following episode I chat with C.C about taking content marketing to the next level.

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MAY 23, 2012

by Dayna Rothman We are halfway through our first day at Marketo User Summit. So many new and exciting ideas have already been presented! My head is spinning. We are about to sit down for lunch while listening to Jay Baer, social media strategist, blogger and author of The Now Revolution kick off the afternoon. I am very much looking forward to the afternoon sessions.

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MAY 23, 2012

by Dayna Rothman Marketo User Summit has officially kicked off! 1,400 attendees file into the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton to hear our first keynote speakers–Marketo CEO, Phil Fernandez, former Cisco CEO and Marketo board member Sue Bostrom, Debbie Qaqish from the Pedowitz Group, and Alexandre Pelletier from Aquisio. Before the presentation, live Tweets are flashing across the large monitors on stage showcasing the social conversations around #mus12.

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MAY 1, 2012

by Jason Miller Following up on yesterday’s post , I am still reveling in the thought leadership bliss and overflow of insights from last week’s Blueglass LA internet marketing conference. Here are five more key takeaways for the B2B Marketing professional from experts Chris Brogan, Copyblogger’s Brian Clark, SEOmoz’s Jamie Steven, and HARO’s Peter Shankman. 6.

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MAY 9, 2012

by Rajiv Kapoor Lead lifecycle refers to how we manage the life of a lead (or contact or prospect depending on your terminology) from the moment it shows up in the system to deal close. The lead lifecycle defines where a lead can live, how a lead moves along, and what we do with a lead at each stage. Companies typically use a lead lifecycle model for two primary reasons: 1) Preventing sales leads (and potential sales leads ) from falling through the cracks. 2) Reporting on conversion rates throu

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MAY 18, 2012

by Jason Miller The 3rd annual Marketo Summit kicks off next week here in San Francisco, and we are so excited for this year’s lineup. We created this killer infographic that breaks down the event schedule and highlights what will be our biggest and best summit to date. Over 1200 people from 500 plus companies are coming together to increase their skills and learn new strategies around all areas of marketing.

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MAY 17, 2012

by Phil Fernandez Revenue Performance Management (RPM) is much more than improving the effectiveness and efficiency of sales and marketing. In fact, RPM is today enabling organizations – from major health systems and global consumer product companies to web 3.0 start-ups – to transform their revenue processes and realize significant increases in performance and results.

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MAY 11, 2012

by Jason Miller Here at Marketo we are very excited about our upcoming 2012 Global User Summit. We have a stellar lineup of keynotes including LeadMD CEO & Chief Marketing Evangelist, Justin Gray. We are pleased to welcome him to the blog to share strategies and best practices for attracting today’s elusive buyer and rising above the choppy economy to achieve unprecedented revenue growth.

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MAY 14, 2012

by Jason Miller I’m pleased to welcome Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Corporate Visions, as a guest blogger. Corporate Visions helps global business-to-business customers create more sales opportunities, overcome the status quo, and win more deals by improving the conversations sales representatives have with customers.

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Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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MAY 30, 2012

by Kelly Waffle There’s an internationally renowned doughnut chain where people stand in line for 90 minutes just to get one of their hot doughnuts. It has become common practice for each of these doughnut stores to light up a sign when the new, hot doughnuts are ready. Many swear that the hot, glazed, yeast-raised doughnuts taste more like a light, fluffy pastry than a cake doughnut and are well worth the wait, but you have to eat them while they are hot.

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MAY 11, 2012

by Jason Miller Dave Kerpen is the co-founder and CEO of Likeable Media , an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm. He is the author of the New York Times best seller Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook , and speaks at dozens of marketing conferences and webinars each year.

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MAY 8, 2012

I am a sucker for a great infographic just as much as the next guy or gal. My best post of 2012 so far (and by far) is 8 great marketing infographics to inspire you in 2012. With more than 2,400 Retweets, 650 “pins,” 200 LinkedIn shares, 47 “likes” and 45 Google+ shares and 25 comments, I was truly astonished by the amount of support and interest.

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MAY 2, 2012

by Jason Miller The way that most corporations create revenue today is obsolete, if not dysfunctional. Global technological, cultural, and media changes have forever transformed the process of buying and selling, and have left B2B marketing and sales leaders struggling to keep up. Revenue Performance Management , or RPM, is a strategy that shatters outdated practices for B2B marketing and sales and provides the blueprint for a far more effective revenue process for companies big and small.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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MAY 29, 2012

We all love a good list. Last week Forbes released their annual list of most powerful celebrities. Earlier this year, Forbes also gave a rundown of baseball’s most valuable teams. Another thing we love is sports analogies. The sports analogy is often used in business to emphasize goals, strategies, obstacles, personal motivation and teamwork. Why?

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MAY 1, 2012

If you think SEO is the abbreviation for an airport, then you’re in big trouble. If you think customer-focused marketing is about deciding which segment of customers to SPAM, then you’re in big trouble. If you think you need to get some “more of the twitter,” then you’re in really big trouble! The simplest definition of Inbound Marketing is to attract new customers.

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MAY 17, 2012

Yesterday I attended the @ MarketingProfs webcast “ Top Tools For Engaging Your Audience Online.” with Mr. @ Unmarketing himself, Scott Stratten. Scott is the President of his own marketing consulting firm and author of the best-selling book UnMarketing. I have to say I have been following Scott since I first joined Twitter in 2009. He helped to teach me that social media is truly about having conversations and about engagement.

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MAY 24, 2012

#ContentMarketing: The Hottest Marketing Buzzword of 2012. Why? Because as consumers are tuning out marketing messages at all stages of the buying process, conversion rates are starting to plummet. And the cost per lead of many marketing programs is starting to soar. This is all at a time when marketing budgets are feeling the strain of sales’ expectations that marketing will produce more leads and better leads.

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MAY 10, 2012

As promised, here is the second infographic addition to my 8 great marketing infographics to inspire you in 2012. The first one, 18 Stats on the Mobile Market You Need To Know , was posted earlier this week and hopefully caused you to consider your mobile strategy. This next one is called “ The Inbound Marketing Process Infographic.” It comes from Impact Brand and Design and includes 6 steps to inbound marketing success.

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MAY 3, 2012

Why should any marketer consider a search-driven marketing plan? Can’t we just take what we did last year, do 80% of that and add some new bits? You know, we’ll add in some social strategery and what not. Create some viral videos. Update our Facebook page…no? Unfortunately, many marketing plans are built with a few minor modifications to the previous year’s plans and some new buzz words added in.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 31, 2012

by Phil Fernandez Sometimes in life – and in history – everything just converges to create a remarkable moment in time. It’s the kind of moment that you know truly matters, and that you won’t soon forget. This feeling of being part of an important moment was almost palpable during our recent Marketo Summit here in San Francisco (which was celebrating its own big moment with the 75 th Anniversary of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge).

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MAY 8, 2012

by Jason Miller The Marketo 2012 Global User Summit is right around the corner and we have a stellar lineup of keynotes including Debbie Qaqish, Chief Revenue Officer at the Pedowitz Group. We are pleased to welcome her to the Modern B2B Marketing blog where she discusses how to transform marketing from a cost center to a revenue driver. Please tell us a little bit about The Pedowitz Group and how your company aligns to deliver/support cloud services to your customers?

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MAY 22, 2012

by Jason Miller Jeff Cohen is a Social Strategist at Radian6 , a social media monitoring platform that allows businesses to monitor, discover, and engage in discussions on the social web. Additionally, he is the co-founder and Managing Editor of SocialMediaB2B.com and the author of The B2B Social Media Book. With over 20 years of experience, Jeff is an expert when it comes to all things B2B marketing and social media.

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MAY 10, 2012

by Phil Fernandez. As marketing and sales teams become more aligned in the modern economy, it’s important for marketers to not only focus on soft or “vanity metrics,” but to learn to convey revenue language that matters to CEOs and CFOs. Marketing Metrics that Matter was posted at Modern B2B Marketing - Marketo Best Practices Blog. | [link].

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MAY 4, 2012

by Liz Smyth In the final part of our Marketing in a Downturn series, we’re examining the importance of getting your sales and marketing teams aligned. (Read Part 1: Lead Generation and Nurture and Part 2: Content, Content, Content.). Historically, the relationship between marketing and sales has been (to put it politely) problematic, with lots of finger-pointing, and lots of valuable sales leads falling through the gaps between the two functions.

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MAY 15, 2012

In this video, SAP’s CMO Jonathan Becher (@ jbecher ), discussed “brand journalism, disclosure, and sponsored content” with one of the leading independent analysts in the IT industry, Jon Reed (@ JonERP ). I was thrilled that they discussed the launch of our Business Innovation website where I am the chief editor ( disclosure: I am a paid SAP employee. ).

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