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JULY 31, 2012

by Jason Miller It’s a business-eat-business universe and B2B marketers today must utilize social media channels if they want a chance at surviving alone in the deep recesses of space. Businesses that understand the importance of adding social elements to their marketing campaigns empower customers and prospects to share with their networks. This peer-to-peer word of mouth messaging is highly trusted and very effective in amplifying the impact of your campaigns.

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JULY 12, 2012

So how is your 2012 shaping up? Are you achieving the business and personal branding goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the year? The latest trends in marketing all center around hype and buzzwords like Social Media , Content Marketing , Mobile Marketing and the ubiquity of digital and customer experience. But as recent studies demonstrate, marketers are being left behind by the digital age and our marketing leaders feel unprepared with how to deal with it all.

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JULY 2, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. (Don’t worry I won’t hurt any I’m strictly a catch and release kind of guy.) While I am away, I have a great lineup of guest bloggers filling my shoes. This post is brought to you from Dave Kerpen. Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable , a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands, including Verizon and Neutrogena.

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JULY 24, 2012

by Jason Miller A study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment by 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours. This mundane task is just one of many everyday work habits that may be standing in the way of your company’s efforts to boost productivity and increase sales.

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JULY 17, 2012

by Jason Miller Instagram is on the bullet train for total photo-marketing domination, and with its user base expanding faster than the universe, it provides a cornucopia of opportunity for B2B marketing. Its simplicity allows for a wide variety of applications and it is quickly becoming an essential element to any successful visual content marketing strategy.

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JULY 11, 2012

by Jon Miller The 4-1-1 rule for Twitter was popularized by Tippingpoint Labs and Joe Pulizzi, founder of Junta42 and the Content Marketing Institute. (The earliest use I can find is Add Value on Twitter: The 4-1-1 Rule , and I first heard it at Joe’s presentation at OMS in San Diego last year.) The rule states that: For every one self-serving tweet, you should re-tweet one relevant tweet and most importantly share four pieces of relevant content written by others.

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JULY 20, 2012

by Ravali Ravulapati When I get unwanted and unsolicited emails from someone I don’t know, the first thing I do is look for the unsubscribe link. Yet, I’m still struggling with the fact that often when I’ve asked to be “unsubscribed,” an email somehow manages to sneak through to my inbox. This is when I start to doubt myself, “wait a minute, I thought I unsubscribed last time, but maybe I didn’t?

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JULY 30, 2012

by Kieran Flanagan In our post Go Local: Six Ways to get International Marketing Right, we ran through 6 key areas that your business needed to get right when expanding into new regional markets. In this follow up post we are going to look at how you can go local with your inbound marketing efforts. When you create the right inbound marketing machine for your company, prospects are naturally drawn towards your content as they look for information around a topic relevant to a product you may be

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JULY 6, 2012

by Dayna Rothman Today’s fast paced business culture is more fluid and mobile than ever before, and as a result a large number of emails get checked on a mobile device or tablet. In fact, the Radicati Group estimates that by 2016 over 730 million accounts will be accessed from mobile devices. That is a LOT of email being looked at and responded to via mobile phone–so it is probably safe to assume that your customers and prospects are all checking email while on the go.

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JULY 27, 2012

by Dayna Rothman You are working on your social media strategy and have determined your target audience, messaging, and how you plan to participate. You have even assigned a resource specifically to manage your social media presence and have begun to see some great results. Now you want to roll it out company wide and encourage your employees to participate.

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JULY 25, 2012

by Dayna Rothman I’m pleased to introduce, editor of DemandGen Report , Andrew Gaffney as a guest blogger. DemandGen Report is a targeted e-media publication spotlighting the strategies and solutions that b2b companies better align sales, marketing and disparate teams to support growth and drive revenue. Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising sec

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JULY 13, 2012

by Dayna Rothman I have been working on a project to clean up our content at Marketo and the idea for this blog post leaped to my mind! Well, to be fair a co-worker’s mind, BUT I was obviously the better person to write the post since I am Marketing Program Manager for all things content. Creating content is a fantastic way to fuel your inbound marketing methods, but too often companies focus primarily on creating content, and not enough on cleaning it up.

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JULY 18, 2012

by Kelly Waffle What is MOFU? No, it is not the latest disease that can be treated with a prescription drug with dozens of side effects including death as we see on television all the time! But left untreated MOFU is a serious condition that is proven to make thousands of advanced marketers very sick. MOFU is the M iddle O f the FU nnel stage in a marketer’s lead funnel or revenue cycle.

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JULY 2, 2012

by Jason Miller Last week I attended the AllFacebook Conference here in San Francisco. Two gloriously informative days of nothing but thought leaders talking about the latest trends and best practices in the world of Facebook marketing. Incredibly insightful sessions and presentations from the likes of Dennis Yu, Marty Weintraub, Robert Scoble, and Brian Carter just to name a few.

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

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JULY 9, 2012

by Dayna Rothman I was driving to work the other day and the song “The Freshman” by the Verve Pipe starting playing on XM radio’s Lithium channel–the Lithium channel being my all-time favorite 90s alternative music station. I immediately got excited and started enthusiastically singing along–even remembering a Verve Pipe and K’s Choice concert my friends took me to see back in New Haven, Connecticut.

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JULY 3, 2012

by Ravali Ravulapati. With the increasing importance of email marketing , spam proofing your content is one of the most important tasks in today’s marketing. Businesses are having a tough time grabbing their readers’ attention and retaining interest in their offered product or services. One important aspect of compiling effective and professional marketing emails is making sure that your intended audience actually receives your carefully composed marketing material.

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JULY 10, 2012

by Jason Miller Lead-to-revenue management is a set of disciplines that can be strongly supported by marketing automation , but marketers need to focus on process to make L2RM automation initiatives a success. This infographic, based on independent research from Forrester, gives a visual representation of how marketers can make the most of their L2RM investments by keeping a few things in mind: be honest about your marketing process maturity, identify what capabilities you really need, and devel

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JULY 26, 2012

by Heather Watkins Being in customer marketing, I am always looking for new and better ways to identify and empower our most active customers. Enter the Marketo Champion program that was launched in June of 2011. The purpose of the program was to reward and celebrate our biggest brand advocates. We’ve now “inducted” 50 customers into the program and it has been an enormous success.

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

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JULY 10, 2012

Yesterday was my 3-year twitter anniversary. To celebrate, I sent one small “ humble brag ” as one of my twitter friends called it. Hey, I’m a late-comer: @ jack sent his 1st tweet over 6 years ago! In the course of those 3 years, I have interacted with some of the smartest business and marketing people on the planet. I sent over 18,000 tweets.

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JULY 26, 2012

Maybe it’s just me, but sometimes I just sick of reading (and writing) articles but still have the desire to consume or share great content. That’s why I spend a lot of time on Pinterest , scanning people’s pictures on Facebook and on Slideshare. And While some people think slides are a sign of the downfall of civilization, they can be an effective way to deliver a message, make a business case and walk others through a process.

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JULY 23, 2012

by Kieran Flanagan Is your company planning to expand internationally? Entering a new geographical market offers great opportunities to increase revenues and profits, but it can also be a daunting prospect for B2B marketers who have only focused on one territory before. International Marketing alone is difficult to get right. Marketo expanded into Europe last year, with an integrated marketing campaign that saw us increase our EMEA customer base by more than 200% in 12 months.

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JULY 5, 2012

by Ravali Ravulapati We are all living in a world of content saturation: texts, videos, podcasts, webinars, tweets and social networks are all feeding us information about a company, product, or service. In B2B marketing , the challenge is making your brand stand out amongst the noise. As a marketer, how do you find the right venue that encourages customer engagement?

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JULY 19, 2012

by Paul Albright Since becoming Chief Revenue Officer at Marketo, I’ve uncovered a lot of like-minded companies and consultants who really get the concept of a single revenue team. One person I’ve met recently is Rick McPartlin, a revenue generation consultant, coach and speaker, and CEO of The Revenue Game. I’ve invited Rick to share his insights on “Meaningful Metrics” for a revenue team.

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JULY 17, 2012

Is your marketing strategy driven by what you have to sell or the market needs you best fulfill? If there’s one theme that weaves through most of my content, it’s that successful marketing together it’s a relentless focus on the customer. And the biggest marketing mistake you can make is to just focus on what you have to sell. I often use one of my favorite inspirational quotes on marketing from Peter Drucker: “the aim of marketing is to know the customer so well that the product or service fits

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JULY 19, 2012

OK, I admit it. I am a sucker for a great slideshare presentation. I subscribe to a number of respected marketers, business people and brands who create slideshare presentations I think are worth reviewing. And then I like to review them here. Last week I saw this great presentation from Jeff Bullas (@ JeffBullas ) from the land down under. It’s called “ How to Win in a Digital Economy.” Jeff writes some of the best blog articles on social media marketing, so I knew his slides

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JULY 24, 2012

If you grew up watching television back in the 1980′s, you couldn’t miss the popular show “ The A-Team.” It included a motley cast of characters who were branded as outlaws but who always fought to protect the innocent, fight the bad guys and generally create havoc wherever they went. George Peppard played their leader and always ended every show with the line “I love it when a plan comes together.” I was reminded of this last week when thinking about building

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JULY 16, 2012

by Fergus Gloster Everyone in Europe is challenged with today’s economic climate. Companies that have looked to reduce costs over the past few years need to focus more on the top line. But how can you grow revenue without spending more? It’s a paradox. The answer lies in what you are doing already and also in what you are not doing. The vast majority of marketing departments are finding success with lead generation (Good!

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JULY 31, 2012

Do not read this blog post. Really! In fact, don’t read any blog posts. Blogs are a waste of time. People who write blogs have too much time on their hands, have nothing unique to say and probably do not have a job. You will not learn anything from this blog or anyone else’s blog. So if you read this far, you are wasting your time. Other people have nothing to teach you.

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JULY 12, 2012

by Maria Pergolino The other day someone commented on a blog post I had written about the importance of onboarding when using a marketing automation solution. To help those considering any online marketing tool (not just marketing automation ), I thought I would write a list of the 12 most important things to look for when purchasing. Before I get started I wanted mention that the smaller the company, the more important services are likely to be.

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JULY 12, 2012

by Jessica Langensand This week, we were invited to join GlobalSpec’s Industrial Marketing Digital Summit. While it was geared primarily towards marketers in the industrial sector, this virtual event offered valuable advice for any B2B marketer. Presentations centered around issues that we all face as marketers, such as: how to prove ROI, tips for succeeding in the social sphere, and guidelines to generate quality leads.

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