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by Jason Miller Are you a Right-Brain or a Left-Brain Marketer? Psychologists and personality theorists have long believed there to be differences between the right and the left side of the brain. The right side of your brain is responsible for creativity, while the left side handles the details and implementation. The left side is analytical while the right side is artistic.
It’s the dawn of a New Year and maybe you are looking for some marketing inspiration as you set your 2012 objectives and plan for the year ahead. And if you are trying to drive positive change in your organization, sometimes a picture is better than a thousand powerpoint decks. So to help you, I have curated some of my favorite marketing infographics that touch on some of the most important issues in marketing today like online marketing, content strategy, inbound marketing, mobile marketi
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by Jason Miller Want to know the ROI of social media? So do we. With our latest Facebook campaign, we are doing just that; tying leads generated by Facebook directly into our revenue pipeline via Marketo. How did we do it? We developed a custom Facebook application that generates a special offer and is powered by a Marketo form. Sticking with our Revenue Rockstar theme, we designed three limited edition “Marketing Rockstar” decals.
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by Jason Miller It can be difficult to stand out in the fast paced world of social media, but having a well branded cohesive design across your social profiles can help differentiate your business from the masses. Doing so will help reinforce your brand with existing customers and give a fantastic first impression to new prospects. We just finished a complete social media profile redesign across all of our channels and we are thrilled with the results.
by Jason Miller LinkedIn is often considered a jobseeker-only social media platform. As a result, B2B marketers sometimes overlook the professional social media site’s ability to support lead generation and qualification. LinkedIn enables brands to offer bite size chunks of content that support business objectives. To better understand LinkedIn’s value, it’s useful to understand its usage patterns.
by Jason Miller How do entrepreneurs feel about their small businesses in 2012? Things are looking up as 40% of small businesses reveal that they feel “optimistic” about their business prospects in the New Year, and for good reason. Analysts say the economy may have grown by as much as 3 percent from October to December of 2011, representing the largest growth since the Spring of 2010 – not too shabby.
by Jason Miller Do you have a good marketing dashboard in place? Your marketing campaigns and programs generate a huge amount of data, and dashboards are perhaps the best way to visualize, understand, and provide insight into their performance. In order to create the perfect marketing dashboard, you need to determine the right number of metrics to best understand what is really going on with your data.
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Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective
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by Jason Miller I’m pleased to welcome Heidi Bullock, Sr. Director of Marketing at Ingenuity Systems as a guest blogger. She discusses thought leadership and how she developed a successful campaign to overcome the challenge of accurately measuring her thought leadership efforts. For b-to-b organizations, thought leadership is a critical component for driving awareness, sparking excitement, and creating engagement within a very skeptical market.
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by Maria Pergolino Have you ever stopped to think which segment of marketers hold the bag on marketing effectiveness when it comes to social media? Many might think that B2Cs clearly leverage social better than B2Bs. However, the numbers show that B2Bs are making up ground. A study by Accenture found that while B2Bs lag in integrating social media into marketing plans, they are realizing the value of social media use.
by Maria Pergolino I’m pleased to welcome Mike Nierengarten, Founder of Obility Consulting , an internet marketing company as a guest blogger. Mike has spent the last 7 years driving increases in revenue & lowering customer acquisition costs for his clients by optimizing their online marketing tactics. The value of a lead is relative. Most marketing departments would be more comfortable handing off a lead from sballmer@microsoft.com than one from anonymous@gmail.com.
by Jason Miller With 2011 now in the history books I thought it would be interesting to collect Marketo’s most popular blog posts from the past year and revisit them as a Greatest Hits collection. What you won’t see are song titles scrolling across your screen as with the classic TV commercials enticing you to order. Instead I present to you the most popular Marketo blog posts from 2011 based on views and shares.
by Rick Siegfried It’s a new year, a clean slate, and a chance to review and tweak your daily processes. It’s a known tradition to declare a resolution to make significant changes to various aspects of your life, and the same holds true in a business environment. If you’re having trouble figuring out what should be your professional declaration of change, try looking at your personal life for inspiration.
Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader
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I have always believed that those who can’t lead, are forced to resort to the tactic of fear in order to get people to listen and follow them. I mean, let’s face it: fear is a powerful force in the human mind. There are some prognosticators that would have you believe that 2012 is going to be a bleak year for business. The Euro zone will continue to implode, Iran will develop a nuke, The U.S. government will become insolvent and the world, as we know it, is going to end.
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