Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

You must keep a constant eye on mentions of your brand, your products and your services in order to survive in this market landscape. There are several types of conversations that you can encounter out on the social web anything from a complaint to a compliment to what I like to call the Expressed Need.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? First was the post on the Media Budget Ratio (MBR) for a B2B company. According to the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) which, full disclosure, I am a member and an avid fan of their work. So here is my take ….

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 10, 2013

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Commerce Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Experience eCommerce Interactive Marketing Personalization Testing. Or doubling your conversion rate? Many marketers get this wrong. But the rewards of it means a lot more return traffic, and a lot more improved conversions.

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Conversation Buy SEO Affiliate marketing 203

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 23, 2013

Posted in Advertising Applications Branding Content Marketing Customer Experience Facebook Inbound Marketing Listening Personalization Social Media. It’s important for marketers to give fans new ways to connect and advance their relationship with the brand or product being promoted. You’re not alone.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2010

Facebook made its initial announcement of Project Titan to the market on February 5th and was candidly thought to be a Google Gmail killer. I still get questions from B2B firms asking if they should start a presence in Facebook and the answer is unequivocally YES. So 3 days later on February 8th Google announced Google Buzz !

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

And once you have identified the conversations where you think a sales opportunity may be occurring you need to feed that into your listening platform so you can flag those opportunities when they come in. Related posts: Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing.

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B2B Platform Social Media Marketing 225

Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The impact of that can be felt in B2C as well as B2B Marketing. There are fewer numbers of print publications remaining and every company’s marketing department wants to garner more traditional press. PR becomes this amorphous blob that can move into many adjacent markets. Let me explain ….

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 20, 2013

Many marketers may not realize that catering specifically to this type of consumer can actually increase conversion rates, while maintaining your image as a green-friendly organization. By watching the results on conversions and bookings, you’ll be able to nail down who your green travelers are, and what they are looking for most.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve been working with many B2B companies to help them figure out when and how to use social media in their business. One area that few people have written about is how to use social media for solution marketing. 1) Is there a market for your solution? 1) Is there a market for your solution?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

You can call it Inbound Marketing (like the folks at HubSpot do) or you could call it Content Marketing (like the folks at Junta42 do) but whatever you call it its the basis for all your online activity. Gary defines in the how to build your personal brand sense of commenting on blogs and inserting yourself in to conversations.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 18, 2012

But when it comes to marketing, there has always been a bit of the “black box” effect. Marketing is the one major budget item that traditionally has been the hardest to understand and measure from a traditional business performance standpoint. Download this report to learn about the emerging role of social media analysis.

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Marketing Metrics B2B ROI 206

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 29, 2013

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Business Intelligence Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Enterprise 2.0 Interactive Marketing Online Testing Strategy. The good news is, there are technologies and tools that make it much easier to find the gold hidden in the data—and use it to refine your online marketing with laser precision.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Which means, as a sales channel, it will either supplement or replace other marketing platforms—namely, brick-and-mortar store locations, online stores like Amazon and eBay , and/or standalone ecommerce sites. So how can mobile consumer data improve sales and marketing efforts? 1. Using data for real-time content targeting.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. The four P’s were created mainly to describe the ideal “marketing mix.”. Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing?

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B2B Engineering ROI Social Media 209

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2011

This is why PR needs to move from fixating on getting ink in Publications to getting digital ink in Conversations. The challenge for all of us is to explain to senior leadership and members of the board that getting into hundreds of conversations online is better than a mention in the Wall Street Journal!

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Social Media Microblogging B2B Journal 213

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 4, 2011

I met Luke at the ITSMA Marketing Leaders event back in May of this year and I committed to Luke to train my entire leadership team in the art and science of Innovation Games. Need to prioritize a list of marketing initiatives? – Related posts: B2B Marketing needs a stronger Why Last year I wrote about how the balance of content.

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Marketing Collaboration Buy Training 229

Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

They identified around 60 Million conversations (per year) across blogs, microblogs such as Twitter, discussion forums and social networks like Facebook and other enabling technologies such as YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr relating to Energy. These were the three broadest terms that applied to the most relevant conversations about energy.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 5, 2013

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Business Intelligence Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Interactive Marketing Internet Search SEO Strategy User Generated Content. Don’t be afraid to track mobile marketing separately from other web campaigns; according to Google’s study, mobile-only campaigns perform 11.5%

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Bazaarvoice Mobile How To Focus Group 230

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Conversion Optimization Online Testing Web Analytics Web Design. Using a combination of online testing, web analytics and CRM data, today’s marketers know what actual people, doing actual searches, on their actual sites are actually thinking—and responding to—when in the browse and buy mode.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 21, 2010

Using a tool like Networked Insights you can take that data and start to understand where the conversations about your brand are happening most, and what the tone or sentiment of those conversations are. Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

A recent Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) survey found that only 20% of CMO’s felt social media produced measurable ROI and 62% hoped it may someday. B2B marketers often host bi-annual advisory boards or annual user group meetings and these are just screaming for a way to keep them connected via a tool like on online community.

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Social Media Jive ROI Press Release 198

Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

Element #1 – Advertising – like most lead nurturing platforms today they allow tracking of your ad spend online – specifically spend on Google AdWords and the conversions from online banners (CPC and CPM spend). Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 3, 2018

Anyone who claims that business is all about logic and data needs to get a reality-check; Marketers are perhaps the worst offenders here, much to their detriment. Of late, Marketers have suffered from a deep alienation from the real essences of their profession and we hope that 2018 will usher in a return to sanity.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2011

Many BtoB organizations these days are spending time and money to listen to the conversations that are happening about their brand, which is a basic essential for any brand. Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing.

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Social Media B2B ROI Advertising 205

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

So here is a little fact that really scares me – User Generated Content has surpassed that of publisher content which means we marketers (or publishers) are the “white noise” to the User Generated Content “signal” they produce. The dynamic I am pointing out exists for most brands today B2C and B2B brands.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

3 More ROIs in Social Media – Conversations Leads and Advocates If you follow me you know I talk a lot. Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing. Related posts: Social Customer Support: AT&T is doing it Right!

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Brands Reputation ROI Case Study 243

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

As a PR and Marketing specialist it is becoming mandatory for businesses today to identify the communities that are actively defining and shaping the future of your business in places like blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, as well as traditional media. Tags: PR Buzz Marketing. Full Disclosure: BearingPoint is a Beta Client of BuzzGain.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A recent Forrester report called The Intelligent Approach to Customer Intelligence does a good job outlining the challenges of creating data that can truly be used for driving strategic marketing decisions (what they call Strategic Intelligence). But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A recent Forrester report called The Intelligent Approach to Customer Intelligence does a good job outlining the challenges of creating data that can truly be used for driving strategic marketing decisions (what they call Strategic Intelligence). But for most B2B marketers like myself – we tend to optimize by the channel of data that we have.

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Data Vocus Radian6 StumbleUpon 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Agile marketing increasingly is being recognized as a powerful key to content effectiveness. Breaking news creates windows of opportunities, but only if marketers are quick and smart enough to take advantage of them. But professional service firms often impose inherent drags on marketing response. The quick or the dead.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Evidence for them to start a conversation around your solution and gauge whether there is a need with the potential buyer they are talking to. I think Story Telling is going to be a huge component of the marketers tool kit going forward since the web and social media adore good stories. Spray and Pray Marketing 2.0

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B2B Case Study Marketing StumbleUpon 207

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Stuart has spent his working life in the B2B media space. So I can't help but think there must be something redeeming here for businesses. ON24 is a global provider of webcasting and virtual events solutions.

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Eventful Strategy Virtual World B2B 109

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Leads – Listening for mentions of your brand or product or even competitors brands is a great way to find leads – evidence I have when listening for the competitors of Avaya – if I hear someone say “replace Cisco” – don’t you think that’s a conversation Avaya should be engaged in? Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on Reddit.

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ROI Conversation Social Media Loyalty 274

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 26, 2010

In a recent conversation I was having with the Bloom Group they believe “the practice of publishing white papers must come to a close because of the utter proliferation of white papers, and the poor content contained within so many of them.” Creating Engagement in B2B Marketing A recent Cone Inc.’s Kill the white paper!”

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B2B eBook Marketing Aggregator 252

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

3) Cross functional participation is important - but consensus is only a “nice to have&# : Much of the long range benefits from doing this work brilliantly accrues from driving cross functional execution(Marketing/Support/Business Units). The social side is interesting when it comes up in B2B or B2C. Go join that! at Kevin P.

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Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

TV certainly isn't working for the creation of new consumer or B2B brands. There is just too much noise out there to shout at people. No consumer brand has been built on the back of traditional media for a while now. Start doing things for people not to them. It's an obligation and it up to you!

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Social Networking B2B Cost Brands 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Leading up to the day of the event and even on the day of the event we again saw huge traffic coming to the site from social again approximately 10% of the traffic and 50% of the conversions were from social. Related posts: Influencers vs Advocates in B2B Marketing According to Wikipedia – Influencer Marketing is a form of.

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