Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for B2B Marketers next year? Keep in mind we all start in the same place and that’s at ZERO!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 14, 2010

In a recent BusinessWeek article featuring Tony Hsieh from Zappos – they closed with a quote from Tony “Sharing is how we build our brand.&# Whether you are a CMO’s of a B2C or B2B Marketing team the key in this next decade is sharing and the key to sharing is Content! Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2009

One of the great things about the Facebook platform is that it provides you access to a large audience of over 200 Million people worldwide at a low cost. So let’s go through some of your options when it comes to the tactics of social networking marketing. So try to direct them to someplace on your Facebook Fan page.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 11, 2010

Whether you’re on the Facebook home page, reading comments on a friends’ Walls, or playing your favorite Facebook game, you have probably noticed at least one advertisement running on the right hand side on the page. Share this on Facebook. These ads are available to anyone with an advertising budget, from $1 to $1 billion.

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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. Now take that same dynamic and put that in front of your brand. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 19, 2010

We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing. The four P’s were created mainly to describe the ideal “marketing mix&#. The term “marketing mix&# became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his 1964 article, Concept of the Marketing Mix. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 25, 2010

Could Apple’s decision to sell exclusively through AT&T be the very decision that kills there brand? Currently you really have 4 major operating systems in the mobile space (in order of market share trajectory): Blackberry 33% and declining, Android 27% and rising, Apple 23% and declining, and Microsoft 11% and declining (see graphic).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 3, 2011

So I have been thinking about a parallel article that would apply in the social media space as people try to effectively read what is being said on mediums like Twitter and Facebook about their brand. I think brands need to focus on the broader content being used about a brand.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Join guest host Jeff Ogden and special guest Paul Dunay, CMO of Networked Insights and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies, as they discuss: Recent changes in B2B marketing. Facebook’s IPO and what it means for marketers. New social media tools for B2B marketers. Marketing needs to be more Adaptive!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 25, 2013

Posted in Innovation Interactive Marketing Strategy. Moreover, marketing has become so deeply entwined with technology. But because technology had been so tangential to marketing management for most of our history, the organizational structure of marketing has been slow to adjust to this new technology-centric reality.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Said differently, I think they are looking for Marketing Technologists! This got me thinking about an idea I’ve had for the past year about the need for a new role in the marketing organization: Marketing Technologist. In researching the concept further, I came across the Chief Marketing Technologist blog by Scott Brinker.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s no secret that the rise of computer apps is transforming both the marketing and customer experience. Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Christian Brucculeri, the CEO at mobile messaging company Snaps, a developer of chatbots and other marketing technology products for companies. Creating conversations, not messaging. “We

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

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? Few marketers do the social-focused research ahead of time to determine the market. The answer is always a bit different depending on the product or service. So there you have it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

But as a Social media marketer, we believe in the power of a world where consumers are more connected to friends and brands, but when it comes to convincing the C-suite how and why, oftentimes they find themselves pointing to indeterminate measures of success such as Facebook Likes.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Which means Publishers (or Marketers) are now the “white noise” in comparison to User Generated Content. Notice that marketers don’t make that list (duh) but also think about how much more content you have been getting from those sources now that social media has arrived. Share this on Facebook. Enter Simon Sinek.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 11, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution. But for B2B Marketing fans I think you need to expand your game around search to start include what I am calling … LinkedIn Search Optimization (LSO). Personal branding expert Dan Schawbel suggests that your profiles should be rich in keywords that anyone would be searching for.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

And the payoff for such engagement is evident in the 53 percent who already say they have developed a stronger connection to a brand through social media encounters. Years ago on this blog I remember saying “measuring engagement is hard since there is no one button you can push as a marketer to measure it&#. Measuring Engagement.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for BtoB for marketers next year? Here are 10 concrete ways I think the environment in which BtoB Marketers operate will evolve in 2010. Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. It combines a few things you might have read about into one new concept around social media – the 4 P’s of Social Media marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Another Advertising Week in New York is upon us and so far I have seen some great presentations from companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quantcast, comScore, and even Yahoo! We often throw this idea around as marketers – “being relevant”, but few people discuss how! The results were different than I thought (see below).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

According to the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) which, full disclosure, I am a member and an avid fan of their work. If you blow up the chart you can see that Social Media as a percentage of your overall interactive spend has grown from 13 percent of budget to 14 percent of budget for B2B Technology Marketers. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Trust is not a new thing when it comes to marketing and communications as evidenced by one of the most awaited studies in the communications world is always the annual Edelman Public Relations Trust Barometer. This is actually good news for the B2B Marketer. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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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

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. This one is harder to find since they didn’t directly mention a particular brand name. But its worth it if that question is so relevant to your brand. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

On the other hand, if you seek alternatives to traditional market research, then you need a vendor that specializes in sentiment capture and community analysis. If you are focused on market research, or messaging effectiveness then you should work with a vendor that tracks social media and user-generated sources. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content is Media&#. If you have been following my thoughts on the 4 C’s of Marketing – it all starts with content. Building a solid content creation engine is critical to B2B marketers today. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 9, 2010

At the recent ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum I was stunned by a presentation given by Sean Geehan CEO of the Geehan Group author of the upcoming book the B2B Executive Playbook. Which is what the CEO and the market wants from you anyway!). Its time to start embracing those few people in ways B2B marketers haven’t before.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 28, 2010

According to Wikipedia – Influencer Marketing is a form of marketing that has emerged from a variety of recent practices and studies, in which focus is placed on specific key individuals (or types of individual) rather than the target market as a whole. They are “advocates&# of the Avaya brand.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

So that begs the question - what’s on the horizon specifically for BtoB for marketers next year? Here are 10 concrete ways I think the environment in which BtoB Marketers operate will evolve in 2010. Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

On Facebook you can’t be a Friend of a brand but you can be a Fan of a brand. Brands are the sum total of the experience a customer has when they are interacting with your brand. But on Facebook that interaction is relatively low and un-engaging. It’s the people of the brand that can make the difference.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 11, 2008

As the economy twists and turns with more layoffs mounting – having a strong personal brand is becoming ever more important from a career perspective. To get some more clarity on this I interviewed Dan Schawbel the author of the Personal Branding blog. Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (due out with Kaplan in April 09).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

With this evolution, brands are now leveraging the once lowly hashtag as a strategic tool to unify campaigns and connect with customers. Companies like Volvo have taken steps to use specific branded hashtags like #SwedeSpeak and #MyFirstVolvo to interact with specific consumers about particular topics. We all make mistakes.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2013

As more and more marketers are discovering, it’s impossible to think about any digital or e-commerce strategy without acknowledging the critical importance of the overall Hispanic population on today’s electronic marketplace. To be sure, Hispanics are not a monolithic and homogenous market. According to the U.S.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 11, 2011

One of the big mistakes I often see with companies when they are setting up a Page on Facebook is they spend more time planning “the wedding than they do the marriage” as I like to say. All this is needed to get people to engage with your brand specifically in the form of “likeing” and commenting on it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 29, 2013

Interactive Marketing Online Testing Strategy. For sure, online marketers who make sense of big data are going to be better able to build customer experiences around hard data and evidence rather than on hunches and guesswork. The most successful marketers are optimizing and refining all the time. We see this every day.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 4, 2009

Almost a year ago, July 23rd 2008, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Connect, which gives any website the power of a social network like Facebook right there on its own website. This scenario illustrated the power of a new era of what we will call Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM). So what you say?

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