Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 13, 2011

So we deployed our social data analysts to look at the Lady Gaga audience and our client’s audience to see if indeed there was a good fit for this brand. Marketers are aware that for decades celebrity endorsements has proven to be a successful tactic for brands to influence consumer preference. I hope you will enjoy this report.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 3, 2011

Over the weekend I got to meet with Romi Mahajan the World Wide Director of the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft. I was really surprised and excited to learn that Microsoft is taking the Digital Marketing place very seriously since they are one of the largest players in the space!

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Sharepoint Microsoft Marketing Content management systems 261

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! And I couldn’t help but agree.

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Brands Hubspot Social Capital StumbleUpon 213

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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iPhone Brands Apple Microsoft 218

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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B2B Marketing Mobile CPM 279

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Have your marketing efforts evolved with them? Marketing at the peak of the television era was relatively simple. There were broadcast shows that could give brands tremendous reach. As a marketer, how do you possibly compete for attention within this constant stream of information? The answer: You don’t. Sound daunting?

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Social Media Marketing Compete Retail 240

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. Share this on Linkedin.

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B2B Marketing StumbleUpon Patterns 277

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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Marketing iPad Applications B2B 265

Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Hindered by a small market budget, Beane embraced alternative statistics, or what marketers might call “KPIs”, to find undervalued players. The parallels between the almost ten year old book and the experience of marketing in today’s digital world didn’t escape me. We’re card counters.

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Marketing Loyalty Statistics ROI 225

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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Mobile Marketing Exercises Applications 225

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2008

There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not brands should be on Twitter. Quite frankly I really enjoy and appreciate some of the brands that I follow on Twitter because they give me news about their brand without me having to go find it. Brands need to think before they tweet!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Business and consumer brands have traditionally approached marketing from two totally different vantage points. While there are always going to be distinct differences between b2b and b2c marketing practices, B2B websites must make some B2C-inspired adjustments to keep up with savvy consumers. 2) Start testing, seriously.

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B2B Marketing Case Study Buy 252

Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

And, like the contemplations of communication theorist Marshall McLuhan, they have taken on new meaning with the collision of traditional and digital marketing strategies. In 2009 Forrester issued a report that outlined the world of interactive marketers in the digital space. It’s about the death of traditional marketing.

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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. Last year I wrote about how the balance of content has shifted.

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B2B Marketing Airlines StumbleUpon 243

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Chief Marketing Officers take pride in being the trendsetters around the corporate corral – the arbiters of hip, the sharpest dressers, the consummate gadgeteers. Each year the Marketing team works hard to distill consumer insights into planning documents that will guide its programs in the months ahead. Now that’s cool.

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Marketing Sentiment Analysis Data 194

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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Social Media Jive Marketing B2B 230

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

MAY 16, 2012

Traditionally, marketers think of outcomes like they think of the weather – you sit back and see what happens. Social media allows the marketer to jump into the fray and to CREATE outcomes instead of being a victim. Passivity is anathema to today’s marketer, brand manager, media buyer/planner, advertiser, and content creator.

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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. So let’s dive into that for a moment ….

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Brands Content Microsoft StumbleUpon 227

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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B2B Engagement Marketing Sentiment 206

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. Social data and what it means to B2B marketers.

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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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ROI Marketing Fashion Real Estate 87

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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Social Media Marketing B2B StumbleUpon 250

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. Building demand for their unique point of view. Email this to a friend?

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B2B ROI Communities Marketing 178

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 17, 2015

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of How to Market and Sell to the Modern Buyer. We discussed the changes marketing departments need to make or address in order to keep up with today’s buying habits.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2011

However, if there is one thing that is becoming painfully clear to me is the need to be relevant to your audience – whether you are advertising to them, being social with them, or just creating the right kind of conversations about your brand. We often throw this idea around as marketers – “being relevant”, but few people discuss how!

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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. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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B2B Social Media Marketing Sample 206

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 Reddit. Stumble upon something good?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 5, 2014

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Transforming Events into Meaningful Experiences: Lessons in Real-Time Marketing. Amber set the stage with a discussion of Real-Time Marketing (RTM) and some examples of companies doing it right.

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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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B2B LinkedIn Marketing StumbleUpon 277

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Having taken on this new role of blogging on the Personal Branding Blog , I naturally have been looking at many of the other personal brands that are out there. So what does your Personal Brand stand for? But as I review them I also do a review of my own personal brand and where I want to drive my own brand.

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Brands Microsoft Cost Review 109

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. Can you stick to it?

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B2B Content Marketing StumbleUpon 187

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.

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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

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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