Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. The other version of this is the mapping of content to your buyer types and this too is one I have ignored for a while … until now! Share this on Facebook. I would love to know.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. The other version of this is the mapping of content to your buyer types and this too is one I have ignored for a while … until now! Share this on Facebook. I would love to know.

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Types Content Case Study Press Release 255

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

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

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

APRIL 6, 2010

But Facebook? It involves seeing from the front end of the sale all the way to the consummation of the sale and I believe Facebook has or is planning to have some of the most critical elements all on their platform (and all for free!). A very powerful side benefit of being on the Facebook platform. (to

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last year I wrote about how the balance of content has shifted. Bottom line is there is more content being produced by Users than by Publishers these days. Which means Publishers (or Marketers) are now the “white noise” in comparison to User Generated Content. Our messages are being drowned out by user generated content.

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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

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. Share this on Facebook. So let’s dive into that for a moment …. Tweet This!

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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

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

MARCH 7, 2012

After last weeks show, guest host Jeff Ogden and B2B marketing expert, Paul Dunay discuss: - Marketing at a small company versus a larger company. Approaches for creating engaging content. - MadMarketingTV is sponsored by Act-On Software: Marketing Automation for the Fortune 5 Million. Visit [link] to learn more.

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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

MARCH 2, 2010

Over the last few years of writing this blog I have talked a lot about the virtues of creating a steady stream of content that is consistent in its frequency to bring people back to your site time and time again. Share this on Facebook. Related posts: B2B Marketing Content: Lure or Lasso? Measuring Engagement. Tweet This!

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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

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

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

JULY 28, 2010

If you ask the members of my leadership team – they will tell you I keep talking about how I think we have B2B Marketing backward. We focus a lot of energy on the acquisition part of marketing looking for new customers and getting them up the awareness to consideration to purchase cycle. Share this on Facebook. Let me explain ….

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As I mentioned in my Top 10 predictions for 2010 – I think the Mobile Marketing in 2010 will become more mainstream. As a marketer I always like to play the “odds not the lottery&# and to me when you have a market of 3.3 You must provide a truly valuable content or else you wont get a second chance.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

So in my last blog post – Going Mobile with B2B Marketing we discussed the basics of the mobile market and where to focus our attention as a B2B Marketers. Now we want to move into the content. I would say that if “ Content is King &# on the internet “ Context is Queen &# on mobile. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Because of my new book, Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley), which is launching next week - I have been getting a lot of emails and questions from my readers that are very focused on launching their Facebook and Twitter presence. The point is you need to plan the flow of content that will go into these channels.

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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. Share this on Facebook. Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 7, 2013

Posted in Blogging Business Intelligence Communities Content Marketing Conversational Marketing Enterprise 2.0 Facebook Lead Generation Lead Nurturing People Sales Social Business Intelligence Social Media Social Networking Strategy Thought Leadership Twitter. Content is the new collateral.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2010

At a recent dinner with a buddy of mine from Microsoft (who helped launch Bing) – I learned a lot more about the search market and a very important trend that can effect the future of B2B Marketing. OK so what does this mean to B2B Marketers? Share this on Facebook. perhaps there will be shortly. Tweet This!

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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. It occurs to me my definition of content often differs from their definition of content. And you would be surprised what I hear.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2009

No matter how you look at things these days marketers are becoming more like publishers than ever before. And their tactics are shifting from more Outbound Marketing like email and direct mail to more Inbound Marketing using SEO, Blogging and Social Media. Tags: social media Content Marketing Blogging.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 14, 2010

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! Some people call it Content Marketing (Junta42) some people call it Inbound Marketing (HubSpot) but the meaning is basically the same. The Answer: create and share good content.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 30, 2013

Many brands initially diverted QR Codes from its initial purpose by jumping on the bandwagon as something new and exciting that allowed them to leverage the exploding mobile market to interact with real world products. One place, however, that we are seeing increasing aversion to QR Code use is among consumer-oriented brand marketing.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Facebook fan pages are much the same thing. Fan pages are a unique marketing canvas to connect with avid consumers. The fan page becomes a focus group that can be mined for consumer insights, which can feed back to content creation, stage gate development and campaign tracking. How much is that Facebook Fan worth anyway?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 17, 2015

This week I had the pleasure of reading a new report from Smart Insights on the State of Digital Marketing 2015 and decided to dig in a bit further with an interview. 1) What do you think the biggest change to Digital Marketing for B2B firms will be in the next year?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Don’t Blame Facebook: 10 Reasons Low Conversion Rates Are YOUR Fault Chances are you've viewed recent reports about Facebook's surprisingly low. Other companies are also creating new ways to leverage this supercharged special character. We all make mistakes. However, when your.

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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. online content, messaging, images, offers) in the right way on the right channels at the right times and places?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

So since you can’t hire an expert, what qualities would make for a good social media marketer? 2) Packaging – they need to be able to package the stories up and be able to make them shareable this means the content can be found in a variety of media forms not just one. Share this on Facebook. Story telling is key! Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the Year 2009. Not a shabby list.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

When you think about it, the Darwinian idea of evolution is not a far cry from the way we as marketers adapt and change to new technology. Through an iterative process of testing and personalization, your online visitors will begin to unknowingly select the best-performing content for your site.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 8, 2010

Share this on Facebook. Related posts: Using Content to Build Trust in B2B Marketing In the recent Edelman Trust Barometer report they detail out. Inbound Interaction Management (IIM) It’s no surprise that Direct Marketing response rates have dropped. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin. Share this on del.icio.us.

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