Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly than you can keep up with. You must keep a constant eye on mentions of your brand, your products and your services in order to survive in this market landscape. Related posts: Why is measuring Lead Gen in Social Media so hard? Tweet This!

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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

JULY 27, 2011

The first episode of a new TV season needs to grab the audience, and social media campaigns have become an integral part of doing just that. But counting the number of conversations won’t by itself tell a producer or network executive that a show is going to continue to attract viewers and remain popular.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

In the last post we covered how to create a Social Media Lead Flow. 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. Which media sources are relevant to your goals?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Tweet This!

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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. If you think about it there is at least 2 solid years of user generated content out in the social sphere.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Social media definitely pays off, but you’ve got to focus on the approach not the tools. Social Media has hit the mainstream these days but the big concern on every product marketer’s mind has been how to justify the ROI? If you’re concerned about social media cost justification, you’re not along.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2011

Now the same could be said about social media – any mention of your brand is good in social media but that’s not entirely correct! This is why PR needs to move from fixating on getting ink in Publications to getting digital ink in Conversations. It used to be said that any publicity is good publicity.

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Social Media Microblogging B2B Journal 213

Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 21, 2010

When it comes to Social Media data the same holds up to a point! There is clearly a spectrum of Social Media data that can be collected by any listening platform like a Radian6 or a Networked Insights. Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly.

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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

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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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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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

s Social Media in Business study found that 60 percent of consumers believe they are already interacting with companies on the social Web. Nearly all participants — 93 percent — believe all companies should have a presence in social media. Related posts: B2B Marketing Content: Lure or Lasso?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Omni-Channel Marketing: Creating the Right Mix for Your Brand. We discussed ideas and tips for cracking the code on Omni-Channel marketing! This webinar was sponsored by Act-On.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 27, 2009

Back in December of 2007 Forrester published a method for creating a Social Media Strategy called the POST Method. But I would argue having worked on several social media strategies now that this approach no longer holds. And if you play your cards right to generating leads with your Social Media strategy.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 6, 2010

Imagine a world where B2B Marketers could target specific decision makers in specific companies using Social Media ads. Tim Kassouf the Director of Marketing at G.1440 This is the kind of innovative techniques marketers and agencies will need to be honing over the next few years. Last week the clever folks at G.1440

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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

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

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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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. Facebook should be your social media hub of everything you have from company news, announcing events, offer tutorials, highlight videos, conduct polls and create community around discussions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Posted in Commerce Facebook Interactive Marketing Sales Social Media Social Networking Strategy. Many blame their low conversion rates on Facebook: “Facebook ads don’t work.” What does this mean for marketers? We know, after all, that Facebook users are a highly active and engaged audience. Gift download.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 12, 2009

It’s an odd dynamic I see in play today - in today’s ever connected environment marketers tell me they feel even more removed from direct customer interaction. Our goal as a Social Media Marketing team is to engage in more conversations this week than we did last week and have better relations as every week goes by!

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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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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

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

JUNE 15, 2009

But this is not a dig at Dell it’s a dig at all of us marketers who say they don’t understand how to calculate an ROI from Social Media. And at this point in social media or even in the development of the web - we have plenty of ways to track and measure lead generation coming from Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

cartoon heart on learning to listen: how pr can join the social media conversation. outdoordating on online dating market - down in US, up in EU. 5 reasons that there is value in providing the link » 3 types of blog: closed, conduit and participant in the conversation. your language. your language.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Imagine it is New Years Eve 2011, just 2 short years from now and you are having a conversation with a buddy from work and you are remembering the days when your firm only had 4 people actively engaged in Social Media. Its now 2011 and everyone in your company has access to and the ability to jump and engage in Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Firey laptop batteries, defective chips, tainted foods, toothpaste that stains teeth – these are just some real examples of issues that struck companies recently that might have been headed off at the pass by Social Media. Conversely most people don’t just pick up the phone and call a company anymore.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

By doing so and educating their audience about how to use them and what to expect, they have been successful in transforming these conversations into engagement tools for existing consumers while driving awareness of that usually positive relationship to those consumers’ networks. I’m excited to see what the next six years will bring.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 15, 2013

Posted in Commerce Conversion Optimization Customer Experience eCommerce Leadership Online Testing Optimization Personalization Testing. That responsibility should belong to the chief marketing officer. Other types include customer relationship management (CRM) data and social media data. Or More Conversions?

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Retail Analysis Analytics Data 202

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.”. Fire your Director of Social Media!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late… posted in Uncategorized |. The answer is NOT always social media/community - that would be another warning sign if it was. 6) Social Media is not new…just digitizing the norm: Reminded of this all the time. I spent a long time in a very large brand.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In particular, manufacturers are tapping into social conversations as they explore new product ideas in order to learn what consumers are interested in and talking about. Later, when launch is imminent, social channels are becoming a key factor in setting media and advertising strategies.

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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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