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

MARCH 18, 2010

In the last post we covered how to create a Social Media Lead Flow. There is a growing number of listening platforms devoted to Social Media – everything from highly customized services that are managed for you, to free tools you can manage yourself. Which media sources are relevant to your goals?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

But focusing on the Extrovert angle for a second, I began to wonder if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Email this to a friend?

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2011

There is not a day that goes by in the life of a marketer that doesn’t have a headline that reads, “marketers struggle to find the ROI of social.” It is as if marketers are chasing down a unicorn that exists only in their imaginations. Yet, there is an answer.

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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. Technology.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2011

But after 2 years of reading, trafficking and routing both positive and negative mentions in my organization I realized there had to be more out in the social sphere than just monitoring social media. 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

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. So in our latest Social Intelligence report , Networked Insights set out to analyze the social media conversation surrounding the Season 4 premiere of HBO’s hit series True Blood.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 25, 2011

I recently saw an article from MarketingSherpa that said 62% of CMO’s believe that social media marketing will pay off … eventually! This is a classic scenario that has to stop and I bet it will after the market rejects these CMOs over and over again. I really don’t get it. That’s 6 out of every 10 CMOs.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2009

At a recent ANA conference I was interviewing Brian Wallace VP of Digital Marketing and Media for RIM when I heard him say “2 years from now- if I still have a Director of Social Media – I should be fired!&# Said differently how do we make social part of the very DNA of the firm? What’s your view? Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. But wait, social media hasn’t been around that long!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

The great thing about using social media data for topic discovery is you can see all of those searches connected together. For example, you can see the result is first “social,&# then it’s “social media,&# then “social media analytics,&# and then “social media analytics paid.&#

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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! Related posts: Social Media for the Boardroom At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to. It used to be said that any publicity is good publicity. Let me explain ….

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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

JULY 6, 2011

So I like to classify this ROI in Social Media as an approach that leverages the data of social media. Now that’s a real ROI in Social Media!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 27, 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. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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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

MAY 16, 2012

Traditionally, marketers think of outcomes like they think of the weather – you sit back and see what happens. Not so with Social Media. With Social, there is no passive tense. Social media allows the marketer to jump into the fray and to CREATE outcomes instead of being a victim.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. But wait, social media hasn’t been around that long!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 25, 2013

Posted in Innovation Interactive Marketing Strategy. All the tools of the trade – text analytics, social media analysis, Website personalization, community analytics, computational advertising and online testing, among other things – were used for re-elect the President of the United States. So what does a CDO do?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A while back I created a post called – There is no “campaign&# in Social Media because when marketers use the word “campaign,” it tends to suggest an initiative to get a message out to a targeted group of constituents. Related posts: Social Media speeds Onboarding I am officially up and running now in my.

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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

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

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. Enter Simon Sinek. Enter Simon Sinek.

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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

New tools become available to marketers and individuals alike nearly every week. Admittedly, Paul Gillin wrote this book for the 90% of marketers still trying to figure out social media, I can tell you it makes and excellent resource for even the most polished social media expert.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We are at an interesting inflection point with Social Media today. Social Media already has changed Marketing forever. Marketing is still playing catch up and will be for a while since we are still at the very early stages of the Social Media game. technologies when Social Media hit.

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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. When everyone’s way isn’t working for you, find your own path.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media. Social is a process that has the power to transform your entire organization.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 11, 2010

I have been in talks with a few companies lately about their social media efforts especially when it comes to supporting customers using social media ( the topic of my new book ). At the highest level there is really 2 ways to organize your social media efforts: Centralized or Decentralized.

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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 non partial and therefore they write about many firms.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 27, 2009

An obvious win for companies looking to jump into Social Media is in the Customer Support area. As more and more customers voice their opinions online, the choice is not if you should be responding using Social Media, but when are you going to start responding! Tags: social media Customer Support.

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