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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Posted in Buying Cycle Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Customer Experience Personalization Strategy. Business and consumer brands have traditionally approached marketing from two totally different vantage points. I can’t help but think we are leaving leads—and money—on the table as B2B marketers.

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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

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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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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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 11, 2015

Knowing how the human mind processes information and images—and putting that knowledge to use—can help you become a more engaging and effective marketer. Here’s a look at some fascinating facts about the human mind, from a marketing perspective.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Advertising Behavioral Targeting Content Marketing Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Inbound Marketing Innovation Mobile Optimization Web Design Call to Action Mobile app Mobile marketing Mobile website Responsive Design'

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Professor Michael Porter, Harvard Business School on the topic of Strategy at the World Business Forum. Times like these the need for strategy and planning could never be more important. But there is still a lot of confusion about Strategy and what it is. As a corollary to that a good strategy starts with appropriate goals.

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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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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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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. Let me explain …. Email this to a friend?

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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

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

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

APRIL 5, 2015

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Social Customer Service is the New Heart of Marketing.

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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. As a marketer, how do you possibly compete for attention within this constant stream of information? How do you speak to consumers who don’t want to hear traditional marketing messages? The answer: You don’t.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 11, 2010

To help achieve that goal, organizations now adopt formal processes that structure how the listen for mentions of their brands in Social Media and B2B Marketers are no different. Related posts: Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing In my new advisory role for the members of MENG. Share this on Reddit. Stumble upon something good?

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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

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.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We often throw this idea around as marketers – “being relevant”, but few people discuss how! The idea focused on how I could show the IAB MIXX audience how to target marketers like themselves with real-time data. To do this, I asked our research analysts at Networked Insights to study what marketers talk about.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2009

But for many of them it is often hard to architect the strategy since so much of the knowledge of ‘who to go to’ for ‘what type of Social Media conversation’ is very internal knowledge.

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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. There is NO Passive Marketing with Social!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2008

One thing I am investigating and heavily considering for 2009 is a Virtual Events Strategy. Because of this I decided to speak to Stuart Bowen who has put into place a virtual events strategy a few times now and is currently doing this for ON24. It's like a virtual tradeshow but a space all your own for your own business events.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2009

But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a strategy in place for what you are trying to achieve. So let’s go through some of your options when it comes to the tactics of social networking marketing. Once you have your presence you will need a strategy for posting updates as frequently as you can with interesting content.

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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. Tags: Facebook social media Twitter Content Marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Furthermore, your business can become particularly competitive in capturing those magical areas of competitive advantage if you can learn how to really understand your consumer market and the desires of your customers. The rewards of going through the strategic planning steps we’re about to cover cannot be understated.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

31 Days to a Better Blog--Days 16 & 17: Heatmaps and Stumble Ads » Seven Strategies for Supporting Personal Learning Environments at Work. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Seven Strategies for Supporting Personal Learning Environments at Work : » Blogs as learning tools from Acronym. The Bamboo Project Blog.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Posted in Commerce Facebook Interactive Marketing Sales Social Media Social Networking Strategy. And even fewer put a strategy in place to convert this highly active audience into highly engaged website visitors. What does this mean for marketers? I keep posting things but I’m not getting many views.” Blog subscription.

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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

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. Victoria Harres, PR Newswire.

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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. Paul is an accomplished speaker and media spokesman.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Marketing is the interface a company builds to interact with the marketplace and the customer base. The marketing group, combined with the sales force, is the point in the company where the market understanding resides.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 15, 2013

The modern day merchant must have an intimate understanding of the importance of online and mobile commerce, access to a vast array of customer data, and a strategy for transforming this analytical data into winning online experiences. That responsibility should belong to the chief marketing officer. And who should lead the charge?

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