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To be, or not to be – that is the question for B2B Digital Marketers
Wikipedia attributes to the Financial Times, a rather succinct definition of Digital Marketing, which says: “Digital marketing is an umbrella term for the marketing of products or services using digital technologies, mainly on the Internet, but also including mobile phones, … Continue reading
Five Synergistic Factors That Bind the Science of Marketing with the Art of Sales
In his 1954 book, “The Practice of Management,” management guru, Peter Drucker, famously declared: Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; … Continue reading
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Tagged 4Ps, B2B, cloud-based, collaboration, communications, competition, competitive intelligence, Content, CRM, customers, Cyber-security, Deals, Drucker, Inbound marketing, leads, MAP, Marketing, Marketing automation, marketing mix, prospects, revenue cycle, revenue performance management, sales, sales funnel, search engines, social enterprise, Social media, strategy
When BI Harry Met SM Sally–Why Business Intelligence Needs Social Media?
It’s a classical marketing conundrum when the logical, left-brained, structured, quantitative world of business intelligence (BI) clashes with the creative, right-brained, random, qualitative world of social media (SM). Some BI purists believe that 80% of SM data is chaff and … Continue reading
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Tagged 4Ps, B2B, B2C, Brand, Business intelligence, collaboration, E=MC5, Facebook, Likes, marketing mix, revenue cycle, social enterprise, Social intelligence, Social media, Twitter
Attention B2Bs! Is your marketing mix social?
After Marc Benioff asked during his opening keynote address at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco, “Customers and employees are social. Are enterprises social?” The Marketing Id responded with an enthusiastic “Welcome to the Social Enterprise – It’s Not What You … Continue reading
Top 5 Ways to Ensure a Customer Awaits at the End of Your Funnel
The Marketing Id has blogged previously about how a proactive B2B always finds light at the end of the tunnel. It’s called Revenue Performance Management and it helps a B2B to more predictively manage its revenue cycle across an integrated sales and … Continue reading
How Inbound Marketing Is Driving the B2B Marketing Mix–Viva La 4Ps!
For the past several years B2B marketers have been using inbound marketing techniques for various activities such as: Mastering SEO/SEM across web properties Topping organic and contextual SERP listings Building brand equity across relevant social networks Developing appropriate marketing personas … Continue reading
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Tagged 4Ps, B2B, B2C, Brand, CRM, Inbound marketing, MAP, Marketing automation, marketing mix, Outbound Marketing, Place, Price, Product, Promotion, revenue cycle, SEO/SEM, Social media
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Revenue Performance Management: Viva La Drucker!
If you believed that RPM was short for revolutions per minute, you are most likely an engineer (like I used to be), but if you knew that a more contemporary acronym stood for Revenue Performance Management, then you are probably … Continue reading
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Tagged CRM, demand chain, Drucker, Inbound marketing, leads, Marketing automation, MQL, revenue cycle, revenue performance management, RPM, SAL, sales force automation, sales funnel, SCM, search engine, SFA, six sigma, Social media, webinar
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Top 12 Reasons Why “A Comment is worth a thousand Likes.”
In the B2C world, social media marketers are constantly trying to calculate their true “Cost per Like.” Back in November 2011 an EdgeRank Checker post titled “Comments 4x More Valuable Than Likes” stated the following: “For every Like a Post … Continue reading →