Social Media Budget Ratio in B2B Marketing

In my new advisory role for the members of MENG I have been getting a bunch of questions from the members that are making great fodder for blog posts. One question has popped up a few times to I thought it was worthy of some research and comparative analysis to give you a very clear [...]

March 9th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Blogging, Content Marketing, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Online Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking | 2 comments

Going Mobile with B2B Marketing - Part II

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.  With only [...]

February 25th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Buzz Marketing, Mobile | Comment

Going Mobile with B2B Marketing

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 Billion Handsets worldwide (half the population) versus only 1 Billion PC’s [...]

February 23rd, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Buzz Marketing, Mobile | 6 comments

In B2B Marketing: Content is Media

For some reason there is a lot of confusion about the word Content lately. Back in the late 90s when the internet was just heating up we all heard alot about how “Content is King”. But these days for B2B Marketers I think we need to take it a step further and say that “Content [...]

February 16th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Blogging, Communications, Inbound Marketing, Lead Nurturing, Social Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 | 9 comments

Why is Google Scared and what it means for B2B Marketing

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.

When you think about the search behavior of the average person online – we are mostly conditioned to [...]

January 26th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Content Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Media, Mobile, Online Advertising, Pay Per Click, Search | 13 comments

4 P's to Social Media Marketing

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. Frankly, I have been brewing this post for a while now and its time to let it [...]

January 21st, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Branding, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Social Media, Strategy | 13 comments

10 BtoB Marketers Predictions for 2010

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. Recession or not [...]

December 15th, 2009 | Category: Advertising, Business Intelligence, Content Marketing, Facebook, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Videocasting, behavioral targeting | 29 comments

CMO Advice: What to look for when choosing a Social Media or Digital agency?

I had a chance before the holiday to interview Romi Mahajan, President of KKM Group, an Advisory company focused solely on Strategy and Marketing to get his advice on what CMO’s should be looking for in an Agency. Here is his take …

1) What do you think is the one most [...]

November 30th, 2009 | Category: Advertising | 2 comments

Cost per Advocate – the new CPA Model!

In my last blog post we discussed How Social Commerce will lead to Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM) because of things like Facebook Connect. And if we start to move to Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM) then perhaps a new measurement – the Cost per Advocate model will need to be born.

Cost per Acquisition (the old CPA) [...]

August 10th, 2009 | Category: Advertising, Facebook, Social Networking | 4 comments

The Future of Advertising is one word ...

Contextual

Now I know this isnt such a new statement – but consider these clues …

When the folks who created ET the movie (I hope I am not dating myself here) wanted to use M&M’s as the candy that ET was most attracted to – Mars said no but Reese’s Pieces said yes. Following the release [...]

March 25th, 2009 | Category: Advertising, Branding, Content Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Online Advertising | 10 comments
 
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