3 Ways Social Media can Boost Sales Success

A new RAIN Group report proves otherwise and shows that sales people that truly “connect” with buyers in this “always on” environment we live in to win more often [...]

May 7th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: 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 | 33 comments

Make Your CFO a Social Media Fan

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? Never is that more true than at budget time. The purse string holders might harbor [...] [...]

November 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Conversational Marketing, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy | One comment

Paul Dunay joins Networked Insights as the CMO

Almost 5 years ago I started this blog with the notion exploring the changing definition of Buzz Marketing in light of this new thing I saw on the horizon called “Social Media”. [...]

March 1st, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Data Mining, Facebook, Innovation, Interactive Marketing, Listening, Location Based Services, Mobile, Monitoring, Podcasting, Reputation Monitoring, Social Media, Social Networking, Support, Thought Leadership, User Generated Content | 34 comments

Any Publicity is Good Publicity in Social Media, right?

It used to be said that any publicity is good publicity. 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! Let me explain … Five years ago, a tech savvy, digitally focused company could find satisfied and unsatisfied customers [...] [...]

January 26th, 2011 | Category: Blogging, Facebook, PR, Social Media, Social Networking | 6 comments

10 Best Posts of 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. This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as [...] [...]

December 29th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Support, Facebook, Innovation, Interactive Marketing, Listening, Monitoring, Social Media, Social Networking | 2 comments

What a Trifecta of a Year!

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the Year [...] [...]

December 22nd, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Customer Support, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Listening, Social Media, Thought Leadership | 2 comments

Social Media for the Boardroom

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. They identified [...] [...]

September 29th, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Facebook, Innovation, Listening, Monitoring, PR, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy, Twitter | 6 comments

Social Media – is it really mainstream in B2B Marketing?

So I ran across some interesting stats last week when I picked up a tweet from Jeff Bullas on the 15 essential social media facts and figures for B2B Marketing. Seems as if more B2B Marketers are engaged in Social Media then B2C marketers (actually data point from the article – 81 % of B2B [...] [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Communities, Facebook, Innovation, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter | 14 comments

Do you need to be an Extrovert to be in Social Media Marketing?

Great question which I found myself asking last night after I reviewed my recent Myers Briggs score. I found it interesting that my score came in as ENTJ. For those of you who aren’t aware of the Myers Briggs test it asks you a bunch of questions from multiple angles to rate you on 4 [...] [...]

June 15th, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Communities, Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Location Based Services, Podcasting, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter, Wiki | 17 comments

Is The White Paper Dead for B2B Marketing?

In a recent conversation I was having with the Bloom Group they believe “the practice of publishing white papers must come to a close because of the utter proliferation of white papers, and the poor content contained within so many of them.” “Kill the white paper!” they are increasingly telling their clients. “We think white [...] [...]

May 26th, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Branding, Content Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Lead Generation, Podcasting, Thought Leadership, Twitter, User Generated Content | 52 comments
 
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