Microsoft’s Future in Digital Marketing

Over the weekend I got to meet with Romi Mahajan the World Wide Director of the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft. His role is to create the vision for Digital Marketing as it relates to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites, and Microsoft FAST Search Server technology to create great digital experiences for its customers [...]

April 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Applications, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Lead Nurturing, Marketing, Strategy | 6 comments

Mapping Content to the Sales Funnel AND Buyer types

You often hear about the concept of mapping content to the sales funnel (especially in B2B Marketing) but it’s not so common in practice. I will self confess that I have ignored this one for a while. The other version of this is the mapping of content to your buyer types and this too is [...]

November 10th, 2010 | Category: Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Lead Nurturing, Thought Leadership | 10 comments

B2B Marketing needs to Curate a Vibrant Community

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.

Let me explain …

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. [...]

July 28th, 2010 | Category: Content Marketing, Customer, Customer Experience, Customer Support, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Strategy, Support | 18 comments

Closed Loop Marketing – still a long way to go

Ok I know we all talk a good game about Closed Loop Marketing and I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble here but frankly we aren’t there yet.

Yes we forced the loop to close with some great technologies over the last few years. CRM systems, MRM systems, Lead Nurturing systems and the list goes on. [...]

July 21st, 2010 | Category: Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing | 7 comments

Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform?

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space.

But Facebook?

Lead nurturing starts by taking many touch points and pulling them all together into one spot so you can see patterns of activity across your customer base [...]

April 6th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Content Marketing, Data Mining, email Marketing, Events, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Social Media, Social Networking | 5 comments

Social Media Lead flow in B2B Marketing

Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly than you can keep up with. You must keep a constant eye on mentions of your brand, your products and your services in order to survive in this market landscape.

In the last post we covered Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing and while providing outstanding [...]

March 16th, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Content Marketing, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Social Media, Social Networking | 10 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 | 10 comments

Content: Lure or Lasso?

I picked this saying up from Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book called Crush It.

I really liked the idea of content having dual purposes and not just the purpose of posting to your website or blog.

The lure part is really about a steady stream of content that is consistent in its frequency which is why as people [...]

February 4th, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Lead Nurturing, Social Media, Thought Leadership | 4 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 | 22 comments

4 C's of B2B Marketing

We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing.

Product
Price
Placement
Promotion

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.

I would argue this killer combo of marketing is mainly for B2C marketing and thus it is [...]

January 19th, 2010 | Category: Branding, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, Lead Nurturing, Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Strategy, Thought Leadership | 49 comments
 
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