Posts Tagged as ‘b2b’

June 12, 2009

“You must unlearn what you have learned.” –Yoda

I am reading through reports this morning from the Business Marketing Association’s annual meeting which had the theme “Unlearn”. It is about time! Regardless I give them credit for their efforts. Here are some of the more interesting points that were presented. “Business marketing is rapidly changing, and business marketers need to learn about the [...]

May 28, 2009

Study Shows Print Advertising Drives Online Leads

Can print advertising drive online traffic? Yes, according to a study released by Telemetrics, a Toronto based company that focuses on call tracking and measurement solutions. Tracking unique URL activity in addition to call measurement demonstrated a 78% increase in overall leads in the study that measured Yellow Page print advertising. Telmetrics found that site referrals from print represented [...]

May 12, 2009

The Point is the Conversation

Social media has been spreading like a disease, except it’s not a disease. It’s the overnight sensation that’s taken about 7 years to appear overnight. Everyone, but everyone’s had a look at Social Media and formed an opinion – waste of time, waste of money, don’t understand it, can’t see the point. Maybe they’ve become [...]

April 29, 2009

The End of “Old School” Relationship Prospecting

Sales is about people. Orders get signed by people and the appointments needed to get those signatures come when a level of trust is established. If there is one single factor that determines sales success, it is a relationship.  In “Old School” relationship prospecting, salespeople would spend lots of time taking buyers to dinners, lunches, [...]

April 23, 2009

Understanding Behavioral Targeting

Behavioral targeting is an advertising delivery technique used by online publishers and advertisers to increase the effectiveness of their campaigns. Behavioral marketing can be used on its own or in conjunction with other forms of targeting based on factors like geography, demographics or the surrounding content. Behavioral Targeting is based upon information collected regarding an [...]

April 7, 2009

The Benefits of Webcasting and the Site Publisher’s Role

As a Marketer, you should strongly consider the benefits of webcasting to promote you your product. One of the most effective ways of creating, marketing, and delivering a webcast is to partner with a trade publisher that targets your desired market. These publishers are experts at delivering an audience and that element may be the [...]

April 18, 2008

Google Apps and Salesforce

What a fantastic and brilliant combination of products! Salesforce.com has recently announced the possibility of integrating their products! According to Google, here is what you can expect with this latest announcement: Automatically add Gmail communications to Salesforce for a record of customer interactions Chat with colleagues right from Salesforce—during sales or customer services calls Associate [...]

March 5, 2008

How to Market to the B2B User Via E-Mail Newsletters

1. The offer. B2B email recipients were inundated last year with offers for free white papers and Webinars. Do you have to come up with something completely new for 2008? No, but your white paper or free guide better be pretty darn informative. Remember, it’s about your buyers, not you. 2. Landing pages. Without a [...]

December 7, 2007

Creative Lead Generation

Recently we have been using a new method of collecting advertising leads for our company. We call this method Showstoppers. Showstoppers were created because we wanted to create a convenient yet effective way to tell our story to potential advertising customers 24 hours a day. We created a five minute flash presentation complete with a [...]

August 28, 2007

Business Spam

Daily I am getting emails from company who have acquired my email address, sending me their business message, and yet they have no idea who I am. I get offers asking me to buy steel or asking me to be their partner in some way. Don’t these companies know that their message is going into [...]