December, 2013

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5 Steps To Improve B2B Lead Generation Program Results

Digital B2B Marketing

'You are easily spending thousands on lead generation media programs each month. You have carefully chosen your partners, negotiated an effective cost per lead and are diligently measuring your results. But you are still leaving money on the table. You can increase the value you get by changing how you run each of your programs. From content to process to branding, here are five steps you can take to improve the results from your publisher lead generation programs. 1.

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Five Top Reasons a Business will Fail

Elegant BI

Five Top Reasons a Business will Fail. Betsy says: I’m going to give you a list of things that often result in business failure. It is far from a complete list, but maybe it will help you see Business Intelligence in a different light. Here is my list of the “Top 5 Reasons a Business will Fail”. 1. You have incomplete or incorrect information about competitive products, changes in the market or customers. 2.

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Operating on different source SQL Server instances in a single SSIS package

BI Insight

In some cases we need to do a single task for lots of SQL Server instances. Assume that we have a web based programme. The programme’s database is distributed across the country and we have 10 different virtual (VM) servers to host the programme’s databases. The programme is working based on some configurations that are … Continue reading Operating on different source SQL Server instances in a single SSIS package.

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How Google Is Killing Native Advertising

Digital B2B Marketing

'Native advertising has been one of the hottest advertising topics of 2013. According to a recent survey, the majority of publishers now offer or plan to offer native advertising programs. Two months ago, I examined the performance of more than 300 BrandVoice articles on Forbes, one of the most established native publishing platforms for B2B marketers.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Top 5 Reasons – A Business Will Fail

Elegant BI

Top 5 Reasons – A Business Will Fail. Blog authors LOVE to use numbers. “10 ways to make more money”, “7 things you should know before launching a new product” Sometimes these numbered lists are less than helpful. I’m going to give you a list of things that often result in business failure. It is far from a complete list, but maybe it will help you see Business Intelligence in a different light.

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Top 3 Reasons Your Content Marketing Program Fails

Digital B2B Marketing

'Everyone in B2B marketing says content marketing is important. Everyone is increasing content marketing’s share of the budget. And yet most B2B marketers don’t feel like their content marketing is effective. (Stats available from CMI’s benchmark report ). The outlook seems grim. Marketers are pouring more and more into something they aren’t confident in.

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The Real Reasons Programmatic Ad Buys Fail in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

'Programmatic buying, driven by real-time bidding (RTB), is the fastest growing segment of digital marketing today. But it isn’t ready yet for today’s B2B marketer. Time and time again, B2B marketers fall prey to a wonderful sounding sales pitch for their demand generation plan that goes something like this: “We use 100′s of data points and sophisticated technology that optimizes every single impression in your campaign.

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9 Crippling Mistakes B2B Search Marketers Make

Digital B2B Marketing

'“Paid search is slowly failing B2B marketers.” I never expected to say that. For years paid search has been one of the most cost-effective media channels for B2B lead generation. But over the last year, I have seen or heard case after case of B2B marketers struggling to make paid search, and Google AdWords in particular, cost-effective.

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Invisible Brand Marketing Is Not Just a Facebook Problem!

Digital B2B Marketing

'Stop grumbling about Facebook’s latest blow to marketers. You’ve increased your likes 100-fold in the last two years, and many of your competitors have too. Others have finally jumped on the social media bandwagon, adding their own voice to the marketing cacophony of Facebook. Of course your posts aren’t reaching as many people on Facebook!

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Managed Memory Computing – Power of Choosing

Elegant BI

Managed Memory Computing – Power of Choosing. The “thinking” that sometimes takes us to a destination is not adequate or advanced enough to address the possibilities when looking forward from the destination we have reached. Business Intelligence has been one such area. In the initial stages of development, multi-dimensional cubes running on the disk were paths driving innovation.