July, 2011

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Five Signs Your Content Marketing is an Illusion

Digital B2B Marketing

Content Marketing should provide valuable information to your market at large and to prospects at each stage of the buying process. Ideally, your content is easily discovered, naturally making you and your content a resource. But how do people find your content? Is it through search and peer recommendations (which are increasingly connected), or will they only find it in their inbox?

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BI Consulting: Just the Software, Folks, OR Just the Smartest Way to Get to BI?

Elegant BI

BI Consulting: Just the Software, Folks, OR Just the Smartest Way to Get to BI? I’m buying the Business Intelligence software. What else do I need to do? If the NAME of the software is Business Intelligence, then all I NEED is the software to get smart, right? Not so fast, Betsy! I want to get the most out of the BI solution. I want to use every inch, every iota of smarts it can offer to improve my business results, catch up to my competition and get my team involve.

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Thought Leadership Marketing is an Oxymoron

Digital B2B Marketing

Thought leadership is a common marketing topic, but unfortunately thought leadership is not a common outcome of marketing. Part of the problem is that thought leadership marketing has lost all notions of actual thought leadership. Gartner defines thought leadership marketing as “the giving — for free or at a nominal charge — of information or advice that a client will value so as to create awareness of the outcome that a company’s product or service can deliver, in order to position

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TV Really Is Easier to Measure than Social Media

Digital B2B Marketing

KMart’s CMO made waves recently by saying TV, and other traditional channels, are easier to measure than social media. Social media proponents responded, defending social media’s measurability and highlight the data social media provides. My favorite was this tweet from Jay Baer (who I have a tremendous amount of respect for and I don’t disagree with lightly).

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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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It’s Not Rational, B2B Marketing Needs to Get Emotional!!

Digital B2B Marketing

This post was sparked by a spirited, and at times emotional, debate during the #bizforum chat on Twitter yesterday evening. Thanks to @ samfiorella for instigating and @ chieflemonhead , @ MaureenB2B , @ PrashSabharwal and @ josepf , among others, for a spirited discussion. B2B buying is complex because the products are complex. Evaluating B2B solutions is hard, and the final decision is not made with absolute knowledge it is the right decision.

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Give Us Freedom! Lessons for Corporate America

Digital B2B Marketing

In America, we relish our freedom. Many early European settlers to America were seeking freedom to live a Godly life, one they were not able to freely and openly live in Europe. Our nation’s founders fought to enshrine the freedom those early settlers came in search of when our nation was formed. The formation of our country illustrates what happens when people are not allowed to pursue a course they firmly believe in.

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Would YOU Go on a Date with a Data Extraction and Data Management Expert?

Elegant BI

Would YOU Go on a Date with a Data Extraction and Data Management Expert? What do you get out of your average date? If all you get is a headache, you might want to consider dating a data extraction and management expert. No matter the size of your business or the industry, no matter your role within the business, you definitely have data management issues!

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ElegantJ BI – Business Intelligence Solution to be implemented at a leading business group in Saudi Arabia, engaged in manufacturing, sales, services and distribution

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI was chosen by a leading business group of Saudi Arabia engaged in diversified activities in various areas including production, sales, professional cleaning, wholesale, distribution and trading. The client is the market leader in household consumer products with its own brands as top sellers in the market. It specializes in marketing, wholesale trading and distribution of cleaning materials & tools, hotel guest amenities, plastic products, plastic disposable and hundreds of other

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30 July 2011, Business Intelligence Conference, Bangalore

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI sponsors a Business Intelligence Conference event as the Silver Partner , organized. by Silicon India on 30th July 2011 at Bangalore from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This BI conference will be focusing on Business Intelligence aspects with two tracks – Track I is Technical and Track II is Customer Business Value. The Technical Track covers BI focused aspects like BI Design and Implementation Challenges, Solution Centricity – The Pivot for Successful BI / DW Implementations, Integrating Se

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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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When Measurement Misleads: A Lesson From Triberr’s Downtime

Digital B2B Marketing

I’ve have been using Triberr for about two months. Last week, Triberr was down for upgrades. All of a sudden, my posts, normally shared by 25 to 30 tribe members, didn’t have any automated support. What’s Triberr? It’s a platform for forming tribes of bloggers that support each other by tweeting the posts of other tribe members.

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When Did Automated Dialogue Trump Real Conversation?

Digital B2B Marketing

Create a personalized dialogue with each prospect at every point in the sales process! This sounds like a pitch for marketing automation. While the result is valuable, it is not a dialogue. Here are some of the characteristics of this “dialogue&# marketing has created with automation: Most of the audience response is a click and inferred consumption.