October, 2012

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LinkedIn Just Went Into the Publishing Business

Digital B2B Marketing

A number of publishers and blogs covered the launch of LinkedIn’s new follow feature for 150 thought leaders or influencers over the last few weeks. However, labeling it the ability to follow thought leaders (as LinkedIn did) misses the real point. LinkedIn did not launch a new feature to follow thought leaders or the ability for select individuals to publish articles on LinkedIn.

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Mobile BI: Stay On Track On the Road

Elegant BI

Mobile BI: Stay On Track On the Road. My business doesn’t stop when I’m out of the office. If I want to make my boss happy, I have to be able to respond quickly and accurately to every question and issue, so I need complete access to business information no matter where I am! Mobile access to business intelligence can mean the difference between a strong market position and lost revenue.

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The Thin Line Between Social Media Marketing and Spam

Digital B2B Marketing

You can share. You can publish. You can broadcast. You can spam. Today, communication is more accessible than ever before. Anyone with an internet connection can email or Tweet. With more people publishing and more competition for our attention, free and easy-to-use communication channels lead to spam. Even well-intentioned individuals, marketers and publishers can fall into the spam trap.

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4 out of 5 Marketers are Zombies! [Infographic]

Digital B2B Marketing

What, it’s changing? Quick, call it dead! Write an article about how social media is killing advertising! Advertising is Dead. SEO is Dead. Television is Dead. Magazines are Dead. Newspapers are Dead. Websites are Dead. Agencies are Dead. Media companies are Dead. Did TV kill radio? After more than 50 years, radio is still here. Like everything else, it has changed.

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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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9 Tips for Content Marketing in an ADD World

Digital B2B Marketing

Distraction is constant in our technology and communication-fueled lives. Email alerts, Facebook replies, tweets , Google’s red box, … Everything around us is competing for our attention. We may not have ADD, but we definitely act like it. How can B2B content marketers, who are often marketing complex products and need to share a meaningful level of detail, be effective in this environment?

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Bad Advertising Advice: Go Where Your Audience Is

Digital B2B Marketing

It sounds obvious, on point, and innocent, but the oft-told advice to “go where your audience is” is one of the worst pieces of advice B2B marketers receive. This advice leaves B2B marketers looking at what their audience does. Do they watch the Super Bowl? Are they on Facebook? Do they read Sports Illustrated? Media sales representatives perpetuate the problem, comparing reach to their competitors.

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Marketing’s Broken Foundation: Measurement

Digital B2B Marketing

Data is the foundation for analytics. Analytics is the foundation for marketing driven by data and insights. When you start with bad data, you get erroneous insights and your marketing goes in the wrong direction. A recent research result from ITSMA and Vision Edge Marketing is eye opening. Even though the importance of starting with good data should be obvious, B2B marketers are analyzing and optimizing marketing from a broken foundation.

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B2B Marketing’s Missing Objective: Creating a Home Field Advantage

Digital B2B Marketing

What companies do you want to work with? Not just the ones that seem safe or are good for your resume, but the ones you just want? The ones that would make your day, even if they didn’t make your wallet? Those brands are out there in your personal live, from BMW or Louis Vuitton to Apple or Blendtec. You don’t need them, you want them. Now consider your business.

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B2B Online Advertising: Improve Targeting by 10x (or more!)

Digital B2B Marketing

B2B advertising begins with the target audience. Until you know who you are targeting, you cannot identify the publications, sites or ad networks you should be working with. However, one of the first things advertisers do is generalize their target audience. Here are a couple examples of how B2B target audiences are generalized for advertising: Juniper targets companies with large data centers.

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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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With Cross-Tab OLAP Analytics, I’m (Almost) the Queen of the World!

Elegant BI

With Cross-Tab OLAP Analytics, I’m (Almost) the Queen of the World! Last year I attended a business conference. You know the kind – they are designed to show you new ways to manage your business and to remind you that there are always new opportunities for success and business growth. One of the speakers regaled us with tales of how business intelligence OLAP analysis could help us effectively and objectively manage and measure our success.

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The Intersection of Content Marketing and Advertising

Digital B2B Marketing

In order to deliver something more memorable than most advertising, marketers are turning to content that tells a story, engages the audience and delivers value. But how do marketers reach a large audience with their content? Major publishers continue to have audiences that dwarf those of nearly every marketer, relying on just their own audience isn’t enough.