Eric Wittlake (@wittlake) over at B2BDigital.net asks a poignant question in a recent post on the dangers of opinions in marketing: How does your opinion influence your marketing activity? It’s a great question for both client and agency. Shooting from the hip is dangerous When we are engaged in marketing activities, why do we gravitate to […]
Getting on the same page will increase revenue According to marketing automation solution providers like Eloqua and Marketo, Revenue Performance Management (RPM) gets everyone on the same page so that sales and marketing work towards a common business objective, rather than pointing fingers when things don’t happen. The video above, care of Eloqua, illustrates key […]
We haven’t posted an infographic in awhile, so I thought it was a great time to share one with you. I came across this one on Mashable and found it very interesting. We often hear about the numbers in terms of overall users on each platform, but it’s not so often that we get a bit […]
When you look at successful social media campaigns, they all seem to have one thing in common – they are easy to participate in. It’s something we touched on in last week’s post about the Kony 2012 campaign. The fact that all that was required of people was to click a few buttons in […]
If you ask most clients about what they hope to accomplish with their social media campaigns, they will probably tell you that they want to go viral. It’s the sort of thing marketers don’t like to hear, because it really can’t be promised. Even if you set everything up for success, there’s just no way […]
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding Pinterest lately, probably because of the huge growth it has seen in the past few months. It seems to have replaced the buzz around Google+ from last year. These sites are different in a few ways, but what is interesting is the gender breakdown of the users […]
Mashable has some interesting stats on Twitter activity during Sunday night’s Super Bowl game. You would think that with so many people tuned in to watch a football game, most of the chatter would have been about football, right? Oddly enough, the answer is no. What were people tweeting about during the game? The commercials. […]
There’s no doubt about the fact that B2B marketing is changing, especially with the increased use of social media. Would you be surprised to learn that B2B companies are actually leading the charge when it comes to social media? 81% of B2B companies have accounts on social media sites, compared to only 67% of B2C […]
Everyone seems to be talking about Pinterest these days. In terms of social media sites, it’s relatively new and is just starting to pick up steam. So, what is it about Pinterest that’s generating such buzz? For those who don’t know much about the site, it is an online pinboard where users can post (or […]
I recently watched an excellent webinar from BtoB Online called “From Caveman to Customer: What the Evolution of Storytelling Means to Marketers”. (Featuring Lynn Randall and Laura Lear.) This presentation talked about how our brains have adapted to our use of technology and how that has changed the way we respond to storytelling. There were […]
