I’ve written a number of blog posts over the last two years referencing my B2B demand generation strategy book project, and — as a number of you have noted — I’ve been much-to-quiet over the past five months. With good reason (as I’ve been hard at work finishing this project up), but no more. I’m [...]
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Balancing the Demand Equation Available September 19
Posted in Demand Generation, tagged Adam Needles, B2B buyer, B2B buying behavior, B2B buying process, B2B marketing, Balancing the Demand Equation, Buyer 2.0, buyer-centric demand generation, content marketing, demand generation, Demand Process Integration, lead generation, lead management, marketing automation, Marketing Infrastructure, marketing technology, organic marketing on August 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A Layered Approach to Lead Nurturing in B2B Demand Generation (LBM)
Posted in B2B Marketing, tagged Adam Needles, B2B buyer, B2B buying process, B2B marketing, Buyer 2.0, buyer-centric demand generation, content marketing, demand generation, drip nurturing, lead generation, lead management, lead nurturing, marketing, marketing automation, nurturing, nurturing content, organic marketing on October 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A little over a week ago I dug into an important topic on the Left Brain Marketing DemandGen (r)Evolution blog. How can we improve our approach to lead nurturing as B2B marketers, and in doing so, how can we improve the effectiveness of our B2B demand generation programs? Despite increasing adoption of marketing automation technology, [...]
What’s Behind the Rise of Content Marketing?
Posted in Innovative Ideas, Marketing Programs, tagged Ardath Albee, B2B buyer, B2B buying behavior, B2B buying process, B2B marketing, Blake Hinkley, bottoms-up marketing, C. Edward Brice, Charlene Li, Chris Koch, content marketing, CRM, demand generation, dialogue, Groundswell, Joe Pulizzi, Josh Bernoff, Laura Ramos, marketing, marketing automation, marketing channels, marketing technology, mass one-to-one, Michele Linn, organic marketing, Stephanie Tilton, Valeria Maltoni, Web 2.0 on January 27, 2010 | 35 Comments »
Adam Needles examines the dynamics driving the emergence of content marketing as a new B2B marketing discipline.
Top B2B Marketing 2.0 Luminaries to Follow in 2010
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Akin Arikan, Amber Naslund, Ann Handley, Ardath Albee, B2B marketing, Beth Harte, Brian J. Carroll, Brian Solis, Buyer 2.0, buyer dialogue, buyer personas, Carlos Hidalgo, Chris Koch, content marketing, Craig Rosenberg, CRM, customer experience, David Meerman Scott, David Raab, demand generation, Deric Loh, e-marketing, EMM, enterprise marketing management, Gord Hotchkiss, Jay Hidalgo, Jep Castelein, Jeremiah Owyang, Jim Lenskold, Joe Pulizzi, Jon Miller, Ken Burbary, Kevin Joyce, Kyle Flaherty, landing page optimization, Laura Patterson, Laura Ramos, lead management, Loren McDonald, Mac McIntosh, Malcolm Friedberg, Maria Pergolino, marketing, marketing automation, marketing metrics, marketing technology, Martin Schneider, Megan Heuer, Michael Volpe, Michele Linn, Mike Damphousse, new media, NPV, organic marketing, Paul Greenberg, Peter Kim, post-click marketing, PR, public relations, Rand Fishkin, Rand Schulman, Richard Bush, Robert Lesser, Rod Sloane, ROI, sales organization, sales/marketing alignment, Sam Whitmore, Scott Brinker, social media, social networking, Stephanie Tilton, Steve Mulder, Steve Woods, technology, user-generated media, Valeria Maltoni, Will Schnabel on December 31, 2009 | 45 Comments »
Adam Needles’ list of luminaries that have new and innovative insights for ‘propelling’ B2B brands in 2010 — where you can learn from the best and brightest in the B2B marketing community.
The Inbound Marketing / Marketing Content Management Crowd – A Fourth Camp?
Posted in Innovative Companies, Innovative Ideas, Marketing Programs, tagged Brian Halligan, Christopher S. Penn, Clay Schossow, CRM, cross-channel, customer relationship management, demand generation, dialogue, digital, enterprise marketing management, inbound marketing, integrated marketing communication, integrated marketing management, marketing, marketing automation, marketing channels, marketing content management, Marketing Infrastructure, marketing technology, Mike Pilcher, Mike Volpe, organic marketing, outbound marketing, Seamus Walsh, software as a service on April 8, 2009 | 18 Comments »
What is inbound marketing, how is it tied to marketing content management and what does this all mean for marketers? Moreover, is this a real ecosystem of solutions, or is it merely a Hubspot phenomenon? Adam Needles tackles these questions in a new post.
Marketing Personalization 3.0 – ‘Co-creation’
Posted in Brand Strategy, Innovative Companies, Innovative Ideas, Marketing Programs, tagged Alex Iskold, brand community, brands, C K Prahalad, Clint Boulton, co-creation, CRM, digital, G. Richard Shell, integrated marketing communication, Jon Iwata, Joseph Plummer, marketing, marketing channels, marketing co-creation, marketing execution management, Marketing Infrastructure, marketing metrics, marketing technology, new media, organic marketing, Patricia Seybold, Paul Dunay, personalization, ROI, semantic analysis, social graph, social graphs, social media, social networking, Steve Rubel, text analytics, Valeria Maltoni, Venkat ramaswamy on December 11, 2008 | 17 Comments »
The future evolution of marketing personalization and the shift towards co-creation will not happen overnight; however, it is un-arguably happening. Normative frameworks, customer needs and technology are converging to make this possible. Marketing Personalization 3.0, through co-creation, offers the ability to improve customer-brand engagement, increase marketing ROI and fundamentally upgrade the profitability of many businesses. Adam Needles helps marketers remain aware of this evolution, look for opportunities to integrate co-creation into their marketing and be prepared to embrace technologies, such as semantic analysis and social graphs, that will help them better connect with their customers efficiently and effectively.
Who’s Propelling Ideas … Hayes/Malone on Marketing 3.0
Posted in Innovative Ideas, Marketing Programs, tagged Beth Harte, brand community, brands, Chris Brogan, dialogue, integrated marketing communication, marketing, Marketing 3.0, marketing channels, marketing technology, Michael S. Malone, new media, organic marketing, personalization, social media, social networking, technology, Tom Hayes, Valeria Maltoni, WSJ on December 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What do Tom Hayes and Michael S. Malone mean by Marketing 3.0? Hayes and Malone argue that marketing participation on the modern Web and in social media platforms requires a new marketing mindset. “A very different set of tools, concepts and practices is needed. Call it Marketing 3.o.” Adam Needles examines this premise and relates it to key evolution in brands and marketing.
Who’s Propelling Ideas … Valeria Maltoni on ‘Organic Marketing’
Posted in Innovative Ideas, Marketing Programs, tagged dialogue, innovation, John Rotheray, marketing, marketing channels, Marketing Infrastructure, marketing technology, new media, organic marketing, Scott Cook, social media, social networking, technology on October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Adam Needles discusses a recent blog post by ‘Conversation Agent’ author Valeria Maltoni in which she highlights the emerging concept of ‘organic’ marketing. He also relates this post to ideas advanced by other thought leaders, including John Rotheray (participation marketing) and Scott Cook (contribution marketing), in the context of how marketing is changing to better embrace customer involvement, build sustainability and integrate brand community in marketing programs.
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