Marketers

How to Optimize Marketing Forms for Lead Capture

If our prospects have to think about how they are going to take us up on our valuable offers, we haven’t done our jobs as a marketers. Our clients need to be able to mindlessly find our marketing forms without having to scroll or hunt. They needs to be...

How to Segment Your Target Market on Social Networks

Segmentation isn’t necessarily a new concept, but it is a crucial discipline to master in today’s sales climate. Actually, segmentation can be traced way back to the 1950s when companies both small and large began targeting specific groups of people with...

Overcoming Sales Objections With Content Marketing

As sales reps, we’re constantly leaning on marketing’s resources to create sales enablement tools. But today’s marketers are talking about content marketing. The typical purpose of a content marketing approach is to generate leads, so how can you use...

Five Ineffective Methods to Social Selling on Facebook

Most B2B companies these days maintain an active presence on Facebook, but not all of us get it right. The marketing opportunities available to us on Facebook continue to evolve, and as marketers, we have to constantly update our Facebook strategy. Take, for example,...

What Facebook Graph Means to Marketing Intelligence

At the start of 2013, the most popular social network in the world, Facebook, launched a new tool called Open Graph that is already promising to alter the world of online marketing forever. While some say that Facebook Open Graph will merely allow greater access into...

B2B Social Marketing 101

Is Social Media Marketing for Everyone?  In the absence of better measuring tools, the first social media marketers used likes and follows to gauge the success of their campaigns. A lot of companies still do. For example, take Coca Cola’s Super Bowl ad this...