Posts Tagged ‘digital marketing’

Digital Marketing: 4 steps to success

Monday, November 29th, 2010

This is the third in a series of three posts on insights I gleaned from a conversation with Dave Wieneke, who blogs on the future of digital marketing. The first post described how B2B marketers can set up digital signals to help them monitor marketing performance against their business goals.  The second post described actions marketers can take to figure out what’s working and what’s not.

This post discusses what Dave sees as the four steps to digital marketing:  Segmentation, Integration, Automation, and Optimization.  In it, I will tie together all three posts, and return to the questions I raised on behalf of B2B marketers at small companies at the beginning of the first post.

Digital marketing: How B2B marketers can use it to improve their performance against goals

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010


This post is the second in a series about how B2B marketers can use digital marketing to help them make the most of their resources online and off.  The series summarizes insights from an interview with Dave Wieneke, a Director of Digital Marketing who blogs at UsefulArts.us

The first post described how B2B marketers can set up digital signals to help them monitor marketing performance.  This post describes how B2B marketers can use digital marketing to determine what they need to do to improve marketing performance.

Start with market segmentation

The search and social media paradox

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Lee Odden, a recognized expert in the areas of search and social media, recently ran the 2010 Digital Marketing Poll on the TopRank Online Marketing Blog.  The poll, presumably directed at marketers, asks: “What 3 online marketing channels & tactics will you emphasize in 2011?”

TopRank used Twitter to promote the poll–and did so on multiple occasions.  Presumably, a lot of people received notice of the poll:  @TopRank has 6061 followers, the update was retweeted 262 times, “liked” by 45, and likely got additional visibility through other social sharing media*.

How Odden attracted responses

B2B marketing insights and tips compliments of MarketingProfs

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

So much to learn, so little time–which is why I was thrilled to have the opportunity to meet and learn from hundreds of other marketing professionals this week at Marketing Profs B2B forum.  What’s more we had a lot of fun and left with a lot of ideas that many of us are already putting into action.

B2B digital marketing best practices

Over two jam-packed days, we heard about best practices in areas like search engine optimization (SEO), content strategy, lead generation and lead nurturing, and social media.  We learned about what’s worked, what hasn’t, and why from Marketing VPs that have been there, tried that.