Marketing Automation Pros Have Brains. And Attitude.

Marketo has come out with a great infographic depicting the characteristics of “Right Brain” and “Left Brain” Marketers.  This insight is interesting.  Traditional, pre-Internet marketers have generally been “left brain,” and even many contemporary Marketers, although they are utilizing tech tools that enhance creative productivity, still depend on a “Right Brain” approach.  While this approach remains important to the  firm, it is slowly and necessarily being eclipsed by Marketers who are more “Left Brain,” and as Scott Brinker (@chiefmartec) has coined, “Marketing Technologists.”

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Marketing Automation Professionals of the World, Unite!

Know anyone else pulling their hair out over their Marketing Automation platform?  Are your pupils dialating and your heart stopping  over the thought of the mountain of content that you have to create?    Well, here on the East Coast we’re trying to do something about it…

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B2B Marketing Events for 2012

This year there are a multitude of conferences available to B2B Markters for networking and professional development.   We plotted out the leading ones for you in a chronological table; some are repeat events at different venues, while others are unique and interesting also.  Of the entire list, there are a few you should definitely try to attend… [Read more...]

Marketo’s Spark Should Light a Fire for SMBs

 

Yesterday Marketo announced a new service offering for the SMB market called Spark.   Spark will allow SMB users to create and launch email campaigns, hold webinars, and even monitor and participate in social media conversations.  Additionally, it gives a real time window into campaigns and allows measurement of each segment of an SMB’s marketing mix efforts within each campaign.

Marketo’s announcement of a SMB app is a positive one and will help accelerate the adoption of Marketing Automation for all the vendors in the sector catering to the SMB community.  Here’s why: [Read more...]

Social Analytics M&A – The Hunt is On

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Commons by Orin Zebest

The past year since the previous summer has been a very interesting one for business and Marketers in that there has been some significant acquisitions of social media measurement companies.  What does this mean for Marketers?

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9 Truths About B2B Publisher/Agency Turf Conflict

“Ball Fight” Creative Commons by CarbonNYC

 

Last week’s blogpost was about some data related sessions at the BMAs 2011 International Conference.  With an extra week of digestion, we want to focus a little more on one of the sessions.  Specifically the “Unleash Your B-to-B Media Partners” session with Dean Horowitz (@deanhorowitz), Vice President of eMedia and Market Intelligence at Vance Publishing Corporation, Kim Paulsen, Senior Vice President, Penton Marketing Services, and Mitch Rouda, President of eMedia at Farm Journal Media.  During the Q&A portion of the session, there was an interesting question posed by someone representing a traditional agency.

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