New research highlights top performers’ email methods

Because of its central role in the online marketing efforts of so many of our clients, we return to the topic of email marketing fairly often …most recently, exploring the potential synergy between email and social media.

Today, I wanted to alert you to some significant new research on the subject – Marketo’s Email Marketing Benchmark – recapped by Jon Miller on [Read more...]

The why and how of integrating email with social media

In one of our recent posts, we identified email and social media as two of the three things that B2Bs need to get right for successful online marketing (the third being search engine optimization, or SEO).  It seems reasonable that email and social working together would be more effective than pursuing both in isolation, and recent research bears that out:  in fact, [Read more...]

Do these 3 things, and you’ll be doing great online marketing

Blogs by their nature are a relatively disorganized body of knowledge, simply because they are built up in seemingly random fashion, one topical post at a time.  Sure, you can use the Category function to find all the posts on, say, SEO;  but within that stream there will be no inherent organization;  we’re not talking Wikipedia here.  So that wonderful freshness and topicality comes with a bit of a price… [Read more...]

Are you using Google Analytics to track your email results?

Huh?? …I hear you say.  Yeah, I kinda thought not.

If you’re using Google Analytics “out of the box”, it’s probably only to figure out what’s going on with your website visitors in general:  where they came from, which pages they spent how much time on, etc.  And that will invariably include those visitors who click through from your nurturing emails;  but the problem is that [Read more...]

Email, social media top 2011 marketing budgets – research

Recent research conducted by Zoomerang taps the planned marketing budgets, challenges and priorities of business leaders for 2011.  As summarized in a post by Ian McKee over on the Vocanic blog:  “The data reveal an optimistic marketing outlook, with half of businesses planning to increase marketing budgets, and another 43% keeping them steady.  And, for the second year in a row, email marketing and social media marketing remain the top targets [Read more...]

3 keys to mobile-izing the email experience

Because so many B2Bs depend on email for much of their prospect-nurturing effort, we try to bring you relevant tips about email whenever we come across them.  Today’s tips come courtesy of Brian Deagan, posting on iMediaConnection.

Setting the stage:  if your readers – who are disproportionately on-the-go executives, most likely – aren’t yet viewing your emails on a mobile device, [Read more...]

Golden nuggets from Sherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit

We were a bit too busy with clients this year to get out to MarketingSherpa’s recent “B2B Marketing Summit” in San Francisco.  However, we did run across three gurus who did attend, and who posted their takeaways from sessions primarily focused on lead generation.  They are Andrew Spoeth, Jennifer Melwani and Lawrence Mitchell;  and you’ll want to check out each of their posts for more info than we could include in the mashup/compendium following, which you may find nearly as good as having been there… [Read more...]