B2B Thought Leadership with David Raab

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Through these special blog postings, our goal is to offer advice and insights from top B2B marketers. It is my pleasure to introduce you to David Raab, a consultant specializing in marketing technology and analysis. His clients have included major firms in financial services, retail, communications, and other industries. Raab offers a [...]

What is Driving B2B Marketers to Adopt Marketing Automation Technology?

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This week we’re finalizing the schedule and agendas for our Spring 2010 B2B Marketing University series (Twitter:  #B2BUniversity) — a program Silverpop launched this past September to deliver top-quality, in-depth education to B2B marketers to help them tackle the ‘brave new world’ of B2B marketing.  (BTW — We will be posting updates on this 2010 [...]

How Do You Get Your Arms Around the 'Brave New World' of B2B Marketing? Where Do You Start?

Given a challenging environment for B2B marketing today, where should a B2B marketer start? How can we get our arms around this ‘brave new world’? Adam Needles outlines a series of basics for B2B marketers to focus on to help rationalize their more-complex [...]

B2B Marketers' Current Top Issues ... Plus the State of Their CRM Platform Adoption

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been on the road with our B2B Marketing University series — most recently in Palo Alto and Boston, and this week in Atlanta. The first two events were attended by more than 330 B2B marketers, and we anticipate 175 attendees this Thursday here in Atlanta.

Given the large turnout of [...]

B2B Thought Leadership with Malcolm Friedberg

Through these special blog postings, our goal is to offer advice and insights from top B2B marketers. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Malcolm Friedberg, principal at Left Brain Marketing. He has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in a broad range of B2B industries.

Malcolm has built [...]

What Does It Mean to Be An ‘Engaged’ Marketer?

It’s certainly critical as a marketer to improve one’s engagement with the customer, but what does that look like from the marketer’s end? What does this look like from a strategic and operational perspective? What does it mean to be an ‘engaged’ … and, ultimately, successful … marketer? Adam Needles discusses five best practices for being an ‘engaged’ [...]