March 8th, 2010

Many Marketers have expressed gratitude to the Marketing Consigliere for recently putting together a short but sweet list of serious B2B Marketing Automation iphone apps in Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! Part I and Part II. Part of the reason he did this was because he could not find a decent list and was dissatisfied with how the AppStore was organized.
And when he was running the B2B Twitterer of the Year Awards this year, he wanted to be able to see what applications might be out there to help analyze the nominees. Fortunately someone has done a great job organizing the various apps for Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 3rd, 2010

Just a week after a great time at Eloqua’s “Brave New World,” The Marketing Consigliere had the pleasure of attending another very crowded B2B event in the Washington, DC area. Silverpop held a session of its “B2B University” and he was surprised to see it was a standing-room only event for the B2B crowd; DC is not known for its B2B community; there’s not even a Business Marketing Association chapter here. And what makes an event like this even more rewarding is meeting professionals from companies he’s never heard of before. It humbles him to discover companies that have been around for years that he was oblivious to. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 1st, 2010

This past week The Marketing Consigliere was fortunate enough to attend a very interesting event. Eloqua had assembled some of the brightest Marketing practitioners in the Washington DC area for their “A Brave New World” road show, which is also appearing in New York, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Fort Lauderdale, Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Southern California. The name of the event was appropriate.
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Posted in B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, EMM, Email Marketing, Leadership, Marketing, Net-Centric Marketing, Sales, Search/SEO/SEM, Social Networking | 2 Comments »
February 24th, 2010

The other week, The Marketing Consigliere posted a blog about iPhone apps for B2B organizations. Those apps were primarily mobile extensions of CRM applications, for use by salespeople. There are few more to talk about, each more suitable for the marketing side of an organization. Ironically, despite the “hotness” of the iPhone and in the Marketing arena, the “hotness” of marketing automation tools, it’s hard to find good analysis of marketing automation apps for iPhones. So here goes a scratching of the surface… Read the rest of this entry »
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