What Challenges Do Content Creators Face?


BtoB Lead Generation: Content Marketing Challenges

At Find New Customers, we’re big believers in content marketing and fans of Content Rulesthe book Content Rules by Ann Handley and CC Chapman. So when we saw this great article in the MarketingProfs blog, we wanted to share it. We share the beginning of the article, along with a link to read the rest.

It’s by Ron Ploof

Ron Ploof is a writer, speaker, and consultant who helps companies tell their stories. He’s the author of Read This First: The Executive’s Guide to New Media, he blogs at http://ronamok.com and is @ronploof on Twitter.

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Had someone told me at the beginning of the month that I’d be flying to Minneapolis to co-present an all-day session at the Confab Conference, I would have laughed. But that’s exactly what happened when Ann Handley called to see if I could pinch-hit for her Content Rules co-author, C.C. Chapman, who wouldn’t be able to co-present with her due to emergency surgery.

And so, last Wednesday I found myself standing next to Ann before 60 content creators, who were all there to participate in: “Content Rules: How to Create Content People Really Care About.” I was very excited to speak to this group for one simple reason: They already know the value of content. Unlike traditional marketers who see content creation as a threat to their jobs or old school PR folks who see it as a threat to their cushy monthly retainers, the corporate storytellers in front of us represented the new guard of this digital communications era.

At the beginning of the session, Ann asked everyone to jot down three things that they each wanted to learn. We collected 117 questions from 48 participants.

To read the rest of this great article, click on What Challenges Do Content Creators Face?

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Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers. He presented at the 140 Social Media Conference on Long Island on May 26th and appearing on Sales Lead Management Radio tomorrow.

Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.

@fearlesscomp and Paula Chiocchi, CEO and President of Outward Media to appear on SLMA radio


B2B Lead Generation| The Fearless Competitor and Paula Chiocchi, CEO and President of Outward Media to appear on SLMA Radio

Paula Chiocchi

Sales Lead Management Association (SLMA) Radio has all the top experts in B2B marketing and sales. Their guest list is a Who’s Who of B2B marketing experts, including most recently Lisa Arthur, Chief Marketing Officer of Aprimo (a client of Find New Customers)

Being included with such luminaries of B2B marketing is why it is such an honor that they invited the President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers, to be a guest on the show.

Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor

The show will air June 9, 2011

Paula and I hope you can join us for a fun show.

Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers.

Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.

The Marketo Revenue Rockstar event, NYC


Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the Marketo Revenue Rockstar event in NYC. As they always do, this was a great education event.

Debbie Qaquish

Debbie Qaquish, Chief Revenue Officer of the Pedowitz Group. did a great presentation on how B2B marketers have evolved from basic lead generation, to demand generation to revenue marketing. She also did a great job of engaging the audience, encouraging them to connect with each other.

Jim Lenskold

Jim Lenskold

Up next was Jim Lenskold of The Lenskold Group, experts in marketing metrics - who reviewed key points on building key metrics. One key takeaway - small changes based on metrics can create huge financial changes.

Jon Miller

Final speaker was Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo, who delivered his “Secret Sauce” presentation. As one of the fastest-growing companies in history, he shared some interesting facts on the huge role of marketing in Marketo. We wish to share these facts with our readers, so you can see how well you measure up. (Don’t feel bad. If you were as good as Marketo, Find New Customers would not exist.)

  • Marketo spends 90 cents for every dollar spent in sales. (What is the ratio between sales and marketing in your company? Is the spending between marketing and sales almost even in your company?)
  • 8 out of 10 sales opportunities originate in marketing. (What percentage of your company’s sales leads originate in marketing? Does marketing even generate 1/2 of your sales opportunities?)
  • Reps carry a quota of $1.2 million - considerable higher than Salesforce.com salespeople - and 92% of Marketo reps made quota last year. (What percentage of reps made quota in your company in 2010?
There were also a good customer case study from a recent Marketo customer.
The B2B lead generation company, Find New Customers, thanks Marketo for this great event.

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Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers. He presented “How to Build an Awesome Personal Brand” at the 140 Social Media Conference and appeared to discuss B2B lead generation on Sales Lead Management Radio.
To learn more about Jeff, please click on Who is the Fearless Competitor?

Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.

What Sales REALLY Needs From Marketing


Lead Generation Companies | What Sales Really Needs from Marketing

7 Strategies to Get More and Better Prospects into your Sales Pipeline

 

Jill Konrath

Jill Konrath is one of the top experts in B2B sales in the world today. She has written two superb books: Selling to Big Companies and SNAP Selling.  (She’s also the author of Get Back to Work Faster - a book that extensively profiled me.) So why is a sales expert talking about marketing?

In Jill’s great ebook of this name, she shares what sales really needs - high quality, well-nurtured sales opportunities. These are almost impossible for sales to generate on their own today - as executives screen calls with voicemail and do their own research online and on social networks. As a result, 1/2 of salespeople did not make quota last year.

I agree with Jill - marketing is critical today. Every B2B company today needs a high quality lead generation program, as we documented in our superb white paper, How to Find New Customers.

To download Jill’s great ebook, click on the image below.

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Jeff Ogden (@fearlesscomp) is President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers. He presented “How to Create an Awesome Personal Brand” at the 140 Social Media Conference on Long Island and appears on Sales Lead Management Radio tomorrow.

Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. As companies struggle to create quality sales opportunities for sales teams, they turn to lead generation companies like Find New Customers.