Archive for May, 2008

Improving response and sales interactions with multidimensional lead scoring

May 29th, 2008 — Kamran Shah

Tim wrote a white paper a little before I started working at Bulldog Solutions on multidimensional lead scoring. There’s now a quick videoof him explaining lead scoring as well. One thing that can be challenging is how to specifically take advantage of this approach. In a recent event we applied the principles behind multidimensional lead [...]

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Is Gen Y Really All That Different

May 28th, 2008 — Kamran Shah

For a few years I’ve been reading up on and dealing with Gen Y. I’m probably a borderline Gen Y’er based on some definitions but have had a team that was half gen-yers in the past so I thought I’d share some thoughts.  This article by Sarah Parez got me thinking about how Gen Y and specifically:

The changing dyanmics [...]

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Marketing Watchdog Journal: Digital Translators and Lead Nurturing (May 2008, Issue 51)

May 27th, 2008 — Amy Bills

In this issue: Social media savvy, the best times for a Webinar, and how to make sure no leads are left behind. Get it now.

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Insert Pun Using “Flip” Here

May 27th, 2008 — Amy Bills

One of my favorite supermoms pulled out her Flip camera to show off at a recent birthday party, and I admit I nudged a small child out of the way to get a better look. Our home video camera is pretty cool, and the equipment we use here at Bulldog and at our studio partners is, of course, very cool. [...]

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Oh, the Many Layers of Lead Qualification

May 23rd, 2008 — Tim Wilson

We sponsored a webinar put on by Hoover’s yesterday called Fusing Field Marketing and Sales (the archive of the event will be available soon). The main speaker was Tony Jaros of Sirius Decisions, and he talked about the “Demand Creation Ecosystem.” It’s a great overview of the major moving parts that a company’s sales and [...]

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Online Community Best Practices: Measuring ROI around Web 2.0

May 22nd, 2008 — Tim Wilson

I attended the Online Community Best Practices: Measuring ROI and Web 2.0 webinar put on by Awareness today. Dave Carter, the Awareness CTO spoke about different types of communities and how the ROI of those communities would be measured in widely varying ways depending on the type of community and the objectives of it.
I actually [...]

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Web Analytics Technology: Strawberries, Oranges, and Piña Coladas

May 21st, 2008 — Tim Wilson

If you are using Google Analytics, then you’ve seen this message on a recent login:
System Message: Analytics Processing Delay from April 30th to May 5th
Google Analytics experienced a data processing error from April 30th to May 5th. Almost all of the data has been recovered and is currently being reprocessed. The recovered data [...]

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How to build a business in the rise of social media

May 15th, 2008 — Kamran Shah

The subject of this post is the same as a presentation Sam Decker, CMO of Bazaarvoice, finished up at 1:00 today. The presentation was hosted by the Austin chapter of the American Marketing Association.
I was furisously typing on my iphone taking notes, I’m sure people thought I’m checking e-mail or text messaging so I thought [...]

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Save the Date: Marketing News Radio

May 13th, 2008 — Amy Bills

Listen live to Tim Wilson, Bulldog’s VP, Services, interviewed on Marketing News Radio May 21 at 11:00 AM Central. Tim will speak on “Putting the Customer at the Center of Your Lead Scoring.”

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Social Media Measurement: A Practitioner’s Guide

May 12th, 2008 — Tim Wilson

Connie Bensen has a great post on Social Media Measurement. Some of the content is based on a Jeremiah Owyang webinar from back in January, but Connie extends the concepts from that webinar to be a really practical guide for developing a monthly report. It’s a guide that is applicable beyond social media measurement with [...]

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