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Informationen zum Autor Maura Ginty is a digital-era word geek with deep expertise in search, content strategy, and social media programs at Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Lauren Vaccarello is the Senior Director of Online Marketing at Salesforce.com, where she focuses on developing cross-channel strategies that bridge the gap between awareness and demand-generation. William Leake is CEO and founder of the Apogee-branded marketing companies Search, Results, and Campaigns. Bill has guided them all from inception to success, with Apogee Search becoming one of the 20 largest independent search engine marketing firms in North America. All three authors are frequent speakers at leading industry events such as Search Engine Strategies, SMX, eMetrics, and others. Klappentext Master Today's B2B Online Marketing This practical guide is for B2B marketers who want to leverage today's search engine marketing and social media technologies to attract, nurture, convert, and generate leads. It's the perfect B2B online crash course-you'll quickly learn how to engage in social media and attract visitors to your site, apply social media listening and monitoring tools, and maximize the impact of banner ads and landing pages. By book's end, you'll better understand important strategic and branding issues, the best ways to track results, the secrets of sound SEO, and more. Packed with instructive case studies and hands-on tutorials, this is the ultimate how-to on successful B2B online marketing. Identify your product value and establish an online brand Drive quality leads to your site with paid search, display, and social ads Nurture those leads with good content-emails, webinars, and more Create websites and landing pages that make visitors want to stick around Apply the very latest search engine optimization techniques Chat up visitors and engage your customers with social media Allocate your resources for success outcomes Track and measure your efforts with top listening and monitoring tools Generate reports that are targeted-and actually helpful Integrate your marketing with CRM and complex sales cycles If you were looking for yet another boring B2B marketing book, keep looking. If you were looking for an absorbing, practical guide to sexy B2B marketing, then you've found it! From targeting to relevant messaging to nurturing to acquisition, let the authors show you how to truly rock it."-Avinash Kaushik, Digital Marketing Evangelist at Google and author of Web Analytics 2.0 Business-to-business online marketing is hard. Luckily, these experts are veteran B2B online marketers and excellent communicators-you want them on your side!"-Tim Ash, CEO of SiteTuners, author of Landing Page Optimization, Chair of Conversion Conference If you run a B2B company or are involved in marketing, this book is a must-read. Those that learn these tactics and concepts have significant market share to gain, and those that do not will feel the consequences."-Aaron Kahlow, CEO of Online Marketing Institute Zusammenfassung Learn to take full advantage of search and social media for B2B marketingBusiness-to-business marketers have been slow to enter the online marketing arena, but now that the impact of search and social media marketing in the consumer marketplace is clearly documented, B2B marketers are ready for a complete guide to making the most of the medium. Written by experts with first-hand knowledge of the field, this book clearly explains how to leverage today's search engine marketing and social media technologies to get, nurture, and convert leads. Topics include strategy, branding, monitoring, resource allocation, and much more.* B2B marketers need detailed, practical guidelines and strategies for how best to gain, nurture, and convert leads using today's Int...
List of contents
Introduction xxi
Chapter 1 Understanding B2B Online Marketing 1
Why Online? 2
B2B Is Different 5
Developing Your Strategy 11
and Measurement 13
Chapter 2 Building a B2B Brand Online 17
Understanding Online and Using Digital to Build a Brand 18
Tactical Guide to B2B Branding Online 21
Go Identify Your Audience 29
Determining Your Content Strategy 32
Chapter 3 Search Engine Optimization: Outranking Your Competitors 37
What Is SEO? 38
The Wagging Tail of Keywords 41
Squeezing the Juice Out of Links 48
Designing for Optimal Results 52
Chapter 4 Using Paid Online Media in the B2B Marketplace 57
Search Engine Marketing 58
B2B Strategies for Paid Search 62
Display Advertising for B2B 69
Social Media Advertising 74
Chapter 5 Search and Social Media for Online PR 81
Overview of Traditional B2B PR 82
How Online PR Is Different 84
Three B2B Online PR Case Studies 90
Chapter 6 Social Media 101
Social Media Listening 102
Exploiting Your Resources 108
Social Engagement 115
Chapter 7 Optimizing with Metrics 121
Aligning Analytics with the Goals of Your Site 122
The Basics of Analyzing Metrics 122
Key Performance Indicators and Other Meaningful Reports .125
Wash, Rinse, and Repeat to Improve Your Site 126
Testing for Ongoing Optimization 133
Should It Stay or Should It Go? 135
Social Media Metrics 136
Chapter 8 Conversion Rate Optimization and Usability 141
Web Usability and CRO: Similarities and Differences 142
Where to Start: Stages for Usability and CRO 142
Key B2B Conversions 149
Getting Started with Usability Practices 152
Building Blocks for Usability 156
Chapter 9 Integrating Online with Offl ine Marketing 159
Can Events and Online Marketing Ever Join Forces? 160
Using Online Marketing to Track, Measure, and Understand Traditional Marketing 174
Chapter 10 Managing Your Leads: Automation and Nurturing 181
Basics of Marketing Automation 182
Lead Nurturing 183
Basics of B2B Email Marketing 198
Chapter 11 Integrating Marketing with CRM 203
Understanding Your CRM 204
Types of Data Integration 205
Marketing Automation and CRM 208
Must-Have CRM Metrics 215
Chapter 12 The Overall Marketing Mix 217
Marketing Mix Framework 218
Digital vs Traditional Investments 220
What Mix Is Most Effective? 221
Sometimes You Can t Predict the Future 227
Integrating New Forms of Marketing into the Mix 232
Glossary 241
Index 247
