ROI

Changing patterns vs habits, and flipping the script because we can

In this episode Susan and Laura cover four actionable items to change patterns, versus changing habits. What can you control? Here are four ideas to take control and gain an edge in business and life. This was taken from a recent blog post by today's guest, Laura Patterson, President, VisionEdge Marketing. She and Susan drive through this hard truth list. You either embrace it and expand your effectiveness, or freeze in place with no desire to change your approach. If that's you, you can now choose to mix it up, or be left behind.

Why business owners tend to hit plateaus and struggle to grow.

Kevin McCann of the Executive Strategy Group, gives actionable logical, simple, but wildly important tips in this episodes. Here's one to start, if we take something just as fundamental your website. Take the first, top five pages of your website. Look at your navigation. Print out those pages. Go grab a yellow and green highlighter. You'll have to listen to this episode for the insights and assessment you can do right now.
Then, he praises one of his partners, HubSpot, but admits there is something missing. On the buyer persona, typically, it's, "Who is your ideal customer?" What vertical industry are they in? The standard demographic, size of company, title, revenue, growth, trajectory, vertical industry, et cetera. You'll have to listen to get the rest of what's missing and how he solves it with Revenue Growth Mastery 
He also goes through what is the REAL pain you are solving. It's not what you think 90% of the time. "The value of your offer needs to be relevant to the impact that the customer is experiencing with their challenge. Most sales reps totally miss that."

The Five Easy Pieces of A Marketing Attribution Model You Should-Know

Barriers to Measuring ROI
Tessa Burg, VP of User Experience and Technology Strategy at Tenlo, says that B2B marketers that want to track the ROI of their digital efforts would be wise to consider an Attribution Model.  Lead sources should no longer be simply attributed to one source and neither should the credit be given to that source for the eventual sale. To access the true ROI of each marketing channel, B2B companies must find ways to adjust their traditional success metrics.

How to Measure Content ROI

To hear some marketers complain, the ever ravenous bottomless pit of content consuming ne’er-do-well perspective buyers drain marketing’s budget with nary-a-proof of purchase.  But is the professed ignorance a ploy by marketers that simply don’t know how to prove that the content they create is worth the expense?  In this interview with Pamela Muldoon, Revenue Marketing Coach with the Pedowitz Group, we find out that content does have a measurable ROI.  Really, it does.  Really.  This is Part Two of the program:  Connecting Content Creation to the Bottom Line from May 11, 2018
The host is Jim Obermayer.
About the Guest Pamela Muldoon
Pamela Muldoon is a Revenue Marketing Coach with The Pedowitz with over two decades of traditional and digital marketing experience. She specializes in campaign and content strategy with a passion for helping clients develop a content marketing culture across the organization. Her marketing career started over thirty years ago when she transitioned from on-air personality to Copy Director for a radio station in Wisconsin. Since then, she has taken on multiple marketing roles in her career, having worked with companies like ING, Prudential and Content Marketing Institute. Pamela was named one of the Top 50 Women in Content Marketing in 2017 and in 2018 one of the 20 Women to Watch from the Sales Lead Management Association.
Pamela is also a professional voice over talent and podcaster. When not online working on digital marketing strategies, she can be found unwinding at a Las Vegas poker table or hanging out with her two dogs, Maddi and Copper.
About the Pedowitz Group
The Pedowitz Group (TPG) is a Revenue Marketing™ consulting firm headquartered near Atlanta, Ga. We believe that Marketing is the driver of customer engagement that fuels the revenue engine. Many of today’s successful CMOs are operationalizing business accountability, digital transformation and the customer experience through marketing operations. As your partner, TPG helps you plan, build and optimize your revenue engine by delivering services in MarTech, demand generation and marketing operations.
TPG has worked with over 1,300 clients to enable marketing and sales. Our expertise spans the six major categories of MarTech, including marketing automation, CRM and content platforms. We specialize in helping mid-market and enterprise organizations in financial services, manufacturing, software, technology and business services.  The Pedowitz Group customers have won over 50 national awards for their Revenue Marketing excellence. To discover how we can help your organization become successful Revenue Marketers™, visit http://www.pedowitzgroup.com, or call us at 855-REV-MKTG or visit Revenue Marketer Blog.
Related from Muldoon: Connecting Content Creation to the Bottom Line
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An Agency willing to Stand Behind the Moniker: Performance Marketing

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A Defintion of Performance Marketing
For the past two years’ proving ROI for marketing was all the rage in every conference (as if it was suddenly new) but it surely became more popular. In this interview with one of the nominees for the SLMA’s annual 20 Women Leaders in Business, Rachel Schulties, we discuss the definition of Performance Marketing which we suspect is entrails a broader definition that just measuring ROI.

Why CEO’s and CFO's are still beggars when it comes to marketing ROI

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Flushed with Data and Metrics: Why is it Still Hard to Prove Marketing ROI?
The data is there, or at least available; that excuse for proving the ROI of marketing is dead and isn’t valid.  If the Chief Financial Officer for a company is asked to show the ROI for the company, it would be impossible for him or her to simply say, “AH, we can’t do that.”  So, what is it that is makes beggars out of CEO’s that want to know the ROI for marketing? Why isn’t marketing ROI a written part of every CMO’s job description? Author Laura Patterson of VisionEdge Marketing has opinions about why this is still an evasive goal for most corporations. 

Marketing Myths and ROI

Marketing is often presented with a dizzying array of metrics many of which are useless. In this SLMA Program, Paul Petersen, GM and Vice President of GoldMine discusses how some of the most common metrics may not be what you think and in fact may be marketing myths. Petersen has been on some of the SLMA’s most listened to programs including: Follow the money - that’s marketing’s role, CRM’s shouldn’t be the leaders in technology and Why CRM is NOT a settled science! The host this week is Jim Obermayer.
 
About Paul Petersen
Mr. Petersen is the general manager and vice president of the GoldMine business unit of HeatSoftware Inc. His career spans working with sales & marketing systems and process having developed, managed, and sold for companies including McDonald's Corp, General Electric, Symantec, Allied Van Lines and now has 16 years with CRM background at GoldMine.  Mr. Petersen holds a JD from Loyola University of Chicago and was one of the first to be awarded  the Professional Certified Marketer designation by the American Marketing Association.
 
About GoldMine
Headquartered in Milpitas, CA., USA, GoldMine is a division of FrontRange Solutions. GoldMine is a leading provider of mobile relationship management solutions for small businesses worldwide. Over 1 million users have selected GoldMine to help them manage over 1 billion relationships. GoldMine has been selected by businesses in more than 80 verticals and 45 countries to grow their businesses and build enduring relationships.

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How to connect SEO directly to revenue

Revenue is rallying cry for marketing, as it has been since the last recession and seems to be accelerating.  In this episode Eric Kronthal of periscopeUP discusses how SEO is not simply a long term strategy for visibility, but it can be tracked for contributions to revenue. The host this week is Jim Obermayer.About Eric Kronthal Eric Kronthal is an experienced online marketer proficient in building custom solutions to meet online advertising and marketing objectives since 1996. Eric left PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting services to become one of the early employees at Advertising.com (acquired by AOL) and he is credited with the launch of several industry leading online advertising solutions including Behavioral Targeting, Interactive Television advertising, and several self-service applications. Among the companies he worked with were Snap-on Tools, NASCAR, Match.com, USA Networks, H&R Block, PGA Tour, Southwest Airlines, TV Guide, and Comcast Cable.  Eric started periscopeUP in 2009 to guide marketers toward accountable Search Engine Optimization. He and the team at periscopeUP believe success should be measured by the number of leads and sales generated, and not by search rank, clicks or visits. Customers include Trump Entertainment Resorts, Bon Secours Health System, Carnegie Mellon University, The Gettysburg Foundation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and CARCHEX.  Eric, his wife and two children, live in Chevy Chase, MD.  About periscopeUP SEO services are just one of many offered by periscopeUP, including: Pay Per Click Search Advertising, Search Reputation Management, Display Retargeting, Web Development and Web Analytics. Regardless of the channel(s) used, periscopeUP's philosophy for increasing website conversions and leads is to optimize the marketing message for customers and prospects first and the channel or platform second. Month over month periscopeUP's analysts track, measure and report on tactics to continually improve. While based in Washington, DC, many of periscopeUP's employees work virtually from Boston, New York, and Houston.

SLMA ROI SpotLight: Alight Analytics

In this 12 minute SLMA ROI SpotLIght, Alight Analytics founders Michelle Jacobs and Matt Hertig are interviewed about the potential ROI for clients using its ChannelMix Platform and consulting services. Projected ROI is the result of the ChannelMix program’s ability to take data from many sources and provide reports which are actionable.  The founders of Alight Analytics were also interviewed on SLMA Radio on July 1, 2014.

Rosen on Convergence Marketing and the Expectations of Generation Z

From the Sales 2.0 Conference, SLMA Radio host interviews Richard Rosen of Rosen Convergence (the branding/direct/digital agency).  Richard tells us his interpretation of Generation Z and their mantra of “I want to make a difference and I expect you to do the same.” About Richard G. Rosen CEORichard G. Rosen - Rosen Convergence MarketingRichard is the originator and chief architect of Convergence Marketing. As a world-renowned marketing consultant of Convergence, Richard fuses business school analytics with creative marketing and advertising to achieve unprecedented results.His book, Convergence Marketing: Combining Brand and Direct for Unprecedented Profits, (Wiley & Sons), is an entertaining “how to” tool for every professional in the business of marketing.As a passionate speaker, Richard presents keynotes and seminars at business and academic forums around the world. They include Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the ERA European Conference, the International DMA Conference and more.Richard is an active member of the Clinton Global Initiative which creates and implements innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. He also holds an Executive Education Certificate in Strategic CSR from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business & Management taught by former Patagonia CEO, Michael Crooke, Ph.D.His awards include a Telly, the Caples Organization’s Emerson Award for exemplary service to the marketing community, and the first “B-to-B Marketer of the Year Award” by the International Direct Marketing Association. He’s earned 28 International Echo Awards, received recognition from experts at Harvard, UC Berkeley and DePaul University and has been featured in numerous publications. About Rosen Convergence  http://rosenconvergence.com/ROSEN’s approach to business is guided by our commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, our status as a B Corporation and a Gold Sustainability at Work Certified Business issued by the City of Portland.  ROSEN is also a proud member of the following organizations: