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Traffic is Flowing. Make Sure Your Website Isn’t a Ten Car Pileup!
When traffic hits your website, does it move along a logical route to a mutually beneficial destination? Or, is your website creating road blocks and dead ends, frustrating your customers and costing you lost leads and revenue? Join us for a 40-minute live webinar to learn from experts Lance Loveday (CEO of Closed Loop Marketing), Bill Barnes (VP of Mediative) and Ian Everdell (Usability Consultant at Mediative), as they share their insight
Landing Page Optimization: Matching Content to Intent
Are your landing pages the place where good leads go to die? Turn those leads into conversions! When your landing page content matches your customers’ intent, conversions will follow. In this 40-minute webinar, Mediative's Bill Barnes, Angie Dzwonkiewicz and Ian Everdell share tactics you can use right away to optimize landing pages and elevate your conversion levels .
B2B Conversion Optimization from the Search Query
to the Landing Page
B2B search marketers are faced with unique challenges. They must meet the needs of their distinct audiences, often explain complex products or services, and focus on the quality, not just quantity of their leads. Industry experts Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro & Anna Talerico of ion interactive will explain how you can improve the quantity and quality of your B2B search conversions.
The Opportunity Cost of PPC
What would happen if you turned off all PPC advertising for a month? This is exactly what the YouSendIt marketing team did, a risky maneuver which ended up proving the value of their search marketing program. In this 30-minute case study webinar, a client shares her recent B2B/B2C marketing success that has been driven by paid search.
PPC: The Keys to Successful Campaigns
Despite economic pressures which have brought cuts to marketing budgets, markets’ search budgets are continuing to grow. This is due to the relatively high returns, on average, that organic and sponsored search can generate. When it comes to Pay-Per-Click advertising campaigns, what separates the high performers from the money wasters? How can online marketers make the most of the channel?
Getting the Quality You're Looking For from Sponsored Search
In this 60-minute webinar for B2B online marketers and sponsored search strategists, learn what recent research and best practices tell us about using brands to leverage quality conversions. Panelists also discuss how the B2B buying cycle is impacted by sposored search.
PPC Strategy Gets Specific for B2B Purchase Types
Enquiro’s BuyerSphere research project identified three distinct purchase types in B2B. In this 30-minute webinar, we take a closer look at how to adapt your Pay-Per-Click advertising campaigns to the reality of how your buyers buy: Repeat Purchases, Repeat Modified, or Blank Slate. PPC campaigns can’t use a one-type fits all strategy, and by targeting buyers to these three segments you will meet and improve your campaign objectives. We cite examples of how to tailor ad creative, landing pages, and measurement to specific B2B purchase types.
SEO and Website Redesign
A website redesign is a significant milestone in any online marketing strategy. The redesign will involve numerous stakeholders, complex timelines and often large budgets. Yet many companies miss a tremendous opportunity by not involving the right partners before critical decisions are made in the redesign process. In this 60-minute webinar, we look at how search marketing fits into the big picture.
Bringing SEO and PPC together around Common Business Objectives
Within the marketing function, organic and paid search will often be locked away in separate categories. The break sometimes has less to do with oversight and more to do with the evolution of these marketing roles. Our expert panel looks at how CMO's can help break down needless barriers between SEO and PPC teams while increasing efficiency and effectiveness of search in general.
The Brand Lift of Organic and Sponsored Search
Google’s Mark McMaster, Senior Planner for B2B and Technology Markets and Enquiro’s President Gord Hotchkiss discuss joint research by Google and Enquiro on the brand effect of search. The presenters also show practical examples of what the research findings mean for B2B marketers when it comes to sponsored search, SEO and marketing strategy.
Tactical Methods to Coordinate your SEO and PPC Campaigns
How do SEO and PPC teams work together on achieving joint targets? What real estate, like the Golden Triangle or “top shelves” of the search results page, can the marketer control? B2B search marketing agencies, Enquiro and Covario, presented tactics and demonstrated how they best leverage one another based on real life examples.
Managing SEO and Online PR
In our digital marketing world, public relations has made a clear and decisive shift online. Companies that can effectively create buzz and manage their reputation will outperform their competition. Join industry veteran Greg Jarboe in a 30-minute session packed with proven tips and insight.
Search as a Strategic Planning Tool
Gord Hotchkiss, Enquiro and James Lamberti, comScore
In this webcast, we discuss how marketers us search in the strategic planning phase - from creating a demographic profile of their ideal customer, to sizing the opportunities in the market.
Presented by Search Marketing Now and sponsored by comScore.
Search: 2010 Webinar
On December 11, 2007, some of the leading figures in search marketing and user experience met for a one-of-a-kind interactive event. There, with a hand-picked Search 2010 audience of industry leaders, we listened to the group of individuals who have literally defined the search experience as we know it and who will likely play a role in its future.
Analytics and Reporting – How to define metrics that actually mean something to your bottom line.
Watch this 40-minute webinar to learn from experts Chris Knoch (VP Marketing, ReadyFinincal Group), Bill Barnes (VP of Mediative) and Kyle Grant (Senior Sponsored Search Marketing Strategist, Mediative), as they share their insights.
10 Tips for Selling Search to the C-Suite
Are you struggling with selling Search to the C-Suite in your company? Turn your conversations and presentations into successes! When you focus on the value and metrics that Search provides, senior executives will be sold on Search being an essential part of their overall digital strategy.
How to Influence Buyers Throughout the Purchase Process
Have you ever wanted to be more relevant to your B2B audience, but didn't know their role as a buyer and where they are in the buying cycle? Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro and Wes Funk of Omniture talk about keys to give searchers what they really want.
Managing B2B Leads for Sales Success
Can B2B Marketers increase revenues with tighter integration between your sales and marketing team functions? In this webinar, two leading industry experts address this question and those that are top of mind for many B2B Marketing Executives today.
Marketo’s Secret Sauce for Demand Generation:
How a B2B Marketer Uses the BuyerSphere to Drive Revenue
Marketo is the fastest growing vendor in the hot marketing automation space. In this practical case study, see how Marketo uses BuyerSphere concepts to build awareness, develop trust, drive leads, and increase revenue at every stage of the revenue cycle. In this presentation, we give you a behind-the-scenes look at how their very successful B2B marketing program works.
What B2B Marketing Can Learn from B2C
B2B marketers will often contrast business-to-business marketing strategy with its B2C marketing sister to better define B2B marketing applications. This approach however, leads one to assume successful marketing strategy is strictly confined to a B2B or B2C silo. Learn from industry veteran Ben Hanna (working with Business.com, eBay, Inc. and Dex Media) as he shares key insight on how B2B marketers can and should be learning from B2C.
Making B2B Fun Through Social Media
We find that client webinars – where real marketers share their stories and experience – are the webinars that truly resonate. In this live session we introduce Kinaxis, a mid-sized tech company that truly gets Search and Social Media.
Small B2B Team? Measure Big
What would you measure if you built a B2B lead gen program from scratch? Find out what one marketing group took on when their successful, publicly traded tech company rewrote its mission and downsized. Erica describes what they measure and what White Whale of Measurement remains. Learn how the team sold execs on best-of-breed marketing services: email marketing, lead nurturing and scoring, segmentation, integration and ROI reporting, and SEO/SEM with Enquiro. Erica provides her top 10 ways to avoid the obstacles to automation they encountered and reveals the most effective marketing tactics they’ve deployed, with the measurement to prove it.
Coaxing the Conversion
In this 50-minute webinar, learn what the latest research tells us about landing page content and layout. We reveal what business-to-business purchasers look for at various stages of their buying cycle, and how marketing campaigns should be adjusted accordingly.
Coaxing the Conversion Part II
Based on the success of our first webinar in the B2B series, Coaxing the Conversion Part II sees a panel of marketing experts analyze website landing pages. We discuss what business to business purchasers look for at various stages of their buying cycle, and how landing pages can best be designed to match buyers' expectations.
Measuring and Monitoring Success
In this 50-minute webinar, learn what B2B marketers want to measure and how to get the results you want. Our panel of experts discuss the power of using A/B and multivariate testing to measure the effectiveness of search marketing campaigns, online advertising and email campaigns.
Marketing to a B2B Technical Buyer
In this webinar, “Marketing to a B2B Technical Buyer,” Enquiro CEO, Gord Hotchkiss, and Kellysearch.com marketing development manager, Phil Manning, take the guess work out of reaching and engaging with technical purchasers.
Presented by Kellysearch and Enquiro Research.
Mapping the BuyerSphere
Companies don’t like to take unnecessary chances. When it comes to B2B buying processes, ninety-nine percent of it is about mitigating company and professional risk. But how big are the risks, and what are they really made of?
In this opening webinar of our five-part BuyerSphere series, we uncover the variables that affect purchasing decisions and introduce the BuyerSphere, a mapping approach to help marketers understand the business buyer. Viewers will see two B2B companies as examples and watch as we map their product, market realities, and buyer characteristics.
Maximizing Your Online Touch Points
B2B marketers have to consider the many ways a prospect touches a brand, its messaging and product offerings online. As research has shown, business buying can be very complex, often undertaken by a group of individuals and stretching over a long period of time. Successful marketers are able to help buyers along the way, while effectively reducing the risk gap that exists between the vendor and buyer.
What are the typical online paths that business buyers follow? How do they navigate between vendors' sites, general search engines, directories, vertical search, and social networks? For the marketer, which mediums and channels work best, and in which order? How can engagement and momentum be carried over between touch points? What role does search marketing play in B2B, and how can it best be leveraged?
In this webinar, we take a closer look at Enquiro's latest research on B2B online marketing and how it can be applied to two different sample companies for integrated, multi-channel online campaigns.
Beyond the B2B Buying Funnel
The concept of a funnel is used by marketers and sales people to bring order to the complex world of business buying decisions. It helps us set lead generation goals and forecast sales. Yet when looking deeper into individual buying scenarios, we notice that the progression isn’t always as rational as a tidy model suggests. In this sneak peak at Enquiro’s research on B2B buying behavior, we take a closer look at what happens inside the buying process and why an enhanced understanding of the “Risk Gap” in B2B buying is vital.
Enquiro's 2007 B2B Survey
Enquiro's 2007 B2B Survey detailed how B2B search behavior is influenced by the the role of the buyer and the phase of the buying cycle. In this 45-minute webinar, Enquiro CEO Gord Hotchkiss and ZoomInfo COO Bryan Burdick dig into the survey's results and discuss how the B2B search marketing landscape is changing.
Integrating Online and Offline Strategies
Because of the complexity of B2B buying, an integrated approach to online and offline marketing provides a distinct advantage. Following the first installment of our series titled Mapping the BuyerSphere, this webinar takes a look at online/offline approaches to sales, marketing, and building customer lifetime value. We examine these and how they apply in low, medium, and high risk scenarios.
Using two different B2B companies as examples, we give practical integration tips and show how marketers may reduce buyer risk by effectively harnessing promotions, physical resources, thought leadership, and face-to-face opportunities.
Using Your Web Assets as a Business Building Platform
Many vendors believe that a website is primarily for lead generation, but Enquiro's research into B2B buying behaviors indicates that an effective web presence can not only effectively support the entire sales process, but can also build lifetime value with existing customers. Online provides the perfect platform to create an ongoing connection with both prospects and customers. Learn how to create clear persuasion paths online, how to use email and other online communication channels to start and maintain trust building conversations with prospects and how to create a virtual connection with existing customers to maximize long term relationships. We also explore the importance of the "digital portfolio", a look at how your web presence today can extend far beyond the boundaries of your own website.
The Rise of the Digital Native
Have you ever learned a second language as an adult? If so, you realize how hard it is to achieve fluency in it. Yet children seem to become fluent in languages effortlessly. Today, digital proficiency is just like another language. Some of us learned it as adults, and some of us grew up with it. In our research, together with that of others, we learned that native fluency in the language of online, referred to as being a Digital Native, can significantly alter online behavior. Digital Immigrants are those that adopted technology as adults. The divide between these two generations can affect everything from how email is used to how social connections are built and maintained. It also affects how they use online resources as B2B buyers. We'll look at the differences we discovered today, and look forward to what it might mean for B2B buying in the future.