Maralah S. Rose-Asch, CBC, wins G.D. Crain Jr. Award

Maralah Rose-Asch, CBC, publisher and editor at Gardner Business Media, Inc., received the prestigious 2013 G.D. Crain Jr. Award at the Business Marketing Association’s B2 Awards ceremony recently. The G.D. Crain Jr. Award recognizes outstanding career achievements in business-to-business marketing and exceptional service to the Business Marketing Association. Ms. Rose-Asch is the fourth woman to have received the G.D. Crain Jr. Award in its 45-year history.

B2B Conversion Optimization: How Buyer Personas Inspire Content That Converts

The first step in meeting buyers' expectations is earning your visitors’ trust. But there are many other steps to follow before those B2B buyers become a qualified lead. Here’s a summary from TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog of what steps you can take to understand your prospect’s motivations and how to optimize your ability to be the right answer when it matters most.

Visual Storytelling through B2B Social Media Marketing

B2B organizations have the opportunity to make lasting impressions and drive prospect and customer engagement by embracing visual content in their social media marketing strategies. The possible applications of visual storytelling within social media are numerous when a company leverages its existing imagery and takes advantage of the droves of industry-relevant content available online. For B2B organizations to remain relevant to their audiences, incorporating visual content into social media marketing strategies is moving from recommended to critical.

Search Engine Marketing -- Focus on the Details of Marketing Execution to Get Great Results

Improve your SEO and SEM with a quality keyword list. If you’re revamping your website or launching a SEM campaign, the quality of your keyword list will play a significant role in your overall success.

5 Reasons Why B2B Businesses Need to Go Mobile Now

It’s a well-worn fact that B2C marketers set the trends that B2B businesses subsequently adopt. Between them there are usually several years of lag time. The case for B2B companies to adopt mobile marketing practices and a mobile-friendly web presence warrants an acceleration of that schedule in direct correlation to the speed at which mobility is reshaping the world. Here are some compelling arguments pointing towards the value of mobile to B2B businesses.

Be a Good Social Media Citizen During Disasters

Social media is a powerful B-to-B marketing tool. Used respectfully, social media will continue to serve marketers well for years to come.

5 Reasons Why Your Inbound Marketing Isn’t Working

Here are some reasons why your inbound strategy may not be working and ways that you can really amp up the volume.

A Prescription for Success: How to Avoid Messing up Your Marketing

The best marketing activities go wrong. Why? Inadequate execution. Yet, companies don’t spend enough time on learning how to avoid making disastrous mistakes. This article focuses on what can and does happen and what companies can do about it, and provides six useful ideas. Good marketing takes more than good ideas. It takes good thinking.

Going from Good to Great Marketing: Leading and Managing Change

Buyers are now in control of when and how they access information during the purchase process. At the same time, marketers are constrained by tight budgets and are being asked to interact with buyers across a huge array of channels. These changes open up new opportunities for marketers.

Be Mindful of These 20 Top Web Design and Development Trends for 2013

Predicting the future is tough, but with the fast-moving nature of the web, it’s good to know what lies ahead.

Be Authentic! 10 Tips on How to Develop Your Brand

A brand is the power of you on paper, in person, on the airwaves, or on screen. It is the extension of yourself that your marketing materials attempt to project. Brands work the same way whether large or small. The brands that succeed are the ones that are unique, but they’re also the ones that are authentic. A brand must always come from the heart. It must define who you are. Your brand will only succeed if it represents the true picture of you.

Top 3 Landing Page Tips That Convert

Creating landing pages should not be a guessing game. Believe it or not, there are data-proven strategies that will make your landing pages convert better than ever. That’s not to say there aren’t hundreds of variables, and because of that many people can get confused over what’s really important in building a high-performance landing page.