Maria Pergolino

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

Demand Generation Managers are responsible for finding and executing the program mix that is going to drive revenue for their organization. This includes selecting programs that are going to identify new leads and campaigns that are going to cause current leads in the system to move farther down the funnel.

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

Rock stars become famous but physicists typically work in obscurity. However, Stephen Hawking, a physicist and cosmologist, is a celebrity. He’s a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. One of his books, A Brief History of Time, was on The Sunday Times best-seller list for 237 weeks—a record that still stands.

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

For many, the holiday season translates to shopping, socializing and stress. Research shows we spend more time socializing and shopping in December at the expense of exercising.

If you are a B2B marketer, you’ve probably heard the terms “game theory” or “gamification” in regards to advertising a few times. But what does gamification mean and what does game theory have anything to do with marketing?

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

So, if you know me you know I am pretty thrifty. I like to call it strategically miserly- since I believe in putting dollars into big impact items, and trimming costs on unnecessary extras. As part of this I have built up a pretty big list of freebies that I thought I would share.

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

The explosion of social media has effects far beyond how B2Bs market. Companies everywhere struggle with the question of how to manage their B2B social media efforts and along with that, how much access they should allow their employees to social media while on the job.

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

Your B2B marketing department has done its job. They’ve filled the funnel with sales leads. The sales department followed through on the leads provided but somehow your close-ratios are dropping. What happened?

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

Back on August 18^th, MarketingSherpa posted a chart highlighting which social networks, according to their research, were the most successful when it came to inbound marketing. What is both interesting and useful about this chart is that not only does it give percentages, but it sections these percentages off according to their focus: B2B, B2C, or both.

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

They say you save the best for last. And this time they were right. Jay Baer ended the first day of MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit in San Francisco with a memorable keynote. Now, I am trying to write this pretty quick so you will just get the important pieces.

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

In the buyer driven atmosphere of 2011, B2B marketing can’t ignore social media. For the last decade, the net has been morphing into one huge social community with niches of interest breaking off and creating their own networking sites.