Technology Decisions Issue 2 | Page 6

  Five  Steps  to  Harnessing  the  Power  of  Marketing  2.0  for  your  B2B  Company     enough  successful  interactions  to  move  from  early  Awareness  to  Consideration.  At  this   point  they  are  seamlessly  passed  to  sales.     For  more  detailed  information  on  these  and  other  technologies,  and  their  potential,  see   our  whitepaper,  How  Gossamar  Automates  Online  Sales  Lead  Management.     FROM  ART  TO  SCIENCE   However,  perhaps  the  biggest  opportunity  for  marketers  is  the  ability  to  transform   much  of  your  marketing  effort  from  an  art  to  a  science.  With  Marketing  2.0  and  SAMA,   you  can  capture  massive  amounts  of  market  data  in  real  time,  in  the  process  receiving   market  insight  that  you  could  only  dream  of  in  prior  days.  Our   paper,  How  to  get  Priceless  Marketing  Insight  for  Free,  covers   WHAT  OTHERS  ARE  SAYING  ABOUT  MARKETING  2.0   the  topic  in  detail.   "We  are  witnessing  the  obsolescence  of  advertising.  The   new  marketing  requires  a  feedback  loop;  it  is  this  element   that  is  missing  from  the  monologue  of  advertising."   –  Regis  McKenna,  a  founding  father  of  hi-­?tech  marketing.   “Selling  to  people  who  actually  want  to  hear  from  you  is   more  effective  than  interrupting  strangers  who  don't.   Finding  new  ways,  more  clever  ways  to  interrupt  people   doesn't  work.”   –  Seth  Godin,  author  of  the  most  popular  marketing  blog  in   the  world.   One  of  these  insights  is  that  you  can  now,  finally,  calculate  your   Return  on  Marketing  Investment,  or  ROMI.  What  better  way  to   decide  which  campaigns  are  working  best?  In  addition,  you   watch  prospects  interacting  with  your  campaigns  in  real  time,   as  you  digitally  track  their  preferences.  It’s  like  having  an   ongoing,  free  focus  group.  But  there’s  more:  You  can  now  use   multivariate  testing  to  quickly  determine  which  elements  of  a   campaign  work,  and  which  don’t,  and  correct  your  marketing   strategies  on  the  fly.   In  other  words,  you  can  finally  answer  the  age-­?old  question  of   which  50%  of  the  marketing  budget  is  producing  results.   “2.0  empowers  sales  and  marketing  to  work  together  like  a   beehive”   –  Inside  CRM     Over  time,  SAMA  systems  use  their  priceless  database  of   prospects  and  market  preferences,  to  shine  a  lens  on  individual   prospects,  particular  market  segments,  and  your  market  as  a   whole.  New  levels  of  micro-­?segmentation,  laser  targeting  and   true  1:1  marketing  are  now  possible.  Think  of  the  competitive   advantages  such  invaluable  real-­?time