HubSpot TV - Monkeying Around with BzzAgent's Dave Balter -

Intro

• How to interact on Twitter - @mvolpe, @karenrubin, @bzzagentjono
• Remember to subscribe in iTunes - http://itunes.hubspot.tv
• Inboundmarketing.com - new site where you can post questions, learn about inbound marketing, meet others, find and post jobs or sign up inbound

Interview with Dave Balter, BzzAgent

Word-of-mouth marketing

The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II

• To launch the book Dave supplied 20 influential bloggers (Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan) with a free, advance digital copy that they then got to distribute to their readers. Only a few thousand hard copies of the book were printed and priced at $45 on Amazon. (Each premium priced book on Amazon was autographed and came with an original piece of artwork from BzzAgent's artist-in-residence, Seth B. Minkin.
• Give away 10 copies using hashtg #monkey.
• Launched a little over a month ago, BzzScapes is a free-to-build network of brand communities dedicated to the collection and discussion of a brand's content.

Doing It Right

• TSA Has Its Act Together

Headlines

How To Fix a Broken Advertising Industry

• Forbes article by David Balter
• "The marketing supply chain isn't rusted, it's busted--and we all must do our part to put it back together again."
• Marketing Takeaway: Don't be afraid to try new things. Try to work our performance based incentives with the agencies you work with.

LinkedIn to Launch Pay for Whitepaper Downloads

• Whitepaper downloads on LinkedIn? Leads you're willing to pay for?

• "There will be a form to collect info. from those that download"
• "Looks like costs will range from $40 - $100 per lead"
• "LinkedIn users will not have to pay for whitepapers"
• "Whitepaper ads will can be targeted by title and industry"
• Beta Feature!
• Marketing Takeaway: Another approach to try, but if you have built out a Linked In group you can send them your whitepapers for FREE!

Executives Using the Web

• The Rise of the Digital C-suite
• Forbes Insights
• 28% of c-level execs under 50 "network professionally in an online community" daily (only 6% over 50) 
• The Internet was by far the most trusted and most used source of information for execs under 50 
• 53% prefer to find the information online by themselves 
• 24% of c-suite execs say video is their preferred format for information 
• 23% of c-level execs under 50 watch work-related videos on YouTube daily 
• More than half of executives under 40 say they use Twitter daily or several times a week 
• More than half of executives under 40 say they maintain a work related blog daily or several times a week 
• 72% of execs under 40 read business and news content through an RSS feed
• "...prepare for profound organizational evolution as Generation Wang begins to retire, Generation PC takes control, and Generation Netscape starts to move in."
• CEOs Are Social Media Slackers: Study
• Marketing Takeaway: Inbound Marketing is appropriate for reaching the most Sr. people at an organization and this will only increase with time.

Marketing Tip of the Week
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Closing

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Comments

Posted by Magdalena Georgieva on Sat, Jun 27, 2009 @ 09:30 AM