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NorCal BMA Holiday Mixer 2017

October 26, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Mixer /by Venkat Raman

Holiday Mixer, December 5, 2017; 6:30-9:00 pm
Los Altos Tasting Room
366 Main St, Los Altos, CA 94022 register

You know how it goes ...

All work and no play makes B2B marketers miss deadlines!

At NorCal BMA, we don't want you missing deadlines...so we have arranged for a Holiday Mixer in December!

We had so much fun in our previous holiday mixer that we plan on repeating the fun and, yes, networking.

Fixing the Mid-Funnel—The New Problem Child

October 13, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Happy Hour Roundtable /by Venkat Raman

Happy Hour Roundtable, November 13, 2017; 6:00–8:00 PM
Fixing the Mid-Funnel—The New Problem Child
Moderator: Tom Judge, Direct Marketing Partners
Speakers: Ann James, SAP, Deborah Newcomb, Harmonic
Savvy Cellar Wine Bar & Wine Shop
50 W Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA register

B2B lead generation teams have been hard at work filling the top of the funnel; however research shows that almost 80% of leads are not making it through the mid-funnel into the sales funnel. This has become the new problem child! This panel will examine Read more

Communicating Marketing’s Performance: The CMO Dashboard

September 23, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Monthly Meeting /by Venkat Raman

Speaker Event, November 8, 2017; 5:30-8:00 pm
Communicating Marketing's Performance: The CMO Dashboard
Marcia Trask, Sirius Decisions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HQ
3000 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304 register

The CMO dashboard is a reference tool that highlights a marketing function’s contribution to specific business objectives, identifies areas that require support and change, and demonstrates marketing’s impact to the rest of the executive team. While simple in concept, building an effective CMO dashboard requires knowledge of Read more

Hack Your Funnel

September 22, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Happy Hour Roundtable /by Venkat Raman

Happy Hour Roundtable, October 23, 2017; 6:00–8:00 PM
Hack Your Funnel
Jenny Coupe, Akamai Technologies
Savvy Cellar Wine Bar & Wine Shop
50 W Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA register

With the ever-changing marketing technology landscape, marketers have great tools at their finger tips enabling them to leverage operational ‘short cuts’ and hack into their funnel.

In this session, we will discuss tips and tricks to hack your funnel so you can deliver better, faster leads to your sales team.
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Drive Customer-Centric Marketing

August 13, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Monthly Meeting /by Venkat Raman

Speaker Event, October 19, 2017; 5:30-8:00
Using Artificial Intelligence to Drive Customer-Centric Marketing
Sudha Jamthe, iotdisruptions.com
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HQ
3000 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304 register

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a science fiction about Robots anymore.

AI is used in spam filter algorithms of Facebook, Netflix recommendations, predicting diseases in healthcare, preventing failure of machines in factories and in the many self-driving car pilots we see around us in California.

The underlying power of AI lies in Read more

B2B Nurture Beyond Email For More MQLs and Pipeline

August 8, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Happy Hour Roundtable /by Venkat Raman

Happy Hour Roundtable, September 25, 2017; 6:00–8:00 PM
25 Lusk, 25 Lusk St, San Francisco, CA

Executing a cross-functional, dynamic nurture program depends on delivering a consistent experience and consistent offers across multiple marketing channels (web personalization, email, retargeting, social) where each channel works together and is triggered by the prospect’s behavior.

The goal is to get the prospect to reach a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) status faster and help accelerate pipeline. Read more

Bridging Brand and Demand—A Customer First Approach to Marketing

August 7, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Monthly Meeting /by Venkat Raman

Speaker Event, September 12, 2017;
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HQ
3000 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304

People don’t experience content syndication, programmatic, or print ads, they experience your brand. Each channel drives a stronger brand experience when part of a unified brand communications strategy that’s built around customers, not your organizational structure.

Launching ABM with Your Sales Team—Ensuring Alignment and Success

July 7, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Happy Hour Roundtable /by Venkat Raman

Happy Hour Roundtable, August 21, 2017; 6:00–8:00 PM
Savvy Cellar, 50 West Evelyn Ave, Mountain View, CA

Fulfilling on the promise of ABM depends on buy-in from the Sales team and requires a focus on the details of data, content, expectation setting, analytics and communication.

Join your marketing peers for a night of networking and insightful conversation about how to ensure your ABM efforts are aligned with Sales and drive measurable pipeline and revenue.

Summer Mixer 2017 in San Francisco

July 6, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Monthly Meeting /by Venkat Raman

Summer Mixer, August 15, 2017; 6:00–8:00 PM
Hotel Vitale, 8 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

All work and no play makes B2B marketers miss deadlines!

At NorCal BMA, we have the tradition of helping you catch some R&R in the summer months. We had our rest in June this year.

We had so much fun in previous years during our summer mixer, we returned—in July—to Hotel Valencia's Cielo Rooftop Bar in Santana Row. It gets better...we are doubling the pleasure in 2017.

Yes, we have summer mixer, part II. This will be in August, in San Francisco, at Hotel Vitale!

ABM Optimization—The Next Level Strategy

June 29, 2017/in Archive, Buzz, Happy Hour Roundtable /by Venkat Raman

Are you currently executing an Account Based Marketing plan? You wouldn't want to miss this discussion.

Designed with you in mind, this roundtable event will focus on driving key performance metrics at every part of the marketing funnel.

We’ll dive into the tips and tricks for lifecycle ABM marketing, when it’s appropriate to apply scalable techniques and optimizing the fundamentals of data, content and tactics.