I recommend Brian Vellmure to everyone – marketers, sales, social, customer service, cloud…Maybe it’s just me, but when it comes to enterprise and social technology — I always seek his point of view. I randomly skype him all the time to talk shop and always learn something. You should do the same some time- you will agree with me. With that, friends of the Funnelholic, I give you Brian Vellmure’s Madlibs.
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1. The b2b buyer is intelligent and networked.
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2. The biggest innovation in marketing is yet to be done.
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3. The coolest thing happening in b2b marketing is the convergence of PR and Customer Service. Company:Customer and Customer:Customer interactions are now on the stage for the world to see.
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4. My favorite marketing book is Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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5. My favorite social media channel is Twitter, losing ground to Google+ and LinkedIn.
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6. Social media for b2b is an effective tool for discovery, on-ramping to more meaningful conversations, and network awareness.
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7. b2b video is just video.
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8. In b2b, the idea of a funnel is becoming antiquated.
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9.The first thing every marketer should do is get to know their customers and prospects inside and out.
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10. Content marketing is a critical building block for all marketing.
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11. The biggest mistake marketers make is trying to push their message on uninterested ears.
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12. The biggest myth in b2b marketing is that it’s totally different than B2C marketing.
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13. My favorite marketing technology besides marketing automation is analytics.
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14. Besides revenue, the metric every marketer must track is profitability.
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15. My most forgettable marketing experience is sending out thousands of postcards inviting businesses to come hear me speak and having a grand total of 11 people register and show up.
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16. Mobile marketing is a great opportunity to provide the customer what they want/need in context.
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17. The next “hot-thing” in marketing will be over-hyped and impossible to ignore, misleading masses of people.
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18. In 2015, marketing will have matured in its use of digital interactions to participate in more contextual interactions and will be battling more privacy wars.
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19. Over the next couple years in marketing, I can’t wait to see the extinction of “social media mavens”.
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20. Madlibs with the Funnelholic is a genius brainchild of the one and only Funnelholic.
Brian is the Principal and Founder of Initium LLC / Innovantage. 
Over the past two decades, Brian has been helping organizations accelerate growth through customer focused transformation initiatives. He is an accomplished business leader, management consultant, keynote speaker, and an award winning syndicated blogger. He is often referred to as a Social CRM and Social Business thought leader & pioneer. For more, please visit http://www.brianvellmure.com