Sat.Sep 15, 2007 - Fri.Sep 21, 2007

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B2B Lead management is far from an easy task

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Companies that adopt effective lead management processes generate more revenue from their lead generation investment and have overall higher close rates on marketing generated leads than those that do not. But I've encountered very few companies that really do lead management. What is lead management? Lead management is a multistage process that manages the conversion of sales leads to customers.

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Blogger: Redirecting

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Who will be the Next President? Mr. or Mrs. Widget

Anything Goes Marketing

Widgets are becoming more and more popular these days as additional tools for marketers. Widgets have been around for a while but they are being used more frequently (especially on social media sites) which is why they are gaining additional attention. There are different types of widgets but I will be focusing on web widgets as I found a great one for all of my American friends.

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Google AdWords Average CTR and Best Practices

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A previous post here covered average click-through rates for email newsletter advertising, email campaigns and website banner ads. As noted, DoubleClick provides fairly reliable data across those media. It's surprisingly difficult, however, to get meaningful data on the average click-through rate (CTR) for Google AdWords ads. This discussion on Webmaster World reports various experiences: 0.6%-1.2%, 1%-2% and 3%-5%.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Practical Strategies for Generating Quality Leads Teleclass

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I'm doing a bunch of live and in-person speaking events this fall. If you can't make any of them, I'll be a guest of Michael Stelzner as part of his monthly teleclass series. Michael is author of Writing White Papers and he invited me to do an interactive 1-hour teleclass focused on providing real-world ideas and tactics for lead generation. The class is named "Practical Strategies for Generating Quality Leads." I hope you can join us.

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Tableau Software Makes Good Visualization Easy

Customer Experience Matrix

I took a close look recently at Tableau data visualization software. I liked Tableau a lot, even though it wasn’t quite what I expected. I had thought of it as a way to build aesthetically-correct charts, according to the precepts set down by Edward Tufte and like-minded visualization gurus such as Stephen Few. But even though Tableau follows many of these principles, it is less for building charts than interactive data exploration.

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Book Review: The New Rules of Marketing and PR

WebMarketCentral

There are two kinds of readers who won't like David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR ; fortunately for the author, both groups are small. The first is that small group of ahead-of-the-curve web marketers and PR professionals who have already figured out how to integrate online efforts between optimized news releases, blogs, social media sites, podcasts and all of the other content distribution and promotional tools now available online (though the ranks of this group will be s

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Blogger: Redirecting

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