Mon.Jan 30, 2012

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Why Inbound Marketing is Telemarketing’s Secret Ingredient

Tomorrow People

Telemarketing is a well known method of drumming up more business. Yet it is facing increasing challenges - consumers overwhelmed and desensitised to increasing volume of cold calls plus a growing shift towards the internet and social media for making choices around what we buy. These changes mean that telemarketing requires a secret ingredient to make it truly effective in creating great results for companies: Added customer connection: Use inbound marketing effectively and it can transform tho

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12 (of the) Best WordPress Guides and Plugin Reviews of 2011

Webbiquity

WordPress is not only the most popular blogging platform , but is increasingly becoming a leading website content management system (CMS) as well. Cost and ease of use are certainly factors, but one of the important reasons is its extensibility through plugins. These add-ons make it easy to add an incredible variety of functionality to the platform, from contact forms and photo galleries to social sharing and ecommerce capabilities.

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Predictive Buyer Modeling Is Changing the Future of B2B

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. I would not be surprised today if a group of B2B executives said they were using fortune tellers to peer into a crystal ball to make predictions about the future. The fast pace of change makes the crystal ball of how buyers will behave in the future enveloped in a hazy fog. C-Suites are under enormous pressures to get it right the first time with regards to marketing and sales planning.

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ThinkBook

Ambal's Amusings

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - John F. Kennedy. Ideas are always powerful. Ideas bring change, progress and most importantly help in human development. So, are you passionate about ideas? ThinkBook is a gift that reminds people of you every time they write down a new idea. My friend Rajesh Setty says this about his cool looking book: “ ThinkBook is a notebook designed for smart people AND it’s a business book designed for creative thinkers.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Google tells you where to place your content

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. Everyone knows that you must place the most important content at the top of the page, right? Everyone knows that you should write like newspaper reporter. Put the most important stuff in the headline, don’t bury the lead, blah, blah, blah. And especially–don’t put important stuff “below the fold.” Below the fold once meant that you keep the good stuff on the upper half of a broadsheet newspaper page, but on the Web it has come to mean that you p

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LinkedIn 277% More Effective for Lead Generation Than Facebook & Twitter [New Data]

Hubspot

Social media can be a huge contributor to a company's lead generation efforts in both B2B and B2C. But how efficient are the various different social channels in directly driving leads? In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3 times higher (277%) than both Twitter (.69%) and Facebook (.77%).

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Are you part of the QR code craze in B2B marketing?

MLT Creative

QR codes are still somewhat on the fringe, but with smartphone numbers constantly on the rise, there are still some great opportunities to add them to your B2B marketing mix. There have been several articles over the past year with ideas for utilizing QR codes in B2B. Items like business cards, tradeshows, presentation downloads, plus other opportunities such as linking to product videos in a catalog or having a map at a tradeshow or event with QR codes for each regional representative’s c

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The Rockstar You Need to Hire to Manage Your Blog

Hubspot

At this stage in the game, you know blogging is a crucial element to the success of your inbound marketing. But that doesn't mean you're doing it consistently like you know you should. Why don't marketers and business owners find time to blog even when they know how important it is to meeting their marketing goals? Because blogging takes time you don't have; you don't fancy yourself a great writer; you can't think of good topics on a regular basis; or any of the other myriad reasons people don't

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Elements of a Successful Online Sweepstakes

SnapApp

For brands, online sweepstakes are powerful and cost-effective vehicles for building relationships with customers. Beyond engaging consumers and inspiring word-of-mouth buzz, contests can generate strong returns in the form of leads, feedback, PR, and social media growth. As one example, baby product retailer Magic Beans generated more than 100,000 leads in a month.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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An Insider's Secret to Avoiding Marketing Content Shortages

Hubspot

These days, inbound marketers have to crank out content like never before. Between blog posts, ebooks, webinars, videos, podcasts, and more, it's hard to keep fresh topics on the horizon. So how can you make it easier to produce remarkable content at such a fast pace? Let me introduce you to your new sidekick, the editorial calendar. So, you have a pretty good sense of the audience you’re targeting and what kind of content you will most likely need to create to drive sales and happy custom