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Activate Acquires Green Leads

Smashmouth Marketing

Back in 2007, Linda and I had no idea we would have built a global pipeline generation company that the Fortune 1000 and some of the biggest tech firms in the industry would trust to generate their sale pipeline from high level Ideal Customer Profile leads (ICPs) to booked and confirmed Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs, or appointments).

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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

ViewPoint

In February of 2010, Ben Bernanke began his second term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Overall lead rates trended down in 2002 and from 2008 – Q3 2009—yep, just as the economy did. Lead rates trail the GDP by about a quarter. Lead rates never dropped to zero.

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Tech layoffs? Great companies are actively hiring marketing technology talent

chiefmartech

A Dilbert cartoon from 2010 quipped that marketing was “just liquor and guessing.” For my inaugural post in 2008 , I did a Google search for the phrase “director of marketing technology” It turned up 7,520 matches. They didn’t really understand or appreciate what the other did. Maybe not bad.

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How B2B Brands Can Benefit from Social Listening

Brandwatch Marketing

2/ Generate Prospects and Drive Sales Most analytics tools will suggest companies to first listen to branded conversation, but many B2B companies don’t have a strong brand presence to listen to in the first place. Example : As early as 2008, networking giant Cisco has been using social media to launch products.

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How B2B brands can benefit from social listening

Brandwatch Marketing

2/ Generate Prospects and Drive Sales Most analytics tools will suggest companies to first listen to branded conversation, but many B2B companies don’t have a strong brand presence to listen to in the first place. Example : As early as 2008, networking giant Cisco has been using social media to launch products.

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How Marketers Should Navigate Economic Uncertainty in 2023

B2B Marketing Directions

Don't Cut Marketing Spending The research by Analytic Partners found that 63% of brands that increased their investment in marketing after the "great financial crisis" of 2008 generated a positive ROI, and those that increased their media investments realized a 17% growth in incremental sales.

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The Twilight renaissance: Why retailers need social media for trend forecasting

Sprout Social

But thanks to the combined forces of Netflix and social media, teens are flocking to thrift stores to find everything you probably wore back in 2010. Even a vampire romance movie from 2008. If it looks like Bella Swan might have worn it in the 2008 film adaptation of Twilight, it fits the vibe. Here’s why.