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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. Outbound: Telemarketing,Email, Events).

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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week I was reading HubSpot's study on the state of inbound marketing , and understandably, with HubSpot being in the inbound marketing business, the study showed that the marketing spend on inbound marketing is rising. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. To top it off, they raised their hand.

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Have We Really Improved Marketing Productivity?

B2B Marketing Directions

Over the past 10-15 years, new marketing technologies, channels, and techniques have appeared in rapid succession, and many of these innovations are now in widespread use. The 2008 conversion rates largely reflect marketing productivity before many of the marketing innovations mentioned above had become widely adopted.

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Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

Optify was founded in 2008 and launched its original product, a search engine optimization (SEO) tool, about a year later. Its primary clients were then, and still remain, digital marketing agencies. What Optify does offer inbound marketers is extensive support for search engine optimization.

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Using content for inbound marketing HubSpot , calls inbound marketing as flipping traditional outbound marketing on its head. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

WebMarketCentral

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year. Instead, he offers a positive philosophy and thoughtful approach to attracting worthwhile, like-minded Twitter "associates" (like many Twitters, Jim finds the term "followers" a little creepy).

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How 5 Companies Are Using Inbound Marketing to Succeed in Competitive Markets

Hubspot

When you’re the shop on the corner, good luck competing with corporations with quarterly marketing budgets larger than your entire annual revenue. Inbound marketing helps level the playing field for marketers with less budget, and more brains. Help Scout Marketing Blog. Sounds like inbound marketing to me!