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

Smashmouth Marketing

It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. I accept that, and I truly believe there is a place for inbound marketing in all of our marketing budgets. To top it off, they raised their hand.

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

Smashmouth Marketing

It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. I accept that, and I truly believe there is a place for inbound marketing in all of our marketing budgets. To top it off, they raised their hand.

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What Works Now in B2B Lead Generation, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

MarketingSherpa has just released its 2008 B2B Lead Generation Handbook (that's a link to the free executive summary PDF; the complete report will run you a cool $500). The 22-page executive summary contains some useful information for B2B marketers and CEOs (plus a little bit of misinformation best disregarded).

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What Works Now in B2B Lead Generation, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

MarketingSherpa's report provides useful advice for incorporating video into B2B lead generation plans, such as best practices in properly tagging corporate videos uploaded to YouTube. YouTube and the Paradox of Video Quality Online video is hot for many reasons: it's engaging, portable, re-usable and increasingly searchable.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

WebMarketCentral

How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers? Use Facebook fan pages to help with SEO? Attract lots of targeted Twitter followers in a short time? Take advantage of new tools to raise your own profile by commenting on existing content?

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ClickInsights: What ROI metric should B2B marketers use in this digital marketing era?

Ambal's Amusings

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

The MarketingProfs research bears this out, as usage of primary social outposts is almost identical, regardless of budget. I look forward to getting past the basic questions of application of social media for B2B and starting to focus on things like lead generation and social CRM as we move forward in 2010.-=