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Six Ways to Connect with Hard-to-Reach Business Buyers

Webbiquity

When calling a typical company today, phone trees make it nearly impossible to reach any actual human, much less the one you hope to speak to. Forbes reports that “direct mail’s response rates are actually anywhere from 10 to 30 times higher than that of digital.” And no one answers their phone anymore.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Have We Really Improved Marketing Productivity?

B2B Marketing Directions

During the past couple of years, many B2B companies have adopted account-based marketing, and many have begun using predictive marketing analytics technologies to support ABM and other marketing efforts. Obviously, these questions must be answered on a company-by-company basis.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

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12 Email Marketing Mistakes To Avoid [New Report]

Hubspot

While I was working at MarketingSherpa, we published MarketingSherpa’s Dirty Dozen: Email Newsletter Mistakes Nearly Everyone Makes as a lead generation offer for the 2008 Email Marketing Summit. At the time, I thought that this was a valuable document that could help companies recognize and change their less than stellar email habits.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Demand Streamâ„¢ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. These methods are becoming less and less effective - email open rates are falling, response rates are falling, connect rates on phone calls are declining, etc.

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9 call analytics platforms for marketing teams to consider

Martech

Severna Park, Maryland-based CallTrackingMetrics was founded in 2008. Santa Barbara, California-based Invoca was founded in 2008. Cloud IVR (interactive voice response) and dynamic call routing using data captured before the call (e.g. CallTrackingMetrics. It has 65 employees and is privately funded. Target customers.