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Face-to-Face Selling Is Still Effective

Kaon

Forrester Research released a study on how B2B marketers will be allocating budgets in 2015, and the #1 category across the board is face-to-face events, just as it has been since 2008. Even more than digital marketing.

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment

Customer Experience Matrix

It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

This showed that as of December 2008, search was still the most common Internet activity (used by 85.9% By contrast, the Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey in December 2008 found only 35% of adult online Americans had a social media profile. Zenith Optimedia pretty much agrees: its October 2008 report shows U.S.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 4

WebMarketCentral

The POST Method: A systematic approach to social strategy by Groundswell Forrester's Josh Bernoff outlines the POST (for People, Objectives, Strategy and Technology) method for approaching social media. Rather than starting with tools, technologies or tactics (e.g., should we write a blog?

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Website Design, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

10 Great Web Sites by BtoB magazine A group of industry experts including Hoa Loranger from the Nielsen Norman Group, Alan Webber of Forrester Research and Dana Todd from Newsforce tell you what they like, and don't like, about 10 popular websites. Among their picks for great sites are the U.S. Postal Service , Adobe and Formway Furniture.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. The trick is to learn how to use all its power. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. And they use different sources to get their information. All Rights Reserved.