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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. But there is evidence suggesting that some aspects of B2B marketing performance haven't improved as much as we might have anticipated.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

Marketing Automation software is widely used to execute key marketing functions like lead scoring and routing, nurturing via drip marketing, creating email campaigns and landing pages, tracking, measuring and reporting using a unified dashboard. Learn to differentiate between metrics and key performance indicators (KPI).

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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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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

WebMarketCentral

Three Ways People Who Aren't Running for President Can Make Social Media Pay by HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Blog Rick Burnes explains three ways that even organizations which don't have tens of millions of dollars to spend and thousands of volunteers can use social media for marketing and PR, and measure the return.

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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. Sounds like inbound marketing to me!

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. The most simplistic approach to evaluating customer engagement is to measure conversion rates. Interaction: You can measure this by tracking what visitors do after they get to a page.

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Is Social Media Really Living Up to Expectations?

markempa

Our first benchmark guide was published in 2009, which analyzed the use of social media in 2008. What does surprise me is that of the 2,300 marketers we surveyed at the end of 2010, six percent – 138 – already felt they were producing measurable ROI.