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Avoid Getting Caught in the Next B2B Marketing Crisis

Rev

While some blow off the talk as just that, we’ll never forget what surprised us in 2008. And then when you constantly feed that system feedback on the quality of its data-driven output (leads), it automatically gets better and better at producing a higher quality. . But why go the “new data” route? Why not just use what’s out there?

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? And that begins with thinking like an investigative reporter by asking the 4Ws and the 1H questions. WHY : Why are you sending out this email campaign?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. I mean dig deeper than just the demographics like company size, job title, SIC code etc. > Oh, we need content, okay let’s just copy & paste from our old marketing collateral.

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How to Get People to Read Your Entire Blog Post

Hubspot

” Upworthy had a similar depressing scientific analysis of shares vs. reads: Jakob Nielsen, the venerable godfather of internet research, told us way back in 2008 that most users read about 20% of the words on a page. These are the people that truly matter. 1) Draw them in with an image. Here’s how he described it.

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