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

Industrial Marketing Today

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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10 Ways to Optimize Your Lead Conversion Rate

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Tweet The ultimate goal of B2B marketing and lead generation is to help the sales team sell. Marketers spend a lot of time and effort creating inbound leads but struggle getting those leads to convert into customers after they hand them off to sales. Serve them. The biggest reason? It’s about progression.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

You don’t have that kind of a marketing budget; smaller as it may be in these tough times, yet a lot is expected of you or your marketing team. How can you use marketing content to generate a decent volume of sales-ready leads at a low(er) cost? What is effective content marketing?

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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.) This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

Clearly define personas by addressing the WIIF (What’s in it for me) question for each stakeholder. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? How are you using email marketing to reach and engage with your target audience? Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

Re-purpose - The same content can be modified for use with different personas and verticals to increase relevance and personalization rather than relying on general, one-size-fits-all content to meet the needs of a variety of audiences. Hold some in reserve to use as an offer during an inside sales call to follow-up.