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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

Here’s another: Google and Facebook are leading the digital marketing revolution. Did you know that both Google and Facebook use dear old direct mail for cold prospecting in their ad sales businesses? Back in 2010, I was invited to become a contributor to Harvard Business Review ’s online publication. Kudos to them. But hold on.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

ViewPoint

Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MySpace and Facebook sign real-time search deals with Google. Google Announces New Offerings in Real-Time, Mobile and Social Search. 40% of Marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2010. Google Removes Page Rank from the Webmaster Tools. Brightcove by Google - $500-$700 million. reCapture by Google.

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B2B Blogging Excellence

Paul Gillin

Process Experts was named Best Corporate Blog by BtoB magazine in 2010 and Cahill is now leading the company’s charge into Twitter and Facebook while institutionalizing best practices among all the Emerson Process Management divisions. Even rarely used terms like “compressor surge control” deliver Emerson on Google’s first page.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? Sources: • SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyers Survey 2010, on an online survey of more than 600 b-to-b marketers • IDC Executive Tele Briefing on Sales and Marketing Strategies for 2010 Posted by Tom Pisello at 8:55 AM Email This BlogThis!

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

According Mr Ogden, “7 out of 10 buyers say they start their buying process at vendor sites, not Google.” Sources: 1) MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm survey - [link] 2) SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buyer's Survey 2010 3) New Realities about B2B Buying, Jeff Ogden, SandHill.com Blog, Jun. of respondents) and peers (28.7%).

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What’s the next big idea in B2B?

MLT Creative

As I was pondering this topic the other day, it occurred to me to Google “B2B predictions” to see what others may have said on the subject. There were many articles from this time last year full of insightful predictions for 2010, and a few recent ones for 2011.