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10 Tips for a Successful Trade Show Follow-up Campaign

The Point

Research has long suggested that the majority of leads generated by trade shows never receive follow-up by company representatives. A 2010 study concluded that fewer than 70 percent of exhibitors have any formalized plan or process in place for how leads are followed up after the show. Make it easy to do so.

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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

Turns out Hubspot’s own growth as a software company has been driven via cold calling through an inside sales team. Back in 2010, I was invited to become a contributor to Harvard Business Review ’s online publication. But guess what? Ironic, isn’t it? What a thrill! The response was immediate, and it got nasty, fast.

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Best Companies Don't Need Marketing

The Effective Marketer

The reality is, more and more companies are adopting practices like these (especially telecommuting and flex hours) because technology is such that not only allows you to do it, but makes you more productive. But companies don’t offer these nice perks just because they are run by nice people. United States License.

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don't forget your company history

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Don’t Forget Your Company History The recent advent of the lost NASA tapes (they lost the original tapes from the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, then found out that they had all been erased) got me thinking.

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get hired in marketing

The Effective Marketer

I was recently hiring a marketing coordinator for my company and once again it became obvious to me that most candidates do a poor job at interviewing. Companies spend a lot of time and money when they need to hire someone and spend even more when they make a wrong hiring decision. The problem with this answer is that is very limited.

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Marketing Content That Sells

The Effective Marketer

Yup, it is more complicated when you get to the implementation phase of the program, and that’s where most companies fail. David Meerman Scott , in his book The New Rules of Marketing and PR points out that creating quality content is the new imperative: “The tools of the marketing and PR trade have changed. We have all been there.

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2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

Here are some of the more interesting things found in the January, 2010 survey: 1) Social media became the hot new marketing tool. Email, search marketing, and inside sales were the only tactics to show steady upward trends for both branding and demand generation since 2007. What does work?