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The Marketing Book Podcast: “Content Marketing Strategy” by Robert Rose

The Forward Observer

About the Author For more than 25 years, Robert has helped marketing leaders balance the art and science of marketing, tell their stories more effectively, and understand how the strategic use of digital content drives sales and better customer experiences.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. What will 2010 bring? Continued sales growth, for sure: that’s easy enough when you’re starting with a small base. 2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a.

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B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 - Reflections

Smashmouth Marketing

She asked a bunch of B2B marketing experts for their predictions for 2010. Until then, I give you more thoughts to ponder than predictions: Are marketing's goals aligned with sales? Cost per lead? Cost per opportunity? Hit the ground running in 2010. Do your bonuses share quota? Are you measuring everyting?

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #9: Amanda LaGrange, Tech Dump/Tech Discounts

Webbiquity

Amanda LaGrange helped found Tech Dump as a board member in 2010, while working at General Mills in Corporate Finance. Tech Dump provides electronics recycling for companies and consumers; Tech Discounts offers access to low-cost technology, all while creating needed jobs and protecting the environment. The Product. The Company.

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Social Media Marketing Strategies for 2010

Webbiquity

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. Among the key findings from the report: Despite the lingering economic malaise, companies across virtually all industries plan to increase budgets for social media marketing in 2010. Share this on Mixx. Tweet This! Seed this on Newsvine.

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The Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy in Measuring B2B Lead Generation Investments (Pt 1 of 3)

ViewPoint

As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. The problems and costs of a cost-per-lead approach.

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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

Biznology

The result: you get higher quality prospects, with higher conversion rates and at lower cost than traditional outbound marketing. Turns out Hubspot’s own growth as a software company has been driven via cold calling through an inside sales team. But guess what? Kudos to them. But hold on. I’ve seen actual samples. Ironic, isn’t it?