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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

On Monday I attended a Marketing Automation Monday event, put together by the Marketing Automation Association , a newly formed group of marketing professionals that discusses all things related to marketing automation and best practices. How do you setup your scoring system for inbound leads? United States License.

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Q&A with Greg Dolan, CEO of Keen Decision Systems

ClickZ

I saw brand management as a great training ground for that; I would have the opportunity to manage a P&L, manage big budgets, lead a big team, and be responsible for core assets within an organization. . So I did that for 10 years, managing big brands and big marketing budgets, at Kraft Foods and then at the Campbell Soup company.

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6 Best Free Digital Marketing Tools for Small Businesses (National Entrepreneurs Day Special)

Martech Advisor

To mark the importance of this sector, the third Tuesday of every November is designated as National Entrepreneurs Day. Learn More: 19 Free SEO Tools That Should Be on Every Marketer’s Radar. How to Get Started with Marketing Your Small Business: Tips for National Entrepreneurs Day 2019.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

As my career progressed, I transitioned from sales to marketing and my first big career move happened when I ran a global field marketing program in the US and Europe. I also began working with CRM systems to enable database marketing efforts and lead results analytics.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this. Step 2: Create your marketing plan. Create a lead scoring system.

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Why You're the Key to Social Media Success

Convince & Convert

Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales.

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Social media isn’t enough. We need a marketing transformation.

Chris Koch

We wrote about the typical concerns of a C-level executive, such as strategy, leadership, organizational design, and change management. At ITSMA, we’ve seen investments in the things that we used to identify as the key contributions of marketing—like advertising, brochures, events, and trade shows—shrink consistently.