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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. As MarketingSherpa notes, “Year after year, the greatest challenge that B2B organizations face is generating high-quality leads.&#. Tactics like telemarketing, PR and PPC advertising fell predominantly into the “somewhat effective&# camp.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals. In this article I will summarize a whitepaper Robert wrote on the 11 reasons why outbound telemarketing fails.

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Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011? | B2B Marketing Insider

Marketing Insider Group

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 21, 2010 4 Subscribe Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011? Whoa – quite a mouthful!

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It's Budget Season - B2B Marketing Budget Trends for 2011

Everything Technology Marketing

MarketingSherpa asked more than 900 B2B marketers how they expect their marketing budgets to change for 2011. The results are in: The majority of B2B organizations are increasing marketing budgets for inbound marketing tactics, including social media, virtual events and webinars, SEO and PPC. this year over 2009.

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The Marketing Graveyard: 6 Victims of Inbound Marketing

Tomorrow People

In November 2011 we killed email marketing. No regrets - according to our research, 60% of B2B websites get less than 3000 visitors each month and very low levels of inbound leads, often because they haven’t been designed strategically. RIP TELEMARKETING. In January 2012 we strangled telemarketing with its own phone cable.

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From a Challenging Marketing Past to the Most Promising Marketing Future: Top Takeaways from the 2011 B2B Roundtable Webinars

markempa

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This year’s B2B Lead Roundtable webinars are testament to that. It’s an essential ingredient to a B2B marketing program.”. I am astonished by what I didn’t know then compared to what I know today. 65% haven’t nurtured leads.

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The Secret To B2B Social Media?

Marketing Insider Group

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 15, 2010 Subscribe The Secret To B2B Social Media? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"