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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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Lead Gen Tactics from 4 MarketingSherpa Case Studies

markempa

For this B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, I want to offer four of those case studies published over the last couple of years addressing that very topic. 150% increase in lead generation from 2010 to 2011. 1,500% ROI on SEO in 2011. 200% ROI on PPC in 2011. What were the results?

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How Blogs Help Manufacturers Enter New Markets

Industrial Marketing Today

Entering new markets (49%) is cited as one of the top three areas where manufacturers and industrial companies will be spending more time and effort in 2011. Source: 2011 Economic Outlook Survey by GlobalSpec.). That’s where a blog can be a big help by: Building awareness and interest about your company’s offerings.

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Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior. From 7,205 bloggers, the survey reports that 81% have been blogging for more than 2 years, two thirds of bloggers are male, and 65% are age 18-44 years old.

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The Objectives for the B2B Marketing Insider blog

Marketing Insider Group

I realize my first blog posts are a bit self-indulgent but since I am only talking to myself and a few friends, I hope you will allow me these few introspections until I grow my followers and hopefully start to dispense pearls of wisdom that become widely shared across the web. I have never blogged but I know how to build a website.

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Hate Cold Calls From Telemarketers? Here's a Way to Fight Back

Hubspot

Nobody likes getting cold calls from telemarketers, which is reason enough to drop that kind of tactic. One guy in England has found a way to fight back on cold callers and telemarketers by forcing them to pay money to call him, the BBC reports. But if that’s not enough -- here’s another reason. Image credit: starmanseries.