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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. The categories with the largest percentage of marketers reporting plans to reduce spending next year were high-cost offline tactics: direct mail, trade shows and print advertising. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This!

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The Founder Interview Series #26: Orrin Broberg, Modus

Webbiquity

B2B marketing teams have become highly proficient at producing content, whether for lead generation, brand awareness, or sales acceleration. In 2011, their customers came to them asking for a system to deploy and manage rich media to iPads for their sales teams. This was the birth of Modus. The Launch.

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Lead Gen Tactics from 4 MarketingSherpa Case Studies

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Tweet Our sister publication, MarketingSherpa, publishes three weekly newsletter case studies, and in the B2B beat in particular, those weekly articles routinely feature a story covering marketers tackling lead generation for the complex sale. Case Study #1 – Local B2B Marketing: 150% boost in lead generation.

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B2B Lead-Gen: Top tactics for a crisis-proof strategy

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Most lead-generation marketers are not in crisis, but many could use an orderly process to help combat challenges. I chatted with Jen Doyle, Senior Research Manager at MECLABS, about her work as lead author of the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report (coming out this spring). Trade shows.

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B2B Marketers Hold Off on Killing Traditional Media

The Effective Marketer

Also interesting to note that telemarketing as a budget item will also remain a key part of the budget, which shows outbound lead generation is still a strong component of most marketing plans. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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More Free Marketing Training

The Effective Marketer

That’s why I’m eager to check out two resources: MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World The folks at MarketingProfs held an online trade show that had a great speaker lineup and relevant topics for those in the online world, being very focused on tactics for lead generation, social media, and email marketing among other topics.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

ViewPoint

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. Let me go out on a limb and propose the top five media for your lead generation toolkit. Direct mail Direct mail, for decades the workhorse of direct response communications for lead generation, still delivers the goods.

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