ViewPoint

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 24, 2012

Summer is a good time to look back at what has worked for lead generation and compare yourself with your peers as you plan for the second half of the year. You could use some of these findings to validate your own industrial marketing strategy and/or find some new ideas to fine-tune it for the remainder of 2012.

Lead Generation 60

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our INBOUND marketers recommend highlighting the distinct difference between an early bird and regular ticket, making it irresistible for people to sign up. Isabella Kirsch, INBOUND Marketing Manager, says, “We like to create urgency with the pricing structure to engage our audience early on. Number of leads.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? B2B Lead Blog ).

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Hubspot

JUNE 20, 2017

And it’s one of the most underutilized lead generation tools we marketers have in our quiver. Sure, it has a paid lead capture form, but even without it, organic calls-to-action (CTA) work beautifully. These are Relevance.com conversion rates since November of 2012 for social media channels. How would I know this?

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ViewPoint

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is Executive Director of Revenue Optimization at MECLABS where he leads business units that include Applied Research, Strategy Group, Conversion Group, Leads Group, Agency Group, Technology Group and Training Group. Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 7, 2011

An understanding of that market's core values, wants, needs and desires. With this data in hand, you can create marketing campaigns and materials and a business presence that speaks directly to your target market. Would like you to know more about marketing techniques to keep your business ahead of the competition?

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Tomorrow People

AUGUST 8, 2012

Date: 14th August 2012 (Tuesday). 2012 has been the year that content/inbound marketing has forced itself into the mainstream consciousness of most B2B and B2C marketers. Many of the conferences and events I attend seem to be dominated by the topic, with particular reference to the holy grail for marketers.

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Tomorrow People

JULY 25, 2012

Date: 31st July 2012 (Tuesday). 2012 has been the year that content/inbound marketing has forced itself into the mainstream consciousness of most B2B and B2C marketers. Many of the conferences and events I attend seem to be dominated by the topic, with particular reference to the holy grail for marketers.

Webinar Metrics 120

Webinar Metrics Content Marketing Advertising Agencies Content 120

Tomorrow People

JULY 30, 2012

Date: 6th August 2012 (Monday). 2012 has been the year that content/inbound marketing has forced itself into the mainstream consciousness of most B2B and B2C marketers. Many of the conferences and events I attend seem to be dominated by the topic, with particular reference to the holy grail for marketers.

Content Marketing 120

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Tweet The week before Labor Day, hundreds of marketers descended upon Orlando, Fla., for MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit 2012. She works with Research Partners to develop teleprospecting programs where precisely the right people are given the right message to quickly convert them to leads. Staley is a program manager.

Work Management 120

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Tomorrow People

AUGUST 30, 2012

2012 has been the year that content/inbound marketing has forced itself into the mainstream consciousness of most B2B and B2C marketers. Many of the conferences and events I attend seem to be dominated by the topic, with particular reference to the holy grail for marketers. marketing return on investment (ROI).

Webinar Metrics 120

Webinar Metrics Content Marketing Advertising Agencies Content 120

Tomorrow People

AUGUST 15, 2012

2012 has been the year that content/inbound marketing has forced itself into the mainstream consciousness of most B2B and B2C marketers. Many of the conferences and events I attend seem to be dominated by the topic, with particular reference to the holy grail for marketers. marketing return on investment (ROI).

Webinar Metrics 120

Webinar Metrics Content Marketing Advertising Agencies Content 120

Tomorrow People

JUNE 18, 2012

2012 has been the year that content/inbound marketing has forced itself into the mainstream consciousness of most B2B and B2C marketers. Many of the conferences and events I attend seem to be dominated by the topic, with particular reference paid to the holy grail for marketers.

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Content Case Study Case Studies 120

markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago.

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Tomorrow People

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Without the complex marketing analytics tools HubSpot software gives Tomorrow People and our clients, the inbound marketing and content marketing campaigns we carry out would be impossible. The software, which has been in development for a year, is a ‘ completely rebuilt version ’.

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2014

Even though in the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report we found that 20% of marketers say increasing total lead volume is their top priority this year, lead generation itself may not be the problem at hand. Another could be a roundup of the cheapest tires for a 2012 Honda Accord, and so on and so forth.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2012

67 percent of manufacturers, industrial and engineering companies stated that customer acquisition or lead generation is their primary industrial marketing goal in 2012, the same top two marketing goals for the past six years. I’m not trying to be clever or facetious with my headline. Let me know what you think.

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markempa

APRIL 15, 2012

An astounding 61% of B2B marketers admit to sending “leads” directly to Sales without qualification, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. Are these truly leads? Anyone who expresses interest in what you sell is an inquiry , not a lead. Leads not being nurtured.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Having trouble wrapping your head all the way around inbound marketing? The links below will give you access to the best HubSpot ebooks of the last 18 months -- and they're organized in a way that makes it clear how they fit into the core inbound marketing methodology. Inbound Marketing Ebooks. 3) Analyze.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2012

2012: Companies Lifting Off with Higher Budgets for Marketing & Lead Generation. Based on SLMA Radio interviews with 120 marketing and sales leaders and other conversations, a big change is the way companies are spending more dollars on marketing and lead generation.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this article, we have focused on the top 10 tools that marketers should definitely know about. Perfect for: Content Marketing. Hubspot is currently one of the most popular marketing automation tools. Key Features: Offers web-based email marketing platform. Provides lead generation. Search Marketing.

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Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Marketing AI Enterprise Management 144

Zoominfo

AUGUST 9, 2018

billion worldwide in 2019, up from $2 billion in 2012 ( source ). Take a look: 88% of marketers said that reducing the time spent on preparing reports and analysis, thereby granting more time for strategy and focusing on customer interactions, would be valuable ( source ). It’s expected to reach $6.5

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2011

But honestly, I think B2B marketers might be more disillusioned with the power of email, if the feedback from 1,745 marketing organizations in the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report is any indication. Email marketing remains one of the top three lead-generation tactics, just below websites and SEO.

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ViewPoint

JULY 12, 2012

2012 Challenge: How to Tell Stories, Create Compelling Content and Drive Interest. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what is happening or not happening in marketing and sales that is surprising this year, Ann references research that MarketingProfs did with the Content Marketing Institute last year.

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Click to start video at this point —Andrew expressed some surprise that last year there weren’t more mergers and acquisitions in the marketing and sales spaces. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 13, 2014

Chad Burmeister, Vice President of Corporate Sales at ConnectandSell Chad was voted Top 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professionals by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 4 years in a row—2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Ruth Stevens, Inbound Marketing is Tough to Scale. By Dan McDade.'

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Lead Ranking Social Marketing Paid Search Agency Leads 120

B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 17, 2013

Optify , the source of the survey, sells inbound marketing software that helps you track social media and email campaigns. The survey, the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report by Optify, analyzed over 62 million visits and more than 350,000 leads from 600+ small and medium-sized B2B websites.

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Customer Surveys Twitter Email Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For the past six years, more than two thirds of manufacturers and industrial companies have said that lead generation or customer acquisition is their top marketing priority according to the latest industrial marketing survey released by GlobalSpec. To me, that is only the symptom that you are experiencing.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 26, 2012

NuSpark Marketing and Marseli form alliance to help b2b firms manage lead funnel, demand generation, and sales pipeline process. NuSpark Marketing’s focus, then, is the strategic deployment of content marketing via a targeted lead generation process that includes such tactics as paid search, SEO, social media, and paid media.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Work Management Sales Qualified Leads 100

Hubspot

MAY 20, 2013

and statistics from the recently released 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report. Feel free to use this data in your own content, tweet the stats you find most interesting, or just enlighten yourself about the current state of inbound marketing. 86 Revealing Charts From the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report.

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Cost per Lead Stats Inbound Marketing Allocation 28

LeanData

MARCH 14, 2023

But, the shrinking inbound motion is also a proof point that B2B buyers behave markedly different than just a few years ago, and their new B2B buying journeys are forcing vendors to change almost everything they thought they knew about successful GTM strategies. Rather, inbound arrives much later in the buying journey than previously.

Lead Ranking 52

Lead Ranking Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Marketing Analytics Tools 52

Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Can corporate websites support demand generation and lead capture? Or do marketers need to build microsites to support demand generation effectively? These are some of the questions we tackled on B2Bchat on February 8, 2012, and I had the privledge of moderating the discussion on Twitter.

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markempa

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Tweet If you think that using websites for lead generation is for other businesses, but not yours, consider GHT Limited. That was until a marketing agency pointed out that GHT’s website could be used for lead generation. Sources: Hinge Marketing. I feel very fortunate my firm was one of them.”.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking RFP Advertising Agencies 120

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 7, 2013

For B2B marketers, there are endless opportunities for leveraging social media platforms and strategies. Research from Optify’s 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report supports these statements. Twitter in particular proved to be the strongest performing platform for generating leads through social media. .”

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

2012 Trends: Interconnectedness & Reluctance to Make Aggressive Decisions. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has happened in marketing and sales that has or hasn’t surprised him in 2012, Bob talks about interconnectedness: “It’s sobering about how interconnected we are with other economies.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2012

He is also author of a popular sales and marketing blog, Funnelholic , where he shares B2B content with an edge. Craig specializes in lead generation, lead qualification, and B2B marketing and sales. 2012 Trends: Social Marketing Gaining Real Traction & Growth Hacks. Their ideology is pervasive.

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