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Trade Show Follow-Up: 5 tips to optimize response

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Tweet For the past seven years, trade shows have surpassed websites, email marketing and paid search to secure the top spot as B2B marketers’ biggest investment, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. I can’t help but wonder given my own trade show attendance experience. Trade Show ?

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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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How Technology on the Trade Show Floor Can Help Your Sales Team Work Smarter and Sell More

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Tweet Trade shows and conferences are still the biggest areas of investment for marketers, according to the most recent MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. Yet, many companies still measure marketers on cost-per-lead metrics when such metrics are inadequate for measuring face-to-face interactions at trade shows.

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Lead Gen: A proposed replacement for BANT

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Tweet According to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , 24% of marketers ask a timeline-to-purchase question on their lead capture forms. Q: Please select the most important fields that you need to collect from your leads on the lead generation form.

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Content Marketing: How a technology company used its employees to generate quality content [Video]

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Tweet Content marketing is one of the most effective and widely used lead generation tactics, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. Related Resources: Lead Gen Summit 2013: Sept. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012. 30 – Oct. 3, San Francisco.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

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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’s the key to generating more inbound marketing leads? ( Marketing Charts ).

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Lead Scoring: How to pick the right ingredients for high ROI

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Each attribute and action adds to a lead’s total score. When the score hits a pre-determined threshold, the lead is served to Sales. It’s a process that works very well, according to the soon-to-be-released MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Lead Benchmark Report. Photo by: Another Pint Please….