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Trade Show Follow-Up: 5 tips to optimize response

markempa

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

markempa

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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How to Use Lead Scoring to Drive the Highest Return on Your Trade-Show Investment

markempa

Tweet In the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , 1,745 marketing organizations revealed that trade shows took up the biggest chunk of their marketing budget – over 21%. Smart marketers apply some type of lead scoring to leads generated from website, SEO, and email initiatives.

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B2B Lead Roundtable Blog: Our 10 most popular blog posts of 2012

markempa

Here’s an at-a-glance analysis that could provide a glimpse of the most pressing issues lead generation professionals have faced in 2012: Understanding and leveraging social media. This interest is also reflected in lead generation budgets. Making the most of their lead generation investment.

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32 Resolutions to Prepare for Your 2012 B2B Lead Generation Program

NuSpark Consulting

Thought I’d give it a shot as well, running through a master list of “resolutions” as preparation for improving your inbound marketing and lead generation strategies for 2012 and beyond. Process: Set your lead generation campaign goals. How many qualified leads. Do a SWOT analysis.

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Lead Qualification: The Secret Sauce of B2B Lead Generation Marketing

Biznology

How did they first come onto our radar—was it a referral, or perhaps we met them at a trade show? a manufacturer in Norwalk CT, relies heavily on exhibiting at trade shows for their lead generation. So King’s trade show qualification criteria center around sample requests. So get going.

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

markempa

Tweet Content marketing is one of the most effective and widely used lead generation tactics, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012. Content Marketing: Your questions on B2B online lead gen, metrics, content from SMEs and more.