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2 Huge Search Marketing Risks in 2012—And What To Do About Them

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If you’re like most businesses, your 2012 marketing plan relies heavily on search engine marketing. While it’s too soon to tell where this will lead, little doubt exists that Google will continue to look over its shoulder throughout the coming year to ensure it doesn’t get slapped down by regulators.

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Lead Qualification: The Secret Sauce of B2B Lead Generation Marketing

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The Number One rule in B2B marketing: Never, ever, pass an unqualified lead to your sales force. In this kind of situation, the lead should stay with the marketing team, where the relationship can be developed, and nurtured, until it’s ready to take up a salesperson’s valuable time. Enter the concept known as lead qualification.

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How do marketers manage their tech stack?

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Back in 2012, Garner Group predicted that CMOs would outspend CIOs by 2017, but maybe were skeptical. Often this cuts along on-premises vs. cloud lines, and invariably leads to the hodgepodge situation described above. How times have changed! Mix and match. IT handles some components and marketing goes direct to vendors for others.

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How to implement a Video 1st content marketing strategy that drives action

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The chart below, presented by online video platform Brightcove back in Dec 2012, puts some perspective on the rise of online video content over the past 10+ years. The reason a Video 1st content marketing strategy makes a solid investment is because we have become a society of viewers and not readers.

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Chris Abraham joins Frank Eliason and Shel Holtz on FIR

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About yesterday’s guest co-hosts: Chris Abraham , digital strategist and technologist, is a leading expert in digital: search engine optimization (SEO), online relationship management (ORM), Internet privacy, and online public relations with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement, and Internet crisis response. Edelman company.

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New developments in B2B marketing list acquisition

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Internal databases populated from billing systems, lead management systems, and website registration systems. Today, LevelEleven’s sales team gets leads from four sources: The Salesforce.com AppExchange, where other Salesforce users search for partners. In the first half of 2012, the prospecting sources produced zero in closed sales.

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8 ways to refresh your brain when you’re overworked

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You don’t think clearly, which makes it harder to work, which leads to more stress. A 2012 study found that only one in five employees took actual breaks for lunch. You may feel tired and unmotivated. You get less sleep. You’re more susceptible to negative emotions. Get up and move. Go to lunch. Ask for help.

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