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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. But, do marketers make the most of this investment? Trade Show ?

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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. And, as we marketers have embraced digital, the value of face-to-face interactions has increased. The real value of trade show interactions.

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

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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%. Yet, they only ranked fourth in marketing effectiveness, under websites, SEOs, and emails. Trade-show registration lists.

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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. Developing a content marketing strategy remains a big undertaking. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012.

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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 do buyers really want from social media marketers? Marketing Charts ).

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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). Email marketing.

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B2B Marketing: 4 solutions to the most common challenges

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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. That means talking to Sales.