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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

Everything Technology Marketing

As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. And here are the results: 1 - Integration of social media Social media remains the #1 topic in 2012. What marketing areas are becoming relatively less important in 2012?

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B2B Lead Generation: Are You Killing the Golden Goose?

ViewPoint

Over the next four weeks we will talk about all of the statistics on the following table, though today we are going to focus on lead rate: Based on over 60,000 completed company dispositions per year (annualized for 2012). However, in 2011 and 2012 the percent of our efforts focused on inbound dropped to 22% and 11% respectively.

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B2B Marketing 2011 Year In Review

Marketing Insider Group

Next week I will be joining my good friends Adam Needles (@ abneedles ), Ardath Albee (@ ardath421 ) and Craig Rosenberg (@ funnelholic ) for a round table discussion on # B2B Marketing – 2011 Year in Review and predictions for 2012. 2012 will bring content strategists into the planning discussions where they can impact investment.

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3 Reasons You Should Consider Direct Mail Marketing

Leadspace

According to a 2012 study by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) , direct mail generates a 4.4% response rate. According to the same study, emails on average achieved response rates of just 0.12%! First thing’s first: despite the bad rap it sometimes gets, direct mail gets results.

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B2B data decay and list rental – buyer beware!

Biznology

First California Bank had been acquired by Pacific Western Bank in 2012, even though the deal didn’t close until 2013. was shown as CIO but in early 2012 she moved to VP Risk Manager – company and contact name wrong. NelNet showed Steve G. as President, but he actually left the company in 2000 – more than 13 years ago! Like this post?

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B2B Sales and Marketing: How a staffing company gained 242 qualified leads in just three months in a new market

markempa

in 2012, it had to start fresh – the company had no reputation to fall back on. The response rate and deal size necessary for ROI. Tweet TERRA Staffing Group has been serving the Seattle area for three decades. It built a strong reputation for excellent service and was extremely well networked in that community.

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B2B Email Benchmarks: Answers Vary Widely

Customer Experience Matrix

This leads to different questions than I used to get, including the ever-popular “what’s a reasonable response rate for our emails?” The UK Email Marketing Benchmark Report 2012 Finally, we have a study from Signup.to That one came up last week and led me to review my files on industry benchmarks.