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How Far in Advance Should I Promote our Webinar?

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By way of reference, in their “ 2013 ON24 Webinar Benchmarks Report ,” Webinar and virtual event platform company ON24 reported findings based on a study of more than 2,300 Webinar events, and claim that starting email promotions more than seven days prior to an event increases the size of the audience by up to 36%.

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More Evidence That Waiting Even 5 Seconds to Contact a New Sales Lead Can Be Disastrous

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Software Advice analyzed more than 6 million unique visitors to their own Website between 2008 and 2013, and the impact that various factors (speed of response, time of day, day of week, month of year) had on the rate at which those leads were qualified based on a telephone needs analysis and BANT qualification.

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Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line

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In follow-up to the recent 2013 Marketo Summit , the marketing team at ReachForce , a leading provider of B2B data services, sent a message to attendees (including this blogger) crowing about the success of their traffic builder campaign , an email that generated a 42.8%

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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

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Billion with Google in 2013. Google still dominates search advertising – at last count, it handles roughly two-thirds of all Web search queries , a market share that won’t be decreasing any time soon. Its top 25 US-based search advertisers alone spent more than $1.3

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3 Demand Generation Goals to Avoid in 2013

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Launch a lead nurturing program. Don’t get me wrong: lead nurturing is a worthy investment for most companies, but making lead nurturing a goal for the new year is akin to saying you want to do more marketing. It just means too many things to different people. Lead nurturing is a means to an end, a program in the service of a goal.