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How Search Reporting Misleads Marketers

Digital B2B Marketing

However, search is not purely a research and acquisition channel. Non-brand terms are the primary acquisition element of your campaign, brand terms capture credit from other marketing programs. In Summary Search is getting credited in acquisition programs for activity it isn’t causing.

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Buying B2B Email Marketing Lists: Challenges and Recommendations

Digital B2B Marketing

Here are three organizational issues for marketers identified by IDC (via a DemandGen report, link at the bottom of this post): No central ownership of customer data and data acquisition. Additional recommendations are in DemandGen’s 2012 Data Acquisition Report (light registration required) via a link at the bottom of the linked post.

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QuinStreet Buys Ziff Davis Enterprise: Is B2B Just Lead Gen Now?

Digital B2B Marketing

This isn’t QuinStreet’s first B2B technology media acquisition. According to a post on Google+ from Steven Vaughan-Nichols, nearly all of the editorial staff from Ziff Davis Enterprise have been laid off as part of the acquisition as well. They purchased IT Business Edge in September 2011 and Internet.com in 2009.

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3 Ways To Use the Value of a Like or Follow

Digital B2B Marketing

When you change your acquisition tactics, you change the type of audience you get and the reason they liked or followed, etc you. By using a value metric rather than measuring growth directly, you will begin to measure the impact your marketing has on your audience and you will be able to identify tactics that deliver a higher value audience.

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When Marketing Automation Is the Wrong Solution

Digital B2B Marketing

But despite big acquisitions and IPOs, it isn’t a shiny cure-all for your marketing woes. You will need someone with the time and skill to get into the weeds of the system in order to get the full value out of it. Marketing automation is a great solution for many companies.

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B2B Marketing’s Measurement Problem

Digital B2B Marketing

As a results, B2B acquisition marketing often devolves into one of two places: Just getting a lead (really just some contact details, but I digress) into the marketing and sales machine. In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. Beyond cold, these leads may frozen solid.

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How Account Based Advertising Really Works

Digital B2B Marketing

With this acquisition, Demandbase is the first provider I’m aware of to bring their own IP data and on boarded data together. Maybe the most interesting play in this space though is Demandbase, traditionally an IP-based targeting approach, purchasing Whotoo, a database that is used for ad targeting. Your Personal Profiles.