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How to Make Your White Paper a Success

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Here is an excellent article from The Bloom Group on how to write truly compelling white papers that create excitement in the marketplace. Making white papers more compelling isn't a mystery, but it does require a methodical approach: [link]

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Reengineering the White Paper - How to Build a Lead Stream by Shifting Tactics from “Send and Sell” to “Entice and Engage”

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As you might remember, the first article in the "Reengineering the White Paper" series by The Bloom Group was about how to develop compelling content. Great white papers are not so because the writing is great – they are great because the core ideas are.)

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Lead Generation Checklist - Part 4: Clear and Universal Lead Definition

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In part 4 of his lead generation checklist, Brian Carroll highlights some of the key points for defining your leads - click here to read the article. The definition of the lead dimensions also acts as the standard for rating leads and determining whether they are sales ready or need more nurturing by marketing.

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New Report: 2011 B2B Content Marketing Trends

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The most popular content formats: case studies, presentations at live events, white papers, online articles and videos. The biggest motivator for content marketing is its ability to drive awareness, leads, and engagement with prospects to compensate where where traditional tactics are falling short.

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How to Call to Action

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Anne Smarty posted a great article with best practices for improving your call to action on her blog "SEO Smarty". Here you can often see campaigns break down not because of lack of a compelling offer or properly segmented audience but because the call to action is not powerful enough to trigger a response.

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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

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Marketers often struggle to create magnetic content in the right formats and quantities. 3 - Focus on lead quality In the past, it was difficult to gauge lead quality and lead gen's impact on sales pipeline, so in the absence of real quality indicators, more leads were considered better.

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Put an End to Flying Blind: A Ten-Step Process for Creating a Go-to-Market Tactical Plan

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This article outlines a ten-step process any size company can use to successfully enter a new market. Author of dozens of published marketing and branding articles and the books Gone Fishin' and Measure What Matters and the recently published Metrics in Action: Creating Performance-Driven Organizations. These steps involve: 1.

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