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10 Ways to Generate More Leads from Your Business Blog

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If you’re not generating leads – as in: a lot of leads – from your company’s blog, you’re missing out on what is perhaps not only your best opportunity to convert organic Web traffic into actionable, measurable sales inquiries, but also the best way to actually show real ROI from your social media investment. Optimize post titles for search.

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Report: B2B Blogging Trends in 2011

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Tony Karrer and Tom Pick, founders of the popular B2B Marketing site B2B Marketing Zone just released a compelling report on B2B Blogging Trends in 2011. 2011 may be the year when B2B companies finally realize blogs are more than just a PR vehicle for propagating so-called thought leadership.

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8 Things Your CEO Can Write About On His/Her Blog

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Launching a CEO blog but the boss isn’t sure what to write about? Commentary/Analysis – as different from #1 (opinion), a written response to a third party article, blog post, report or market event. Paraphrase the question to fit your purpose and answer it on the blog. A good place to be controversial.

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The Impact of New Google & Yahoo Deliverability Rules on Purchased Lists

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I wrote recently on this blog about a general, prescribed approach to the use of purchased lists that leans heavily on personalized sales outreach, paid social ads, display advertising, and content syndication , with bulk sends only as a last resort. (As

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Origami Logic Scores Gold with “Brand Olympics” Campaign

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The microsite features different marketing campaigns each week, spotlights the brands driving the most engagement on social media, and provides articles, blog posts, and other content that showcases top performing campaigns.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

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Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”.

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Mix Up Offer Content to Keep Nurturing Prospects Engaged

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In a recent article (member access only), Marketing Sherpa offers up some intriguing research into how prospective tech buyers view email offer content, and how those views can differ dramatically from common assumptions held by marketers. News and articles, at 84%. The type of content ranked most highly by buyers? In a word: no.