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To Gate or Not to Gate, That Is the B-to-B Content Marketing Question

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There’s a spirited debate in B-to-B marketing about whether it’s best to give away information (aka “content,” like white papers and research reports) to all comers, versus requiring web visitors to provide some information in exchange for a content download. It’s tough to do sustainable marketing on faith.

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New Response Databases - Valuable Resource for B2B Marketers?

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Today we're honored to have guest blogger Ruth Stevens share her thoughts on database marketing. Business marketers are always suspicious of the data they are getting from list and data companies, whether its prospecting lists or data elements purchased for “append,” to fill in gaps.

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5 Steps to customer data hygiene: it’s not sexy, but it’s essential

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This means following address guidelines from the Postal Service (for example, USPS Publication 28 ), and standardizing such complex things as job functions and company names. B2B Marketing B-to-B marketing B2B marketing data hygiene database marketing marketing database'

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6 thorny data problems that Vex B2B marketers, and how to solve them

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As a place to start, ask several match/merge companies to show you examples of the results of their algorithm against your data. But marketers first must think through how they will use the information to drive business results. The post 6 thorny data problems that Vex B2B marketers, and how to solve them appeared first on Biznology.

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New directions for B2B data-driven marketing

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But it is adept at watching and taking up the new ideas from consumer marketers that apply to business buying, observes David Myron, editorial director at CRM magazine. One example is experiments with unstructured data, like that from social media, where consumer marketers are making headway.