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How Performance Marketing Accelerates B-to-B Prospecting

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Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. It generally means that the media channel owner conducts a campaign, and charges the marketer an agreed price for every respondent, according to predetermined criteria. Where is performance marketing in B-to-B headed?

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Testing for B-to-B Marketers: How hard is it?

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B-to-B marketers are often guilty of laziness when it comes to testing their communications, whether it’s testing the copy approach, the layout, the offer or the target audience. It’s a fact that the typical B-to-B campaign targets universes that are too small to support a split test. Image via Wikipedia.

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Five Ways to “Get Real” With B-to-B Social Media

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Today, 89% of B-to-B marketers in the U.S. are using social media, says a study conducted by iTracks and the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In fact, B-to-B use of social media may have even eclipsed that of consumer marketers, according to another report from White Horse Productions. First, get busy on LinkedIn.

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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. So that’s my argument for gating content in B-to-B marketing.

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

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Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns. Like this post?

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Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

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Real-time marketing is about using data analytics to mine the flood of live data generated by all this activity, in combination with other direct sales, product and brand interactions.”. B2B Marketing B-to-B marketing B2B marketing database marketing marketing technology predictions real-time marketing' Like this post?

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Named account marketing: new tools and techniques to reach a limited universe

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A similar focus occupies Warm-Transfer, which tele-qualifies leads generated by very large insurance companies, and warm transfers the prospects to the clients’ sales teams. “We They have spent a few years building a database of the 6,000 accounts they already do business with in North America, plus another 6,000 prospective accounts.

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