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Data Decay & B2B Database Marketing [Infographic]

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Because of this, many organizations are working with a B2B database that is cluttered with outdated, invalid, or incomplete contacts. Dirty data impacts all areas of an organization, including marketing, lead generation, customer relationships, and finance. Don’t Let B2B Business Data Decay Ruin Your B2B Database.

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B2B prospecting data just keeps getting better

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The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications–whether one is using mail, phone, or email, or using rented or purchased lists. B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size, and job role/title.

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Case study in data-driven B2B customer acquisition marketing

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My new book, B2B Data-Driven Marketing: Sources, Uses, Results , is launching in a few weeks. While preparing case studies for book, I had the fun of interviewing a bunch of very smart B2B marketers to learn how they were applying data and analytics to their marketing objectives. Great approach, isn’t it?

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5 Ways To Incorporate Direct Mail Into Your Marketing Mix

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c) regaining popularity in B2B circles. Yet many B2B marketers continue to be allergic to the idea of using direct mail, simply because it seems such a throwback in our mobile-social-online era. Direct Mail is: a) more expensive than email. b) quaintly old-fashioned. Answer: (e) all of the above. The results may surprise you.

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How Often Should I Email My Database?

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A client writes: “What’s best practice in terms of how many times per month you hit each key contact in your database?” This is becoming a common question, driven in part by the trend in B2B towards more proactive lead nurturing and the rapid adoption of marketing automation systems.

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

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Or even if the processes with which those leads are shepherded along the sales cycle are woefully inadequate, a company may not generate the volume of inquiries necessary in order for marketing automation to make a difference. And lastly, to be frank, it depends how bad you are.

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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

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Email is now a means to a conversation, not merely a one-off broadcast, and marketing automation solutions enable sophisticated, automated, triggered, multi-step, “drip” marketing campaigns that respond to changing demographic and behavioral criteria.