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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Jim: One of my marketers came up to me as we were naming the company, and we were looking at a bunch of different names like Jigsaw. Jigsaw was a great acquisition.

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Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing, by Tony Soprano

Smashmouth Marketing

relevancy -- just a little fun ;) For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Search engine marketing (SEM), search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging and social media strategies all contribute to solid Google rankings.

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Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing, by Tony Soprano

Smashmouth Marketing

For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. In order to capitalize on this, there's been a rush to successfully implement inbound marketing strategies so that we can capture the leads that are out there stumbling on our sites from various sources.

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Lead Gen 2.0 - Social Media & Search Alone Won't Attract C-Level Buyers

Smashmouth Marketing

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies, and the net-gen crowd. The best lists we've seen for the money are from Jigsaw hands down. You can go the next step too, even with a good Jigsaw list, by doing list validation and cleaning. ok, last over-use of 2.0

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Lead Gen 2.0 - Social Media & Search Alone Won't Attract C-Level Buyers

Smashmouth Marketing

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies and the net-gen crowd. The best lists we've seen for the money are from Jigsaw hands down. You can go the next step too, even with a good Jigsaw list, by doing list validation and cleaning. This is marketing budget 2.0.

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How B2B Marketers Can Get More Leads into the Funnel via Inbound Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

At Marketo, I dedicate a large part of my budget to SEO optimization (via Toprank Online Marketing) to make sure we are number one for most of the top terms in our industry. Don’t believe me- go check out terms like B2B Marketing, Marketing Automation, Lead Scoring and Demand Generation.

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Solving the SaaS Problem: The Ultimate Tech Stack for B2B Marketers

Kapost

What are the core tools that should go into a SaaS marketer’s arsenal? Today, I’m exploring the 12 key marketing technologies that make up the ultimate tech stack for B2B SaaS marketers. Effective marketing strategies, no matter how diverse, share a single trait in common: They’re all customer-centric.