Digital B2B Marketing

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Stop Advertising and Give Them Content! [The Numbers Prove It]

Digital B2B Marketing

Banner Ad: The top banner ad is outperforming the industry average 0.10% click rate [actual rate has been removed to protect client and publisher details, advertising has 'performed well' on a number of measures]. the click rate of the top banner ad. Use content as a catalyst to increase engagement.

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A New Way To Connect Twitter To Lead Generation

Digital B2B Marketing

B2B marketers are so anxious to generate leads from social media they are turning Twitter into a list for cold calls and mass email blasts. There is nothing social about this! Marketers are just turning social into a source of email or telemarketing lists for mass outbound marketing. Social advertisers.

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The Trick to Seeing Through Marketing Statistics

Digital B2B Marketing

Here is a comparison, from the same study: 41% purchased a product because they saw a banner ad on a tablet. When compared to a banner ad on a tablet, watching a video is just slightly better. Barely better than a banner ad will never be a claim to fame. Social media research often has the similar problem.

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29 Signs You Need a Break From Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

You like seeing retargeted banner ads. You talk about the days before ad exchanges. You believe serving a banner to every internet user is your inalienable right. You believe in advertising as a force for social good. Social Media' (And that means you know what a LUMAscape is too). Really folks?).

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Inbound Marketing vs Outbound Marketing: The Real Difference

Digital B2B Marketing

We have all turned to Google or social media and discovered things that are completely useless or misleading. If it is an email promotion for an upcoming webcast or a banner ad showing how much money your business can save, a marketer is interrupting you and asking you to move on to something else.

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3 Steps to Using Data in an Imperfect Data World

Digital B2B Marketing

Yes, some of your ads will reach the wrong person, but they will on trade publication sites as well. Trade sites reach reach students, marketers, vendors and journalists and draw search and social media traffic from a broad audience. For B2B marketing organizations, Bizo continues to develop more robust data.

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Stop Being a Transactional Content Marketer

Digital B2B Marketing

We’ve all seen the promotional emails, banner ads and Tweets. Following someone on social media also sparks a continuing relationship (although it may initially be a pretty weak one). Free white paper! Free webinar! Free eBook! It’s Free! It’s Free! A blog subscription is another classic relationship.