Digital B2B Marketing

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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. In the last couple weeks, two companies have emailed or called me because I follow influential sales and marketing accounts on Twitter. There is nothing social about this!

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Everyone Hates Your Most Effective Online Ads

Digital B2B Marketing

Banner ads work. Banner ads don’t work. Banner ads are just wallpaper. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of banner ads, someone out there has a study that will agree with your position. Share your examples in the comments below or with me on Twitter ( @wittlake ).

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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. Just how much more engaging is editorial content?

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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. It’s your turn.

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An Inconvenient Truth: Your Advertising is Invisible

Digital B2B Marketing

According to recent research from ComScore , 31% of banner ads don’t ever have the chance to be seen. So how many banners really go unseen? trillion online banner ads were served in 2011. The average person online in the US was served 19,000 banners in 2011.

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CRM Retargeting: The Shiny New Advertising Tactic?

Digital B2B Marketing

What if banner ads could become as targeted and relevant as emails? Rather than targeting an audience based on various characteristics, CRM retargeting allows you to target segments of your CRM database with online ads. Share your thoughts in the comments below or with me on Twitter ( @wittlake ).

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Inbound Marketing vs Outbound Marketing: The Real Difference

Digital B2B Marketing

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. Share your perspective on the biggest challenges in the comments below or with me on Twitter ( @wittlake ). The difference is friction.