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4 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Fails

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

From my experience, many marketing teams still operate in batch and blast mode, sending out a one size fits all message. This is problematic because, according to a study by eMarketer, more than 85% of internet users specifically expect and accept personalization as a part of their online retail experience.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Direct mail for the complex sale that really works

markempa

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Jim logan gives us a great example of how do an effective direct mail letter for a complex sale on his blog Direct Reponse Works. In reality, direct mail is simply being asked to do more than it is capable of doing.

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Does 'Being Findable' mean 'Being Everywhere'?

Ambal's Amusings

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! That’s equivalent to the batch and blast newsletter sends of old when companies hoped their messages would land in the inbox of someone who might be a potential customer. Ardath Albee.

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How to destroy your e-marketing presence in 5 steps

Anything Goes Marketing

Send one last email blast. As another best practice, you should test different subject lines to a subset of your list before sending out the complete email blast. The business blog to end all business blogs. If you were smart and started a business blog you can use this to help bring down your e-marketing strategy.

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ClickInsights: What was your "Aha" moment in 2009? - Part 2

Ambal's Amusings

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Rebel Brown's blog Phoenix Rising. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Patsi Krakoff's blog Writing on the Web. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. via Beth Harte).

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What You Need to Know This Morning: June 5, 2013

Hubspot

Amazon is anticipated to generate $835 million in ad revenue this year, eMarketer reports. eMarketer just slashed its Microsoft ad revenue estimates in half. A lot has happened in the last 24 hours, and not all of it has to do with people being shocked by whatever is happening with Game of Thrones. 1) Amazon Ad Sales Surging.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Web Marketing Research, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

Learn these answers and more from this collection of blog posts and articles, some of the best reporting on online research topics so far this year. Who's really clicking on your PPC ads? Why do PPC costs keep rising? How can you convert more clickers into buyers? technologies now mainstream? UM Finds Web 2.0 Breeding Consumers 2.0,