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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

The Point

In fact, he concludes: “Stop sending batch email blasts. If those purchased lists, as is often the case, filter into the company’s demand generation engine, the result is the kind of indiscriminate, untargeted campaigns that are the topic of Phil’s rant. Stop buying lists. In fact, I’d recommend it. Those days are long gone.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

The Point

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. From Marketo’s perspective, I understand the need to frame marketing automation in ever more mission-critical terms. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet. Phone contact has to play a role.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Many of the marketing automation companies have added some fairly sophisticated analytics to monitor prospect’s online behavior and help marketers qualify and score them based on Web site visits, registrations, and downloads. Folks, at less than 20 employees, many of you look more like boutique agencies than true technology providers.