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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

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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. I’m guessing the answer to these questions, in Phil’s case, is a big fat “no.”

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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

The Point

Similarly, marketing automation helps companies get more from their investment in demand generation by nurturing and cultivating the vast majority of leads that aren’t immediately sales-ready. The email blast is dead. The Changing Role of Email. The reason?

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

The Point

The clients we work with are concerned with more basic, day-to-day issues: enhancing sales productivity, converting more inquiries to sales-ready leads (or trial users to paying customers), better leveraging their marketing database, and increasing demand generation ROI. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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5 Types of Marketing Automation for Businesses to Consider

PureB2B

The birth of marketing technology happened sometime in the 80’s , when computers became powerful enough to store large volumes of customer information. a customer management company, developed the first ever database marketing software, basically a primitive CRM platform. In 1986, ACT!,

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5 Types of Marketing Automation to Consider

PureB2B

The birth of marketing technology happened sometime in the 80's , when computers became powerful enough to store large volumes of customer information. a customer management company, developed the first ever database marketing software, basically a primitive CRM platform. In 1986, ACT!,

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Decoding the True Essence of Outbound Marketing

MarketJoy

Thinking “Out-Of-The-Box” – It may not strike a marketer’s mind in the first place, but conducting business exhibitions is definitely one of the means of going about it. Not limiting oneself to e-blasts and direct mails, marketers should think creatively, witness the latest trends, and figure out the best solutions.

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Predictions for B2B digital marketing in 2013

Biznology

It took a while, but Facebook marketing is now ready for mainstream B2B, in support of branding, lead generation, and customer relationship marketing goals for enterprises of all sizes. B2B marketers were early to the content marketing game. I encourage readers to add their own. . I stand corrected.