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PowerViews with Ruth Stevens: The Science (not the art) of Marketing

ViewPoint

A business professor at Columbia University, Ruth is also the author of “Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers” and a guest blogger at Biznology and HBR.org. We talked about this issue and about the sustainable relevance of direct mail and cold calling. How valuable are trade shows? Stay Tuned.

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How Content Marketing Can Affect Your Personal Brand

Brandpoint

A website with well-written, interesting content creates not just followers, but buzz — and says a lot about who you are and what you have to offer. Noted keynote speaker and author of “Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling” Sam Richter takes this approach a step further.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: How a Blog Turns Into a Book Deal: The Story of my book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale

markempa

A number of bloggers I know have become or are in the process of becoming published authors after starting a blog. A number of bloggers I know have become or are in the process of becoming published authors after starting a blog. I’m delighted to tell them that it all started with my blog.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Off-Topic: On Selling Ideas in 1776

markempa

« Podcast: Interview with MarketingSherpas Anne Holland | Main | Early Stage Leads are too important for Sales People Alone » Off-Topic: On Selling Ideas in 1776 Fellow blogger Tom Pick, over at the The WebMarketCentral Blog tagged me to write something off topic, interesting, seasonal and non-work related this week.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: E-Mail Marketing Relevance Tips And Resources For B2B Lead Generation

markempa

On the other side, Ive heard numerous speakers and bloggers declare e-mail marketing dead. On the other side, Ive heard numerous speakers and bloggers declare e-mail marketing dead. That’s simply not true. E-mail is a one-to-one medium, nothing more, nothing less. That’s simply not true.

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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

.&# - Author who only gives testimonials for people who give him one in return Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better! That’s like finding a better way to punch people in the face&# is one of the more memorable examples of his outlook.

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How to find and win your first 10 B2B customers

Lenny's Newsletter

Go outbound, but be strategic about it One of the recurring themes (and biggest surprises) across my interviews is the value, and effectiveness, of going cold outbound in the early stages—cold emails, cold DMs, cold calling. But you need to be clever about how you do this. and see who signs up.”