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How to Build a Lead Scoring Program

The Effective Marketer

Every company wants high leads volume – but not prioritizing those opportunities can leave sales wasting time on leads that will never buy, while the best prospects fall through the cracks. To measure fit, she recommends using questions that help decide if the potential buyer is a match the company and its products.

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Guidelines for a Content Marketing Audit

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If you are already a content marketing convert and understand the importance of embracing content publishing as a core component of your marketing strategy, you may be wondering how well you are doing in comparison to other companies. Jog : your company is seriously committed to content marketing and has a clear strategy.

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The State of Demand Generation

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Create demand while we sleep (build a “perpetual demand engine”). Best Practice B2B Company Rates: Inquiries to MQL: 9.3%. Best practice companies, on the other hand, will typically close 14 deals out of 1,000 inquiries. How do you get to be a “best practice” company and increase your efficiency?

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The Blogger’s Guide to Online Marketing

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ProbBlogger was started by Darren Rowse, who wrote the most popular of the ProBlogger products, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. As so many successful bloggers will admit, making money from blogging truly is like building a house, and there are foundational elements and then others that you build on top of them.

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Reinventing Marketing at GE

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Who would have thought that General Electric (GE), one of the most admired companies in the world didn’t have a substantial marketing organization up until recently. Building products that sell themselves is a neat idea and had worked well for GE for years. Marketing as a Function. The Integrator.

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

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More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. The company reported $9.7 They are one of the most powerful marketing tools a company can use to build a strong brand, if they are designed and deployed the right way. That’s what makes them memorable.

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6 Content Marketing Channels Missing From Your Plan

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In the B2B world this is a lost opportunity, because you could be sending quality content with your invoice (or on the invoice itself) that might get the customer’s attention and continue building trust. Show off your company’s personality, who works there, put a face behind the communication customers usually receive from you.

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