Digital B2B Marketing

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There Is No Vending Machine For Marketing Qualified Leads

Digital B2B Marketing

Nearly every B2B publisher offers lead generation under a broader heading of demand generation. Here is a hypothetical, yet very realistic, snippet of a conversation with a publisher: Marketer: We are looking for demand generation opportunities that will deliver leads for sales. What is your target audience?

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9 Marketing Words That Have Lost Their Meaning

Digital B2B Marketing

Strategy When you say strategy, or you referring to your 50 year strategic plan that considers things like the lack of potable water and the impact of peak oil on your business? If you are talking about leads and lead generation, setting the definition is critical. Engagement “We want to increase engagement with our brand.”

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What Comes After Lead Generation?

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketers need to move beyond today’s content for contact information exchange and embrace new ways to drive demand and capture more interested and qualified contacts. Underlying the new demand generation activities will be two key changes. What other changes will we see in lead generation? Relevance requires BOTH.

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The Biggest Missed Opportunity in B2B Lead Generation

Digital B2B Marketing

When the success of your business is less important than the success of your marketing, something is seriously wrong. Yet this is exactly how most B2B marketers approach lead generation today! Instead, how do you drive an increase in leads across the entire spectrum of your business’s lead sources? This is crazy folks!

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4 Metrics You Need To Track In B2B Lead Generation Programs

Digital B2B Marketing

Businesses needs to drive growth and lead generation is a key way the business expects marketing to contribute. It can take months, even years, before marketing is able to prove the value of lead generation efforts with revenue. What metrics do you use to manage and optimize publisher lead generation programs?

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Three Reasons to Give Me a Solution, Not a Sales Pitch

Digital B2B Marketing

You understand my needs and my business. By taking the time to create an appropriate solution instead of sending me a solution sheet without context, you show my business is important and worth investing in. It is sized for my business, it works in my environment. Filed under: Content , Demand Generation.

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It’s Not Rational, B2B Marketing Needs to Get Emotional!!

Digital B2B Marketing

Emotion is the root of business needs. Very few businesses have an absolute need for a 38 page per minute printer. Filed under: Branding , Business , Demand Generation , In Theory. Our beliefs are emotional! Somewhere, that belief (or desire) was created, and it drove the requirements.