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Direct vs Indirect Marketing

Stevens & Tate

You may not realize it, but all marketing efforts can be categorized in one of two ways — direct marketing or indirect marketing. On the surface, direct vs. indirect marketing is relatively easy to understand. Direct marketing involves engaging with leads or customers directly.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

ViewPoint

These are the five essential channels you can rely on for generating a steady stream of inquiries that you can then convert to qualified leads, and have a prayer of closing enough sales to meet your revenue quota. That compares to $7 billion spent on direct mail and $4.5 billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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Direct Mail Tips That Deliver

Content4Demand

“When you receive regular emails from a company as part of their marketing campaign, you pretty much know what their message or intent is,” Hansen says. “It You can attempt to clean up your stream of incoming emails by unsubscribing or marking messages as spam. Because direct mail is physical, mistakes can be costly.

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The Evolution of the Marketing Database

Hubspot

1872: Direct marketing begins with the first direct mail catalog sent by Montgomery Ward. The industry has continued to grow, though response rates have been declining and costs increasing, with an estimated 44% of direct mail being discarded before it is even looked at.

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B2B Lead Generation – Challenges & Strategies That Work

PureB2B

Which tools can you implement to start growing your firm’s contact list—and winning those new accounts—today? Without leads, B2B marketers don’t have prospects. You can get your product in front of more decision makers at more companies and win more accounts as a result. This process can indeed be frustrating.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. Users can query this widget to find out more about these visitors and decide if they want to purchase full business contact information.

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Why Your Marketing Needs to be Data-Driven

PureB2B

In the 1960s, marketing was mostly used at a mass targeting level through direct mail and advertising. 20 years later, direct marketing was used along with computer processing to target specific segments of the population through direct mail and telemarketing. Optimized Marketing Channels.