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How to Run a Webinar: Are you Ready for a Webinar?

Lead Liaison

If you’re going solo on the webinar, and don’t have a lot of people to invite, it’s a lot harder to drive attendance than having a co-presenter, as well as invite-support, from a big name company. Could you get a Google employee to co-present with you? Here are some ideas: Offer up a free white paper (worth $X).

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The Four Biggest Content Marketing Pain Points

Marketing Insider Group

This is a guest post from ComBlu president and co-founder Kathy Baughman, covering their new eBook on the biggest content marketing pain points, and which they are graciously offering for us here with no registration required… Why is Content so Painful? Brands face multiple obstacles when organizing the content function.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

In this post I will review a whitepaper produced last month by Toolbox.com in conjunction with PJA Advertising + Marketing called “ Top 5 Trends in B2B Social Media Usage: What Every Marketer Should Know “ (registration required) on social media usage. The study included 5-waves with over 3,000 professionals on Toolbox.com.

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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

This increased focus on brand awareness is a surprising shift from the traditional industrial marketing goal of generating more high-quality sales leads. That in my opinion is exactly how inbound content marketing is supposed to work for lead generation. Miller Electric Manufacturing Co. Tyco Flow Control.

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Not Tracking Social Media ROI is Your Fault

Convince & Convert

white paper. B2B companies in particular should have multiple lead-generation opportunities on their website, including contact forms, content downloads, email subscriptions, Webinar registrations, etc. Social interaction is a trailing indicator of purchase, not a leading one. Current or former customers.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. The buying process has fundamentally changed.

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True Influence Opens a Window into Future Demand Generation

Customer Experience Matrix

This leads to more variety as vendors experiment with different approaches to a now-defined problem. CEO and co-founder Brian Giese had extensive experience in business sales and marketing and with existing demand generation systems when he began developing True Influence two years ago. True Influence illustrates this nicely.