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Report: What’s Working in Email Marketing

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How can organizations refine and enhance their databases while adhering to the seemingly ever-changing privacy landscape; One of the implications that we’re seeing due to data privacy laws (and the hurdles they present for email marketers) is a growing reliance on other channels – in particular, social media.

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Is Social Media Wasted on PR Agencies?

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I’m ready to conclude that many PR agencies don’t really get it when it comes to social media. Either that, or they’re just choosing to frame the discussion in such a way as to greatly limit the potential of their clients’ social media initiatives. Recently I was made privy to a social media plan authored by a client’s PR agency.

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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Social media may be a hot topic in B2B marketing circles, but most of that buzz focuses on the role of social media advertising. After all, as earned media, the “cost” of organic social is basically zero. I spoke to Daniel Kushner, CEO of B2B social media management platform company Oktopost , for his perspective. (HS)

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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

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Leveraging social media to help maintain mindshare, keep prospects informed. One of the other opportunities identified in the discovery process related to ongoing communication with the database of existing leads. “The

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Origami Logic Scores Gold with “Brand Olympics” Campaign

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The microsite features different marketing campaigns each week, spotlights the brands driving the most engagement on social media, and provides articles, blog posts, and other content that showcases top performing campaigns. Results are also promoted on Twitter ( @brandolympics ) and using the hashtag: #BrandOlympics2016. “The

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Is B2B Lead Generation Really This Difficult?

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Results are in from a recent survey on B2B Lead Generation by the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn ( free report download here ), and the numbers tell a disheartening story. Note: I wrote a white paper on this very topic.). Marketing is suffering from a knowledge gap.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

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Other trends that are decreasing the role of Websites in B2B demand generation: • the growing prevalence of microsites, blogs, information portals, and communities that exist outside the corporate Website but are designed specifically to generate search rankings, Web traffic, subscribers, contributors, and sales leads. •