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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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In another, recent Forrester survey, 50% of the marketers with an active ABM program cited their objective as “increase and deepen relationships and expand business opportunities with existing accounts”. HJS: You report that only 41% of companies reported marketing and sales working from a common strategy and plan. HJS: Thanks Lori!

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The Long Distance Relationship: How to Work with a Remote Marketing Agency

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In days long past, companies hired one marketing firm, usually an advertising agency, to coordinate a broad spectrum of marketing needs. Along the way, we’ve developed some best practices for how to make that long distance relationship work best. The best agency/client relationship is a partnership. Trust them.

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The 2 Most Common Mistakes in Partner Recruitment Campaigns

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Like many B2B marketing agencies, even though we’re a professional services business and don’t sell or re-sell technology, our firm gets marketed to regularly by companies looking to recruit us as a channel partner.

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The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

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By forcing someone to comply with your process, you’re not making them more interested in doing business with your company (or talking to sales); more likely, the result is the exact opposite. Statistics from conversion optimization company Hushly indicate that only 44% of users will provide business emails when requested.

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The Impact of New Google & Yahoo Deliverability Rules on Purchased Lists

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Yahoo has yet to define their rules in detail, but Google’s are published here and summarized as follows: The new Google rules affect companies sending 5,000+ emails per day to any Google users, including Gmail accounts but also (crucially) Google Workspace domains. That may be a challenge, however, for all but the smallest companies.

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When Should I Stop Nurturing a Lead?

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If the individual meets basic demographic criteria (right title, right type/size of company), you should continue to nurture him or her for as long as you have content to send, or until the email address reaches some kind of defined threshold for non-responders (e.g. no opens for 12 months.).

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Marketing Success & the Accident of Timing

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For more companies than not, marketing success is rarely about convincing a given individual, on a given day, to buy what it is you’re selling. Rather, it’s a question of being the company that the buyer finds, or thinks of first, when the relevant need occurs. You can quibble with the percentage, but, overall, she had a point.