Digital B2B Marketing

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Buying B2B Email Marketing Lists: Challenges and Recommendations

Digital B2B Marketing

Marketing lists are often acquired sporadically, and when these acquisitions are handled by various groups, companies lose the opportunity to learn from their successes or failures. I would rather see a company build their list organically over time, creating a list of people that have opted in specifically to hear from them.

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B2B Marketing’s Measurement Problem

Digital B2B Marketing

In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. It is a complex sale, but most B2B companies will continue to use their simple measurement. It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead?

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Give Us Freedom! Lessons for Corporate America

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These companies offer cost efficiency, but more importantly, they give customers the freedom to quickly adapt to their market. In late 2009, Bob Evans, then with Information Week, wrote an open letter to Larry Ellison , taking Oracle to task for not allowing companies the freedom to control their own expense structures.

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42 B2B Marketing Acronyms and Abbreviations

Digital B2B Marketing

Most frequently used to indicate the general size of target companies versus the specific list. A marketing approach that treats every company individually rather than as a mass of similar companies TAP : Targeted Accounts Program. Salesforce.com. EM : Email ABM : Account Based Marketing. SEM : Search Engine Marketing.