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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

The Point

If those purchased lists, as is often the case, filter into the company’s demand generation engine, the result is the kind of indiscriminate, untargeted campaigns that are the topic of Phil’s rant. But let’s say your sales team wants to go after 200 “target accounts” within the financial services industry.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

The Point

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. From Marketo’s perspective, I understand the need to frame marketing automation in ever more mission-critical terms. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet. Phone contact has to play a role.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

Brian Hansford – VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing. Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. Bio: I’m VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing, where I’ve worked the last 6 ½ years. Location: Redmond, WA USA.

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Do Lead Nurturing Campaigns Always Need an Offer?

The Point

As further context, the 4-1-1 Rule that Jon references is a principle intended for Twitter and credited to Tipping Point Labs and Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute. If you want to share links, well: that’s what Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest et al are for. But maybe that’s just me. Occasionally?

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Many of the marketing automation companies have added some fairly sophisticated analytics to monitor prospect’s online behavior and help marketers qualify and score them based on Web site visits, registrations, and downloads. Folks, at less than 20 employees, many of you look more like boutique agencies than true technology providers.