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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

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In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was paramount. Fast-forward 20 years to a world of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) , and little has changed. Late-stage content can be a key factor in identifying high-propensity accounts.

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Does Creative Still Matter in B2B Marketing?

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Good content – and, more specifically, here I mean offer content – is the fuel that feeds modern B2B marketing. One of my favorite direct marketing truisms: bad creative to a good list will always outperform good creative to a bad list.). Today, the three factors would be: 1.

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Should I remove offer content from my Website if it’s part of a campaign?

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As demand generation marketers, no matter how skillfully we construct a clear, unambiguous, unfettered path to our precious content, some prospects will still go out of their way to avoid having to register for it. For example, consider packaging content in the form of an “information kit” to increase the perceived value.

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Is Technology Making Marketing Agencies Obsolete?

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in B2B circles, the emergence of content marketing as the dominant form of demand generation leads some clients to question the value of “big idea” creative (agencies’ traditional calling card). And the right solution makes any marketing department more efficient, more effective, and more scalable. What do you think?

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Email Critique: Oracle/Eloqua Webcast Invite Needs Help

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I’ve had kind words to say about Eloqua’s marketing creative in this space previously, but what was then an edgy, ground-breaking campaign from the likes of Joe Chernov (then Eloqua VP Content Marketing, recently named VP of Content at Hubspot ) is now corporate marketing pablum at its worst. Great – who are they?

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DMA Webinar: Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success

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Join me on Wednesday, December 7 as I present a Webinar on “ Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success ,” hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). In under one hour, you’ll learn: • creative solutions to a lack of lead nurturing content …. • the top 5 questions to ask about your current lead management process …. •

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The First (Almost) Clickable Direct Mail

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Marketing pundits have been proclaiming that direct mail is making a comeback ever since I first cut my teeth in direct marketing back in the late 80s. I can only report that whereas the heady days of mail are long gone, far more B2B clients are utilizing direct mail today compared to say, five years ago.

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