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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. That immediately shifts the focus from “net new” customer acquisition to customer retention.

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Why Marketing Automation Customers are Migrating Downstream

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And whereas Steve’s customers are migrating upstream, that is – to what they perceive as a more scalable, robust, enterprise-ready solution, we’re seeing many marketers do the opposite, namely moving to a less expensive, less feature-rich, easier to use platform. Why #MarketingAutomation Customers are Migrating Downstream via @spearmktg.

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Forrester thinks Content Marketing Isn’t Working – They’re Half Right

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Over at Forrester Research, Vice President Laura Ramos recently talked to Advertising Age (“ Marketers Still Struggling to Get Results from Content Marketing “) about what she perceives as a general lack of return from the investment so many companies are making in content marketing.

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

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Email, as one example, plays a very different (and less dominant) role in the marketing mix than it did only a few years ago, having migrated from acquisition to nurture and customer marketing. But there are still 5+ billion email accounts worldwide. Email is very much alive.

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New Report Confirms Immaturity of Most Marketing Automation Deployments

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A new report from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by marketing automation provider Silverpop , offers little in the way of groundbreaking insights, but does provide plenty of data confirming what most already know: that many companies are failing to realize the true potential from their investments in marketing automation.

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Campaign Makeover: Simple Changes Increase Email Response by 25 Percent

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I received an email recently from Kevin Payne, Senior Director of Field Marketing at customer service software provider [24]7. I would a) break it up into 2 paragraphs at minimum, and 2) tie the copy back to the offer in action-oriented terms, as in: “In a new white paper from Forrester, learn how …”. Shortened body copy text.

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What’s the Big Deal About Predictive Analytics? A Conversation with Brian Kardon

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He previously held top marketing roles at Eloqua, Forrester Research, and Reed Business Information before taking the reins as CMO at Lattice Engines , a pioneer in predictive applications for marketing and sales. What else can I sell to my current customers? Which of my customers are likely to churn? Who is most likely to buy?