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7 Signs Your Manufacturing Company Should Hire a Marketing Agency

SmartBug Media

Hiring a marketing agency can be an expensive endeavor, but oftentimes, the additional expense is worth the boost in customers, leads, and sales that it brings. A knowledgeable, experienced marketing agency can help your manufacturing company: Expand marketing efforts. Sign #5: You Need Quality Leads.

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15 B2B Marketing Books You Need to Read

Directive Agency

Your social media presence is one of the most important parts of your marketing strategy, which is why Dave Kerpen’s book focuses heavily on creating a “likeable” social media presence. The Fundamentals of Business to Business Sales and Marketing by John M.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 4) Lead scoring — in a prior post , I make the case for quantitative scoring.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

The blogpost’s title states that it “Needs to be More About The Customers&# – so take your own advice and focus on understanding and meeting their needs and not only meeting your own as a marketer. Listen, respond, and adjust not just your marketing message, but your entire value delivery chain.

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

Our friends at Janrain , all kinds of interesting social signing and social media database marketing. Jay : It’s interesting that the Social Media Agency of Record is leading this charge. Rebecca : I’m not sure I agree with you that social media agencies are leading this charge. What really is leading it?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

In particular, sales and leads (as opposed to chatter, sentiment, buzz, purchase intent, etc.). more [link] ) [link] jaybaer I believe we agree far more than we disagree on this point, and as a former direct marketer, I share your concerns about chatter being overvalued. I think this is a fundamental necessity. Will you write one?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

If you were involved in database marketing, B2B marketing, before marketing automation, you’re probably familiar with a little company called Epiphany, which was all about database marketing, which was all about precision marketing. You had a good line about it. Matt: Yeah.