article thumbnail

Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. Here are six key points that surfaced from our conversation.

article thumbnail

2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Mix Trends Research

Online Marketing Institute

2) Email, search marketing, and inside sales worked best for awareness and demand generation. When rating these tactics on effectiveness, on average, fewer than one in five of marketers who use social media says it is highly effective for branding and lead generation. What does work?