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How Social Media Drives Better Email Results

Marketing Insider Group

First, social media can reach a different target audience than email. A recent study by GetResponse showed that adding social sharing in an e-mail increased click-through rates by 30%, adding a twitter share option increased response rates by 40% and adding as many as three sharing options increased response rates up 55%.

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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? I agree with the importance of SEO and happy that it made this list!

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Marketing, Death and Taxes

Marketing Insider Group

It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. As a consumer, I’m fed up. I refuse to answer cold calls at work or home.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. And so we have to fall back on metrics that are easy to come by: response rates, clicks, impressions, registrations, attendees. Customers decide when and how to engage with us in the buying journey.

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Confessions Of A B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

Lists became “tired&# as response rates drops. Not just a little more, we sent tons of email and cold calls and then we added even more. Cross-sell. The result of all this was redundancy like B2B marketing has never seen before. “The best laid plans…&# We did not plan for this.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. Are you targeting final decision makers, users and/or influencers? WHAT : What do you expect your list to do? According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3