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

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Today, ABM is a very real and effective way of driving demand, but even its most fervent disciples would acknowledge that, at most companies, ABM co-exists with other strategies rather than having replaced them altogether. Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead Click To Tweet.

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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. Read more about the survey results on Lori’s blog.). HJS: Marketers scored a mere 2.26

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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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How to Market an Analyst Report

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By which I mean that most analyst reports – Gartner Magic Quadrants, Forrester Wave Reports, and the like – are marketed as press announcements vs. information of value that might attract prospects actively evaluating your type of solution. However, in my experience, most tech companies don’t know how to market them.

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Report: 19 Experts on the State of Marketing Automation

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Demand Generation Report just published their 2018 Outlook Guide: The State of Marketing Automation. DGR) What new opportunities do you see for demand gen and engagement in 2018? (HS) I was honored to be invited to contribute my thoughts as part of the report, reproduced (with permission) below.

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Campaign Makeover: Simple Changes Increase Email Response by 25 Percent

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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 …”. A few days later, Kevin responded with the results: “Based on your input, I made the following changes to the Forrester campaign: 1. Shortened body copy text.

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2 Email Campaigns Show How (and How Not) to “Sell” Content

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Note the sub-head (“Forrester Research, Inc. B2B Marketing Content marketing Copywriting Creative E-mail email design email marketing Graphic Design Avalara b2b demand generation b2b lead generation Demand Generation email copywriting email creative email marketing best practices email marketing tips ExactTarget'