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When You’re Focused on Upstream, What do You Measure?

Vision Edge Marketing

These measures and metrics provide insight into demand (small d) generation and program effectiveness and efficiency. Upstream is about creating Demand with a capital D – Marketing’s ability to create the desire among existing and potential customers for your business’s products and services that motivates them to purchase.

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Maker’s Mark: PR Debacle or Social Media Genius?

The Point

The basic story is this: in February, Maker’s Mark announced that they would be reducing the alcohol content in their bourbon from 45 percent to 42 percent, ostensibly in order to boost supplies of its product to meet high consumer demand. We realize we can’t lose sight of that. Let’s translate, shall we? We Listened.”

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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

Situation turns dire until someone within the company gets an epiphany, “Our site is not optimized” > Quick, call in that SEO expert who guarantees first page ranking in Google > Before you know it, you are locked in a 6-month search engine optimization contract. This will also lower the client’s fear of “you just don’t get it.”

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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. As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.)