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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. So yes, paid social media can be an effective demand gen channel. times higher. Click To Tweet. (HS)

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Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line

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In a related post, inbound marketing software provider Hubspot reported on an A/B test using the word “Free” and concluded that the difference, at least in terms of deliverability, was statistically insignificant. However, Hubspot also noted that click-through rates increased when the word “free” was excluded.

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Email Critique: Oracle/Eloqua Webcast Invite Needs Help

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I’ve had kind words to say about Eloqua’s marketing creative in this space previously, but what was then an edgy, ground-breaking campaign from the likes of Joe Chernov (then Eloqua VP Content Marketing, recently named VP of Content at Hubspot ) is now corporate marketing pablum at its worst. Let me count the ways: 1.

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New Marketing Automation Buyer’s Guide Offers Valuable Advice

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Hubspot and Act-On encompass many inbound features as well as outbound. We have many clients who use Marketo and Hubspot side-by-side, for example. In your mind, does it encompass inbound or do you define it more narrowly to be lead nurturing or other? There’s a move towards “all-in-one” marketing platforms.