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List Research: Using SIC codes to find business lists

Direct Response Coach

When you research business lists for direct mail or email, you usually start with the SIC code. SIC, which stands for Standard Industrial Classification, is the universal coding structure for all businesses and organizations in the United States. (A

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4 Elements that drive B2B direct marketing results

Biznology

They range from marketing managers to sales managers, and even presidents of smaller firms. If you’re an experienced B2B direct marketer, this is probably not for you. First, start with companies by industry (4-digit SIC or 6-digit NAICS code) and number of employees by standard ranges (i.e. Do You Know the Basics?

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Building The World’s Best Firmographic Data Foundation

Zoominfo

The foundation for most successful go-to-market teams is data — but not just any data will do. B2B sales and marketing teams need reliable firmographic profiles of their target accounts that will stay up-to-date amid the rapid pace of change in business. HOW DO YOU MEASURE DATA QUALITY? million contacts have been published in ZoomInfo.

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Is Technology Making Marketing Agencies Obsolete?

The Point

Over at the IDC Technology Marketing Blog , analyst Sam Melnick posted an article recently with the intriguing title: “Are Ad Agencies Keeping Pace with the Marketing’s (sic) Massive Digital Uptake? Specifically: • IDC reports that digital marketing spend by technology companies will surpass non-digital spend by the end of 2016.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Closing the loop to improve lead generation performance

markempa

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Their initial target database was comprised of 2000 product driven companies across 20 unique SIC codes.

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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. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

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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. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.