Thu.Sep 29, 2011

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Forget About Hot Leads. It’s Cold Leads that Make the Difference.

The Point

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. However, as I wrote previously in a white paper on “Lead Recycling,” focusing demand generation activity exclusively on acquiring net new, qualified leads is an expensive proposition for a number of reasons: • many products, particularly in the tech category, are first of breed solutions and/or of a complexity that demands a more long term, consultative selling process.

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10 Examples of Check-The-Box Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Are your marketing activities aligned to business objectives or a list of “cool” ideas? Does your annual review include numbers, percentages and charts or paragraphs of subjective self-assessment? Does your weekly status meeting start with a dashboard view of progress toward your annual goal or a list of action items? If you answered “yes” to the latter option in each question, then you might be engaging in what I call “check-the-box” marketing… You see

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9 attributes of the best thought leadership content

Chris Koch

Some time back, I blogged about the attributes of a thought leader. Lately, I’ve been talking to B2B marketers about the content delivered by these thought leaders and asking, What defines good thought leadership content? Here’s what I have so far. Surely, you have a suggestion that will get us to ten attributes? Visionary. It’s best to address a problem before customers realize that it’s a problem.

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5 Things You Must Have Before Starting an SEO Campaign

Biznology

Search engine optimization is an important online marketing strategy that improves a website’s presence in the search engines and online overall. Like any other marketing strategy, prep work is important. In order to implement a successful SEO campaign, it’s important to first have the following five things: Dedication. SEO is a long term marketing strategy that takes a lot of time to implement and monitor.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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Can You Have Entrepreneurial Journalism without Entrepreneurs?

B2B Memes

In the latest chapter of its ongoing critique of AOL’s hyperlocal news network, Patch , Business Insider last week took aim at the marketing and sales-prospecting efforts the corporation expects its editors to undertake. AOL, BI’s indignant headline says,”Requires Patch Editors To Drum Up Ad Sales Leads.”. You might object to the ethical aspects of combining editing with marketing or sales, or to the excessive workload.

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9 attributes of the best thought leadership content

Chris Koch

Some time back, I blogged about the attributes of a thought leader. Lately, I’ve been talking to B2B marketers about the content delivered by these thought leaders and asking, What defines good thought leadership content? Here’s what I have so far. Surely, you have a suggestion that will get us to ten attributes? Visionary. It’s best to address a problem before customers realize that it’s a problem.

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B2B All Day, Every Day: Are We Reaching Social Media Overload?

MLT Creative

“I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting.” - He’s Just Not That into You. Exhausting is an understatement.

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How to Create Custom Tabs for Facebook Business Pages

Hubspot

With over 800 million active users, Facebook can be a powerful channel for your business , no matter what you sell. Facebook business pages are becoming more customizable , and with page tabs, Facebook makes it possible to pull in your own custom content alongside the generic Facebook tabs like "wall," "info," and "activity stream." As a marketer, this allows you to create a much richer user experience with custom tabs.

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Google+ business accounts sharpen focus with new adds

EMagine B2B Blog

Last month, we posted a heads-up in connection with the limited release of Google+, to suggest that B2Bs start thinking about how they’ll make use of this new functionality when it becomes available to them. Well, time passes, and some of those early adopters are making extensive use of Google+ already …chief among them Ford, [.].

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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7 Awesome New Mobile Marketing Infographics

Hubspot

As a follow up to the July blog post featuring 11 Mind-Blowing Mobile Marketing Infographics, we've kept our ear to the ground in order to bring more of the best to you. How Are Smartphones Being Used? This Tatango infographic was created by using a range of data culled via the Pew Research Centers , Internet and American Life Project. Inside the World of Android Usage.

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Stop Wasting Time on Marketing: 7 Easy Tricks

Hubspot

Being a marketer is stressful. The demands and the never-ending list of priorities seem relentless. Something has to give. As marketers, one of the most powerful things we can do to be better is giving back some time to ourselves. Getting time back essentially happens as the result of two actions. The first is removing marketing tactics from a strategy.

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5 Ways to Analyze Landing Page Data to Generate More Leads

Hubspot

Ever wonder how a landing page you created months ago is performing today? Marketers have a tendency to focus on whatever new initiatives they are launching in the moment, forgetting about older initiatives that may still be generating results. While new campaigns are important, don't let last month's hard work fall by the wayside. Start tracking the long tail value of your landing pages!

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47% of Marketers Test Time of Day for Email Sends [Data]

Hubspot

Reaching subscribers at the right time can be the difference between getting your emails clicked and having them ignored. And the only certainty in determining the optimal time to send is by testing. According to research from MarketingSherpa , if just 47% of marketers test when to send an email to their in-house lists, that means 53% of marketers are not considering that their emails might be opened, clicked through, and convert better with a change in the time actually sent.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.