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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those “names&# that come into your system that aren’t really “leads&# yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. “Marketing automation&# is a misleading term.

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Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media

Online Marketing Institute

White Papers. Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company. Of 548 b-to-b marketers surveyed by Eloqua, about 40 percent say they are not yet using social media marketing. Fashion Shows. Trade Show.

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Marketing Automation: Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

WebMarketCentral

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those "names" that come into your system that aren't really "leads" yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. How do you separate hot leads from long-term leads from tire-kickers?

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The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 2 – Filling the Gaps

thePoint

Customer-facing marketing content – brochures, white papers, position papers, presentations, etc. trade shows, media campaigns, web site visitors that fill out a form, paid search, local education events, or webinars). You would end up with a mix of trade shows, media campaigns, and programmatic options to capture leads.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 129: Q&A with Marilyn Cox @MarilyECox

Heinz Marketing

And it is sometimes amusing for me to walk the trade show floor, the expo floor, and see how companies pivot their product and message year to year, based on what the new trend is. People that are doing thinly-veiled sales pitches in their white papers and their blog posts. So those types of things, I do watch out for.