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Forget Vanity Metrics: How To Get Serious About Marketing Analytics

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For those of you frequently engaged in corporate, partner, or client events, forget about measuring ROI by number of attendees. Instead, make it a point to meet with your prospects at the event and require your sales team to report on their meeting metrics. “The real value of events is mid-funnel. Content Marketing.

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Why Marketing Analytics And Metrics Are Related But Not The Same

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Metrics are standards of measurement: Activity measures – number of new blog posts or the number of events, and the associated hard and soft costs of those activities. Output measures – website traffic, social media engagement, and event participants. Operational metrics – cost per lead and leads per rep.

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Mark Sarbiewski, Anaplan CMO: 4 Steps to Better Business Planning Using Marketing Technology [Podcast]

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Fish where the Fish are: Mark’s team was able to debunk hunches and reengineer his company’s event and PR strategies based on the marketing intelligence contained within the data. Volume + Quality = Yield: It’s common for corporate marketing strategies to include events, webinars, SEO and many other activities.

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20 Captivating Marketing Statistics That Will Drive 2014 [Infographic]

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Events: 67% of B2B content marketers consider event marketing the most effective strategy. Content: Nearly 50% of companies now have content marketing strategies. Email: Email with social sharing buttons increase click-through rates by 158%. PR: 73% of reporters think press releases should include images.

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8 Ways to Build Successful Business Relationships

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Invite your contacts to a non-business related event (is there a concert happening you would both enjoy?). Or start slow and meet up at a networking event. Make them feel special. And if you’re up for the challenge, take it a step further.

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Jim Kruger, CMO of Polycom: What to Change in Your Demand Generation Strategy to Double Your Sales Pipeline [Podcast]

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Digital Doubling : Jim explains why Polycom shifted its demand generation focus from event marketing to digital marketing, and how this led to almost doubling the pipeline and revenue attributable to its marketing system.

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Marie Hattar, CMO of Check Point: Connect, Combine and Simplify—3 Visions for Better Corporate Marketing [Podcast]

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Connection is Key: Check Point frequently connects with customers at field events. Simplicity and Synergy are key, it seems, and Marie is happy to share how Check Point keeps its corporate marketing simple, secure and successful.

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