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The B2B marketing ironies of our time

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Hubspot preaches inbound marketing as a mantra, right? Turns out Hubspot’s own growth as a software company has been driven via cold calling through an inside sales team. Even Hubspot realizes that you can’t get all the B2B business you deserve using inbound marketing alone. Or tell me to shut up and talk about something else.

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37 facts on the future of Social Selling vs. Cold Calling

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80% of introductions generate a sale (source: DSWA ). 61% of US marketers use social media for lead generation (source: IBM). Customers don’t want to deal with salespeople until they are 70% down the path of the buying process (source: HubSpot ). 60% more expensive per lead than other methods (source: HubSpot ).

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24 reasons SEO and social media are inextricably linked

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59% of marketers agree SEO has the biggest effect on lead generation. Google+ has the highest correlated social factor for SEO ranking (source: HubSpot ). 22% say social media. 20% say pay per click (source: SiteProNews ). In 2010, Google and Bing admitted to also rank website by how sociable they are (source: PPC.org ).

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Push versus Pull Marketing: In B2B, You Need Both

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Hubspot promotes it. To fulfill our mission of market coverage, scalable lead generation, and profitable sales growth, the modern B2B marketer must pull—and push—every possible lever. The other day, a marketing colleague told me she was feeling under pressure to move all her efforts to inbound, or “pull,” marketing.