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Inbound Marketing: Are You Attracting Quality Leads?

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A recent study showed that Inbound Marketing generates 54% more leads than outbound marketing campaigns. Sure, more leads sound great, but how do you make sure they are qualified? The findings included the following: 78% of CMOs believe custom content is important for future marketing. Score your leads.

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4 Keys to Building Trust with Inbound Marketing

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Inbound marketing is the art of attracting and engaging the right people to your website through traditional and social media marketing. With inbound marketing, a prospective referral source or client can’t see you online to read your body language or get a first-hand knowledge of who you are.

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What Product Lifecycle (PLC) Means for B2B Inbound Marketing

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One marketing tool to use in determining which marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics will be most effective in B2B marketing planning is your product or service lifecycle stage. Here are some examples of marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics that are best suited to each stage.

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Today’s B2B Marketer Must BAT, not BANT

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What is marketing’s role before it hands off a lead to sales? Today marketers need to BAT, not BANT. These are things that marketing needed to identify before they could qualify a lead. With today’s inbound marketing, marketers shouldn’t have to establish the prospect’s Need.

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From Subliminal Madmen… …to Lead Nurturing? Really?

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Because of the focus on the buyer, a new term and a new activity has emerged in marketing today – lead nurturing. Lead nurturing is how marketing supports the buyer through the buy cycle and the four stages of awareness, information, assurance and loyalty. Buyers are in control. See the difference?

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What to Do if the Competition Stalks Your Customers Online

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It’s sad for the marketer who doesn’t have enough customers and connections to build a social network organically like I did. It’s sad for someone who has to follow and not lead. Read my post from yesterday, Valentine’s Day, How to Love Your Customers with Inbound Marketing.

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B2B Marketing: How to Measure Online Conversions

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When I got my Inbound Marketing Certified Professional designation from Hubspot’s Inbound Marketing University, I was very taken with an algorithm proposed by Jeanne Hopkins, now the Sr. Are you converting online prospects to leads? Nurturing leads with online marketing so that they convert to customers?