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3 Models for Gating Lead Generation Content on Your Website

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should be gated or not, and you’re likely to hear a wide range of opinions. Those who choose to make all Web content freely available, with no registration required, do so in the belief that it puts information in the hands of as many potential customers as possible. The problem with the “all you can eat” model is two-fold.

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The New B2B Buyer Dialog: A Conversation with Kathleen Schaub

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(KS) Before the Internet, the B2B buyer making a complex decision had relatively few sources of information. The vendor sales person was the primary gateway to information the buyer needed to decide – a tremendously powerful position. Discuss it at every meeting and let it inform your decisions. Fast forward to today.

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Email Lists: Should You Rent or Buy?

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Renting a list, as the term implies, means 1) you only get to use the emails once, and therefore only acquire contact information if the prospects actually respond to your message, and 2) you never actually see the list. Instead, you send your email creative to the list owner, and that owner broadcasts your message.

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