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B2B Marketing’s Measurement Problem

Digital B2B Marketing

It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? The problem doesn’t begin with marketing though. In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record.

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B2B Content Marketing: Will Video Kill eBooks?

markempa

“With the rise of content marketing, a lot of businesses get stuck in the eBook rut,” saysLinda West ( @ misslindawest ), Director of Digital Marketing at Act-On Software , a rapidly growing company that makes a marketing automation Software as a Service (SaaS). A Shift in Customer Behavior in Content Marketing.

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

ViewPoint

Click to start video at this point —Andrew expressed some surprise that last year there weren’t more mergers and acquisitions in the marketing and sales spaces. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012.

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Social media is only one part of your B2B inbound marketing engine. Is it time for a tune-up?

MLT Creative

But I read a book first: Inbound Marketing , by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. It opened my eyes to how social media fits into the marketing mix. Social media for the purpose of marketing your business isn’t about frivolous chit-chat. Think of social media as one part of a lead-generating engine.

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30+ Women in Marketing Who You Needed to Follow Yesterday

Directive Agency

Nadya Khoja is the Chief Growth Officer at Venngage infographics, and the creator of Drunk Entrepreneurs, a web series and podcast dedicated to interviewing industry-leading founders, CEOs and entrepreneurs on their successes, struggles, and strategies. She excels in leveraging social media in the SEO and marketing industry.

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Top 32 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics of Social Media Forecast

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

The biggest disconnect for companies is that a marketer’s definition of a lead can often be quite different than how sales defines what they need to accept a lead as qualified for follow-up. I wrote an eight part series on building an effective lead generation program a while back. But Facebook?

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Full Circle Insights Builds Strong Momentum in First Half of 2021

Full Circle Insights

. “Full Circle gives B2B companies an advantage in any economic climate, but it’s especially important to measure sales and marketing performance in times of change or uncertainty so you can pivot quickly and maximize positive impact,” said Full Circle Insights President and CEO Bonnie Crater.