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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 following are key factors in making sure your inbound marketing leads are of high quality. Score your leads. Focus your content.

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B2B Marketing: How to Measure Online Conversions

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Jeanne’s algorithm incorporated the value a business adds to a prospect online, the prospect’s motivation level, less any anxiety the prospect has or friction they experience dealing with your brand online. Are you converting online prospects to leads? Nurturing leads with online marketing so that they convert to customers?

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Is Gratitude a Niche Marketing Strategy?

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Those who work gratitude into their business, giving back to charity and thanking employees, customers and partners on a regular basis, are more likeable, which leads to greater brand value and prosperity. One of the quotes Kerpen uses in the book surprised me.

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Why Your Marketing Plan Needs A Content Strategy, Not Just SEO

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.” With changes made by other search engines (especially Google) this year, websites that have more content and engagement with visitors on the site and in social media will rank higher than those that rely on what are now outdated SEO tricks and techniques. In the hub and spoke system, your website and a strategic blog are the hub.

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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? These are things that marketing needed to identify before they could qualify a lead. It turns out others agree with me – see these articles and posts on the downfall and realities of BANT: Why BANT no longer applies to B2B lead qualification.

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2015 B2B Content Marketing Survey – 3 Takeaways You Need to Know

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According to the survey, eNewsletters are the number 2 tactic used by B2B marketers, but they rank 8th in terms of effectiveness. If the people you are targeting are warm leads – in other words they have read your stuff, downloaded the case studies or other materials – you’ll have an easier time signing them up.

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Don’t Be a Victim of “Dirty Little Secrets of Search”

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His site had been coming up high in the results and generating potential client leads. ” On this page on their web site they wrote the following: “Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. ” “Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank.

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