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5 Steps to Social Media Leads with Content Marketing

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The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads. To put this in perspective, conversion metrics ranked only #8 a year ago, rising from 32.6% Great question.

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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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I asked you to rank the marketing areas you think will become more important in 2011. 1 - Integration of social media into lead generation programs 2011 will be the year social media evolves from the experimental stage to become an established marketing tactic.

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The Top-5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2012

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Social media has clearly evolved from the experimental stage to become an established marketing tactic and lead generator in 2011. 3 - Focus on lead quality In the past, it was difficult to gauge lead quality and lead gen's impact on sales pipeline, so in the absence of real quality indicators, more leads were considered better.

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Top-7 Challenges for B2B Marketers

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Especially the top-3 challenges have grown significantly from 2009 to 2010: 1) Generating high-quality leads (from 69% in 2009 to 78% today) - Today's B2B marketers are tackling this issue with processes and technologies such as marketing automation and lead scoring in an attempt to only deliver qualified, truly sales ready leads.

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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In the “old days”, the mainstream marketing approach was to interrupt and engage prospects, educate them on the vendors offering and move them through the sale cycle towards a transaction – a very vendor and product centric approach. This has profound implications on marketing and the way companies engage with prospects. Time to get ready.

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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In many cases, it also allows for much more compelling value propositions compared to traditional on-premise solutions. What matters to the business user is the business value the solution delivers, the process it helps automate or enable, the cost it reduces or the opportunity it unlocks. But let's take a closer look. (1)

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The Brave New World of B2B Marketing - Are You Ready?

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Today's prospects filter out most attempts by companies to interrupt them with vendor and product focused marketing messages and sales pitches. Adapt to Stay Relevant Our entire approach to marketing has to change if we want to stay relevant and add value to the business in this new environment. More on this later.