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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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B2B Marketer: You Paid for TOFU. Do you have MOFU?

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For a long time marketing departments have focused on TOFU, or top of the funnel lead generation. Now it’s time to also focus on MOFU, middle of the funnel qualified lead nurturing and development. You may have qualified the leads before the great hand-off to sales, who worked with the lead through the sales cycle.

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How to Deal with a Marketing Micromanager

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Sometimes managers of marketing projects need to handle the micro-details, but if it’s constant and unproductive, it’s time to do something differently. Micromanagement may have its pluses when you’re running a business and on multiple deadlines, but it can make the marketing work environment stressful and unproductive.

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What Can a Outsource CMO Do for Your Startup Company?

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More startup businesses are adopting a model of outsourcing certain business functions such as marketing, finance and development. By outsourcing marketing, startup businesses can get hands-on senior-level expertise without having to pay salary, overhead and benefits for a senior-level full-time employee.

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4 Skills Your B2B Marketing Team Must Have

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With recent shifts in what business-to-business marketing tactics work, marketing departments have had to acquire new knowledge and new skill sets. This doesn’t mean that one marketing person has to have them all, but the person leading the team needs to understand and know the importance of each.

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4 Reasons Your Marketing Plan Saves You Money

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Have you been saying, “ We don’t need to invest in a marketing plan! ” If so, read this blog post in which I explain the reasons a marketing plan can actually save you money. Here are four things I’ve observed that happen when you don’t have a written marketing plan. We know what to do!

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Is It Time for a B2B Marketing Audit?

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In today’s economy, every dollar you spend on marketing must produce results. Are you sure that the marketing you spend money on is working? As a new year approaches, this is a perfect time for a marketing audit. Here are some of the things we’ve found in marketing audits: No marketing integration.