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The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011

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And marketing received the blame for creating poor leads and wasting valuable selling time. Now, with the emergence of marketing automation tools and lead scoring technologies on one side, and tougher requirements for demonstrating program ROI on the other side, look for lead quality to become a critical performance metric in 2011.

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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

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Many companies don't segment at all, segment only superficially, or copy segments that seem to be working for their competitors but without really understanding the rationale for selecting target segments. In complex markets, segmentation is not trivial. A key driver for this renewed focus on segmentation is marketing automation.

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8 Tips for Marketing SaaS and Software in the Cloud

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4) Simplify content marketing Content marketing (combined with robust marketing automation) allows you to scale and put much of your inbound marketing efforts on "auto pilot", and "cherry pick" the leads you want to engage with directly, when they are ready to talk to you.

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

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Step 5 - Invest in Marketing Automation One size fits all mass email blasts, for example, don’t provide the level of return you are looking for. Marketing automation will allow you to have very targeted digital conversations with your audience triggered by prospect profile and behavior, driven by their buying cycle.

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Leveraging Actionable Customer Data for Revenue Growth

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Focusing on the profitable sources of revenue takes ensuring your organization, especially your marketing team, has the data mining tools, customer research, marketing automation software, and the ability to perform customer analytics. Delving deeper into what matters to your customers is the key to growing revenue.

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

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The effectiveness of traditional push marketing is rapidly declining, marketing budgets and headcounts have been slashed over the last few years (while output expectations have increased), and the availability of new technologies for marketing automation is leaving many B2B marketing professionals scratching their heads.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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It builds upon April's framework and comprises a stack of marketing "layers" that build upon each other, each centered around the customer’s buying process. The goal is to attract interest that converts into qualified leads which you can follow up with and/or nurture over time. (2)