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IBM Allows you to Chat With a Sales Representative

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How can you use this time productively? You see someone looking at your products, why not start a chat with them? What better way to get opt-in email addresses? Tags: IBM , online chat , lead generation , blade servers , opt-in email , blat , chog. You can see it here. Typically, no one cares what you have to say.

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Get Rid of Your Marketing Database Deadbeats

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Database deadbeats are what I refer to those contacts who are in your database but are really useless - they don't return to your website, open your emails, register for webinars or buy your products anymore. If you have a marketing database you probably have something in there that is like a cancerous tumor. Why do I Need to do Anything?

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Wake up and Send More Email

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From conversations that I have with marketers I sometimes sense this feeling of anxiety when I recommend that they should increase the frequency of emails that are sent to their opted-in database. In today’s B2B purchase process, the marketer is no longer in charge.

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Improve Your Email Copy, Improve Your Conversion Rate

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Everything else, including branding, product details and awareness, is secondary. Besides some of the obvious tips such as keeping your email body text brief and keeping the subject line below 35 characters, I found it interesting that he recommends not using typical words like "unsubscribe" or "remove me" as part of your opt-out process.

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Top 10 List on the Positives of Corporate Blogging:

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buttons for B2B sites: about us, products, case studies, customers, resource, and contact us pages, you can put a real voice behind your company. Blogs lead to further awareness about your company, which leads to people hitting your site, opting in to either email or RSS updates and eventually becoming your customer. I know I am.

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Top Automated Marketing Personalization Tactics

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This is important : Besides all of the technology out there that can make this process easier, it’s important to keep in mind that the goal is to create engaging experiences for your customers and potential customers so that they will respond and ultimately purchase your products and services. A personalized approach facilitates this process.

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Screw ROI - Think LOI (Loyal Opt-Ins)

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Generate Loyal Opt-Ins or LOI There is an article by Stefan Pollard on ClickZ called A Good First Impression Equals Stronger Opt-In Relationship in which he provides some easy tips on how to respond to those people who have signed up for updates from you. If someone has opt-ed in, show then value right away.

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