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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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. – site: use the ‘site’ parameter to limit the search to a specific website, like in ‘pricing site:www.acmesoft.com’. For example, “acmesoft sales presentation” or “acmesoft price list”. – minus: add a minus sign ‘-‘ with your search string to remove results containing a certain word, as in ‘acmesoft “price list” -europe’.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

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Analyze the results you get by segment (geography, products purchased, industry targeted, job titles, etc.) and start fine tuning the message, email design, subject line, date and time sent, and other relevant variables to each segment and you will start creating your own baseline. United States License.

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Aberdeen Shows How to Do Email Marketing Right

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Work your way through the list above and start playing with content personalization, even if only for a small segment of your database. Content personalization is not an easy task but according to the research it will likely give you a 38% better open rate and 86% greater click-through rate than non-personalized email messages. The lesson?

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

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Interesting also that according to their research the segmentation of email campaigns based on behavior (which is a big part of a Marketing Automation program) is also less effective than the sending of emails based on triggers. As always, you have to take all of this with a grain of salt. United States License.

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How Everybody Wins with HubSpot's Funding « The Effective Marketer

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Market Segmentation And here is worth pausing for a moment. After all, now that they have the deep pockets to invest in improving their product , maybe their solution will start looking more like what marketing automation vendors have been selling for some time now. United States License.

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Flip the Funnel Book Review « The Effective Marketer

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Segment and Treat Customers Differently Although the methodology varies based on your industry and whether you are a B2B or B2C company, the big picture is clear. According to Jaffe, we should segment customers into “walkers&# , “talkers&# , and “hybrid&# , and deploy distinct approaches for each one.