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Webinar Replay: 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report Reveals How Marketers Can Transform Mounting Pressure, Challenges into Revenue

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At the beginning of the webinar, Jen Doyle, MarketingSherpa Senior Research Manager and Lead Author of the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , revealed that 1,745 marketing organizations are reporting remarkable declines in marketing effectiveness in 2011. 61 percent send leads directly to sales. • 79 percent don’t score leads. •

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How ECI Telecom Discovered the Surefire Sign that Sales and Marketing Are Aligned

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In late 2009, ECI implemented a new marketing automation program. They agreed on definitions for terms such as “marketing-qualified lead” and “sales-accepted lead.” ” Guidelines on how they would score leads. Now, Marketing gives them a personalized email for every lead.

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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

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It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. I do, however, challenge the value of that inbound lead versus the value of the outbound lead, and that was not discussed. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs.

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Best Google AdWords Tips and Tactics of 2010

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According to recent research from eConsultancy, “Paid search consumes the largest portion of online lead generation budgets, accounting for 28% of spending (in 2010), up from 22% in 2009.&# There’s no question that paid search delivers leads, and no question that AdWords is the big dog in the PPC world.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Kim Albee of Genoo Talks Social Media Lead Gen

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. That’s generated a good amount of traffic and leads.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Kim Albee of Genoo Talks Social Media Lead Gen

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. That's generated a good amount of traffic and leads. Next week, Oct.

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The Flaw in Calculating Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing Cost Per Lead?

Smashmouth Marketing

It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. I do, however, challenge the value of that inbound lead versus the value of the outbound lead, and that was not discussed. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs.