Zoominfo

AUGUST 19, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, we state that in order to stay viable, B2B companies need to hire a social media manager. In 2010, a search for social media managers on Indeed.com returned 7,100 results. Generate leads and drive revenue. With a winning strategy in place, social media can be a valuable tool for lead generation.

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Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 174

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as we slide into the New Year. 4 C’s of B2B Marketing.

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Best Practices Social Media Paper Public Relations 100

Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2009 has been a long year but as I reflect back on my many conversations, I've created a top 5 list of items to avoid in 2010: 1. In 2010 you will not have a choice but to make social media part of your overall marketing strategy. This concept needs to be at the forefront of your planning in 2010. You may see a theme here.

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markempa

AUGUST 18, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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The Point

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Without further ado, here are the top 10 most popular blog posts from our blog, “ The Point ” in 2010 (as measured by page views). Eloqua’s “Juan Eloqua” Campaign: Email Creative at Its Best. Blog Makeover Nets Sales Leads for Software Company. Comments after the fold. 7 Mistakes To Avoid In Your Next Webinar Invitation.

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Lead Gen Webinar Metrics Salesforce.com Eloqua 100

LeadSloth

OCTOBER 20, 2010

In short, it is about understanding how marketing and sales drive revenue. It highlights the transition to a more metrics-driven way to optimize sales & marketing for revenue growth. Jeremy Victor has a nice write-up of the 16 sales and marketing reports that measure revenue performance. Sales Enablement.

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Eloqua Jigsaw Salesforce.com Work Management 100

Webbiquity

JANUARY 28, 2011

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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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

According to recent research , 32% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn to generate leads, versus just 16% who do so on Facebook. What the best practices for professional networking, generating sales leads, connecting with potential business partners, sharing content and getting answers to tough business questions?

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Linkedin Tactics Tips Work Management 100

Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

2010 has been another tough year for the industrial sector but I’m encouraged by all the good news that I’ve heard throughout the year about a modest rebound in U.S. In keeping with that spirit, here are my five most popular industrial marketing blog posts from 2010. B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail.

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Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Analytics Tools Curation 60

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

I feel comfortable doing things by the book and following marketing best practices. Every once in a while, however, at NuSpark Marketing we stray from the best-practice guidelines. Because people don’t like being sold to, an email-nurturing best practice is to prioritize educational emails over sales messages.

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Marketing AI Practices Account Based Marketing Best Practices 164

Scoop.it

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Generating leads in SaaS now is different from what it was in 2010. These days, setting up a landing page and pop-up and driving some traffic to your website is no longer enough to get the best quality leads. More engaged leads, higher LTV, and lower churn are a few reasons that make ABM such an attractive strategy.

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Account Based Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Personalization 104

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives in 2023, sales leaders saw huge industry transformations — automation, data analysis, and enhanced productivity for starters. Many AI adopters saw conversion rates and sales productivity improve by 10-30%. Here’s what sales leaders should keep an eye on.

Trends 69

Trends Top of Funnel Cold Calling Trust Marketing 69

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 5, 2020

Generation Z consists of people who were born from 1995 to 2010. Companies that want to expand their marketing efforts beyond North America and reach these new consumers will have to think carefully about how best to reach them. Budget is not wasted on prospects who are less likely to result in a sale. Source: [link].

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Trends Planning Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency 337

Martech

APRIL 3, 2024

What is interesting is that I finished graduate school at the very bottom of the recession in 2010, and it was a time in which not only could you not get an interview, but also there was nothing even to apply to. Talk about burying the lead! I would go to all of her lunches, and she would go over email best practices, datasets.

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B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Press Conference 68

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI infiltrating nearly every aspect of our lives in 2023, sales leaders saw huge industry transformations — automation, data analysis, and enhanced productivity for starters. Many AI adopters saw conversion rates and sales productivity improve by 10-30%. Here’s what sales leaders should keep an eye on.

Trends 64

Trends Top of Funnel Cold Calling Trust Marketing 64

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That move led me to become a director of sales operations — a dream role for me! The first time someone offered me a job in sales operations, I wasn’t sure what the role entailed. It was 2010, and I had been working for a software company in Singapore, where I was initially a solutions engineer and then a client renewal sales manager.

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Peer-to-peer Thought Leadership Work Management Communities 95

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

As we move closer to 2010, New Year’s resolutions are top of mind. As a B2B marketer, there’s no better time than the present to resolve to maximize conversions of leads. With effective B2B lead nurturing, that resolution is as good as done. . A small percentage of B2B leads are truly unqualified and should be discarded.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The focus of the 2010 User Summit was the transformation of how marketing and sales organizations work – and work together – to generate revenue. In today’s “buyer’s in control” market, traditional marketing and sales approaches have become grossly inefficient and outdated. revenue touchpoints) across the revenue cycle.

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Marketo Work Management B2B Thought Leadership Salesforce.com 48

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. And a key part of delivering sales and marketing ROI is the ability to track the dispositions of all sales leads via a CRM system.

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Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Studies 48

Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The Best B2B Marketing Ideas of 2010 A guest post by Jeff Ogden , president of Find New Customers Although companies like Marketo, Eloqua and Kinaxis have produced terrific written content in blogs, e-books, etc., 19 , 2010, the marketing take-away I shared was “Think Different.&# They all are very entertaining, too.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Marketing Management Eloqua RSS 40

Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Andrea Clatworthy, head of ABM at Fujitsu and guru in account-based marketing, explains why ABM is the best solution. Renowned ABM guru Andrea was one of the first to use account-based marketing when she rolled it out across Fujitsu in 2010. They want bespoke solutions marketed in an even more personalized way. Join in or move aside.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Personalization Planning 136

Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

With new changes in AI, you can improve lead generation, establish a marketing database, track behaviors and more. Now’s the time to be asking questions about the possibilities of AI, which has enormous potential for B2B marketing, facilitating data driven matching of businesses and sales prospects. High-volume lead generation.

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Marketing AI B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 114

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

During my presentation titled Lead Generation Programs That Work I walked through the 5 Steps to Achieve Lead Generation ROI. I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to. We do 100’s of webcasts a year, this turned out to be one of the best.”

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Lead Generation Budget Programs Work Management Lead Scoring 100

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, ZoomInfo discussed the emergence of video as an effective vehicle for B2B marketing communications. Including video in an email leads to a 200-300% increase in click-through rate ( source ). In fact, webinars have the ability to convert between 20% and 40% of attendees into qualified leads ( source ).

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Webinar Metrics Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 157

MLT Creative

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

December 1-2, B2B Marketing Europe Berlin, Germany: European B2B marketers will come together to share knowledge they’ve gained through real-world case studies, best practices, networking and more. December 6-9, Dreamforce 2010 San Francisco, California: More than 20,000 fans will gather at this 8th annual user and developer conference.

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B2B Marketing Advertising Agencies B2B Paid Search Agency 40

MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 2-3, PodCamp Philly 2010 Philadelphia, PA: This event is targeted to audio and video podcasters, bloggers, social media enthusiasts, professionals and hobbyists, musicians, marketers, and people who want to understand more about the new media space.

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Digital Asset Management 40

Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the Mobile World Congress in 2010, then-Google executive Eric Schmidt announced that the company would be developing its new ideas and technology for mobile devices first and desktop technology second. For example, are you generating leads from your website? So, they were a main driver in pushing us towards a mobile-first society.

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Google Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Analytics Tools 127

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Here are some of the more interesting things found in the January, 2010 survey: 1) Social media became the hot new marketing tool. 2) Email, search marketing, and inside sales worked best for awareness and demand generation. But remember, these statistics are about popular use, not about what works and what doesn't.

Marketing Budget 40

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Budget Programs Trends 40

Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. Digital marketing activities traditionally include components like websites, newsletters, social media pages, and other online lead acquisition and nurturing tactics. . Create a website that generates leads.

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Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 136

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2012

This is an update of the looking back at 100 post in July 2010. These are the posts that Webbiquity readers have “voted” as the best by their traffic so far. PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? So which is best? How to Write an Effective Business Blog (January 8, 2010).

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PR Stats Social Media Twitter 100

B2B Marketing Directions

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Even if a recession doesn't occur, fears of an economic downturn and the continuing effects of inflation may lead both consumers and business organizations to tighten their purse strings and put prospective purchases under greater scrutiny. One of the more recent studies was described in a March 2010 article in the Harvard Business Review.

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Advertising Agencies Terms and Conditions Planning Allocation 90

Varicent

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The good news for those in the sales profession, outside the retail sector, selling roles remain in high demand. As the US labor force has grown over the past decade, the sales profession has grown at the same pace. In both 2010 and 2019, B2B sellers, including the financial services sector, made up about 2.5%

Work Management 52

Work Management B2B Sales Paid Search Agency Demand 52

The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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Planning Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management 100

Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I have worked in B2B marketing, sales and alliance management for 25 years. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. I clearly remember how as a sales rep, I controlled the information my prospects and customers received.

Marketing Budget 108

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Demand Generation Agencies Work Management 108

ClickZ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Call centers and sales teams, for example, cannot be expected to perform their job to the best of their abilities using a personal cellular service. You can take your time to lead your digital transformation your own way. But this will not suffice. But now you have a moment to do things right.

Digital Transformation 105

Digital Transformation Organic Leads Segmentation Customer Surveys 105

Rev

APRIL 17, 2019

I mean the coin toss stuff is true, but the rest of it was made up for Disney’s 2010 Secretariat movie. B2B marketers are tired of targeting that sucks and delivering leads that the Sales team hates. They know who you are and what you do before your Sales team ever picks up the phone. Stick with me, I’m getting there.

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B2B Cost per Lead B2B Sales B2B Marketing 128

SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). The top 3 barriers to effective implementation of marketing strategies were considered to be lack of brand awareness, lack of leads generated and lack of automation of processes. Venture capitalists (VCs) invested $20.8 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Budget Paid Content Paid Search Agency 98