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5 Mistakes B2B Marketers Need to Avoid in 2010

Anything Goes Marketing

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. The key to sending relevant communication is to automate the process.

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The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Danger of Email Marketing Benchmarks A recent article from BtoB Online about email deliverability reminded me of how dangerous this whole thing of email marketing deliverability numbers can be.

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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The gist of the argument is that traditional direct marketing agencies, marketing automation software vendors and marketing services providers have mostly remained focused on outbound campaigns. I say “almost” only because Unica seems to intend to link search click-throughs to a traditional marketing database.)

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effective marketer principle 4: take responsibility for decisions

The Effective Marketer

Make sure to add this person as part of your plan and also to allocate the appropriate time it will take for this person to review and approve – or not – the deliverable) The names of people who will have to be informed by the decision (after you create a new piece of marketing collateral do you announce it to the sales team?

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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

40% of Marketers plan to increase their budgets in 2010. IT marketers meeting buyers' online content needs. Marketing Automation gets Social – the first major announcement about social marketing automation. October 2009 Online Marketing News. ReturnPath releases email deliverability report.

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9 Reasons Your Marketing Agency's Retainers Aren't Bigger

Hubspot

When I met Stream Creative (now a Platinum HubSpot Partner) in 2010 at HubSpot's INBOUND event, they told me they had no recurring revenue. Then, as marketing automation became popular, generating qualified sales leads became the norm. Every year I'd ask them, "How much revenue is from recurring contracts now?"