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2011 B2B Marketing Trends

Webbiquity

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. The categories with the largest percentage of marketers reporting plans to reduce spending next year were high-cost offline tactics: direct mail, trade shows and print advertising. The study also found that direct mail was judged as a low-effectiveness tactic.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals. In this article I will summarize a whitepaper Robert wrote on the 11 reasons why outbound telemarketing fails.

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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

Try These Traditional Tactics Now Share In a recent article from eMarketer, “ Is Social a Source for B2B Leads? ”, a survey from Leadforce1 is highlighted showing that social media is not producing the kind of engagement that drives leads. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" Other channels have not closed yet.

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B2B Marketers Hold Off on Killing Traditional Media

The Effective Marketer

Their latest study points out that “The majority of B2B organizations are increasing marketing budgets for inbound marketing tactics, including social media, virtual events and webinars, SEO and PPC&#. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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Lead Generation Programs That Work

Marketing Insider Group

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. I concluded with a discussion of the tactics to consider in future demand generation efforts. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?" How to create valuable content on a small business budget?

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How Social Media Drives Better Email Results

Marketing Insider Group

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. Another reason these 2 tactics are complimentary is that email can produce additional followers for your company’s social channels or newsletters through “Follow Us” functionality and subscriptions.

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Be A Hero: Choose Appointment Setting for Your Next Campaign

Marketing Insider Group

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. Cost efficiencies The appointment setting tactic is on a strict pay for performance model. That is so true!