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Content Marketing: How a technology company used its employees to generate quality content [Video]

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Tweet Content marketing is one of the most effective and widely used lead generation tactics, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012. Content Marketing: Your questions on B2B online lead gen, metrics, content from SMEs and more.

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PowerViews with Brian Carroll: The State of B2B Lead Gen & 2012 Recommendations

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Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has or hasn’t happened in marketing and sales this year that’s surprising, Brian talks about the way many companies haven’t fully embraced optimizing their effective selling time by looking at marketing, lead generation and aligning sales and marketing.

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Where Social Media Marketing Fits In Your 2012 Budget?

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For B2B marketers, social media marketing ranks seventh in terms of budget importance trailing old-fashioned postal direct mail according to 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report conducted by Marketing Sherpa and sponsored by Marketo. Where is social media in your B2B marketing budget? 1. Weak U.S.

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2013 Year in Review: Top 6 focus areas for B2B marketers this year

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Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. Lead Management: 4 principles to follow.

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B2B Lead-Gen: Top tactics for a crisis-proof strategy

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Most lead-generation marketers are not in crisis, but many could use an orderly process to help combat challenges. I chatted with Jen Doyle, Senior Research Manager at MECLABS, about her work as lead author of the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report (coming out this spring).

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Lead Generation: 81% of marketers use email marketing

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Tweet We surveyed 1,915 marketers for the 2012 MarketingSherpa Lead Generation Benchmark Report , and asked them about their most widely used lead gen practices. Which of the following lead generation tactics does your organization currently use? Content Marketing. Content marketing works!

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From a Challenging Marketing Past to the Most Promising Marketing Future: Top Takeaways from the 2011 B2B Roundtable Webinars

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In May , Brandon Stamschror, Senior Director of Operations for MECLABS Leads Group, and I expounded on the powerful combination of excellent data and the human touch to make the best use of sales time and resources. 61% send leads directly to sales. 79% haven’t established lead scoring. 65% haven’t nurtured leads.