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5 Simple Steps to Ruin Marketing Automation

ANNUITAS

According to the SiriusDecisions B-to-B Marketing Automation Study from 2014, there are nearly 11 times more B2B organizations using marketing automation now than in 2011. It takes a lot more work and dedication to make your marketing automation flourish than it does to destroy it.

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The Need for a Demand Center

eTrigue

Marketers at even the smallest companies are now equipped to leverage online strategies including email, banner ads, search, and social media. Not surprisingly, savvy marketers are embracing the concept because they see how it can help them drive consistent demand, whether they represent the corporation, a business unit or region.

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Five Ways B-to-B Marketers Need to Change Their Game

Biznology

In the old days—just a few years ago—when business buyers had a problem, they’d call in their vendors for advice on how to solve it. Buyers don’t really want to talk to vendors until somewhere akin to 70% of the way down the road, at the stage of writing RFPs and getting quotes. So marketers have to think differently today.

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How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline

ViewPoint

Qualified leads can be generated any number of ways: phone calls email, webinars, direct mail and even marketing automation if done well. Lured by the promise of easy money — "sales-ready" leads pouring in — many well intentioned b2b marketers have jumped on the "inbound marketing" bandwagon with both feet. Create value.

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Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media

Online Marketing Institute

Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company.

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Exciting new tools for B2B prospecting

Biznology

Early examples of this exciting new trend in prospecting were Jigsaw, a business-card swapping tool that allowed sales people to trade contacts, and ZoomInfo, which scrapes corporate websites for information about business people and merges the information into a vast pool of data for analysis and lead generation campaigns. Like this post?

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Keeping up with ABM: tips from the FlipMyFunnel conference

Biznology

Launched eight years ago by the digital ad platform company Terminus, #FMF has taken on a life of its own. It’s clear that B2B marketing has been revolutionized by technology—from the Internet itself, to the myriad (nearly 7,000 ) martech point solutions available these days. Here are some of the many ideas I gleaned.