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Five Ways to “Get Real” With B-to-B Social Media

Biznology

Today, 89% of B-to-B marketers in the U.S. are using social media, says a study conducted by iTracks and the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In fact, B-to-B use of social media may have even eclipsed that of consumer marketers, according to another report from White Horse Productions.

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How Performance Marketing Accelerates B-to-B Prospecting

Biznology

Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. It generally means that the media channel owner conducts a campaign, and charges the marketer an agreed price for every respondent, according to predetermined criteria. Where is performance marketing in B-to-B headed?

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Testing for B-to-B Marketers: How hard is it?

Biznology

B-to-B marketers are often guilty of laziness when it comes to testing their communications, whether it’s testing the copy approach, the layout, the offer or the target audience. It’s a fact that the typical B-to-B campaign targets universes that are too small to support a split test. Image via Wikipedia.

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

Biznology

The so-called Buying Circle in large enterprise B-to-B—the influencers, specifiers, users, decision-makers—comprises as many as 21 people, according to Marketing Sherpa. Here’s where marketing automation becomes an important resource for B-to-B marketers. Active social media outreach. But there’s more.

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To Gate or Not to Gate, That Is the B-to-B Content Marketing Question

Biznology

There’s a spirited debate in B-to-B marketing about whether it’s best to give away information (aka “content,” like white papers and research reports) to all comers, versus requiring web visitors to provide some information in exchange for a content download. So that’s my argument for gating content in B-to-B marketing.

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

Online Marketing Institute

); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. E-Media Summit -->. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. MediaPRO Community.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

ViewPoint

Let me go out on a limb and propose the top five media for your lead generation toolkit. Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. That compares to $7 billion spent on direct mail and $4.5

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