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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

The Point

In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was paramount. Fast-forward 20 years to a world of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) , and little has changed. Does an account already use complementary technology?

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B2B Reads: Avoid Pitfalls, Sell More By Saying Less, & Best 4-Letter Words

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. B2B and B2C Boundaries Are Blurring. From a marketer’s perspective, many of the same principles, objectives and strategies now apply equally.

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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: B2B Becomes More Complex, LinkedIn Benefits From X Exodus, & New Google Ads Shifts

Top Rank Marketing

B2B Marketers Own the Customer Journey, Now What? Have you come across a key B2B marketing news item we haven’t covered yet?

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Branding is Not Demand Generation. Stop Pretending That It Is.

The Point

Demand generation is hot. It’s the marketing movement of the moment. It’s why demand generation managers are suddenly as common as, well, marcom directors. It’s why systems consultants are reinventing themselves as “demand generation agencies.” All demand generation is about measurable response.

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New Ebook – 65 Tips on B2B Demand Generation

The Point

Newly updated, revised, and now available for the first time in convenient ebook format: The High Tech Direct Marketing Handbook. This is the 5th edition of the handbook, a compilation of 65+ tips and techniques on direct marketing strategy, creative, offers, media, and just about everything in between. [.].

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Is Direct Marketing Relevant Anymore?

The Point

DM News, the venerable tabloid that I remember reading while cutting my direct marketing teeth back at Oracle in the late 1980s, is switching from a weekly to bi-weekly publication schedule. This prompted a discussion on LinkedIn wondering if the change augured tougher times ahead for direct marketers.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: MarketingSherpa Demand Generation Summit 2007

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