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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

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In fact, he concludes: “Stop sending batch email blasts. Stop buying lists. I’ll even agree that any type of “spray and pray” advertising – the type that makes no attempt to target the right audience, deliver relevant content, or offer information of value, should be frowned upon if not outlawed completely.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

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The clients we work with are concerned with more basic, day-to-day issues: enhancing sales productivity, converting more inquiries to sales-ready leads (or trial users to paying customers), better leveraging their marketing database, and increasing demand generation ROI. You can’t nurture people exclusively through email.

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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

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Similarly, marketing automation helps companies get more from their investment in demand generation by nurturing and cultivating the vast majority of leads that aren’t immediately sales-ready. The email blast is dead. The Changing Role of Email.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

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In B2B, it’s not about batch-and-blast acquisition as much as it is about using email to continue a conversation. They actually have their sales and marketing orgs aligned and working together. Positioning yourselves as “lead management” does not help differentiate what you REALLY do.