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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Direct mail for the complex sale that really works

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Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. In reality, direct mail is simply being asked to do more than it is capable of doing.

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WMC Interviews: Janine Popick

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This is great for organizations that send out email blasts on an irregular or ad hoc basis. Janine Popick (JP): I've been in Direct Marketing for about 17 years in one fashion or another. In the early to mid 90's I managed Direct Marketing at Claris Corp. WMC: How do you market and promote your business?

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

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It is in many ways the social equivalent of “batch and blast&# email newsletters. Perhaps we can frame the conversation with clients in this way (as I do with mine): Social media is not the same as direct marketing. I agree that a distribution-only approach is viable. Will it hurt your business? Probably not.

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What Bubba Gump Shrimp Can Teach You About Social Media

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Lauren : From an email standpoint, we definitely do a lot of email, a lot of e-blasts, a lot of people that subscribe to our emails. But just from a social marketing standpoint, what we do with email is what we just talked about. We measure if there’s been an increase in word of mouth. Action is important.

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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. Direct marketing lists? Positioning yourselves as “lead management” does not help differentiate what you REALLY do. 2) Email services – Julie Katz at Forrester writes about this group. Lead farming? Prospect lists?