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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead Generation for the Complex Sale Listed Among BtoB Magazine’s Best Marketing Books

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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. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Direct Marketing Doesn’t Have to Suck

Paul Gillin

In the weeks leading up to the Direct Marketing Association annual conference in Boston this week, exhibitors were out strutting their best stuff. Both turned out to be promotions for companies exhibiting at the conference. And then I thought about what that says about the state of direct marketing today.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: White Papers and Lead Generation, Key for BtoB Marketers

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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. For many B2B marketing pros (especially those in technology), a time-tested tool is the white paper.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Word-of-mouth marketing gets BtoB people buzzing

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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. Richard Karpinski wrote the piece which, from what I can tell, is one the the first articles on WOM for B2B marketers.

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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

ViewPoint

Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. 1 in providing the greatest business value to companies. It’s hard to believe.

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B2B Prospecting Data Just Keeps Getting Better

ViewPoint

B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title. Self-identifying keywords used on the company website (ALC). Company SWOT analysis (OneSource). Whether the company conducts e-commerce (ALC).

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B2B Marketers Fate Rests in the Hands of a Few

Buzz Marketing for Technology

(Which is what the CEO and the market wants from you anyway!). New customers will cost a lot to acquire and in their first year or two deliver small revenue as the relationship between your company and the new customer is growing. But in many cases, 20% of a B2B company’s’ customers are responsible for 80% of the revenue.