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How Social Media Drives Better Email Results

Marketing Insider Group

A recent study by GetResponse showed that adding social sharing in an e-mail increased click-through rates by 30%, adding a twitter share option increased response rates by 40% and adding as many as three sharing options increased response rates up 55%. It also allows the marketer to track who is responding.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals. Not watching the backend results: look at conversion rates with sales and ultimate ROI.

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Holy Cow! That Is A Lot Of Time Spent Online Using Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

The way we consume information is changing rapidly as the growth rate for social media use online and on mobile devices proves. Should marketing spend in social media come close to matching the nearly 25% of online time spent there? Blog more, email market less.” Here are 7 points to consider. For now, I don’t think so.

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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing, Death and Taxes

Marketing Insider Group

As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. It means listening to what will make our customers lives better.

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10 Reasons Why Mobile is Hot!

Marketing Insider Group

According to the report, mobile internet growth is significantly faster than the internet desktop growth of the late 90s compared to the growth rates of both AOL and Netscape. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP. Mobile growth is hot.