Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Thermometer Close In the Thermometer Close, you ask a prospect to rate their level of interest on a zero-to-ten scale. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. If the prospect answers “Ten”, you’re done!

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Top of Funnel Telemarketing Work Management Marketing Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Program Acceleration: the rate at which we move from a marketing concept to a campaign that is driving results. Market Innovation: the rate at which we respond to market changes (possibly down to the individual level) with programs, campaigns and marketing-led activities.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Budget Programs 100

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2010

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. In this post, I will summarize the 10 main reasons why Mobile is one of the biggest technology trends ever seen and why you need to pay attention. Mobile growth is hot.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Web 2.0 Paid Search Agency Mobile Advertising 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. The training is critical to the success as the callers must understand your offering, but this is constant amongst all telemarketing tactics. That is so true!

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Telemarketing Work Management Campaigns 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Now there were a few main points I tried to get across in my submission: The division between a marketing and sales funnel is a myth. Marketers sell stuff and sales people market stuff. The funnel is a useful way to analyze the rate at which we are capturing and managing demand. To our customers there is no funnel.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Demand Digital Marketing Funnels Marketing Funnels 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Commerce: Mary talks about how the rate of product improvement is unprecedented. There is still tremendous upside in the move to online as the percentage of time spent on the Internet still far outpaces the percent of ad spend. Mary thinks mobile usage will help fill this gap.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Paid Content Trends Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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. As a consumer, I’m fed up.

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Planning Paid Search Agency Customer Satisfaction Web 2.0 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

5% conversion rate of mostly unqualified leads. Even with only 30% of the respondents in the target audience, conversion rates still soared 556%, based in large part on the directed paths and audience-specific messaging. The search campaign directed respondents to a topic-specific microsite that resulted in only a.5%

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

5% conversion rate of mostly unqualified leads. Even with only 30% of the respondents in the target audience, conversion rates still soared 556%, based in large part on the directed paths and audience-specific messaging. The search campaign directed respondents to a topic-specific microsite that resulted in only a.5%

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

Related Posts: The New Marketing Accountability Lead Generation Programs That Work B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011 11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail How To Align Marketing With Sales About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 100

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The result of all this was redundancy like B2B marketing has never seen before. Lists became “tired&# as response rates drops. But unfortunately too much of our marketing is done based on gut feel. Not just a little more, we sent tons of email and cold calls and then we added even more. Cross-sell.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 100

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

And so we have to fall back on metrics that are easy to come by: response rates, clicks, impressions, registrations, attendees. Many of us are guilty of falling into the trap of activity-based reporting: I ran 10 campaigns last year, I sponsored 3 industry events, etc. We are so focused on tactical execution that we lose focus on the results.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Sales Management Lead Ranking ROI 100

Outbrain

JUNE 5, 2022

While outbound marketing uses traditional tactics to ‘push’ messages out to a broad audience, inbound marketing targets relevant audiences with online content to ‘pull’ them into the sales funnel. You’ve heard the terms “inbound marketing” and “outbound marketing” so many times, but what do they really mean?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 27, 2010

In some cases, emails like this may be the highest converting and have the lowest opt-out rates of all your email blasts. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Paid Search Agency Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 8, 2010

1BOG launches campaigns in various cities, each lasting a few months, during which they negotiate group discounts with carefully selected solar installers and offer local consumers access to the discounted rates via the 1BOG website. Both buyers and sellers remain anonymous, while a feedback system enables participant ratings. #65.

Marketing Management 100

Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Burn Rate Customer Satisfaction 100

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 8, 2010

1BOG launches campaigns in various cities, each lasting a few months, during which they negotiate group discounts with carefully selected solar installers and offer local consumers access to the discounted rates via the 1BOG website. Both buyers and sellers remain anonymous, while a feedback system enables participant ratings. #65.

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing Marketing Management B2B Planning 100

Valasys

APRIL 4, 2023

Unlike inbound marketing, where customers come to you, outbound sales mean you’re actively seeking out customers who might have yet to hear of your brand. I know what you might think – “Ugh, telemarketers, no thanks!” But don’t worry, there are ways to stay on top of your game without burning out.

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