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The Marketing Book Podcast: “Overdeliver” by Brian Kurtz

The Forward Observer

And while you are sharing it with as many people as possible and creating maximum impact, why not measure everything and make all of your marketing accountable? In the world of direct marketing, Brian Kurtz has seen it all and done it all over almost four decades. That’s what this book is all about.

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Marketing ROI Is a Trap! Here?s How to Avoid It

Vision Edge Marketing

If you are, how will you account for the many other touches that may influence the result, such as your website or direct marketing efforts? As Marketers, even if we’re as meticulous as possible and employ integrated marketing, we cannot possibly track the individual contribution made by each tactic and every external factor.

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Are you too high-class for marketing?

Biznology

You might not be a school, but every non-profit organization wants people to do something, and they need to follow direct marketing principles to spend as little money getting people to do it as possible. That’s how they spend more on their higher calling.

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Old School Sales vs New: The Rise of the Modern Sales Model

Zoominfo

” (Note: They added outside sales to go upmarket when they wanted to sell to enterprise-class companies, but the company still does a majority of their innovative sales work remotely.). By Benioff ‘s own admission, Salesforce.com “grew their company for the first five or six years with a telesales [or inside sales] model.”

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B2B Marketing Needs One Giant Step…Backwards

Marketing Craftmanship

Most often, however, the sheer volume of first-class mail processed every morning by office gatekeepers made it more likely that your personalized pitch letter and costly sales brochure would end up, unopened, in the garbage can. But starting in the mid-1990s, corporate adoption of email communication changed the dynamics of direct marketing.

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Multi Channel in B2B Marketing: Beat the Jargon…

Inbox Insight

This can include email, paid search, paid social, organic social, programmatic display, direct marketing and so on. The aim in B2B marketing is to drive conversions. Cross Channel Experience – achieving the optimal, seamless cross channel experience requires the adoption of a blend of best-in-class tactics.

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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

ViewPoint

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Review your options. Can you really do it cheaper inside? Probably not, and probably not as well.

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