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PowerViews with Ruth Stevens: The Science (not the art) of Marketing

ViewPoint

We talked about this issue and about the sustainable relevance of direct mail and cold calling. Social media and inbound sales are like the icing on the cake, she said. The cake still consists of the tried and true standby media channels. How valuable are trade shows? Email: ruth at ruth stevens dot com.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Cold Calling Tips for the complex sale

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« Better lead management leads to bigger marketing budgets | Main | Paper Direct Mail is Not Dead » Cold Calling Tips for the complex sale When used correctly, the phone is a powerful way to start and develop relationships. Peter Davidson at the BeConnected blog pointed me to Kevin Stirtzs post on cold calling.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Combine Your Cold Calling Efforts With Email Marketing

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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. It has long been accepted that combining outbound calling with direct mail marketing dramatically increases results in B2B programs.

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What B2C Strategies Can You Use in B2B Marketing?

KoMarketing Associates

Even if your target audience isn’t using social media platforms like Facebook for their work activities or research, they are likely using it for their own personal use. She is an avid Facebook and LinkedIn user, and uses social media to relax and research companies. B2B Paid Social Media Ads.

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Perspective on the B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report

KoMarketing Associates

In a poll of 155 primarily C-level marketing experts, social media received the largest percentage of votes for demand generation channels that marketers will spend more on in 2013. B2B SEO and social media efforts should at least focus a percentage of efforts toward building the list for that channel. Most Used Channels.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Social Media Pundits Disconnect from B2B Marketing

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« The Physics of Trigger Events for Lead Generation | Main | Online Lead Generation and Management Strategies that Get Results » Social Media Pundits Disconnect from B2B Marketing As someone in B2B, do you feel left out of the social media buzz? Well, this may be true, but social.

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An Email to Bob in Sales: Thanks for aligning with us in Marketing

NuSpark Consulting

You folks stumbled with social media and kept questioning the value of the time and resources. It’s nice that the cold call time is much less now. You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com. You didn’t take advantage of the tools and features that if entered properly, could help us in marketing make better decisions.