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Why Most B2B Marketing Efforts Are Wasted

Digital B2B Marketing

Enterprise B2B marketers spend the majority of their effort marketing to individuals that don’t have any chance to become customers. The probability of most of these people becoming customers is zero. You need to take targeting and segmentation well beyond industry, role or previous responsiveness to your marketing.

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The New Boundaries of Targeting for B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

If you profile companies instead of only contacts (and you should), segment your list of companies the same way you do in your nurturing and outbound email programs, delivering the most appropriate message or content to every company, even if they are not. With this capability, will privacy be an issue.

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Buying B2B Email Marketing Lists: Challenges and Recommendations

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Here are three organizational issues for marketers identified by IDC (via a DemandGen report, link at the bottom of this post): No central ownership of customer data and data acquisition. The business sees a huge repository of customer and prospect data it believes is valuable for email marketing.

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CRM Retargeting: The Shiny New Advertising Tactic?

Digital B2B Marketing

Rather than targeting an audience based on various characteristics, CRM retargeting allows you to target segments of your CRM database with online ads. One of the emerging trends in online advertising promises to make this possible. Here are just a few of the more obvious and interesting applications: 1.

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3 Common Problems with B2B Marketing Personas

Digital B2B Marketing

And prospects that work with your competitors don’t go through their day terrified, while your customers sit on cloud nine popping bonbons all day. Instead, personas should be like a caricature: immediately recognizable while focusing on the defining characteristics of each segment.

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The Future of Media and The Role I Want to Play

Digital B2B Marketing

Once, most advertising was purchased directly from publishers. Today, increasingly, advertisers and agencies are purchasing media in real time auctions, impression by impression. To put this into context, AT&T purchased 105 billion impressions in 2011, according to research from ComScore. Every customer touchpoint.