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Why It’s Time to Start Leveraging Database Marketing for PPC

Directive Agency

As marketers, there are a million and two initiatives we run at once, and it can get difficult to keep track of what is working and what the data is telling us. Enter database marketing. What is Database Marketing? External databases can be created or obtained from a variety of data providers.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

Brian Hansford – VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing. Key Topics: B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, and Marketing Technology. Bio: I’m VP of Marketing Performance at Heinz Marketing, where I’ve worked the last 6 ½ years. Location: Redmond, WA USA. And that was expected.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

The Point

The clients we work with are concerned with more basic, day-to-day issues: enhancing sales productivity, converting more inquiries to sales-ready leads (or trial users to paying customers), better leveraging their marketing database, and increasing demand generation ROI. You can’t nurture people exclusively through email.

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Are Webinars too Popular?

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The article contains some valuable insights on where Webinars fit in today’s B2B demand generation mix, and is definitely worth a read. Webinar leads can be more expensive than other vehicles, so measuring lead quality is critical. Last week I was interviewed by BtoB Magazine for an article, “Webinars: Are They Worth It?”

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Tempted to Do Away With Registration Forms? Think Again.

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If you track clicks and not registrations, you’ll be measuring response, generating sales alerts, and assigning lead scores based on an action that is, in my view, less than an actual response.

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5 Ways To Incorporate Direct Mail Into Your Marketing Mix

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Old fashioned, yes, but used smartly and effectively, direct mail can play a vital role in a well-rounded, integrated marketing plan. Direct mail is tangible, personal, and gives you a measure of creative license that’s increasingly difficult with email, where even minor graphics can be a sure-fire trigger for spam filters.

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

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For other companies, the decision of whether or not to take the plunge into marketing automation is less of a slam-dunk. Not everyone is able to measure the precise ratios at which sales leads currently convert to sales. Where in the current sales and marketing process will the software make a difference?