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7 Signs Your Manufacturing Company Should Hire a Marketing Agency

SmartBug Media

Hiring a marketing agency can be an expensive endeavor, but oftentimes, the additional expense is worth the boost in customers, leads, and sales that it brings. A knowledgeable, experienced marketing agency can help your manufacturing company: Expand marketing efforts. Is your marketing team more like a skeleton crew?

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15 B2B Marketing Books You Need to Read

Directive Agency

The best B2B marketers are always looking to improve their craft and hone their skills, which is why the following fifteen B2B marketing books are required reading for any marketer looking to create and foster lasting inter-business relationships. In short, the more you learn, the better you’ll market.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum. Among other stuff.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

I am Jay Baer from Convince & Convert, joined as always by my pal, CEO of data-driven social media marketing software company Argyle Social, Mr. Eric Boggs. Our friends at Janrain , all kinds of interesting social signing and social media database marketing. I think we are confusing marketing and customer service.

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HubSpot Custom Properties Every HubSpot User Should Track in Their CRM

SmartBug Media

Custom properties can be created on contact, company, or deal records and are available across the Sales, Marketing, and Service Hubs. Streamline the handoff from marketing to sales and service teams by providing relevant information for all teams in your organization. Custom Properties Worth Tracking in HubSpot.

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