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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

Nurture your email list with an invitation to visit a resource center that provides thought leadership from well-known experts, webcast and podcast replays, short videos and product demos, customer testimonials and case studies. You can also look to 3 rd party list sources but expect a lower response rate and thus a lower ROI.

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The New Marketing Accountability

Marketing Insider Group

This also brings marketers into the dicussion around real value created for the organization. Finally, take a poll: ask marketers if they can a) recite the company’s 30-second elevator pitch on why a prospect should pick them vs the competition b) demo their product c) talk to a customer.

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The 4 Cs of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

Context: this is important because some traditional marketing assets like white papers or product demos do not perform very well in social media. People do not “like&# brands on Facebook because they want to be marketed to. And something that is often overlooked: simply sharing the valuable content of others.

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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

Related Posts: The New Marketing Accountability Lead Generation Programs That Work B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011 11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail How To Align Marketing With Sales About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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What Is Inbound Marketing? A Guide to Sending Customers Your Way

ClearVoice

Some of you are old enough to remember telemarketers and landlines. Common types of inbound marketing (includes a lot of content marketing): Website. SEO (search engine optimization). SEM (search engine marketing). Opt-in email marketing. Telemarketing. Marketing automation.

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How to Write a Strategic Marketing Plan

WebMarketCentral

That ought to get you started!

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How to Nurture The Great Unknown Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Include thought leadership whitepapers, customer videos, podcasts, case studies, demos and product comparison guides. One trick is to compile a list of all the best content from previous campaigns that you already have on hand. Make sure you cover each buying stage. Now testing all these factors against your own objectives is very important.