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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

ViewPoint

There have been more comments from marketing automation vendors that cold calling and other traditional ways of generating sales leads are going away. Based on SLMA Radio interviews with 120 marketing and sales leaders and other conversations, a big change is the way companies are spending more dollars on marketing and lead generation.

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Elevate B2B Marketing News Weekly Roundup: B2B Becomes More Complex, LinkedIn Benefits From X Exodus, & New Google Ads Shifts

Top Rank Marketing

[Survey] 90 percent of B2B marketers have said that their roles have become increasingly complex, while 62 percent of marketing leaders have indicated a change from sales-owned to marketing-owned customer relationships — two of numerous findings of interest to B2B marketers contained in newly-published survey data.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. How are people actually spending their time online?

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More Evidence on How B2B Marketers Have Responded to COVID-19

B2B Marketing Directions

Allocadia provides marketing management and budgeting software, and the 2020 State of Spend report is based on aggregate data from Allocadia's customer base. Allocadia's report is particularly useful because in describes actual spending decisions made by companies dealing with real-world circumstances. in that quarter.

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Database Marketing: Five Important Things to Know

Webbiquity

A form of direct marketing , database marketing uses business and consumer databases to generate targeted recipient lists. What distinguishes database from direct marketing is the awareness to the analysis of data. He writes about technology, marketing, and social media for the aspiring entrepreneur.

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Minimizing the pain of data collection

ScanmarQED

Mass media (TV/Press/Out of Home, Radio) - spend by media and campaign, ratings (GRPs, TRPs), impressions, and competitor activity (when available). Digital media (search, display, video, social) – impressions, clicks, and spend by channel or campaign, or by strategy (i.e., branded vs. non-branded paid search).

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Marketing Spend Shifting to Below-the-line

markempa

« Improve your online sales lead tracking | Main | The Lead Generation Advantage for Small Businesses » Marketing Spend Shifting to Below-the-line This article is a little hard to read if you arent up on buzzwords. Link: Marketing Spend Shifting to Below-the-line.