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B2B: Where Social Media Meets Direct Marketing

Biznology

One of the reasons social media is working so well in B2B, in my opinion, is that business marketers tend to wear their direct marketing hats when they strategize and plan how to apply social media to their marketing objectives. By this definition, a direct marketing message can be delivered anywhere.

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Does your Internet marketing training make you feel dumb?

Biznology

I have been hearing from a lot of people on my post from Wednesday on new ways to train your team in digital marketing. I’ve gotten great feedback, but there was one comment that struck a nerve, when someone asked if anything about marketing and sales is the same as it was back before the InterWebs.

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Is Video the Future of Direct Marketing?

Content Standard

A combination of webinars and training tools, this initiative marks the largest push in the company’s history to break into some of the most popular markets across the globe. It’s a move that brings two blaring questions into focus: Will they be successful and, more importantly, is this the future of direct marketing?

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Kath Pay: Spotlight on the expert

Martech

Kath Pay has spent, essentially, her entire career in email marketing — and she still loves it. She travels the world giving presentations and training sessions, she consults with her clients, she’s the author of a best-selling book — “Holistic Email Marketing” — and she contributes to MarTech.

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Back in 1989, when hair metal music played on MTV and a lone protester famously stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square, the Harvard Business Review published an article that explored how automation was ready to boost marketing and sales teams. A Lack of Training. The answer has little to do with the technology itself.

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Consultants Collective Profile: Ruth Stevens

Biznology

I appreciated that Marc, a classically trained direct marketer like myself, approached the project with a test-and-learn mindset. I love the complexity and variety in B2B marketing. What’s the last book read? It paid off, big time! Why do you do what you do?

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Oracle announces Guided Campaigns and boosts customer service with genAI

Martech

Building on the existing capabilities of Oracle Fusion Marketing and Oracle Fusion Sales , Guided Campaigns directs marketers through a step-by-step process to generate automatically qualified leads and deliver them to sales as conversation-ready opportunities. Guided Campaigns. ” GenAI for custom service.