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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). Jim: One of my marketers came up to me as we were naming the company, and we were looking at a bunch of different names like Jigsaw. Jigsaw was a great acquisition.

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Lead Gen 2.0 - Social Media & Search Alone Won't Attract C-Level Buyers

Smashmouth Marketing

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies and the net-gen crowd. Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Have someone dedicated to providing value to the market.

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Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing, by Tony Soprano

Smashmouth Marketing

relevancy -- just a little fun ;) For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. Classic inbound marketing. What do you want, a Whitman's Sampler?"

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Inbound Marketing and Outbound Marketing, by Tony Soprano

Smashmouth Marketing

For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. The names can be purchased from Jigsaw , Onesource or other data sources.

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Lead Gen 2.0 - Social Media & Search Alone Won't Attract C-Level Buyers

Smashmouth Marketing

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies, and the net-gen crowd. Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Have someone dedicated to providing value to the market.

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Does Chasing Content Marketing ROI Cause Us to Lose Sight of the Long Game?

Content Standard

Some leading marketing thinkers even say that a one-year marketing plan is in fact a redundant strategy because things change so quickly in the modern marketing world. We know (particularly when it comes to real-time evaluation) that it is leading brands to produce campaigns that maximize short-term effects.

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Solving the SaaS Problem: The Ultimate Tech Stack for B2B Marketers

Kapost

A CRM is a one-stop shop for visitor insight, allowing you to record every engagement with your website visitors as they progress from lead to customer. The latest generation of marketing automation can supercharge your campaigns, using segmented emails and lead management to get your message in front of the right people, at the right time.