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Must-Knows for Building Your 2017 Content Marketing Budget

Kapost

For many companies, the topic of a content marketing budget leaves a huge question mark. That’s why it’s crucial to anchor your strategy (and budget) around function. Create a functional content strategy. A customer buy-cycle is more like a treasure map than a linear marketing funnel.

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Social Media Features in Marketing Automation Systems: Who Does What?

Customer Experience Matrix

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ).

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

Smashmouth Marketing

Good Lists - There are lots of sources for lists out there, and the best solution is to pay for the better product. The best lists we've seen for the money are from Jigsaw hands down. You can go the next step too, even with a good Jigsaw list, by doing list validation and cleaning. This is marketing budget 2.0. (ok,

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

Smashmouth Marketing

Good Lists - There are lots of sources for lists out there, and the best solution is to pay for the better product. The best lists we've seen for the money are from Jigsaw hands down. You can go the next step too, even with a good Jigsaw list, by doing list validation and cleaning. This is marketing budget 2.0. (ok,

Lead Gen 100
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How B2B Marketers Can Get More Leads into the Funnel via Inbound Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

This is why when a marketer brings back a list of leads, they only pick out a few to follow up with. They use their skills to tell them which are his (her) best bets and then starts working them until they purchase. . So how do marketers find the right leads? Your sales reps know this. An example of this is this blog post!

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Differences Between PR, Marketing, and Advertising and Their Applications

PureB2B

You start to wonder where PR crosses the line into marketing and if social campaigns are any different from marketing campaigns. It hardly comes as a surprise that distinguishing between these strategies is hard since they all seem to be interrelated. These are key elements of the entire marketing jigsaw.

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Differences Between PR, Marketing, and Advertising and Their Applications

PureB2B

You start to wonder where PR crosses the line into marketing and if social campaigns are any different from marketing campaigns. It hardly comes as a surprise that distinguishing between these strategies is hard since they all seem to be interrelated. These are key elements of the entire marketing jigsaw.