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True Story: Without a marketing plan, he planned to fail!

ViewPoint

For this company ‘someplace else’ had been growth, but at low margins, with chaos in the sales ranks, and a poorly installed CRM system…all because of a marketing plan that wasn’t a plan. Shelly, the president, looked at me and said, “Yes we have a marketing plan, right Don? Do you have a sales plan?”

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B2B Online Video Marketing; Planning to Execution Best Practices for Lead Generation

NuSpark Consulting

That brings us to a discussion of video marketing for B2B. Depending on what you read, most research shows that white papers are still the most authoritative content asset, but video marketing continues to grow. B2B Video Marketing Best Practices. Accompany the video with a related white paper as CTA.

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Refresh Your Best Marketing Content

WriteSpark

At the beginning of the year, your content marketing plans are likely focused on new, new, new: New white papers, sales brochures, Web articles, and customer case studies. Some years ago, I wrote a tutorial guide which my client used as the primary piece for attracting sales leads.

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Refresh Your Best Marketing Content

WriteSpark

At the beginning of the year, your content marketing plans are likely focused on new, new, new: New white papers, sales brochures, Web articles, and customer case studies. Some years ago, I wrote a tutorial guide which my client used as the primary piece for attracting sales leads.

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Five Ways to Optimize Your Marketing Efforts to Increase B2B Sales Leads

Launch Marketing

Lead generation that is accompanied by a weak lead conversion rate can cause the sales team to lack faith in marketing qualified leads and more importantly, hurt the company’s bottom line. Here are five ways to optimize your marketing efforts and deliver more qualified B2B sales leads.

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Marketing a Manufacturing Company to Reach the Right Buyers

SmartBug Media

Michael Dillon is the VP of Marketing and Business Development at NovaLink. Making a strategic marketing plan for a manufacturing company is a unique challenge. Starting Out: Make a Solid Plan. As with all marketing plans, it’s about planning, planning, planning.

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How to Make Social Sell: From Thought Leader to Thought Provoker

ViewPoint

Turning friends, followers and content into sales, leads and subscribers means solving customers' problems in ways that nurtures demand for larger solutions. Engagement must invite customers' questions and respond to it in a deliberate way, as part of a social media-driven direct response marketing plan.