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How Social Media Drives Better Email Results

Marketing Insider Group

A recent study by GetResponse showed that adding social sharing in an e-mail increased click-through rates by 30%, adding a twitter share option increased response rates by 40% and adding as many as three sharing options increased response rates up 55%.

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Marketing, Death and Taxes

Marketing Insider Group

It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. As a consumer, I’m fed up. I refuse to answer cold calls at work or home.

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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

You can also look to 3 rd party list sources but expect a lower response rate and thus a lower ROI. Allow your prospects to decide for themselves what the best content is for them for the buying stage they are in at the time. When prospects are ready to buy, they will use keyword search to research products and solutions.

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Confessions Of A B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

Lists became “tired&# as response rates drops. Not just a little more, we sent tons of email and cold calls and then we added even more. Cross-sell. The result of all this was redundancy like B2B marketing has never seen before. Opt-outs increased and our brand image suffered — all because we were spamming our customers.

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free stuff that sells. maybe.

The Effective Marketer

From free PPC tips , free guide on Facebook for business , free eBook on Twitter for Business , free email marketing guide , and other miscellaneous free stuff (some of which you wish you had never found). Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

And so we have to fall back on metrics that are easy to come by: response rates, clicks, impressions, registrations, attendees. Many of us are guilty of falling into the trap of activity-based reporting: I ran 10 campaigns last year, I sponsored 3 industry events, etc.

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B2B marketers are stumbling in the dark

Online Marketing Institute

Weve found that by sharing the experiences of client campaigns across PPC, SEO and news content - and in particular by what has worked and what hasnt - were saving time and money in-house and giving clients a better service. 237 posts from The Drama 2.0 237 posts from The Drama 2.0 But there is no such thing.