Customer Experience Matrix

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OneSource Survey: Salespeople Accept Value of Leads from Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

For example, the State of Inbound Marketing 2010 survey from Hubspot found that outbound leads (from telemarketing, trade shows and direct mail) cost an average of $332, compared with $134 per inbound lead (from social media and Web sites). Events and trade shows actually rank below all of these.

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New Workbook: Estimating the Cost of Marketing Automation

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marketing program costs: the expenses for specific marketing programs, such as advertising, trade shows, email, etc. But the stakes are high: operations costs are about 25% of a typical marketing budget. These are the other 75% of the typical marketing budget.

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Raab Report: B2B Marketing Automation Vendors Are Making Incremental, Not Radical, Changes To Their Products

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They include managing events such as trade shows, integrating with external Web sites, and support for fax and direct mail. So their continued growth represents catch-up by vendors who had not already provided them, probably more for competitive sales reasons than actual customer needs. • New channels.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Forrester and Marketing Profs report B-to-B Marketing in 2009 shows that business marketers most commonly use their company Web site, email, public relations and trade shows. Where are marketers moving their budgets? Which media most affect purchase decisions?

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Marketbright's Campaign Flows Work Well for Serena Software

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But the stories also raise a note of caution: in both cases, the prospect approached the actual sales rep at a trade show, and the rep had no idea what they were talking about. (See my recent white paper Restoring the Balance for more on this.) Happily, both reps handled the situation well.

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Survey Suggests Marketers Are Moving from Paid to Social Media

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Here are the results: for prospects/leads for current customers corporate Web site 75% 70% social media 73% 72% custom content and media 70% 77% face-to-face events 69% 62% white papers / e-books 67% 52% Webcasts and virtual trade shows 64% 51% e-mail marketing 58% 78% online advertising 42% 13% direct mail promotions 33% 34% print advertising 33% (..)

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Infusionsoft: Impressive Marketing Power for a Very Low Price

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Users can attach a fixed cost and per-response cost to each lead source, which can be an outbound marketing campaign or an inbound source such as Web ads, trade shows, or traditional advertising. On the other hand, Infusionsoft actually does a better job than some demand generation systems of tracking marketing costs.

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