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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

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The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals. In this article I will summarize a whitepaper Robert wrote on the 11 reasons why outbound telemarketing fails.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

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In this post I will review a whitepaper produced last month by Toolbox.com in conjunction with PJA Advertising + Marketing called “ Top 5 Trends in B2B Social Media Usage: What Every Marketer Should Know “ (registration required) on social media usage. You are most certainly not the only one.

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7 Common B2B Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Marketing Insider Group

Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.

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The 4 Cs of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

In social media content is not necessarily about creating white papers or videos. Context: this is important because some traditional marketing assets like white papers or product demos do not perform very well in social media. It can include 140 character tweets, photos, brief product updates or FAQs.

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7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up

Marketing Insider Group

In my 20 years of marketing, sales and Telemarketing experience I have created many “Tele Web” programs, and here are the top reasons they succeed. Some people prefer whitepapers, demo’s, trial offers, benchmarking studies, so we must be sure we have these ready as it will aid us in increasing our lead count and subsequent ROI.

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6 Content Marketing Tips That Drives Leads

Marketing Insider Group

Use the key insights from your surveys to create whitepapers on the top pain points. Remember the tip from yesterday about surveying and interviewing your customers? Videotape your interview and post it online. You don’t need to sell your solution if you can engage your prospects and demonstrate that you understand their needs.

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Confessions Of A B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

The “we need a white paper now&# or “let’s pull together a XX&# directives tend to be reactive instead of proactive in many B2B marketing environments. I especially was glad to see content programs listed under your insight-driven marketing comment. Rob Urbanowicz Dec 11 2010 Great points Michael.