Aspiration Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2023

There was a time when marketers tried to make sales by interrupting their customers. Old-style outbound marketing methods like radio and TV ads, telemarketing, direct mail, trade shows, and cold calls, of course, still work; if done right, they can still yield a good ROI.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 21, 2022

A new era of direct marketing is here. Direct marketing has come a long way since the first direct mail campaign in the 1800s. Even in the past few years, direct messaging channels enabled marketers to reach people in a more personalized, targeted way. What is direct marketing? Email marketing. Targeted online ads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Even though this suggests we might have difficulty engaging with strangers, marketers have no problem selling to strangers. So, is there actually any value in trying to go beyond one-size-fits-all marketing? Marketing in the Relationship Era. Even telemarketers practice a basic form of personalized marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

That’s because marketing leaders tend to pour all their energy into the most visible parts of an event: the sizzle. In this blog, I’ll give you 13 marketing tactics to boost your event ROI before, during, and after your events. Use your inside sales people or a B2B telemarketing service to follow up on the phone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2020

Why Cold Calling Goes Wrong written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Walter. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview David Walter, best-selling author of The Million Dollar Rebuttal and Stratospheric Lead Generation Secrets: Cold Calling is NOT a Numbers Game!

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2015

Successful sales reps and marketers need to be good at publishing, too. If you are not integrating your content marketing strategy into your field marketing, corporate marketing and field sales organizations, then you need to make this change – to create more sales opportunities, increase sale size, and decrease the sale cycle.

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Martech

APRIL 6, 2023

Marketers everywhere are obsessing over the newly discovered power of AI. Amid the jaw-dropping realizations of what AI is capable of, marketers are faced with an existential question that’s a bit daunting to consider: Is this the end of marketing as we know it? Telemarketing was replaced by SMS marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Consumers are bombarded with thousands of marketing messages per day. Email response rates, click-through rates and contact rates by telemarketers are all seeing rapid declines. Email response rates, click-through rates and contact rates by telemarketers are all seeing rapid declines. I’m proud to be in marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Most inexperienced sales people will look exclusively to marketing to solve their pipeline challenges. Marketing does a great job with demand generation , building awareness, analyzing lead cost, lead sources, etc., Marketing does a great job with demand generation , building awareness, analyzing lead cost, lead sources, etc.,

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Last week, Eric Wittlake (@ wittlake ) wrote a great post called Lead Generation is Crippling Demand Generation where he argued that these two marketing activities were working against each other due to the different outcomes each is trying to achieve. Many marketers lose focus on the bigger picture as they chase more leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

So marketing sends more. So marketing tightens the quality standards and sends fewer but higher quality leads. My advice is to B2B Marketers is to follow this natural ebb and flow. Maybe this works for your company as long as the number of marketing touches does not annoy the prospect to the point that they want to walk away.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. The training is critical to the success as the callers must understand your offering, but this is constant amongst all telemarketing tactics. That is so true!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 7, 2009

  While they often imply use of email and online marketing, they have been used to improve the success of marketing efforts long before today’s marketing technologies were available.   Metrics used in drip marketing will include email open rates, email click-through (when combined with offers), and opt-out rates.

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Litmus

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In this blog post, we interview Shazad Beharry, Senior Manager, Customer Marketing at AutoNation. We take a peek behind the marketer and the email-first omnichannel remarketing strategy that won them their Email First Excellence Award. Senior Manager, Customer Marketing. Shazad Beharry. AutoNation. Follow Shazad on LinkedIn.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Every marketing department has its own unique way of measuring the impact of marketing activities. And most senior marketers rely on some common or standard measures of success. Marketers need to adapt to the new customer landscape. I challenged marketers to measure their ability to: Drive revenue.

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Martech

MAY 9, 2023

Outbound marketing has probably evolved the least in these respects. Understood today as campaign and messaging management tech, outbound marketing represents a holdout against the broader evolutionary trend. The old means of direct mail and telemarketing gave way in the digital era to email marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

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. Download 7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up About the author: Robert Krekstein is a results-driven executive with 18 years of experience in both marketing and selling.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 26, 2011

Ask sales people what they think is wrong with marketing and they will say the biggest mistake marketers make is too much of a focus on marketing activities instead of results. I have explained already that I think the biggest B2B marketing mistake is putting your company and not your customers first. Nothing sexy there.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Do you remember the endless annoyance of telemarketing calls? Everyone who cared was able to register their number and telemarketers could continue to call it only at the risk of the FTC imposing hefty fines. Also, lawsuits are costly. But how about a regulatory fix? The National Do Not Call register put a stop to that.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 15, 2015

Calculating return on a marketing investment (ROMI) is something of an art form. Unlike capital investments, which have a fixed, upfront cost and clear results, marketing investments evolve over time and have both empirical and intangible results. But marketers are eager to “hack” the process. Practice Social Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 21, 2010 4 Subscribe Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

She continued by asking me a number of questions which all boil down to: Why Does Most Marketing Stink? The statistics do not paint a pretty picture: Consumers are bombarded with over 5,000 marketing messages a day, up from around 2,000 just a few years ago – Tweet This! So stop creating marketing that stinks.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 22, 2019

When mastered, demand generation can help transform even an underdog brand into a market leader. In fact, you could argue the whole reason demand generation exists is due to the rise of content and inbound marketing. Think telemarketing calls, radio ads, or postal campaigns. First, content marketing is still in its infancy.

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Rock Content

MAY 13, 2020

If your company is interested in making business agreements and has a long-term purchase cycle, Outbound Marketing strategies may be a good investment. For that to happen, you need to understand what Digital Marketing is and its processes. What is Outbound Marketing. Outbound Marketing is an active prospecting process.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve already published my B2B Marketing predictions for 2011 and while I think I captured a good mix of new and traditional issues, I realized that one thing was missing: a common theme. And so this led me to the conclusion that the broader future of B2B Marketing is Social! This got me to thinking.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. Market to them and never forget that even in B2B, human beings still make the decisions. Instead create personas of people that buy your solutions or products.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

Author: Ashika Balani The days of telemarketers are long gone. These changes in business models have major implications for how marketers should reach and engage their buyers. Here are three ways that technology is transforming marketing: 1. Technology is Empowering Marketing. So how can marketers seize this opportunity?

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Related Posts: Why am I in Marketing? This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

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. and “ what can we achieve ?”

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Sales and marketing are really just 2 sides of the same coin. I have spent time in both roles and the basic tenets of success in sales and marketing still come down to basic human nature. Yin and Yang. Push and Pull. And in many ways, they are becoming more and more alike. Help people and they will reward you.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 4, 2015

It doesn’t matter how nice he is or how much you respect him, you still find yourself praying for an excuse to leave: a fire alarm, a medical emergency, a telemarketing call…anything to get away. The post The Best Stories Come From The Worst Examples appeared first on B2B Marketing Insider. “This one time, at band camp…”.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I’m not sure most B2B marketers truly consider lead generation as their primary focus but I do agree that we B2B Marketers spend considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Related Posts: Why am I in Marketing? This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3).

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. 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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So here is my list of B2B Marketing Insider predictions for 2011. Customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention re-emerge as key metrics B2B marketers will use to measure the performance of their holistic marketing programs. Too many marketers and business executives still question the value of social media (mostly in private).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

by Liz Smyth Last month at Cloudforce London, Henry Seddon of QlikView wowed the audience in his presentation entitled “Sales and Marketing Alignment: Drive Revenue and Achieve Explosive Growth”. They were looking for four things: Ability to target limited telemarketing (BDRs) to call the right person. 74 landing pages created.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Late last week, I responded to a post by my new friend Adam Needles, VP Marketing of Left Brain Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2011

Online marketing (such as search engine optimization and Pay Per Click) works best for inbound marketing. Direct marketing, (such as email, e-newsletters and telemarketing) is ideal for outbound efforts. But, for effective lead nurturing, marketing and sales must agree on the process of lead qualification.

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