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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

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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What Types Of Marketing Are There?

InTouch Marketing

Social Media Marketing: Objective: Utilize social media platforms to promote products or services, connect with the audience, and build brand awareness. Impact: Enhances brand visibility, fosters direct communication with customers, and encourages user-generated content.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

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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How To Get A Positive Return On Your Marketing Investment

Marketing Insider Group

Consider what value the investment could add to your brand, and whether that value would be direct profit (leads, conversions) or qualitative. If you’re lucky, a prospect will convert after several, meaningful encounters with your brand across multiple channels (email, social, SERP, mobile). Image Credit: Rand Fishkin.

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The 4 Cs of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

In the past, I have written about the challenges of Social Media and The Brand , the power of Integrating Social Media and Search and asked Why Do You Tweet? Social Media And Your Personal Brand. Social media starts with the very first introduction to your brand and extends to the lifetime of your customer relationship.

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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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7 Common B2B Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Marketing Insider Group

For B2B companies, social media is more about interaction and knowledge sharing (think whitepapers, videos, thought leadership blogs, etc.). 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.