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Direct Marketing: What it is and 5 direct message marketing examples

Sprout Social

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?

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Making sense of composable CDPs: What martech buyers need to know

Martech

CDPs are especially useful when organizations cannot implement their own cloud-native customer data store and can more easily implement a commercial off-the-shelf solution, or “packaged” CDP, that helps them realize the benefits of cloud technologies by managing and decisioning on its customer data. Activating the customer data.

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Can Content Marketing Accelerate Sales Pipeline?

Marketing Insider Group

Can posting the right content for the right customer on the right channel at the right time really speed up a sale? Successful sales reps and marketers need to be good at publishing, too. The Content Marketing, Social Media and Social Selling Recipe. How Marketing Departments Can Use Content To Accelerate Sales.

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Push vs. Pull: Social Media and the Case for Marketing Optimism

Marketing Insider Group

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search.

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Social Media and the Case for Marketing Optimism

Marketing Insider Group

In many ways, Social Media is simply another proof point of the power of customer-driven, inbound marketing. Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search.

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B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011

Marketing Insider Group

While some have predicted the consolidation of Twitter and Facebook or the demise of Foursquare, I am sticking to the practical topics most B2B Marketers I know are talking about: Marketing automation and automated lead nurturing will become a foundational B2B marketing activity as we are expected to accelerate deals through our funnels.