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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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3 Tips to Stop Leads from Falling Through the Cracks

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

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

Martech

But in marketing technology, hype is often accompanied by confusion. This requires cutting through the product marketing vocabulary and understanding what a particular topic or trend can do to create value and how it applies to your organization’s needs. Where there’s hype, there’s curiosity. Thus, we need more modern tooling.

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Can Content Marketing Accelerate Sales Pipeline?

Marketing Insider Group

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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B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011

Marketing Insider Group

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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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. But this is not the great race.

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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. But this is not the great race.