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Sharing experience, insights and best practices for building SaaS businesses. Clients rely on us to realize the future visions of their organizations. Posts here are based on real-world outcomes and lessons learned from putting marketing to work – marketing that grows software companies like yours.  Let’s build something bigger, together.

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Content Quality Versus Quantity: What’s the Balance for B2B Blogging?

If you’ve been responsible for content marketing strategy in any way, you’re already familiar with the classic Quality vs. Quantity content debate. Marketers often frame it as a dichotomous question: Is it better to prioritize fewer pieces of...

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Marketing Automation: Beyond Email, Social & the Web

Marketing automation fuels new approaches to create a better customer experience & ROI

For years we marketers have used large-scale email and web-based publishing to reach customers. More recently, we’ve added social media and mobile channels to...

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How to Improve Quality of Email Lists, both Purchased and Home Grown

Plus: Professional Insight into Building Your Own Lists

Purchasing a list of contacts is a completely valid lead generation strategy. Marketers purchase lists when their own prospect lists are not sufficient. Whether it’s used for event recruiting...

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Fairfield County HUG - Social Selling for the B2B Marketer

A big thanks to everyone who joined us for last week's Fairfield County HubSpot User Group meetup! 

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The New “Bingo Card” – How Lead Qualification from the Age of Print Became Digital

Before inbound marketing became king, print advertising and physical direct mail dominated B2B lead generation. Up until about five years ago, most trade publications offered a reader service – or “bingo” – card in their magazines. Each advertiser...

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Our Favorite Bottom-of-Funnel (BoFu) Type of Premium Content for Inbound Marketing: The Model RFP

Writing an RFP, or request for proposal, can seem overwhelming, even to industry experts. A model RFP provides a template and sample questions that cover the most valuable information a buyer might seek. The Model RFP is a shortcut to solid bids for...

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Thoughts on IBM's 'Thoughts on Cloud'

Austin Lawrence is proud to sponsor and present the New York Inbound Marketing Professionals Meetup, a platform agnostic working group for inbound marketing professionals. Regardless of your inbound marketing software the NYIMP provides a venue...

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What is Account-based Marketing and How Can It Help Align Sales and Marketing to Focus on High Value Customers?

Around since the mid-1990s, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a marketing strategy that has recently come to the forefront of B2B marketing. It is a recognition that for companies it is not economic to depend on having unknown customers "find them."...

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Content2Revenue vs. Brand Journalism: ROI Focus Makes All the Difference

Marketing is becoming like the fashion business. There are incremental changes and long-term alterations, or modifications that are permanent. The Internet and Google have transformed the marketing, precipitating its own unique set of trends. Fads...

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NewsCred vs. Custom Content Curation and Your Site's SEO

In today’s always-connected world, marketers feel pressured to publish as much content through as many channels as possible. It's easy to understand why people might seek shortcuts. Content marketing platforms like NewsCred provide high-quality...

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