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An Executive Deep Dive Into Inbound Marketing

An Executive Deep Dive into Inbound MarketingStrategies, resources and a roadmap to help you grow your business through ROI-focused content marketing.

Stamford Innovation CenterWeds., Apr 23, 2014, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Registration: Click Here.

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Landing Pages Are Like Ballots: Get out the vote with good design

As a marketing professional, I respect good design when I see it and I know the impact bad design can have on the outcomes we achieve. At the end of the day, creativity is nice and technology can be amazingly cool, but what I care aboutis ROI… and...

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As goes the economy, so goes marketing. Be prepared for growth; Go digital to build your pipeline.

A few weeks ago, Rae D. Rosen, vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was the keynote speaker at an event I attended. While almost none of the world economies escaped being clobbered by the economic recession in...

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B2B Inbound Lead Handling - Coach Inside Sales to Improve ROI from Inbound Marketing

I was recently meeting with one of our clients to dig deeper into the findings of its first Inbound Marketing ROI report when we realized that the inside sales reps weren't converting a lot of the leads we were generating into sales. In fact, many...

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How Inbound Marketing Can Reach Senior Executives, Many of Whom aren't Online.

At last week's HubSpot User Group meeting in Stamford, there was a great question from one of our attendees. She asked, "how can I use Inbound Marketing to reach CIOs, many of whom are not online?" Her company is in a mature B2B market where there...

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Google Killed SEO with “Keywords Not Provided.” So What’s a B2B Marketer to do Now?

If you haven't read my rant on Google’s decision to withhold all organic keyword performance data, I only recommend you do so in order that we share a context: I remain convinced this wasn’t great for B2B marketing people, yet realistic that there’s...

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Google Exercises Monopoly Power: 100% Keywords not Provided (SSL Encryption) Has High Cost to Website Owners and SEOs. Where’s the outrage?

I've been following blog coverage of Google's change to 100% keywords not provided (see select links at bottom of post) and haven’t found one yet that calls Google’s shutting the door on keyword SEO what it really is. Google is exercising its power...
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Rise of the Machines: Marketing Automation / Tech Budgets Already Eclipse General IT Spend

One of the more startling statements at last week's Cloud Business Summit (put on by our client Saugatuck Technology) was that in many firms the spend on marketing technology is greater than the IT department's spend for its own operations. The POV...

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Let's Put an End to Hope in Lead Generation. B2B Inbound Marketing Puts ROI Front-and-Center.

I get a queasy feeling in my stomach every time I make a media buy for a client when lead generation is the goal of the exercise. Unless the deal is pure cost-per-action or cost-per-lead, or we are repeating a buy, we just don't know what the...

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B2B Content Marketing without a Lead Conversion Strategy is a Waste of Time and Money (You Just Don't Know How Much).

I believe in thought leadership. Really, I do.  But this kind of marketing is often managed as a pet project or viewed as being somehow outside the new norms of ROI-based marketing.  The problem for everyone who builds and cares for content marketing...

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