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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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You only get one chance for a good first impression... at the top and bottom of your funnel

I recently had the opportunity to make a presentation to an important group. The subject was something that I know very well. Almost too well. I had to change it up to match the audience I was meeting with. Where to start?

Luckily, I know Debbie Fay...

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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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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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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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According to Webinar Recruitment Best Practices Guide from ON24, 64% Register Week of your Event!

One of the more popular posts on our blog (and a download we offer on this page) is our 14 best practices for B2B Webinar ROI.

We're planning a series of Webinars for a client, four over a two-month period, and they're looking to reduce the cost of...

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What's the Value of Investing in Your Brand?

This is a bit of a shaggy dog story, so please bear with me. One of our kids totaled our 2005 Subaru Legacy Wagon. And everyone's alright (the most important thing of all - and thank you, dear reader, for your concern). This wasn't a marketing story...

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