Social Selling: Connecting with potential B2B buyers via social tools, such as LinkedIn or Facebook. Social selling in action: Social selling takes the form of answering prospect questions, supportive engagement, and sharing helpful, timely content. These consistent interactions nurture the...
By Katie Surace Smart homes currently lead the Internet of Things market with 294 million connected things expected to be in use in 2015, according to Gartner. Gartner also estimates connected things within smart cities to reach 1.1 billion in 2015. These figures represent only a portion of the...
According to Ovum, MVNO global subscriber base is projected to reach 185 million by 2015, and with this growth, MVNOs will race to add features, partnerships and add-ons to their service to win this race for subscribers. This level of growth presents an excellent opportunity for communication...
Although manufacturing companies tend to get the majority of their business via loyal customers, word-of-mouth, and partnership deals, it’s critical that they don’t overlook the importance of online marketing. At IronPaper, we’re seeing an increasing number of manufacturing companies prioritize...
What is Social Selling? Social selling: Connecting with prospects via social tools, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. In action, it looks like answering prospect questions and sharing helpful, timely content. These consistent interactions nurture prospect relationships until they are ready...
What is Marketing Automation? Marketing Automation: The automating of time-consuming sales and marketing activities, so you can reach a larger group of consumers more efficiently and via multiple channels online (such as email, social media, websites, etc). “The reality is the best marketers are...
Email marketing accounts for over 7% of all transactions on ecommerce websites, making email the one of the most effective ecommerce marketing channels, according to a report by Custora. Email is a critical part of an eCommerce brand's sales-nurturing and engagement strategy. The roles that email...
The self-educating buyer In 2008, Roman Ray wrote, The Best Salesperson: Your Website, in Entrepreneur Magazine explaining how an business's best sales person is actually their website. The Internet has changed the way we shop Websites play a central role in the customer acquisition process. A...
This article, the CMO guide to marketing automation, serves as a quick guide for CMOs considering marketing automation for their enterprise. Intended as a quick overview, this article can help CMOs understand marketing automation and sell it internally within their organization. Benefits of...
Behavioral email marketing requires the ability to observe and act on user behaviors, triggers and events to identify quality prospects and leads. By employing behavioral email lists you can create a highly effective lead-qualification tool for your B2B business. Building an email list. To create...