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...
Websites often need to perform multiple jobs--from awareness and education to conversion. For B2B brands, websites can certainly be used to convert sales, and here are a few tips to help drive sales through website transactions. Be compelling. Encourage prospects to turn into customers by showing...
Membership websites and associations often struggle with expanding and retaining their community. Their membership community is their prized possession--one that has to be cultivated and expanded to increase the value of the community. Online lead generation techniques can be useful to membership...
Social media is important to B2B marketing. Some CMO's believe a false myth that social media is only appropriate to B2C companies. Participation in social media marketing by B2B marketers has jumped to more than 90% in 2012, according to Marketo, a marketing automation company. B2B marketers are...
Hashtags were used in 58% of nationally-run Super Bowl ads this year--setting a new record. Hashtags are becoming more and more important to marketers, as they connect conversations, users and content, as well as reveal trends. For marketing, hashtags help build exposure. Hashtags are to social...
Why are landing pages important for lead generation? Most business people view no more than one web page after clicking an advertisement online. Usually, if a prospect doesn't like what they immediately see, they click away. For this reason, B2B marketing teams need to be familiar with landing page...
Marketers often use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of their efforts. KPIs are metrics that help analyze and report on website and marketing campaign performance. Leads and sales are deep KPIs that also demonstrate a return on investment. When determining whether you...
B2B marketers cannot rely on interruption marketing. As B2B organizations focus more heavily on digital marketing, there will be a trend of crafting their websites to be central to their marketing efforts. These 3 tips can greatly improve the performance and effectiveness of a website for a B2B...
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system. The CMS powers websites of all shapes and sizes. Although WordPress was originally designed to be a CMS for blogs, the system has evolved into a general-purpose tool--helping enterprises, non-profits, individuals and corporations...
Telecom companies can use social media to engage new B2B contacts and energize existing customers. As a starting point it is a good idea to do an initial influencer analysis to understand the key themes of the industry's online conversation in social media and search. An influencer analysis will...