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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing

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The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Weber Shandwick is creating a new unit to capitalize on content marketing --a channel which advertisers have been increasingly interested in investing. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn.

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Persistence Pays—How 42 Lead Qualification Touchpoints Won a $1 Billion Deal

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PointClear is known for its perseverance. Here’s What PointClear Persistence Looks Like. The client wrote, after getting the SQL from their dedicated PointClear team: "Our AE’s would never have been persistent enough to get this opportunity.”. One billion dollars. A Keep-at-It Story Close to Home.

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Leads are Hard 

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According to Wikipedia: “a reader service card or bingo card" was a reply card inserted in a magazine and used by readers to request free samples and literature from businesses who advertised in the issue. Many advertisers were listed on the reply card. PointClear associates see this in action every hour of every day.

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Power Opinions - Experts Select Top Three Social Media Tools

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Social Listening, Content Management, Social Advertisingadvertising in social? Some additional comments of note: “The social media tools are less important than the quality and relevance of your content (and your content experts).” ( Dave Munn, ITSMA ). “My Isn’t that an oxymoron? I think not…” ( Rich Vancil, IDC ).

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Is it Fraudulent to Spend Money on Lead Gen Without an ROI?

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Hopkins’ book Scientific Advertising , published in 1923. Yes, you read correctly - 95 years ago he took the mystery away: “The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. In his first chapter Hopkins says: “The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science. Every statement has been weighed.

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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

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Following in 2nd through 7th place are paid search, email, branded communities and word-of mouth (tied), branded blogs, and online display advertising. According to Forrester’s “Q3 2013 North American and UK Digital Maturity Online” report (based on an August online survey of 395 marketers), onsite ratings and reviews are rated No.

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Why Engagement Will Not Generate Leads (and what to do about it)

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We’re clinging to mass media advertising ideas and values. This is how advertising works. Why we're Failing to Sell with Engagement. Most of us fail to create sales engaging social media because we’re building content marketing on an outdated foundation. Instead, we should be exploiting direct response marketing tactics.

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