Successfully Engaging with B2B Buyer Communities

Kristin McKenna presents three keys to successfully engaging communities in B2B [...]

Where Do You Start With Lead Management?

Carlos Hidalgo addresses what B2B marketing organizations can do to get started with understanding and implementing lead management [...]

Forrester on Using B2B Lead Management to Pump Up Your Pipeline

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The potential benefits to B2B marketers of adopting marketing automation are significant, but the technology, by itself, cannot singlehandedly deliver sales.   This is the story of any business technology:  Gaining the benefits often requires process change and re-alignment that the technology will amplify, but that it cannot affect on its own.

This is why the practice [...]

What Are the Keys to Finding Success with B2B Content Marketing?

Adam Needles presents his thoughts on the keys to finding success with B2B content marketing strategies and [...]

All Eyes on B2B Content Marketing

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I recently joined Silverpop’s field marketing team and am focused on B2B marketing and marketing automation best practices, and this is my first blog post.

I intended to write a ‘best week ever’ piece focusing on key trends in the B2B marketing space for my first post. But the more reading I did over this past [...]

B2B Thought Leadership with Malcolm Friedberg

Through these special blog postings, our goal is to offer advice and insights from top B2B marketers. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Malcolm Friedberg, principal at Left Brain Marketing. He has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in a broad range of B2B industries.

Malcolm has built [...]

Webinar Tips: 17 Lessons Learned from More Than 30 Webinars (Part 2-During/After the Webinar)

In my previous post, I listed seven key lessons I’ve learned in preparing for a Webinar. In this post, I’ll look at 10 more tips to consider during and after your Webinar presentation.

Lessons Learned: During and after the Webinar

8. Anticipate and address the routine questions. If 500 people register, 200 people will show [...]

Overcoming B2B Deliverability Challenges

A newly released study from Return Path examines average inbox placement rate for permissioned, commercial email in the United States and Canada. One of the report’s most interesting findings is that reaching business addresses, which are protected by systems like Postini, Symantec and MessageLabs, is even more difficult than top consumer email providers. According to [...]