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5 Easy Ways to Have Your Corporate Blog Drive Measurable Demand

Even as demand generation activity begins to pick up, most marketing budgets right now remain tight, and so B2B companies are looking for creative, low-cost ways to drive demand.  One of the areas we recommend consistently to our clients is to do more with the corporate blog. Blogs are historically… Read More

No Leads from Social Media? No Excuses.

In a recent post, the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot, a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns…. Read More

Podcast (Part 3): Using Blogs to Generate Leads

In part 3 of my podcast with Steve Farnsworth of Jolt Social Media, we discuss the role of blogs in the lead generation landscape, and the simple steps companies can take to convert their blogs from PR dumping grounds to a key part of their demand generation engine. In less… Read More

Report: B2B Blogging Trends in 2011

Tony Karrer and Tom Pick, founders of the popular B2B Marketing site B2B Marketing Zone, just released a compelling report on B2B Blogging Trends in 2011. The 42-page white paper includes insights from industry thought leaders such as Ardath Albee, Jay Baer, Kristin Zhivago, as well as yours truly (see… Read More

6 Easy Steps to Increase Leads from Your Corporate Blog

1. Title your posts for Google and Twitter. Forget nuance. If your blog post showed up in a Google listing, would someone click on it? Is it short (well short of 140 characters) so that someone can easily retweet it without editing? Does it immediately communicate, in specific, tangible terms,… Read More