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Like any “build or buy” decision, whether or not a full-service agency makes sense for your company depends on a myriad of variables – notably budget, of course – but also how the scale of your objectives balances against the breadth of available in-house resources and expertise. Agencies aren’t for… Read More
Recently I sat down with Amanda Nelson, Director of Marketing at RingLead, a leading provider of cloud-based data solutions that make it easy to analyze, remove, merge and prevent duplicates in Salesforce. We discussed what’s new, what’s working, and what’s on the horizon in B2B Demand Generation. This interview originally… Read More
I wrote recently in this space about the decisions that today’s B2B email marketers are facing as they strive to ensure that their campaigns are optimized for an increasingly mobile audience. The Webinar invitation below from Janrain, a software company in Portland, Oregon, illustrates some of the perils inherent in… Read More
Dave Brock wrote an excellent post recently (“I’ve Never Ever Sold a Computer or Piece of Software”) on what technology buyers really buy. His point (crudely distilled) is that while most of us believe that customers are buying our products and services, in fact what they’re really buying is more… Read More
In days long past, companies hired one marketing firm, usually an advertising agency, to coordinate a broad spectrum of marketing needs. Today, modern marketing channels have become so fragmented that B2B marketers are much more likely to work with a stable of agencies – a demand generation agency, for example,… Read More
Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Demandbase announced its “Company Targeted Advertising,” a new platform that allows B2B marketers to target online display advertising either to specific companies (by name) or those that meet specific corporate attributes (company size for example, or vertical industries). The introduction follows on the heels of… Read More