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Inbound Marketing Statistics: 10 Stats That Demonstrate Impact

As we move towards a new year, businesses often take time to reflect on what strategies worked and what didn’t work. Organizations think about what tactics to implement in Q1 and what tactics to retire with 2017. If your company is still performing more outbound marketing than inbound marketing,...

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Using Lead Data to Improve Your B2B Close Rate

Platforms that automate marketing and collect contact data are helpful to marketers, naturally. But did you know marketing automation has immense value for sales teams, too? By using the marketing data collected on your leads, you can craft a sales message that has a higher chance of receiving a...

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The Best Content Types for the Bottom-of-the-Funnel

As buyers move down the sales funnel their discovery process changes. It’s often thought that midway through, and especially at the bottom-of-the-funnel, salespeople take over, leaving marketers to worry only about top-of-the-funnel contacts. While buyers may have more interaction with a...

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Guide: How a Shift in Mindset will Improve Brand Growth

By Katie Surace, Senior Marketing Director When I feel stuck in business or personal life, I find a good way to move forward is looking at things objectively. Being objective is hard because we're so close to our own creations, beliefs, and opinions. To overcome it, I talk to people, hear different...

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How to Nurture Leads from the Awareness to Consideration Stage

Lead nurturing is essential for every company who seeks to expand the number of sales opportunities in their sales pipeline. Especially for B2B companies, who confront longer stages cycles with a group buying decision, it’s important to establish a robust nurturing strategy to improve sales...

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Benefits of Website Personalization for Lead Generation: 15+ Stats that Prove it’s Necessary

Personalization helps websites perform their job more effectively. Think about websites in the B2C realm such as Netflix and Amazon that offer highly-personalized experiences; these sites thrive because they cater to the needs and wants of their users. The same is true for B2B websites....

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Tips for Transitioning from Outbound Marketing to Inbound Marketing

More and more companies are realizing the benefits of inbound marketing over outbound marketing and are therefore transitioning campaigns. Outbound marketing tactics include trade shows, direct mail, email blasts, cold prospecting, and other efforts that push the company message out to the world in...

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Best Channels for Account-Based Marketing Campaigns

Ironpaper often works with clients to generate leads from a tightly targeted “wish list” of accounts — a strategy often called Account-Based Marketing, or ABM. The advantages of this approach are: Clearer utilization of marketing budget Better sales handoff process (sales were excited about the...

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Inbound Marketing Tips for Building Donor Retention

Acquiring donors and driving new donations may be the top mission of non-profit organizations. But a close second should be donor retention. Over the last ten years, donor and gift or dollar retention rates have been consistently weak — averaging below 50 percent, according to the Association of...

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Agile LinkedIn Best Practices for B2B

LinkedIn sponsored content is one of the best ways for B2B companies to generate targeted, qualified leads. An agile strategy — that is, one that involves testing, iteration, and scalability — is ideal to get the most return on your LinkedIn investment, and see campaign conversion rates well above...

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