Topic | Lead generation

In B2B marketing, how do you make social media an efficient, cost-effective channel for finding new customers and selling to business clients?

Hunter Douglas recently launched a new turnkey email program to help resellers promote the manufacturer's window treatments to consumers.

Data analysis conducted by Oberweis Dairy revealed the secret to retaining new home-delivery customers: Give no more or less upfront in a new prospecting promotion than had been previously offered, but package it differently

Marketers are asking legacy systems to store an ever-widening expanse of behavioral data, such as clickstream activity, intent data (opt-ins, registrations and referrals), and Web analytic information

Chief Marketer recently talked with Zach Welch, vice president of client services at social media news feed consultancy BrandGlue, who shared some best practices for B2B marketers who want to make the most of their "friendships" on Facebook.

Does social media really work in business-to-business marketing? It's a valid question, especially with the mass media mindset prevailing over much of social media. What B2B marketers and the firms that represent them should really be concerned with is the quality of the social media connections they make rather than the quantity.

Marketing automation is helping Nxtbook Media connect with publishers and catalogers looking to take their print editions digital.

Not all metrics are good metrics. Merely because a brand is well "liked" on Facebook, or has many followers on Twitter, does not mean it is successfully being marketed. And collecting a fishbowl full of leads at a conference, or sending out a set quota of email blasts, is not the most productive way of…

2011 IMA Award winner, Best Use of Online Contest or Sweepstakes for Lead Generation | Almost 5,000 teenage girls signed up for an essay video contest branded by Skintimate Signature Scents for the chance to become a member of one of two crews of nine girls to be flown to Hollywood to produce a film…

McAdams, a family-owned web-printing firm, had a B-to-B database of 1,800 existing customers, but only 350 were active. In 2010, McAdams installed a high-quality inkjet inline printer that it wanted to advertise to its customers, but also to potential new acquisitions.