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Here are 5 tips to help you find or build segmented prospect B-to-B lists that produce the best ROI and lowest cost to acquire a buyer of your own

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

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…

Direct marketers usually aren't very creative about how they take advantage of their marketing databases. Sure, modern marketing databases are used to make general decisions about whom to promote. Typically this is done with rules-based logic such as recency, frequency, monetary value (RFM) cells or—even better—with statistics-based predictive models. However, this is just scratching the…

Here's a reality check for business-to-business firms engaging in social media: Content isn't king, at least as far as tweets and posts to other forums are concerned. Greg Ott of Demandbase offers five prerequisites B-to-B marketers must have in place to maximize the return of their social media endeavors.

The Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s new data system places a stronger focus on the full spectrum of visitors' activity, and therefore their total profitability. Traditionally, casino patrons are ranked and marketed to based on what they spend, either during a single trip or in aggregate. But this doesn't allow for subtleties such as their rate…