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Ambush Marketing is a marketing technique which involves riding on the coattails of a major event or campaign without actually paying for or participating in the sponsorship or event (www.wisegeek.com). It is a tactic that many vendors use to get free promotion and compete with those vendors actually paying for the sponsorships and/or event without having to dish out the big bucks themselves.

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Ambush Marketing is a marketing technique which involves riding on the coattails of a major event or campaign without actually paying for or participating in the sponsorship or event (www.wisegeek.com). It is a tactic that many vendors use to get free promotion and compete with those vendors actually paying for the sponsorships and/or event without having to dish out the big bucks themselves.

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Niche Marketing means to concentrate all marketing efforts on a small but specific and well defined segment of the population. Niches are “created” by identifying needs, wants and requirements that are available within your market (BusinessDictionary.com).This is usually a group of prospects that you want to target not only because you will be successful at reaching them but because your competitors are doing a poor job of reaching them, leaving them available to you.

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First and foremost, you must capture the data from websites, phone calls, distributions centers, direct mail and landing pages. If these requirements sound like too much, it is what most corporate clients want and need to succeed. That fact alone should get you going. Next, make sure you have the ability to perform several types of data transmissions. For example, HTTP posts for CRM’s as well as XML. For older CRM programs, rely on GET or SOAP post. For certain vertical packages, try ping and post.

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As with any software change within a company, there are bound to be questions. The first in instituting any new or more developed program should be whether you need more lead generation or just better lead management. Ask yourself these questions

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Many marketers focus on lead generation, but not on what comes after: what is done with the leads as they are generated, how they are distributed, and how soon they’re followed up on.

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The headline on your landing page is what your visitor will notice first, and it’ll be the last thing they notice if it doesn’t catch their attention and appeal to their needs. Write your own great headlines using the following 11 tips:

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A great call-to-action will provide your visitor with noticeable instructions on how to take the right action on your page. The primary goal and general rule of thumb when designing a call-to-action is making sure it leads your visitor(s) to your defined target such as a product purchase or site conversion.

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Marketing automation uses software to automate marketing processes, and one of your marketing efforts that will benefit the most from automation is email. There is a lot of value in using your marketing automation software to speed up, track, and improve your email marketing campaign. Below, we’ll discuss the importance of email automation, the best ways to utilize it, and simple solutions to get your audience to open that email.

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As a customer, and I am sure you have seen it too, there are forms out there that have you saying, “It’s just not worth it” and immediately leaving the site. The key to a great lead generation form is design, ease, and the content that surround it on landing page. Let’s take a look at 5 examples of lead gen. forms and the elements used to appeal to their visitors.

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Many marketers focus on lead generation, but not on what comes after: what is done with the leads as they are generated, how they are distributed, and how soon they’re followed up on.

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Email communication is the modern version of direct mail. You wouldn’t leave out your signature or an intro greeting stating your purpose in a direct mail piece, so why would it be any different with email? Business professionals tend to get slopping with emails being sent out to their clients because of how easy it is to generate a message and send. We sometimes are a bit too quick and send things that haven’t been fully thought out yet. This piece is intended to remind you of the main best practices and email etiquette in the email marketing world today. Giving your sales team a crash course will help your sales and lead nurturing efforts blossom.

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Including a form on your landing pages is one of the quickest ways to convert visitors into leads. There are many ways to design a form and an endless list of fields you could include. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest things you can do right now to optimize your conversion rates using great Lead Generating form design.