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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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This is Part One of the Guide to Lead Scoring. You can view Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. Picture this: you’re selling vehicles, and you have a list that features over two hundred different leads, but you’re only allowed one day to try and make sales. How would you make the most sales? You’d follow the most promising leads. That’s exactly what lead scoring is – a system designed to rank leads in order to determine which leads are ready to be cashed in