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- How a Small Company Went Global (Without Breaking the Bank)by Lingo24.com
CASE STUDY: In the age of globalization and the Internet, extending your reach beyond you home market is easier than ever... if you put some strategic thinking behind it.
- How Low-Cost Conversation Starters Built Community, Generated Leadsby Open Kernel Labs
CASE STUDY: How do you build a thousand-strong online community when your entire global audience is just 20,000 people? Easy! (Not really, but it's possible.)
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- How One Company's Content Marketing Improved Qualified Lead Generation, Boosted Revenue 38%by Intellitactics, Inc.
CASE STUDY: Good content can position your company as an expert in its field, delivering more and better-qualified traffic to your door. Here's how one company leveraged its vendor-neutral whitepapers, podcasts, and more to increase leads, conversion, and (ultimately) revenue.
- How a Targeted Lead-Development Program Earned an IT Company 34% Yearly Growth for Five Years (and Counting)by CenterBeam
CASE STUDY: For IT company CenterBeam, sales is indeed a numbers game, but not in the traditional sense. Rather than trying to engage as many leads as possible, the company's sales force instead nurtures a smaller quantity of well-qualified prospects.
- How Intuit Used Viral Marketing and an Interactive Web Site to Generate Small-Business Leads, Engage Customersby Intuit, Inc.
CASE STUDY: Inspired by the viral success of Office Max's "Elf Yourself," QuickBooks-maker Intuit set out to creatively engage small businesses with its "Jingle Generator." The effort exceeded targeted metrics, earning viral a spot in the marketing mix.
- How Intrigue and Personalization Helped a Marketing Firm Connect With Handpicked Leadsby Babcock & Jenkins
CASE STUDY: Relationship-marketing firm Babcock & Jenkins didn't tell prospects what it could do, it gave them a taste. Its campaign, launched with a package of brownies from a mystery source, showed how it uses intrigue, personalization, humor, and the soft-sell to establish and advance client relationships. Results: A tasty 50% response rate.
- How a Small Internet Publisher Doubled Its Email Database & Reduced Marketing Spend With Cost-per-Leadby Tripmela, Inc.
CASE STUDY: Earlier this year, when online travel publisher Tripmela was in startup mode, CEO Jared Blank determined that he needed to achieve a $1.50 cost per acquisition if he was going to lead this fledgling to profitability. Here's how he did it.
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- How One Whitepaper Generated 500 Leads and Significant PR for a B2B Manufacturerby JER Envirotech
JER Envirotech, a manufacturer of environmentally friendly thermoplastic biocomposite materials, needed to stand out in the green manufacturing industry. Its solution: create a white paper to both explain and build credibility for its offerings. Here's how that led to 500 new leads over 60 days.
- How a Web-based Company Increased Leads 90%—and Sales 23%—via PPC-Visitor Profiling, Landing Page Personalizationby Company: Continental Warranty
Continental Warranty used pay-per-click ads to generate leads by providing free quotes for extended-warranty coverage. But lead volume had plateaued. So it began to profile its web visitors, then direct them to microsites matching their profiles—and nearly doubled leads.
- How an Online Software Biz Doubled Its Sales Leads, Increased Site Traffic 75%by Makana Solutions
Makana Solutions needed an inexpensive way to reach the elusive small business market. Rather than chase small businesses, it hired an online "inbound marketing system" to help small businesses find Makana. The results: Web site traffic climbed 75%, and sales leads have doubled.
- How a Technology Firm Upped Webinar Attendance, Improved Lead Nurturingby Objectivity, Inc.
By hiring an outside expert in lead optimization and leveraging its full range of data, San Francisco-based Objectivity increased turnout for its webinars an average of 10%. The quality of the leads is high as well: More than 30% of the leads typically score high enough to be handed off to sales.
- How a Virtual Conference Enabled Software Provider Cognos to Slash Costs and Extend Reachby Cognos, Inc.
Cognos held some 10 conferences annually for its customers and prospects. When the software provider tried a single 3-D virtual conference, it reached more active visitors than the 10 conferences combined.
- How Siemens Medical Proved That a Landing Page with a Single, Compelling Offer Is More Effectiveby Siemens Medical Solutions
Siemens Medical Solutions wanted to elminate links that were secondary to the main offer on landing pages. But Marketing needed to prove its case to other departments. The approach? Test, test, test.
- How a Private Software Company Doubled Its Email Campaigns and More Than Quadrupled Sales Leadsby Pavilion Technologies
Privately held Pavilion Technologies knows how important it is for businesses to track ROI. But two years ago, its marketing department realized it was having trouble tracking its own ROI. Pavilion ultimately found a solution through a software system that helps monitor all prospects who visit its Web site.
- How a Manufacturer Increased Sales 30% by Using the Right Vertical Search Engineby RUD Chain, Inc.
A Web site isn't much of a marketing tool if your target audience can't find it. Officials at RUD Chain, a manufacturer of high-end industrial chains, discovered that access to a quality vertical search engine was the missing link to getting its Web site in front of key customers.
Until a few years ago, RUD Chain advertised primarily on general commerce-oriented Web sites and in trade magazines. But those avenues produced few sales leads.
- How a Technology Services Company's Online Marketing Campaign Generated a 30-Times ROIby BearingPoint, Inc.
BearingPoint, a global provider of management and technology services, had won a major contract to implement a complicated voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) system for a financial company and wanted to leverage off that success. But it was competing with larger telecommunications brands to educate potential new customers about the new technology.
By using multiple channels to get potential customers to visit its Web site and fill out a "BearingPoint VoIP Readiness Assessment Tool," the company was able to educate customers, gain sales leads, and often accelerate the typical nine-month period it took to close a large sale.
- How A Financial Services Firm Increased its Deliverables by 25%, With Fewer Staff, After New US Regulationsby Rydex Investments
In an era of increasing federal regulation and greater competition in the mutual fund market, a financial firm found itself needing to modernize its marketing efforts. Rydex Investments, a private company that sells funds and other financial products primarily to institutional investors, decided to try some new techniques to get its sales materials quickly into the hands of prospective customers.
- How a High-Tech Company Created a Searchable Customer Reference Database that Tripled References and Closed Salesby Network Appliance
The customer development group at a large, publicly held high-tech company needed a central repository of data to help identify satisfied customers willing to be references when sales associates approached new prospects.
By putting together a customer reference management database filled with relevant data on customers, the company was able to cut the amount of search time from days to seconds.
The new information, along with the timely way it can be accessed, has more than tripled the number of customer references at the sales force's disposal.
- How a B2B Community Site Increased Lead Volume for Its Advertisers by 50%by ITtoolbox
ITtoolbox was looking for a way to increase ROI on lead-generation campaigns for its 700 advertisers, among them such big guns as IBM, Microsoft, and Accenture. So ITtoolbox built its own contextual keyword engine, which provided a greater than 50% boost in lead volume and dramatically increased relevancy, boosting conversion rates for advertisers.