Chief Marketer recently published the findings of their Business-to-Business Lead Generation Survey, revealing the strategies that nearly 350 B2B markets planned to employ this year, compared to 2011. What they found was that 51% of the marketers said their companies planned to primarily focus and finding new customers in 2012, no surprises there. The more interesting statistics lie in how they plan on finding those new customers.
The most popular tool for lead gen last year was email, and it was expected to grow from 86% deployment to 90% this year. What sticks out to me are the three tools that were projected to experience some of the biggest percentage jumps in 2012: Social Networks, Pay Per Click Ads, and Retargeted Ads.
On the WordWatch blog we’ve discussed how 
Have you ever noticed that when you’re looking at a search query report (Ad group > keywords > keyword details) there’s a row at the very bottom called “Other search terms?” Once you have noticed, isn’t it impossible to wonder just what those queries consisted of and WHY Google won’t tell you?
We went on a day trip on the weekend to a big tourist destination. There were people from around the world. In fact, there was little English to be heard. These were people who’d come a long way. The popularity of the iPad was nothing short of incredible.
I love the title of the 
