These days so many B2B marketers rely on data to ‘talk’ with their customers. They measure the number of views they get on their online properties. They set quotas on how many tweets, blog posts, and LinkedIn connections they need to keep a campaign going. If a certain course of action isn’t creating the right numbers, it’s automatically discarded in favor of a different approach.
Meanwhile, you risk forgetting that IT leads aren’t things you find like you would with a metal detector. You don’t ‘talk’ to your audience just by reading the data they generate on a graph. To find your leads, you need a human detector.