
The Lead Nurturing Secrets of the Marketing Masters
Launch Element 2 - Content-Rich Experience that Creates Buyer's Buzz: As a subscriber, I gain access to the subject matter content offered by the expert. If the material is useful and pertains to what I am needing and seeking, then I want to experience, consume, use, and share the information with others in my network. Each of these marketing masters offered remarkable, original content that was engaging, entertaining,educational, and had high production and business application value.

Inbound Marketing, written by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, is a primer on the use of social media to build your web presence, performance, and profit. "Inbound marketing is a style of
marketing that focuses on getting found by customers. This sense is related to
relationship marketing and
Seth Godin's idea of
permission marketing.
David Meerman Scott recommends that marketers "earn their way in" (via publishing helpful information on a
blog etc.) in contrast to outbound marketing where they used to have to "buy, beg, or bug their way in" (via paid advertisements, issuing press releases in the hope they get picked up by the trade press, or paying commissioned sales people, respectively)." See
Wikipedia for additional theoretical background of the Inbound Marketing principles.