Silverpop, a provider of digital marketing technology solutions, announced the growth of its reseller channel. Revenue for its reseller network in Q1 2013 increased 74% as compared to the same time last year, according to company officials.

The network now offers Silverpop a presence in Australia/APAC, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe with reseller relationships among partners such as Nitryx, Grapevine, Engage Digital, Entera and VIV.

Generating the right content to power the lead funnel was one of the topics discussed during a panel session, titled: Models For Mid Funnel Content Campaigns at the B2B Content2Conversion Conference.

Moderator Clayton Stobbs, Director of Client Experience for Compendium, and panelists Rob Yoegel, Content Marketing Director for Monetate and Thomas Koletas, SVP of Advertising Sales for Madison Logic, shared real-world success stories from lead nurturing campaigns, including warming up stagnant leads and accelerating the conversion rates targeted accounts entering the pipeline.

B2B marketers have been on a content binge of sorts over the past few years, developing all types of campaigns in a variety of formats to bolster their lead generation efforts. But in the past six months or so, observers say that B2B marketers are realizing that for content to truly resonate, they need to make an even more vigorous effort to understand their buyers, and hence the renewed focus on buyer personas.

“Everyone today is a publisher, and B2B marketers are recognizing that the pressure to publish more targeted and relevant content is growing at a rapid pace right now,” said Adele Revella, President of Buyer Persona Institute. “Marketers are driven to produce assets. Developing buyer personas is a new skill for many marketers that requires a cultural shift.”

SalesFUSION, a provider of cloud-based marketing automation software, announced the latest version of its software that features advanced prospect nurturing, sales enablement and event management tools.

SalesFUSION 8.0 includes an advanced designer tool for prospect nurturing, which allows users to build nurture marketing campaigns in a visual flow designer that ties sales and marketing actions together into a single integrated solution. This helps marketers by streamlining the entire lead to sales process and engages sales directly in nurture marketing programs through response alerts and lead follow-up task assignment.

InsideView announced InsideView for Marketing, the latest offering on the InsideView CRM Intelligence Platform. InsideView for Marketing automatically adds social media, demographic and financial information to lead records, which often are limited to email. This eliminates the manual process of lead enrichment, according to InsideView officials.

Early adopters of InsideView for Marketing realized an average 50% savings over manual lead qualification processes and a 33% reduction in cost per lead, according to company officials. They also experienced an 11% increase in marketing qualified leads from web forms, and delivered 64% more leads that were accepted by sales.

Don’t be afraid to develop content with a viewpoint. That was one of the messages of the Digital Deal Makers Panel at the B2B Content2Conversion event.

“When developing content, find a non-standard point of view and defend it,” said panelist Mark Wilson, CMO of Avaya. “Content marketing must be simple, unexpected, offer credibility, have a motive and tell a story.”

EPM Live, a cloud-based work management and project portfolio management platform, has released a Salesform.com app. The application integrates CRM capabilities with EPM Live’s existing software that will help streamline business processes and increase ROI, according to company officials.

Individuals can customize the app to personal preferences and communicate with other corporate teams through the Salesforce.com cloud. All critical data that needs to be shared is centralized in the Salesforce.com database, allowing all users in the cloud to view progress and identify potential problems in real-time. Data that can be shared in the cloud include milestones, budget costs, billing and status information.