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Monday, May 17, 2010
According to CSO Insights , in 2010 sales quotas continue to rise even though attainment of quota was lower in 2008 versus the prior year and sales resources are less.  . New research  from McKinsey & Company  identifies destructive sales practices and prioritizes what customers want from B2B sales organizations. Comments Are Welcome.
 
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco was a great opportunity to chat and catch-up with luminaries from the B2B Sales & Marketing world. The first day I sat at a table with Garth Moulton , VP of Community /Co-Founder at Jigsaw and blogger. Garth and I spoke for a few minutes on best practices in using Jigsaw. world. Conference
 
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Digital Marketing - IDC reports that digital marketing spend is over 9% of total marketing investment in 2008 and predicts that digital marketing will carve out the largest slice of marketing spend by 2010. In response to a substantial drop in technology spending, B2B marketers will cut budgets and re-jig their media mix. Brand vs.
 

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Source: Directory of Lead Generation Tools 2008. According to our recent survey of B2B marketers, email is widely used for lead generation: 86% of responders deploy email for lead generation. In fact, email was the top online medium for B2B marketers, besting both webinars and paid search. So there you have it, even an old Web 1.0 media
Below are selected social media results for June 2008: Editors Note: Although HubSpot defines ‘leads’ as any prospect who has completed an online form, it is more accurate to define these unqualified responders as ‘inquiries’. In some of my previous posts , I suggested that social media is highly effective in generating marketing ROI.
You may have caught Kate Maddox of BtoB Online covering the recent Business Marketing Association conference. According to Kate, the candor of Judith Sim, VP-CMO of Oracle, during her keynote at the BMA conference was quite surprising. Judith stated that Oracle has increased its return on marketing despite declining budgets. That budget is 1.7%
As we consider the full breadth of our demand generation programs, there are weak links that can torpedo our efforts. Great efforts are underway by our organizations to better align sales and marketing department in pursuit of the common goal of closing more sales. As more and more responses move online, the buyer`s expectations have changed.
Today I attended Forrester' s Webinar "Defining Your B2B Social Media Strategy" with Vice President and Principal Analyst, Laura Ramos, and Vice President of Tech Industry Consulting, Dan Klein. The seminar was chock full of interesting facts on social media usage by B2B marketers and by B2B decision-makers. Are there any other reasons?

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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Researchers at Return Path in late 2008 purchased a single item from several retailers and signed up for the retailer’s email program during that purchase process. The results are less than encouraging. In this follow-up study, the company tracked the emails received in the 19 months that followed. cents. Subscribe to RSS.
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? Here's a bunch. Since this is a question that comes up pretty often, I figured I’d share some of the more useful results.
 
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By the end of 2008, most had migrated to Facebook. Over the past year, some of the most powerful marketing lessons I’ve learned haven’t come from a book, a guru or a webinar. They’ve come from Chandra Michaels. What would you tell others trying to emulate your success of igniting a movement? A heaping spoonful of sugar!
 

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It's that time of year when reporters, bloggers and companies take out their crystal ball to predict trends for 2008. As PR has the opportunity to manage social media relationships, then how do you balance and measure the impact of "long tail" relations will be key in 2008.  . BtoB's "2008 Marketing Priorities and Plans" survey.
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