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Part 1: Audit Your B2B CRM for a New Lead on Sales

Launch Marketing

CRMs are no longer just a list of contacts but instead have become an essential business tool to improve process, strategy, analytics and lead strength. Without your leads, prospects and customers, you are left with only a product and a plan. Only 56% of B2B organizations verify leads before they’re passed to sales.

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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently

As two marketing professors put it in a 2020 Harvard Business Review article : “Firms that maintain their marketing spend while reallocating it to suit the context … fare better than firms that cut their marketing investment.” How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. How to adapt your goals during tough times.

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“Life Isn’t About Waiting for the Storm to Pass. It’s About Learning to Dance in the Rain.”

Kaon

This article was originally published on LinkedIn. Our platform helps many leading technology, medical technology, and industrial companies elevate the engagement with their customers around the world on any device, any time, and with unlimited users. By Thomas Scheerder. Sales Director, Kaon Interactive Europe.

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The Fascinating 40-Year Evolution of User Experience in eCommerce

Convert

ebay in 2008. In 2008, eCommerce had developed a certain aesthetic. Interactive images became important tools in generating leads. Amazon in 2008. Around 2008, online retailers started getting creative and Amazon was leading the charge. Deals and discounts captured large spaces on the pages.

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How Marketers Should Navigate Economic Uncertainty in 2023

B2B Marketing Directions

Even if a recession doesn't occur, fears of an economic downturn and the continuing effects of inflation may lead both consumers and business organizations to tighten their purse strings and put prospective purchases under greater scrutiny. One of the more recent studies was described in a March 2010 article in the Harvard Business Review.

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The Essential Behavioral Science Reading List for Marketers

B2B Marketing Directions

Last month, I wrote an article here arguing that, to achieve success in 2023 and beyond, marketers will need to be adept at leveraging both the capabilities of technology and data science, and the principles of behavioral science describing how people make decisions.

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Can a social media strategy boost your lead generation efforts?

markempa

started off with a this statistic that he found on compete.com: Twitter had around 3 million people visiting the site in 2008, and it grew 640% between November 2007 and November 2008. Ok, so how do we harness all of social media’s potential and use it to build a lead generation system? Frequency of your tweets.