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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Podcast: Interview with MarketingSherpas Anne Holland

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Companies who provided fewer but higher quality "sales ready" leads to their sale people have better sales conversion rates than those that send lots of early stage leads and that creating a "cost per lead" culture just does not work.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Two new reports on marketing and lead generation

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How Clients Buy: The Benchmark Report on Professional Services Marketing and Selling from the Client Perspective by RainToday.com If you are a marketer for a company that sells software, hardware, or IT Services, I urge you to get a copy of MarketingSherpas IT Marketing Benchmark Guide.

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Discretionary IT Budget up for Grabs: Are Your Sales & Marketing Campaigns Ready?

The ROI Guy

Recent reports from IDC and Gartner confirm earlier predictions that 2010 will see a rise in IT spending. spending increase in 2010 compared to 2009, with the largest increases in the government / public sector. Good overview in this article regarding the recovery and where investments are being made for 2010: [link].

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. With Google’s Chrome OS on the horizon, it seems the forecast is for everything to happen in the cloud, not via device-specific apps.

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60 Inspirational Holiday Marketing Statistics

Hubspot

With the holiday season literally right around the corner, marketers must get their butts in gear quickly if they want to take advantage of holiday shoppers' buying behaviors. billion was spent on Black Friday 2010, with 212 million shoppers visiting their favorite retailer offline and online. 5) Super Saturday 2010 sales totaled $7.58

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The New Revenue Engine: Drive Predictable Revenue by Managing Your Revenue Machine

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Yet according to CSO Insight’s 2010 Sales Performance Optimization study, only 52% of sales reps met quota in 2009, and companies achieved only 78% of their revenue plans. The problem is that these companies are using an outdated revenue engine that was originally built for a different buying and selling climate.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

IT budgets for 2009 are contracting even further from the modest forecasts for 2008, which are being trimmed even as this is being written. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.