markempa

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

« Podcast: Marketing and Sales for Big Complex Selling (Pt 1) | Main | Podcast: Marketing and Sales for Big Complex Selling (pt 3) » Telemarketing big with Xerox Do you use the telephone as part of your multi-modal lead generation strategy? Scheduling sales appointments. Qualifying inquiries from various sources.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

« Teleseminar on Selling to BIG Companies with Jill Konrath | Main | Marketing That Reaches Decision Makers In Big Companies » Macs Tasty Recipe for Lead Generation Success I liked the article, " A Tasty Recipe for Lead Generation ," by Mac McIntosh in Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online.

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markempa

MARCH 30, 2007

« Now Announcing the "Start With A Lead" Podcast Show | Main | Your questions answered on Lead Generation via Podcasts » On building targeted lists for B2B Lead Generation Programs Would you buy this business card? When you buy a list of names, you are basically buying business cards on a list.

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markempa

JANUARY 18, 2005

« Lead Generation via webcasts predicted to grow in 2005 | Main | Disciplined Lead Qualification improves sales performance » Caution Sales: Hot Leads may burn you My good friend, Jill Konrath, President of Selling to Big Companies and Leapfrog-Strategies Inc. , What does this mean?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 26, 2017

You can also market and sell the way your prospects buy and create products that actually fulfill their needs. Leaders make critical business decisions every day, and any lack of empathy on their part can produce unhappy employees, self-serving marketing and sales processes, and inferior products. Siegel (2009). 7) Empathy.

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markempa

APRIL 3, 2006

« Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department | Main | Best Practices in Demand Generation » Reaching Decision Makers Reaching decision makers today seems harder than ever. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

APRIL 6, 2006

« Best Practices in Demand Generation | Main | Personal lead generation tools » Lead generation with Podcasts The audience for podcasts is tiny, when compared to other marketing mediums, but growing especially, in the context of the complex sale. A new article in BtoB Magazine by Karen J.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

« The halo effect and lead generation | Main | Macs Tasty Recipe for Lead Generation Success » Teleseminar on Selling to BIG Companies with Jill Konrath The biggest challenge most of us with a complex sale face is getting access to executives, especially those in BIG companies. So would you like to hear what really works?

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markempa

OCTOBER 22, 2005

Thanks to Carol Krol over at BtoB Magazine for pointing me to the report. Thanks to Carol Krol over at BtoB Magazine for pointing me to the report. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

JUNE 14, 2005

June 14, 2005 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Word-of-mouth marketing gets BtoB people buzzing : Comments Word-of-mouth marketing gets BtoB people buzzing I just heard that I was quoted in BtoB Magazine on word-of-mouth marketing (WOM).

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markempa

JANUARY 23, 2005

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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markempa

MAY 23, 2005

A new study that was covered in BtoB Magazine showed that CMOs who are effective at measuring their marketing performance are more empowered. Most CEOs agree that they aren’t getting enough activity at the top of the sales funnel. In my experience, conflicts between sales and marketing organizations are over stated and artificial.

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markempa

JULY 11, 2005

Marketers are cleaning their dirty and cracked rearview mirrors rather than look towards what they can do to help their sales team sell. Thanks to Kate Maddox and BtoB Magazine for pointing me to the upcoming 2005 Marketing Accountability Forum. sales ready leads). sales ready leads). sales ready leads).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The sales or support representative should speak directly through whatever medium the contact prefers. If you were going to run an ad in a magazine, you would ask about both the psychographics and demographics of the reader so you could target the call to action and message appropriately. and hope for a.02 through a new channel.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 8, 2014

And, most importantly of all, it’s a season of buying biomorphic robots, sleeved blankets, and sexually suggestive fitness equipment. Stories appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New York Times , The Times of London, TIME magazine, and National Parenting magazine,” the book notes.

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Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2018

In 1988, Nike sales were at $800 million ; by 1998, sales exceeded $9.2 See, Americans always had a propensity to buy big American cars -- and even 15 years after WWII ended, most Americans were still not buying small German cars. campaign, milk sales in California rose 7% in just one year. It was a hit.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

February 2010. Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009 - Webbiquity , February 1, 2010 Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. Fearless Competitor , February 6, 2010 There is no question in my mind. Best of B2B Marketing.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

B2B Execs Have Low Interest Results indicate that both B2B and B2C marketers have difficulty with executive social media buy-in. About the Data: In March 2010, White Horse conducted a survey of 104 corporate marketers across a range of businesses about their companies’ use of social media marketing.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Imagine subscribing to a magazine that was about tennis one month, and about cooking the next month. You're almost to the point of sale. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

We have entered an era where every business needs to consider themselves a TV station and a magazine , and the quicker you figure out your strategic content marketing plan, the faster you can use content to drive meaningful business results. Photography magazines. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. Although enterprise technology budgets were trending upward, the progression was slight, in 2010 compared with 2009. Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tech Media publishers have seen an exponential shift in buyer behaviour, recognizing that the B2B buying decisions these publications support are now Internet driven , and that buyers are in control of the buying cycle like never before - seeking trusted sources of diagnosis, advice and recommendations.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Help clients take their message to consumers directly, impacting purchase intent by providing truly helpful information at the right time in the buying cycle. Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? I've read a lot about people who talk about matching the strategy to the objective, but have been left scratching my head about the real differences between, say, using social media to increase awareness or drive sales.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

RK : Measuring social media’s direct impact on sales. Combine that with location and mobile data, and you get real-time smart agents that tell you whom you should approach in a restaurant to buy a drink. Connecting the influence factor with the direct sales is impressive if possible. It’s in our DNA.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Thursday, December 23, 2010 CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugalnomics Focus According to a survey from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), there has not been much to cheer about this holiday season as a public sector CIO. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, December 09, 2010 Seeing ROI in the Cloud? Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can those results be tied back directly to sales, and therefore ROI? I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. I don’t concur that “social media can increase sales&# is always false.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ▼ February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F. The Forgotten Sales Profess.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. The Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

which adds graphics capability, better registration control and several other key features, which can now be integrated and used with any new tools, or in any of over 1,000+ current sales and marketing tool campaigns. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit, powered by Alinean Provides quantifiable proof to customers of the realized ROI from prior VMware deployments. Assessing the savings quarter by quarter, in minutes a VMware sales professional or channel partner can develop a report card on the value VMware has delivered.

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