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PowerViews with Dave Munn: The Transformed Marketing Organization

ViewPoint

There are more frequent conversations about what marketing can do to help sales open doors and expand relationships, as well as how marketing can find, mine and nurture new opportunities. He adds that ultimately marketing’s increased role can help lower the cost of sales.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Embattled CMOs share strategies to improve marketing influence

markempa

During the summit, senior marketing executives were challenged to improve the influence of marketing by building more efficient and accountable marketing organizations. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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

Convince & Convert

Follow/fan/friend is just opt-in – and all you've done is agreed to be sent direct marketing. Those two areas are a lot more interesting than the devolution of Social Media into direct marketing. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Posted by Laura Ramos at 09:40 PM in B2B Marketing , Lauras Posts , Marketing Technology | Permalink Digg This | Save to del.icio.us "Outbound" Marketing is the set of traditional direct marketing tactics including using targeted lists for telemarketing, direct mail and email marketing.

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

Convince & Convert

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. JF : Hyper-targeting.

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19 New Featured Sources on the B2B Marketing Zone

Webbiquity

Skill Set For Content Marketing: Number Crunching and A Gut Feel , March 4, 2010. CeeKue ( Promotion Word of Mouth B2C CRM Google Content Tips ). B2B Internet Marketing Strategies ( Amazon Viral Marketing Plan Aggregator Pricing Examples Strategy Personalization Measure Ads ). Time to Kill the Press Release?