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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

Hand over sales-ready leads to sales – your sales team may provide them with additional content such as data and price sheets, set up an online or a face-to-face demo and ultimately move them to the RFP/RFQ stage. The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms.

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Top 25 Posts and 6 Hot Topics - Best of B2B Marketing Zone in January

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

I mentioned this in a recent post, Marketing Automation Trends for 2010 - LeadSloth , January 12, 2010 2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. I was humbled to see that they picked my book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale for their list. This is where seed nurturing comes into play.

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

Convince & Convert

Inevitably, when corporate America seeks a PR agency to support their communications effort, the Request for Proposals (RFP) asks for critical capabilities that can help a company sift through the myriad of options available and narrow them down to the few that make sense for their specific needs. I disagree. All rights reserved.