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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

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damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0 damphoux : Rich Blakeman, Miller Heiman "If the sales cycle is long and the funnel is narrow, the funnel will turn into a straw" #sales20. combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

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#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Kim Albee of Genoo Talks Social Media Lead Gen

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This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. As it pertains to a b2b company with big-ticket items and long sales cycles, what areas are you seeing some immediate value with from both an online community and a social media perspective?

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Kim Albee of Genoo Talks Social Media Lead Gen

Smashmouth Marketing

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. As it pertains to a b2b company with big-ticket items and long sales cycles, what areas are you seeing some immediate value with from both an online community and a social media perspective?

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Gerhard - The Sales 2.0 Host

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The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." Gerhard : Sales 2.0 Sales can't do this without marketing. What are your thoughts about that? Gerhard : It wasn't Forrester who said that, it was IDC. My view is that they are correct.

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SiriusDecisions' Joe Galvin on Sales & Marketing Trends In A 2.0 World

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As a sales professional in 2009 you must be able to tell them something they don’t know or can’t find on their own to gain their attention and respect. This reality is challenging traditional sales cycle thinking. movement in the way companies purchase and if so, should sales reps start taking that into account?

Trends 100
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SiriusDecisions' Joe Galvin on Sales & Marketing Trends In A 2.0 World

Smashmouth Marketing

As a sales professional in 2009, you must be able to tell them something they don’t know -- or can’t find on their own -- to gain their attention and respect. This reality is challenging traditional sales cycle thinking. movement in the way companies purchase and if so, should sales reps start taking that into account?

Trends 100