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B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 - Reflections

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She asked a bunch of B2B marketing experts for their predictions for 2010. Hit the ground running in 2010. I recently was asked to participate in Ambal Balakrishnan's ( @ambal ) ebook, to be published at year'd end and then available from her blog, Connect the Docs. old-school mix. So reflect on 2009.

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Activate Acquires Green Leads

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Linda and I learned and understood the B2B sales and marketing business as well as the appointment setting business. 2010 Expanded our pipeline generation offering with MQLs/HQLs (marketing qualified/highly qualified leads). In fact, one of our colleagues referred to us as the “odd couple.”. Then one day it comes to me, “Wait!

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Inbound Lead Generation: Improving Your B2B Sales and Marketing Blogs

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What about your B2B sales and marketing blog, though? Here are three ways, as we head into the second half of 2010, that you can improve your B2B sales and marketing blog: Revisit your blog's goals - When you first started writing your blog, you had a goal in mind. I read 20-40 of them a day, do they need improvement?

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Appointment Setting Vendors Can Reduce Carbon Footprint

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We're in the business of B2B appointment setting , and meetings can often mean travel -- travel impacts carbon footprint, be it by car or plane. We have also kept our footprint about 50% less than companies similar to ours by implementing our Virtual Hybrid Office Space concept (reduced space, commutes and other waste).

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Lead Gen Tip for Q2: Face Time

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No hard stats to back it up, however: In Q1 of 2010 we closed the same amount of business as Q3 and Q4 of 2009, and in 2009 we grew by a factor of 3X. Have you seen our webcast replay of The 10 Pillars of an Ideal B2B Demand Gen Platform on Focus.com? Questions this raises: Should that first meeting have been face-to-face? I think not.

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Sales 2.0 Conference - Nigel Edelshain, the Man Who First Said "Sales 2.0"

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in 2010 (and starting this fall). B2B buyers have already moved into an environment where they are increasingly hard to reach by phone. Mike: If you were having lunch with the VP of Marketing and the VP of Sales from a high level b2b company, what three bullets would you share with them that are 2.0 sales b2b sales.

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Sales 2.0 Conference - Nigel Edelshain, the Man who first said, "Sales 2.0"

Smashmouth Marketing

in 2010 (and starting this fall). B2B buyers have already moved into an environment where they are increasingly hard to reach by phone. Mike: If you were having lunch with the VP of Marketing and the VP of Sales from a high level b2b company, what three bullets would you share with them that are 2.0 can have for them.