Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2020

Last year alone, CPG online sales in the U.S. billion, which accounts for 11% of total CPG retail sales. That same McKinsey study reported that in 2010, the percentage of online CPG purchases was already at six percent. Your marketing team should take the lead in communicating that openness. totaled $58.6

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

The post is called B2B Social Media Strategy – 5 Steps to Gain Executive Buy-in and will show you how to develop your company’s B2B social media strategy. I explain the 5 steps required to gaining executive buy-in. Related Posts: Top Takeaways From Blogwell Philly 2010 Holy Cow! Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. If nothing else, this confirms the foundational role of data and data management in marketing and sales technologies.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s become pretty impossible to escape those themes, particularly if you’re a small business owner or on a sales team. In today’s climate, companies that aren’t adapting to online sales are missing out on a massive opportunity to better meet customer needs and generate more revenue while still cutting costs. Looming recession.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 14, 2010

We asked Steve Woods "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " As buyers gather the information and insights they need online, the role of field sales will fall precipitously " Steve Woods' Marketing Prediction for 2010. Steve Woods.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 5, 2011

B2B marketing and sales has lived in a neat framework centered on the purchase transaction.    In others, there has been a mix of complex buying and selling cycles put into play to ultimately reach a purchase transaction.  A funny thing is also happening along the way to this transformation in B2B Buying. 

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ViewPoint

JULY 17, 2013

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The following excerpt is certainly important to sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. I have been a student of selling and sales management for more than twenty years, and I have used a grand total of five “closes” during that time. The prospect’s answer will tell you what you need to do to advance the sales cycle.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 5, 2020

Generation Z consists of people who were born from 1995 to 2010. Ikea already has an augmented reality app that allows customers to see items of furniture in their own home and several fashion brands have launched apps enabling shoppers to virtually try on clothing before they buy. Source: [link]. Source: [link].

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. In 2018, the average sales professional tenure was reported to be 1.5 years , down by half from 2010.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

And on the buying side, a study from the ITSMA revealed that “LinkedIn is used by 58% of the respondents to find information or to talk to colleagues about solutions in the context of a purchase. Mark Walsh reports on company pages, another new feature added by LinkedIn in late 2010. Which common mistakes should you avoid?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Marketing Craftmanship

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Lee Levitt, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 80, continues to be remembered as a PR practitioner who gave much to the profession; as someone who lived up to his characterization as an industry visionary. ” If you can find a copy of Lee’s book, buy it and read it. Lee Levitt, sans fedora and shoulder bag.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Since you don’t want to take the chance of buying a sleeper however, or a book that’s inappropriate for the recipient, here are nine ideas—books reviewed on the Webbiquity blog this year. Stumped for that last-minute Christmas idea? Books make great gifts, and there’s still time to order for pre-Christmas delivery.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Companies for decades ran focus groups and test markets, and of course monitored sales success. The first research studies were released showing that online reviews could affect sales. If you’re Best Buy and someone buys a new laptop or a big flatscreen TV from your store—sure, send a survey.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

As we move closer to 2010, New Year’s resolutions are top of mind. The need for lead nurturing is significant: As many as 80% of B2B leads received are not ready to buy, according to consultancy Rain Today. But how about the large percentage of leads in between those who are ready to buy and those who never will?

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

Because people don’t like being sold to, an email-nurturing best practice is to prioritize educational emails over sales messages. The statistics revealed that buyers are searching the web to solve problems and were more than halfway through the buying cycle before they contacted a salesperson. ABM flipped the sales funnel on its head.

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B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Since launching this blog in 2010, I've written about various aspects of sales-marketing alignment 26 times. Yet, sales-marketing alignment remains a hot topic and an ongoing challenge for marketing and sales leaders. Yesterday, I performed a Google search using the term "sales and marketing alignment."

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Reflecting on 2010, one cannot miss the incredible pace of change that is underway in B2B organizations as they adapt to the new state of mind of buyers.  Thinking Several trends that point to transformation are: Trend 1: A shift from sales relationship to sales experience. Image by Benjamin Ellis via Flickr.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. And a key part of delivering sales and marketing ROI is the ability to track the dispositions of all sales leads via a CRM system. Sales and Marketing 2.0.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can survey your customers, although that’s not always the best approach because the questions are not fresh in their minds – they’ve already made their buying decision. I would also make a point to solicit input from customer service and sales teams, as they have more day-to-day interaction with fence-sitters.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Increased brand awareness and a boost in sales. The publication circulated and increased brand loyalty which, in turn, increased sales. Let’s also return to 2010. In other words, you want the end user to eventually buy your product or service. .” A content marketing strategy must not be stagnant. The result?

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 17, 2010

Even when you’re giving something away, for FREE, you’ve got to write good “sales&# copy that spurs people into action. Now you’ve got to format your sales letter landing page , with a dynamite headline, cool graphics, arrows, ORDER NOW! Creating Great Sales Pages. Next Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 4 p.m.

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Writing on the Web

JANUARY 10, 2014

Check out some of the latest industry data: E-book sales grew dramatically in the first quarter of 2010, jumping from just 1.5% of total US book sales in 2009 to 5% of the market in the first quarter of 2010. wholesale ebook sales for January, 2010 were $31.9 Source: R.R.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

economic concerns expectations were that eCommerce sales would remain flat or even decrease in 2010. eCommerce giant, eBay, had the 5 th highest amount of display ads among all advertises with just under 39 million in 2010. With continuing U.S. Instead, total U.S eCommerce spending increased by 9 percent from 2009, reaching 227.6

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). Overall, the edtech market is growing rapidly and is expected to continue to grow in the coming years, with online education and B2B sales being particularly strong areas of growth. Venture capitalists (VCs) invested $20.8 Social Media.

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Avitage

MARCH 7, 2012

Mike Schultz gives us a useful checklist in his recent blog 10 Rainmaker Principles and Keys to Sales Motivation, which I highly recommend. Principle #4 — Think buying first, selling second. Again, we’re re-thinking what it means to “think buying first.” We will use this to set new levels of expectation.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Now’s the time to be asking questions about the possibilities of AI, which has enormous potential for B2B marketing, facilitating data driven matching of businesses and sales prospects. SiriusDecisions released a marketing automation for B2B study predicting a rise from 8-12 percent in 2010 to a majority in the very near future.

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B2B Marketing Directions

JANUARY 14, 2023

And of the ten most commonly adopted AI use cases identified by survey respondents, three were marketing and sales use cases. A 2010 article in McKinsey Quarterly put it this way: "Long before behavioral economics had a name, marketers were using it.

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markempa

JULY 10, 2006

« BeTuitive Publishing Book Review | Main | How Podcasts Impact B2B Purchase Decisions » Sales Leads Are Too Valuable For Sales People Alone David Meerman Scotts blog post, " Sales Leads Are too Valuable for Sales People ," is worth a read. This is an ongoing pattern for lead generation failure.

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markempa

AUGUST 1, 2007

to Generate and Follow Leads | Main | Webcast: Closed-Loop Lead Generation & Management » 7 Tips to Improve Sales Follow-up & Close More Leads If you are like most B2B marketers, lead generation is at top of your priority list. But as you may already know, generating tons of “leads” doesn’t guarantee sales will follow.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This catalog served as a powerful sales tool because it allowed Sears and Roebuck to cheaply and easily capture information about thousands and thousands of customers. And by 2010 mobile was already showing signs of changing the digital landscape forever. Inbound Today and Beyond.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

It’s only three weeks since Teradata expanded its marketing suite by buying a new Data Management Platform – a move I felt made great sense. There was no clue of a pending sale, although I strongly suspect the people briefing me had no idea it was coming. One bit of evidence: the Aprimo brand was dropped in 2013.

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markempa

JULY 9, 2007

« Off-Topic: On Selling Ideas in 1776 | Main | Inquiry management and search marketing strategy » Early Stage Leads are too important for Sales People Alone The management of sales leads is critical to generating Return on Marketing Investment. The key is to match readiness of the buyer with expectations of your sales team.

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