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Cloudy Crystal Balls: Why CSOs Have Limited Visibility into the Future

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

CSO Insights reports in their 2010 Sales Performance Optimization survey that 51.4% of companies say their ability to accurately forecast revenue needs improvement, and only 5.1% Why are sales forecasts so inaccurate? In other words, it ignores the deals that will close in the forecast period but are not yet active.

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5 Ways Sales Will Continue To Evolve

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

by Bill Binch B2B companies don’t have the same luxury that businesses had in former years, when sales controlled consumer behavior. Better alignment with marketing : The changes in buyer behavior have altered the sales process, as most buyers are no longer dependent on the company as the sole provider of product/service information.

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Why Most B2B Social Media Marketing Fails (And How To Fix It)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

in 2010 according to eMarketer. Many B2B companies understand creating content, syndicating content from places like B2B blogs and following up with prospects, but many lack an engagement strategy. by Maria Pergolino A staggering 86% of B2B firms use social media, according to BizReport. Relying Purely on Social.

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How does Time affect Marketing Accountability?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

While top marketers understand that proving marketing’s impact on revenue is essential to transforming marketing into a revenue driver and an accountable part of the revenue team, only 20% of companies say they excel at measuring the business performance of marketing initiatives. Where is the disconnect?

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15 best Big Data companies and why they stand out

Biznology

Only 18% of companies believe they have the skills necessary to gather and use insights effectively. Only 19% of companies are confident that their insights-gathering processes contribute directly to sales effectiveness. Here are the 15 best Big Data Companies and why they stand out according to sources that rank them highly.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community or comments at all.

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Is Netflix a SaaS? 25 Examples of SaaS Companies that Are Rocking It

Single Grain

First of all, to answer the question in the title: Yes, Netflix is a SaaS company that sells software to watch licensed videos on demand. It's actually been a business model since the 1960s. ): Computers were also very expensive, making it unrealistic for any company other than a large enterprise to purchase one, never mind several.