ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2016

I am a huge proponent of utilizing innovative technologies to streamline business processes and I am fascinated by the history of technology. Eleven years later, in 2010, marketing automation became its own category with over 110 known vendors in the space. Enter, the era of Sales Enablement.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Other channels have not closed yet. Absolutely not. Good stuff!

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

ZoomInfo data shows a rising amount of companies over the past decade have manager and executive job titles with the word “loyalty” in them. Figure 1 : Various loyalty-related job titles have risen steadily at companies since 2010. The Internet Changes Loyalty Approaches (1995–2010). Loyalty marketing has evolved over the years.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The ultimate objective of marketing is to increase revenue performance , and one key way to achieve this is to optimize the entire sales funnel. In his presentation, he covers a five-step process to optimize lead management, get marketing and sales alignment , and make the most of your entire sales funnel.

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Varicent

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The good news for those in the sales profession, outside the retail sector, selling roles remain in high demand. As the US labor force has grown over the past decade, the sales profession has grown at the same pace. In both 2010 and 2019, B2B sellers, including the financial services sector, made up about 2.5%

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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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LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

What are the key events to attend when you’d like to learn more about B2B Marketing, Marketing Automation, Lead Management? I’ve compiled a list of the events that matter: B2B Marketing Events for 2010. Sales & Marketing 2.0 Even though the name makes you think otherwise, the Sales 2.0 Conference.

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Contently

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Every year since 2010, the Content Marketing Institute has put out one of those studies on the state of content marketing. Positive statistics demand coverage and dominate headlines. Or are they also heavily involved in sales enablement, event content, customer success content, and so on?

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Marketing needs to be the engine to identify qualified leads for sales. ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 10, 2010

How will demand generation evolve? We asked Maria Pergolino "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Marketers will focus on creating sales-ready leads with marketing automation and inbound marketing as part of their demand generation process.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 19, 2011

Much has been discussed about the importance of aligning sales and marketing with regard to marketing automation and lead management processes. Social media marketing is also a channel where marketing and sales departments need to be closely aligned, but the assignment of roles and tasks can be unclear to many firms.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to. I concluded with a discussion of the tactics to consider in future demand generation efforts. I concluded with a discussion of the tactics to consider in future demand generation efforts.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

On May 7th, 2010 I started this journey to document my thoughts and perspective on B2B Marketing. I think I am now doing a better job with managing my personal brand and with creating a community. And here are the top 10 posts from 2010 based on volume: 1. How To Align Marketing With Sales , Sept. Why Do You Tweet?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

According to their site, Marketing Over Coffee is “audio on demand” that covers both classic and new marketing. ” She talks about the process of trimming content for her book, insights on empathy in interviews and marketing, and even her conversation with David Lee Roth. What is Marketing Over Coffee?

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 17, 2010

The Annuitas Group: As the Editor-In-Chief of Demand Gen Report you are continually speaking with marketing executives. Gaffney: I think there has been a fundamental shift—from start-ups to large companies—where marketing is now expected to have an active role in the revenue generation process. Gaffney: Absolutely.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 8, 2012

One of the reasons that generating high quality leads continues to present itself as the top challenge (it took #1 honors in 2010 as well) is that marketers are focusing on the wrong thing – lead generation. For years, the traditional B2B marketing approach has been to fill the top of the funnel with responses.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The following guest post is another important topic for sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 15, 2010 Subscribe The Secret To B2B Social Media? I hope you were able to join us.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

This strategy should include a mix of tactics that will provide support to the campaign. These social media tactics can include the following: blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, social media bookmarking, etc. Now like many marketers currently experiencing a similar situation, you probably immediately thought “why me?”

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

And the conversation went way later than the restaurant manager and our wonderful server wanted it to. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads. Help sales fill their pipeline funnels.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. by Michael Brenner, July 6, 2010 Related Posts: Need to Drive Leads?

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

150% MQLs to Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) nearly 75% 58% 29% SALs to Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) nearly 61% 49% 24% SQLs to Closed Business 31% 23% 35% Incidentally, SiriusDecisions reported newer but very similar figures in the recent Neolane-sponsored Webinar 'Making the Business Case for Marketing Automation'.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You may have heard that social media can improve not only your more traditional tactics but also allows you to engage with your prospects sooner in the buying cycle. Try These Traditional Tactics Now About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. I agee that ALL marketing spend should be tied to quanitifiable results that the sales team and executives want to see.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more. I hope you can make it.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

The following are what I thought were the top 20 take home tweets from the Sales 2.0 annekeseley : " sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 sales20 damphoux : Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0 conference. is not the answer. Analyze That."

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Unfortunately, if you have a lot of content this can be tedious process. How do you build your library of relevant lead nurturing content?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. Not watching the backend results: look at conversion rates with sales and ultimate ROI.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 6, 2009

The following are what I thought were the top 20 take home tweets from the Sales 2.0 annekeseley : " sales 2.0 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 conference.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over a thousand B2B marketers registered to attend an October 13th webinar created to help marketers plan for 2010. Specifically, the spoke about: Five key planning assumptions across two macro functions – reputation and demand creation – that should drive b-to-b marketing planning for 2010.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 19, 2010

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    By the time they get to sales folks, whether it is in person or on the phone, they already are armed with enough information to help make a decision.  Image via Wikipedia. What do I mean? 

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markempa

APRIL 18, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. All to often companies invest in expensive software before they fully understand the fundamental operational processes that it will be supporting.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration? More sales. More leads. Greater awareness.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Talk to sales to identify what kind of support they need from marketing in order to deliver their annual numbers. Well we need to focus on wringing out every lead and every deal from our funnels. So we started throwing more money at digital tactics that could show a real return on the investment. This is not about tactics.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

Too often we grab the latest product brochure, sales presentation or case study and post it online. But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. Michael Brenner Jun 3 2010 Ryan, Thanks for your comments. Get creative.

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