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If it’s not a sales funnel, what is it?

Martech

Marketers know this as “the sales funnel”. The advent of AI and the avalanche of data has distorted the shape of the funnel. If it is not shaped like a funnel any more, then what is it? Think about a spider web Ryan Brock, chief solution officer at marketing strategy platform DemandJump, no longer sees a funnel.

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B2B Lead Roundtable Blog: Our 10 most popular blog posts of 2012

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Here’s an at-a-glance analysis that could provide a glimpse of the most pressing issues lead generation professionals have faced in 2012: Understanding and leveraging social media. Understanding leads and their place in the sales and marketing funnels. B2B Public Relations: 7 tactics to pull more leads into the funnel.

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Marketing & Sales Alignment; We’ve Aligned to Optimize Your Lead Funnel & Pipeline

NuSpark Consulting

Content drives leads into the funnel; content nurtures leads into sales opportunities. Marketing and Sales alignment is essential to a well-oiled lead funnel. I understand the importance of a sound media, social media, conversion and content strategy that generates quality leads until they are sales-accepted.

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The Most Effective Search Engine Marketing Strategy

Tomorrow People

million by 2012 ( Source: eMarketer ), the popularity of search marketing is set to continue. Keeping it focused on sales : SEO marketing on its own is just one aspect of the online sales funnel. Don’t do SEO without thinking of your sales funnel. No surprises there.

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Sales-Marketing Alignment: How consistent messaging helped ADP engage customers at a faster pace

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Tweet Brian McGuire is one of those rare marketers who started in Sales and has held leadership roles in both Sales and Marketing. This experience provides him the broadest perspective of the entire lead generation funnel, from marketing engagement to close. No decisions” are increasing and the number of sales is declining.

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Lead Generation: How 64% of marketers starve Sales of opportunity

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Unbelievably, most are still sending only raw leads to Sales, and they aren’t making an effort to bring those leads to a place where they’re ready for Sales to bite into. Consider data from a new report released by our sister company MarketingSherpa, the 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report (free excerpt at that link).

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B2B Social Media Marketing: Focus on leads, not likes

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Nichole Kelly, President of SME Digital , a digital marketing agency, and Chris Baggott, Chairman and Cofounder, Compendium , a content marketing software company, have helped hundreds of clients move from counting “likes” and “shares” to counting what executives care about: sales volume, revenue and cost. You hit your target,” Baggott says.