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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. In particular, its finding new market segments that clients might enter – something different from simply scoring leads that clients present to it or even from finding individual prospects that look like current customers.

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Lead Generation: Streamlining the process for quality over quantity

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Tweet For her first week on the job, Debbie Pryer, Program Manager, Siemens Healthcare, arrived ready to accept an intimidating challenge: Bring Marketing and Sales together for one common cause – generating quality leads. The end result was a sales team overwhelmed with unqualified leads, 65% of which were tossed out. “I

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New Marketing Report: B2B Lead Generation Trends 2013

Everything Technology Marketing

Finally, the new 2013 B2B Lead Generation Report is available! Download it here: [link] ) The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted the 2013 lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges, and to identify new trends and best practices. The results are in.

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User Engagement Is the New SEO: How to Boost Search Rank by Engaging Users

Hubspot

Many businesses aim for their websites to rank highly in search engines, but it's a moving target. You might remember when Google's featured snippet addition disrupted the numbered ranking system of search pages. With this in mind, here are a few user engagement metrics that Google and other engines seem to value as priorities.

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Lead Generation That Converts Leads into Sales Opportunities

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Tweet Ask most executives and marketers what salespeople need to sell in this economy, and they will say one thing: more leads. That’s why many marketing and lead generation programs tend to focus on quantity. Unfortunately, as little as 5 to 15% of all marketing inquiries (aka leads) turn out to be truly sales-ready opportunities.

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Top B2B Marketing Insider Blogs Of 2013 (So Far)

Marketing Insider Group

And please let me know what topics you would be interested in me covering for the rest of 2013? As a former sales person, I think it’s important for marketing to be measure by what value we create for the business, the customer and the employees. 10 Common Sense Ideas To Raise Your Klout Score. Who wants to be sold to?

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Why Get Salesforce-Certified? Here’s the Real-World Value

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

In early 2013, I was newly married and had just left a contract role so that I could start my immigration process to the U.K. “If We bring better value by making fewer mistakes and getting the job done faster. Every certification leads to increased interest from both recruiters and employers.