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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

The Point

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Best Solutions for Lead Qualification

6sense

Contents: What is lead qualification? Who is a qualified lead? An information qualified lead (IQL). A marketing qualified lead (MQL). A sales qualified lead (SQL). A product qualified lead (PQL). Unqualified leads. Lead disqualification.

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4 Revenue Sources Most ROI Calculators Miss (Part 2 of 2)

ViewPoint

This is Part Two of a two-part blog (read part 1 here) about how to improve accuracy in lead/revenue projections in organizations with a complex sales process: To recap part one, simple lead generation calculators miss these four things: They don’t take critical metrics (like last year’s revenue) into account.

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Predictive Marketing Vendors Look Beyond Lead Scores

Customer Experience Matrix

I wrote last month about Everstring ’s expansion to the world of intent data and account based marketing. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. The system also has connectors to import data from marketing automation and Google Analytics.

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How to Use eCommerce Marketing Automation for More Sales

LeadSquared

eCommerce marketing automation is an opportunity to speed up, simplify, and improve your sales and marketing tasks. 51% of companies are already using marketing automation of some sort. Here are five ways in which marketing automation can improve lead conversion rates in the e-commerce business.

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How to Implement an Account-Based Marketing Program in Your Firm

NuSpark Consulting

While inbound marketing is occupied mainly with attracting prospects to your offering, ABM emphasizes focusing on qualified business prospects , according to HubSpot. It requires a direct, highly personalized sales and marketing program that targets each organization individually. 1: Identify Your “High-Value” Clients.

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We know you don’t want to talk to sales people, so don’t.

Sales Engine

As most B2B sales people can attest to, the problem is that prospects will most likely misdiagnose their own problems and prescribe themselves the wrong solutions. Mike Vannoy, co-founder and COO of Sales Engine talks about how this has happened in the marketing automation industry.