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The 11th Question to Ask Before Buying a Marketing Automation Solution

ViewPoint

A good read I discovered recently is a post by Lauren Carlson, What Do You Wish You Had Asked Your MA Vendor? , on the Marketing Automation Software Guide blog. Before continuing, I want to mention that PointClear is a strong advocate of marketing automation solutions.

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Five Ways to Avoid Getting Burned by Outsourced B2B Sales Lead Generation

ViewPoint

Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. The main reason for these failures is that there is a LOT of mediocrity in the lead generation industry, which is why some say outbound is supposedly “dead.” Often multiple times. It isn’t dead.

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How Not to Buy Leads

ViewPoint

Candidly, I doubt that is actually how the lead recipients feel. Here, in my opinion, is what is wrong with this approach to lead generation: Lower-level workers are 2.5 Lower level workers give up their digital body language (score points in marketing automation) while more senior executives do not.

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Lead Generation: A Watched Pot Never Boils

ViewPoint

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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The B2B Lead Generation-Demand Generation Book “Hall of Fame”

NuSpark Consulting

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. General B2B Marketing & Lead Generation.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

In a sense, three cloud application companies at a combined average of five years after going public are all spending nearly half of their revenue on sales and marketing. Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Sales and marketing activity.

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - 5 Buyer Behaviors Reshaping B2B Marketing

ViewPoint

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. B2B Trade Show Marketing Circa 2013: Everything is the Same, Everything is Different. Via ClickZ.