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How Marketing Automation Handicaps Demand Generation

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Marketing automation undoubtedly has significant value in demand generation growth. For your marketing automation to be successful, your people, operations, and systems must be aligned. Ask yourself who exactly is driving this process. In other words, you are not using your marketing automation system to its full capacity.

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Why Marketing Should Have a Quota

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Leads vs. Opportunities. As an easy example, a click-through or open isn’t a lead. A lead is a qualified response that Sales can follow up on. But, while that’s a fairly traditional definition, the accompanying idea that Marketing just pitches leads over the fence and moves on is now rather outdated.

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Atri Chatterjee, Act-On Software CMO: The Top Challenges Facing Integrated Demand Generation Marketers and How to Overcome Them [Podcast]

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The buyer’s journey today involves a constellation of information sources buyers can use to get smart about competing products before they ever engage in the actual buying process. Atri Chatterjee is the CMO of Act-On Software , the leading automation provider for small and midsize companies.

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Heidi Melin, CMO of Plex Systems: How CMOs of High Growth Companies Can Achieve Rapid Scale [Podcast]

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In order to successfully scale in this new paradigm, high growth companies must think carefully about their business processes and the infrastructure needed to support them. In this Moneyball for Marketing podcast, Heidi shares her tips for implementing the marketing technology and tactics of a “revenue process” for high growth companies.

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Lance Walter, Host Analytics CMO: Quarterly Financial Planning: How to Budget Better By Understanding Marketing Intelligence [Podcast]

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In this episode of Moneyball for Marketing, Lance shares with us how his team’s marketing intelligence program tracks more than 80 points of data every week and demonstrates how knowledge of leading indicators can empower marketers to drive growth while right-sizing spending.

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Mark Thabit, CMO at Cision: Paid, Earned and Owned Media—How to Amplify Your PR Message Across Marketing Channels [Podcast]

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With a deluge of messages and media in the landscape today, however, the process is more complex. Media Measurement: Whereas it was always difficult to measure the impact of traditional public relations, Mark defines how product marketing can now be measured and automated from first touch through to converted sale.

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Peter Mahoney, Nuance Communications CMO: People Still Buy Things— the Human Side of Marketing Technology

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Peter shares his thoughts on the importance of delivering content according to buyers’ preferences and establishing a business process optimized to fast, effective response. Nuance is the leading provider of voice and natural language solutions for consumer electronics, customer service automation, healthcare, businesses and consumers. .