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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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But they’re finding colleagues super enthused and thankful for the added opportunity to talk about their company and about their products. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing. It’s becoming a marketing automation platform, if it hasn’t already.”

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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But they’re finding colleagues super enthused and thankful for the added opportunity to talk about their company and about their products. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing. It’s becoming a marketing automation platform, if it hasn’t already.”

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Why Marketing Management Must Master Deep Digital Analytics

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It’s no longer enough, she realized, to just take the CRM or marketing automation system stats and determine where to spend the company’s growing marketing budget in order to find qualified leads and buyers. She now has a quota for raw inquiries, qualified leads, and revenue by product tied to marketing campaigns and various website stats.

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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Selling at Every Level

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Sales teams are expensive, complex and powerful, so they should be made as productive as possible. Integrating customer relationship management and marketing automation systems can be expensive, complicated and scary, but doing so is necessary for your organization''s optimal performance, writes Justin Gray, CEO of LeadMD.

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

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Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Extensive pricing pressure from competing services/products at lower prices. Frequent and rapid new competitor product introductions. Competitors may have extensive networks of partner integrators and resellers.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

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In the epiphany stage they want education and unique perspectives; in the awareness stage they want product information and subject matter experts (SMEs); and in the interest stage they want benchmarks and best practices.". Measure engagement and sales productivity. I whole-heartedly agree with Julie! Supports pipeline creation.

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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

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A simple example is a lot of the sites are these consumerized IT products that are being built in the Valley today. He cites the example of a marketing automation company to illustrate how important outbound initiatives are: “Jon Miller from Marketo is one of my favorite writers on lead development. I use it all the time.