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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

The Point

Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”. Virtually none. I doubt it.

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

ViewPoint

Anyone who is intellectually honest and not employed by an inbound marketing company will admit: It’s a fantasy that search engine optimization (SEO), Facebook and tweeting about our community-building , value-creating blog are sufficient to produce the volume of face-to-face sales meetings required to hit our new business objectives.

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The 10 most fascinating people in B2B Marketing in 2015

Biznology

Jim Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. I’ve known Jim for years as a consultant and author specializing in lead management—a generally under-appreciated subject that Jim uniquely understood to be a critical success factor in business selling. These people are making a welcome contribution.

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Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open?

Online Marketing Institute

" Jon Miller, Marketo Learn More Recent Comments Kirk Taylor : That’s great advice for anyone writing a blog. com : I have been struggling with getting the other managers here to help me update our corporate blogs. com : I have been struggling with getting the other managers here to help me update our corporate blogs.

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Latest B2B Marketing Trends From SiriusDecisions Summit 09

Anything Goes Marketing

. # sds09 cahidalgo : # sds09 - Tony Jaros - lead nurturing business rules must be established by BOTH marketing and sales in order to be effective. sds09 Sales/Marketing Funnel stharris : # sds09 Most case studies are after purchase.

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Top 60 B2B Marketing Posts and Hottest Topics November 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Online blog needs various marketing methods to get converted into big business. There better be. Why not use it?

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Top 37 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics August 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Traffic numbers may have been down in August, but the quality of blog posts certainly wasn’t. report from McKinsey on tech-enabled business trends to watch and thought it was important enough to summarize for our community. Most are blog posts, but I’ve also included some eBooks. SEO vs. What’s Up, Blog?