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The Need for a Demand Center

eTrigue

Digital marketing has transformed how most organizations market today. The concept of a “demand center” has emerged at the core of successful marketing organizations as a hub for shared marketing services, infrastructure and process to enable organizations to bring programs to market that leverage key corporate assets and best practices.

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Lead Management: Let’s Formalize this Relationship

ViewPoint

Getting b-to-b sales and marketing to align more closely has driven even the most capable business leaders crazy for years. The creation of service-level agreements (SLAs) within a broader lead management strategy is a perfect example of such process. How long will teleprospecting have to accept or reject a lead?

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How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline

ViewPoint

Qualified leads can be generated any number of ways: phone calls email, webinars, direct mail and even marketing automation if done well. It's not, however, the quantity of leads that counts. It’s the quality of the leads. Management is measuring marketing on the number of leads turned over to sales and on a cost-per-lead basis.

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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process

InsightSquared

According to SiriusDecisions , “B-to-b purchase decisions are rarely made by one person – multiple individuals are involved in a variety of buying scenarios that can exist within an organization. Key personas in a buying group have different buyer roles and may participate at different stages of the buying decision process.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. In the last blog in this series we discussed lead nurturing , and how an advanced lead generation program that includes nurturing can triple your sales. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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B2B Reads: Avoid Pitfalls, Sell More By Saying Less, & Best 4-Letter Words

Heinz Marketing

And b-to-b is rapidly catching up in terms of customer focus, creative innovation and digital savviness. Complexity leads to confusion. Insecurity leads to stagnation. The brain is a pattern-seeking organ, and stories are all about providing patterns. Thank you for the great read, Michael Stelzner.

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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.”. I doubt it. What do you think?