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Using Buying Groups to Accelerate Your Sales Process

InsightSquared

The inbound philosophy advocates publishing content through digital channels to entice qualified individuals to consume the content and enter the sales cycle. A few years ago it was “Inbound Marketing.” Then, there was “Account-Based Marketing.”

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Fresh Insights in Selling to SMBs

Biznology

You’ve got a tighter decision-making unit and shorter sales cycles. B2B Marketing Content Marketing Public Relations B-to-B marketing B2B marketing marketing Small and medium enterprises SMB' SMB is where there’s enough volume to do plenty of testing. And you’ve got a lot of company.

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38 Handy Stats to Prove the Value of Personas

Cintell

PegaSystems saw a 20% increase in pipeline value, 100% increase in sales qualified leads year over year, 50% increase in conversion, and 5X more contacts mapped to a persona and responding to campaigns. Using personas to help sales: Using personas drove a 3X increase in closed sales deals (MarketingSherpa). SiriusDecisions).

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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?

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Meaningful Engagement Yields Revenue from Online Lead Generation

ViewPoint

Today, ten or so years after the onset of online lead generation in the B-to-B sector, the scientist, not the lucky prospector, is the one who will win. The sales rep becomes one delivery mechanism, albeit a very important one, in telling the story.

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BtoB 2010 Lead Generation Guide

markempa

BtoB: 2010 Lead Generation Guide.

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Why Field Marketing is on SiriusDecisions’ Radar

DemandBase

Despite being one of the oldest teams within marketing, field marketing has largely remained a generalist role loosely defined as supporting sales efforts to meet local growth objectives. Field Marketing can help uncover trends and opportunities seen during the sales cycle or they can pressure test new marketing ideas with the reps.