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PowerViews with Michael Brenner: The Battle for Customer Attention

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Michael is also the author of B2BMarketingInsider.com , where he discusses content marketing, demand generation, mobile strategy, and sales alignment to name a few. You can connect with Michael and learn more about his work via the following resources: B2B Marketing Insider Website: www.b2bmarketinginsider.com.

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PowerOpinions: Making Lead Scoring a Success Part 1 [Expert Advice]

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The lead score should take into account the ideal customer profile fit and force the prospecting team to look beyond who filled out the web form and to proactively go after the right buyer. Next up is the always on target, Ardath Albee who weighed in as follows: The simple answer is no. The Flawed B2B Approach.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

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I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. It's about helping sales find and close business in target accounts and about developing valuable customer relationships in those accounts. It’s also more than just lead generation.

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PowerViews with Trip Kucera: Best Practices & Surprising Trends

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While still in the early days of companies adopting it and developing best practices, Aberdeen is seeing social media marketing moving from being around awareness and thought leadership to really being around demand generation and lead management and so forth. ” The State of Marketing & Sales Alignment.

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The Skinny on Lead Nurturing - 11 Experts Weigh In (part 1 of 2)

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Fact is that most organizations and even many consultants have viewed lead nurturing as a separate event (not part of an integrated Demand Generation Strategy) and in doing so, have made success elusive. Rather, nurturing is a key stage in the overall progression of a holistic Demand Generation Program. The impact?

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Outbound vs. Inbound: The Risk Management Issue in the Complex Sale

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Companies providing complex, high-investment solutions are facing a significant risk management issue in light of Sirius Decisions and others finding that B2B buyers are self-educating and moving through as much as 70% of the sales funnel before connecting with sales. SQLs and closed deals) at risk. High-investment offering.