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Moving Upmarket: SMB to Enterprise—What Does Your Marketing Plan Need?

SmartBug Media

At an SMB level, there may be one decision maker who has a budget and can quickly sign on with your product or service. At an enterprise level, you may need more documents to help gain buy-in from other team members, even though that may be completely unnecessary at an SMB level. Different personas and decision-making team.

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Marketing Automation Monday is Here!

The Effective Marketer

It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go. Some of the issues discussed were: Who manages and who owns the CRM system in your organization? How do you setup your scoring system for inbound leads?

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Rick Short Explains How to Turn Staff Into Prolific Bloggers

Online Marketing Institute

My real challenge was getting my staff to warm to the concept of being a blogger. That was the voice of many of my bloggers at one time or another. For Indium Corporation , a supplier of soldering materials and electronics assembly equipment, blogging is now a central piece of the marketing mix.

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Digital Marketing for Small Business: Here’s How You Can Do It

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Digital marketing for small businesses can be tricky at first, but it’s a crucial skill that helps SMBs connect with their community and customers. According to our research , 67% of SMB leaders say community support has been important to their company’s survival. Being an SMB has its challenges.

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

Convince & Convert

“We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&# . “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company.

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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. When applied to the area of Social CRM, we see the majority (+90%) of activity as reactive (social monitoring)– very focused on the service-side.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Hard and Soft ROI - The differences and.

The ROI Guy

Improved up-sell / cross-sell is a good example of an indirect benefit from a new CRM system that helps the call center improve its interaction with customers. Visit [link] for free access to a CRM tool which can help to quantify both the hard and soft benefits (registration required). What is the best time-frame to use for CRM ROI?

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