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Book Review of Ruth Stevens’ Maximizing Lead Generation

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I like to do book reviews once in a while on Biznology, and this one was a natural because I know Ruth Stevens and I know her expertise in B2B marketing, so I needed to pore over her book, Maximizing Lead Generation , for tips–and I found them. Long B2B sales cycles mean that you need a set of techniques to nurture leads.

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The 10 Most Fascinating People in B2B Marketing in 2020

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This year she published a terrific new book, Unapologetically Ambitious , which was just named one of Fortune’s ten best business books of 2020. Koen thinks the big news in B2B for 2021 will be “sales engagement” technologies like Drift , to ease the load carried by SDRs.

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A sales pitch isn’t a relationship

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It’s still all about the sale. The process starts with putting away the sales pitch. There was no presentation, no sales pitch, and during more than 20 calls, we built a relationship of trust and mutual respect. Three years ago we co-authored a book. The experience has been like stepping into a time machine.

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Consultants Collective Profile: Ruth Stevens

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Ruth advises companies on go-to-market strategy, sales lead generation, customer and prospect data, content marketing and ABM. The boy in Paddle to the Sea , a children’s book from the 1940s, which lived on the children’s bookshelf in my childhood home in Easthampton MA. What’s the last book read? Leiber and Stoller.

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Why account-based marketing is a game changer for Japan

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His new book, Ultimate B2B Marketing: ABM , was published only last week, and has already leaped to #1 on the Amazon Japan business book list. Why did you decide to focus your new book on Account-Based Marketing (ABM)? All sales people had to do was go grab it, especially as they represented products of ever-improving quality.

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What the growth of inside sales means to B2B marketers

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The speaker claimed that inside sales has outstripped outside sales in B2B, a statistic that both surprised me and got me thinking. On reflection, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised, since phone-based selling is so much more efficient than hitting the road to make face-to-face sales calls. Social selling tools.

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My favorite B2B resources: Top blogs, research sites and thought leaders

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Here you’ll find abundant books and guides. But what’s extra special is his Sales Pipeline Radio show, and the newly available Sales Pipeline Velocity Calculator. Heinz Marketing. Matt Heinz has built a successful demand gen agency on the shoulders of great content. Sure to impress your friends. MarketingProfs.

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