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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department

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« Lead generation and the number | Main | Reaching Decision Makers » Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department For the complex sale you need enthusiastic referrals to help you build your reputation, differentiate yourself, demonstrate your value proposition, shorten your sales cycle, and drive revenue.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Top Six Lead Generation Challenges for the Complex Sale in 2006

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Commoditization will continue and will be more difficult to overcome: Marketers must work much more diligently and creatively to differentiate their organizations against increasing competition. Less selling time : Because of longer sales cycles (and theyll get longer), sales people cannot afford to spend time on unqualified leads.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Asking for referrals does more than generate leads

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For the complex sale you need these enthusiastic references to help you build your reputation, differentiate yourself, demonstrate your value proposition, shorten your sales cycle, and drive revenue. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0