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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

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Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead.

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How to Read the Complex Digital Landscape to Better Track Your Audience Journey

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As an avid hiker and kayaker, I understand the value of deciphering complex landscapes to identify the fastest, safest, and most successful journey. As a marketer & consultant, I often apply the same skills to decipher digital behaviors. In this blog, I’ll review the value of audience journey mapping.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

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Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads. Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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Marketing in a Downturn Part 3: Aligning Sales and Marketing

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by Liz Smyth In the final part of our Marketing in a Downturn series, we’re examining the importance of getting your sales and marketing teams aligned. Read Part 1: Lead Generation and Nurture and Part 2: Content, Content, Content.). Here are our top three tips to ensure a sales & marketing alignment during a downturn: 1.

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Mega-List of Features in Marketing Automation (That You Won’t Find in CRM)

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Many CRM systems have a module for marketing. Salesforce recently rebranded their social marketing application as the Marketing Cloud, and their website says you can use their solutions to “optimize campaigns from lead to close, on every channel”. Marketing Automation. Account Management. Sales Forecasting.

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Prevent Defense or Permit Offense? What a Football Argument Has to Do with B2B Sales Lead Generation

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According to Wikipedia, the Prevent Defense is a defensive alignment in American football that seeks to prevent the offense from completing a long pass or scoring a touchdown in a single play and seeks to run out the clock. Super Bowl winning coach John Madden doesn’t quite agree with this definition. Just ask.

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Where Marketing Metrics Go Wrong

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There are literally hundreds if not thousands of possible marketing management metrics to choose from, and almost all of them measure something of some kind of value. Too often, marketers rely on “feel good” measurements to justify their marketing spend. Did the marketer get his budget?