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Elevating B2B Customer Retention: Innovative Strategies for Lasting Relationships

Engagio

Real-World Example: IBM boosted customer retention by tying their marketing efforts into the US Open and personalizing their approach to prospects. These customizable subscriptions are asynchronous, flexible and can scale up or down with a business’s needs and budget. Each plan includes 100% custom designs, with unlimited edits.

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How to Kill B2B BANT Zombies and Save Your Career

Rev

As the book Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play suggested, the real issue with BANT is that there is a time and a place to ask about the timeline for a decision, the available budget, and the decision-making process. Plus, initially, the prospect is trying to figure out if talking makes sense, not how much to spend. So there is no budget.

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5 Demand Generation Tips for Start-Ups

The Point

When you’re an established company, say: Salesforce.com or Microsoft, how people feel about your company on an emotional level – based on the sum total of their interactions with that company — can have a significant impact on how and why they invest in your product. Branding Doesn’t Matter.

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B2B Prospecting Data Just Keeps Getting Better

ViewPoint

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications, whether by mail, phone or email, to potential prospects, using rented or purchased lists. B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title.

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What Do You Sell, Who Do You Sell It To and Why Everyone Has to Have The Same Answer

ViewPoint

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition. Sales reps did not know how to prospect for new business so the 20,000 “leads” were ignored and wasted. Documentation of allocated budget or the process for budgeting. All because the CEO did not insist on a common definition of a lead.

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Mariana Uses Artificial Intelligence to Build Personas and Find Target Audiences

Customer Experience Matrix

It currently offers two products: Prospect IQ to find new prospects and Conversion IQ to market to names already in the client's database. For Prospect IQ campaigns, users can define a target audience based industry, company size, location, and persona. What does Mariana do with this information?

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Curious about how long each has been a public company, I checked on the years in which their stocks were offered: Salesforce.com – 2004; SuccessFactors – 2007; and NetSuite – 2007. Competitors may have greater name recognition, larger budgets and more offerings. Target market challenges.