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Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions

The Point

Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Aprimo Marketing Studio offers powerful features in an on-demand system for sophisticated business and consumer marketers. When I wrote about Aprimo Marketing Studio in a post last August , I was impressed by the scope of the product but reserved judgment because it hadn’t yet been launched. You know who you are.

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

The Point

In other words, a company whose lead management, database marketing, and sales follow-up are all horrific beyond words has much more to gain from marketing automation than a competitor who follows best practices dutifully, even if they don’t have the machinery in place to automate the process. From new leads?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time. Users can query this widget to find out more about these visitors and decide if they want to purchase full business contact information. The technology appears useful at both ends of this spectrum.

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5 Ways To Incorporate Direct Mail Into Your Marketing Mix

The Point

Small Business. The advantage of using direct mail to target small business is that there’s likely to be no mail room and fewer gatekeepers between you and your target recipient. Most small business owners receive their mail directly, and at their place of business. Customer Marketing. The results may surprise you.

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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

The Point

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. This integration needs to happen with the technology and with the expectations (business rules and semantics) of sales and marketing people.

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Top 5 Benefits of Adopting Marketing Automation

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Shortened sales cycles due to more systematic nurturing of leads through the selling process. Most salespeople are compensated on closed business, NOT on keeping leads warm.