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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

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Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives. Marketo sends first follow-up email. Marketo sends second follow-up email.

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How Should I Market to Purchased Lists?

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We have a debate between our marketing and sales teams on whether the best approach is marketing emails, sales outreach, or something else. Indeed, the days of marketing en masse to cold lists via marketing automation platforms (MAPs) like Marketo are behind us. Curious as to your opinion?”.

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Case Study: Segmentation, New Creative Boosts Lead Conversion Rates by 75%

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Sungard® Availability Services™ ( Sungard AS ) in Wayne, Pennsylvania is a global leader in disaster recovery, business continuity, and managed IT services. Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force.

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Forget About Hot Leads. It’s Cold Leads that Make the Difference.

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When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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5 Basic Things Every B2B Marketer Needs to Do to Prepare for GDPR

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Following on the heels of CAN-SPAM (US) and CASL (Canada), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the latest in a series of government regulations that promises to have a major impact on the way B2B marketers conduct business. The penalties for non-compliance with GDPR can be severe. This is not one of those articles.

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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

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When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. And then have to justify the business value 12 months later when the license renewal comes due.