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

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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. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps. HS: Thanks David!

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Content Selling: How Sales Can Better Leverage Marketing Content

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Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. The same principles apply to Content Selling.

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Research Report: Lead Gen Not as Easy as Marketers Think

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I just returned from a few days at Dreamforce in San Francisco, the annual circus-slash-conference hosted by CRM leader Salesforce.com, and was struck by the wave of technologies on display that centered on analytics. This sentiment was borne out in a recent survey on lead generation strategy conducted by Ascend2 Research.

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Radian6 Email Campaign Hits the Mark

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There’s a lot to like about the email below received last week from Radian6 , makers of social media monitoring tools (and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.) The headine: “Strategically Social: 5 Keys to Becoming a Social Business” promises a specific, tangible learning benefit (“5 Keys”), drawing the reader into the copy.

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Take a Sales Guy to Lunch: Bridging the Sales & Marketing Divide

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Barbara’s firm helps clients achieve business growth through strategic marketing management, sales leadership, and business process alignment. She has nearly 25 years experience in strategic marketing, management, and international business development, the past ten as a consultant. (HS) Thanks Barbara!

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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

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First, the company invested in Marketo , a leading marketing automation platform that integrated well with the company’s CRM system, Salesforce.com. Beyond simply getting the most from the software, we find this approach uncovers greater opportunity for improvement and results in a more tailored strategy that drives real business value.”.

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Animoto: Easy, Cost-Effective Video Content to Go

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At a recent marketing conference I attended, an exec from CRM giant Salesforce.com tagged video as far and away their heaviest focus for new marketing investment, but not all of us have the same kind of marketing spend at our disposal. So why don’t more B2B companies use video? Well, one reason is cost. customer or industry spotlight. •

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