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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software.

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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. DT: Well, the biggest misconception about Salesforce is that it’s something Sales reps like and Marketing folks don’t.

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Sharing Space: Marketing and Sales

Anything Goes Marketing

Take 30 seconds and really think about the message this is conveying: Here are some items to consider: The only parking spaces reserved were for outside sales and customers There were enough parking spaces available for everyone (reserved spaces were not essential) What do other employees (including inside sales) think when they see this?

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

ViewPoint

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Should Demand Generation and Sales Automation Be Separate Systems?

Customer Experience Matrix

recently on the idea that the boundaries between marketing and sales are breaking down because leads now interact with both departments throughout the purchase cycle. This is clearly inevitable: if nothing else, leads still visit your Web site (controlled by marketing) even after they are “turned over” to sales.

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Your Questions About ABM — Answered!

The Mx Group

Sales Empowerment. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Sales and Marketing Alignment. If you’d benefit from aligning your sales and marketing against a list of specific companies rather than a profile of companies, then it could be an effective tactic for you. However, Sales must be aligned on the methodology.

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CallidusCloud Buys LeadFormix Marketing Automation for $9 Million Cash

Customer Experience Matrix

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. While its feature list covers all the usual marketing automation categories, the company's real focus was always on providing the most useful information to sales people.