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You Can’t Buy Thought Leadership: How Smart Content Marketing Works

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But establishing real thought leadership, the kind that can position you as a trusted source (and one worth buying from), is npt some kind of cheap parlor trick. In doing so, you’ll build trust and develop a relationship that could eventually lead to a sale. Content marketing takes work. Originally published on Social Media B2B.

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Peter Mahoney, Nuance Communications CMO: People Still Buy Things— the Human Side of Marketing Technology

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“Businesses don’t buy things, people do,” says Peter Mahoney, CMO of voice and natural language software maker Nuance Communications. Buying, not Selling: While marketing technology plays a critical role the modern art of persuasion, ultimately it is still people who are making the purchase decisions. Marketing Technology Podcasts'

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The Quick Fix to Your Lead Generation Headache

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And the star of your show is leads. It doesn’t matter if you have a million leads – they could predominately be low quality! If Sales tells Marketing that lead quality is low, then Marketing can start providing Sales with higher quality leads (saving Sales a great deal of time!). You’re at it again.

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Jeff Spicer, VP of Digital Marketing at VMware: How to Crack the Code for B2B Product Marketing in a Digital World [Podcast]

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For B2B product marketing, though, quite often is it a buying unit made of many individuals, and therefore more complex. That said, more and more B2B buying behavior takes place “before the buyer ever gets in touch with the vendor.”.

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Team, Tools and Transformation—How to Build a Demand Gen Program that Works (ft. Mark Roberts, ShoreTel CMO)

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Highlights include: Decisive Data: Making extrapolative decisions based on poorly targeted data sets can lead to incorrect decisions. He discusses the usefulness of things like Bergman profiles in a clear change management strategy and shares how ShoreTel achieved buy-in from its relevant teams. Mark Roberts is the CMO of ShoreTel.

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Why Marketing Analytics And Metrics Are Related But Not The Same

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Operational metrics – cost per lead and leads per rep. Which customers are most likely to buy and which are at risk to defect? Metrics are standards of measurement: Activity measures – number of new blog posts or the number of events, and the associated hard and soft costs of those activities.

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Why Marketing Should Have a Quota

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Leads vs. Opportunities. As an easy example, a click-through or open isn’t a lead. A lead is a qualified response that Sales can follow up on. But, while that’s a fairly traditional definition, the accompanying idea that Marketing just pitches leads over the fence and moves on is now rather outdated.