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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

ViewPoint

There have been more comments from marketing automation vendors that cold calling and other traditional ways of generating sales leads are going away. Proactive Value-Added Selling Needed Much Earlier in the Buy Cycle. Take another look at trade show attendees as leads from trade shows still take fewer touches to close.

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Lead Nurturing in 6 Simple Steps

markempa

Include all of the people you could potentially sell to: people you’ve met at trade shows, who have spoken with your sales team and who have responded to your website. Make sure you understand what each persona looks like, their needs and goals, what information they’re looking for and how they prefer to receive their information.

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PowerViews with Jeff Ernst: Marketing & Sales Must Work Together

ViewPoint

He adds this is the year connections must happen between the webinar and trade show prospects that marketing is generating and the opportunities that sales actively engages. The importance of inbound and content marketing early in the buying cycle. Two reasons why marketing automation will reach a tipping point this year.

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Lead Nurturing 101 in 6 Simple Steps

Markempa

Set up your nurturing database Include all of the people you could potentially sell to, such as people you’ve met at trade shows, who have spoken with your sales team and who have responded to your website. Volumes could be written about each bullet point. In fact, they have been. What industry are they in?

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5 Ways Manufacturers Can Build More Business with ABM

Terminus

With Gartner’s research indicating there’s anywhere from 6 to 10 people involved in purchase decisions, it can be incredibly difficult to make a cold call to a target account and get the right person on the phone. Get more out of trade shows. But it’s been notoriously difficult to track the ROI from trade show attendance.

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What Is Inbound Marketing? A Guide to Sending Customers Your Way

ClearVoice

Inbound marketing is not a cold call, it’s more like a warm welcome. Reaching a customer “on their terms” means the person was already looking for this information or potential solution. Cold outreach – Calls or emails. Trade shows. Helpful, useful, informative articles. Direct mail.

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Top 35 B2B Marketing Posts for May 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

If you go to Facebook and look at your profile, your immediate reaction is going to be that it’s asking for too much information. Customers are less willing to give up information. Customers are less willing to give up information. They’re not getting any traffic, they can’t find their site in Google, and no one is calling them.