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I’m Dreaming of a New CRM System

B2B Marketing Traction

In 30 years of sales and marketing I’ve dealt with a lot of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems. I’m tired of the countless tutorials, the “how do I create a report for my client” questions, the obscure field names, the badly written documentation, and the cumbersome procedures. I’m tired.

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Social selling: an essential B2B skill

Exo B2B

Combined with the intelligent use of a CRM, Sales Navigator becomes a highly effective ally for all sales representatives. Key moments in the decision-making process and the dispatch of important documents are still handled by this medium. Website landing pages and CRM. It’s a prospecting tool unrivalled in the market.

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6 Remarkable Benefits of Strategic Content Mapping

Valasys

Strategic content mapping is an orchestrated plan to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time to help customers sail through the specific stages of their buying cycles and to figure-out the opportunities to better address the pain-points of your customers. Helps in Delineating the Buyers’ Journey.

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Understanding Account Based Marketing & Account Based Selling

Conversica

A company that is more highly engaged with your content is likely further into the buying cycle than one that only has one or two stakeholders interacting with your brand. Document your ideal customer profile, and identify which accounts should be targeted. Identify relevant accounts. Develop a content strategy.

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B2B Sales Cycle: 4 steps to avoid the wasteful ‘no decision’

markempa

No deal = broken sales cycle. He says the escalating number of “no decisions” is a sure sign that sales cycles are broken. If a sales professional says, ‘I submitted a proposal,’ and your customer says, ‘I got a price quote,’ that’s a sign of misaligned perceptions and selling-buying cycles,” says Dickie. Read Never.’”.

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Intent Data: How to Generate Quality Sales and Marketing Leads

DealSignal

If your team has a CRM, website cookies enabled, email tracking, marketing automation, or social listening tools, you’re collecting first-party intent data. Second- and third-party data usually come in the form of simple documents, like CSVs and Excel files. This is the data you directly collect across your marketing tech stack.

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Handing Leads Off to Sales & the MQL vs SQL Difference

SmartBug Media

While you define each stage of your customer’s lifecycle and the handoff process between marketing and sales, you’ll need a place to document these definitions. An SLA for marketing and sales documents goals, as well as what each team plans to contribute to those goals. This is where a service-level agreement (SLA) comes into play.