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How Social Media Changed the Sales Cycle into the Buying Cycle

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Marketing and sales were still largely in control, but buyers were entering sales cycles with more and better information. But it’s been the explosion of social media and user-generated content over the past three years that has really changed the sales process. This is not necessarily bad news for sales.

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Lead Nurturing – How to Develop a Solid Process for B2B Lead Management

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Ask yourself and answer these questions: Do I understand my buyers’ buying cycle? You need to be able to map out your typical buyer’s buying cycle. It is the basis of any good nurturing campaign since you will building your nurturing campaign content and messages on each step of the buying cycle.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

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Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system. Divided into six sections, as an appetizer the book starts off with eMarketing Essentials , the “why&# of using content marketing for complex sales. Share this on del.icio.us.

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33 (of the) Best Marketing Strategy Guides and Insights of 2010

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Re-Architecting the B2B Sales and Marketing Process for a New Decade by Reflexions. “Sales organisations are reporting extended sales cycles, declining win rates, and that a growing number of apparently promising opportunities are ending in ‘no decision.’ What’s a sales executive to do?