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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #7: Lief Larson, Salesfolks

Webbiquity

Only 19% of prospects want to connect with a sales person during the awareness stage, when they are first learning about a product; 60% don’t want to talk until they are in the consideration stage, after they’ve done their online research and created a short list. Those things are not a “one-click” purchase.

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What Do You Sell, Who Do You Sell It To and Why Everyone Has to Have The Same Answer

ViewPoint

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition. In that post I quoted a client and friend who at the time was CMO for a Fortune 100 company. Sales reps did not know how to prospect for new business so the 20,000 “leads” were ignored and wasted. Define what a lead is. Who are we selling it to?

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Most Exciting Marketing Technologies to Adopt in 2017

Leadspace

While this is a broad category, with lots of noise, hype, and fairy dust swirling, there are a few major categories that I believe are the most important to track (and if you’re an aspiring digital CMO and haven’t made these investments, it’s time to start talking to the CIO and the CFO about making them). Real-time content/offer management.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

markempa

At the same time, the real engine driving CRM and keeping prospects moving through the sales funnel is technology. The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics. Before, the sales team had a great deal of control over the information flow and education of prospects.

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B2B Marketing University: For Now, Marketing Automation and CRM Are Still Separate

Customer Experience Matrix

Joe Moloney gave a more detailed answer about limits in Salesforce.com in particular, including lack of CAN-SPAM compliance and limits on mass emails. The immediate take-away here is that the industry still needs to educate prospective buyers on why marketers need a separate system. Vendors take note.

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Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

Biznology

Derek Slayton, CMO of NetProspex, points out that new technologies can only take B2B marketers so far. Data is the most important thing in marketing today,” says Kathleen Schaub, VP at IDC’s CMO Advisory Service. Sales and marketing symbiosis. The next step, he believes, is new organizational structures. That means no more campaigns.

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The Rise of the Marketing Technologist Part 3: People, Process, Content and then Technology

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As I mentioned in my last post , the Marketing Technologist role is a difficult one to fill, and would likely not be as effective as a CMO acting as the “Chief Marketing Technology Strategist.” And as I said last time, the CMO needs to own the strategy, and understand (but delegate) the tactical. Step Two: Process.

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