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MARCH 8, 2006

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

When inquiries are handed off without being methodically qualified, it doesn’t take the sales department long to start viewing all marketing-generated “leads” with skepticism. For this reason, most leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded. There is a difference. There is a difference.

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DECEMBER 7, 2006

The challenge that many organizations face is that their sales process is a black box. The challenge that many organizations face is that their sales process is a black box. No one except the sales team knows what is going on inside the black box until a proposal or sale happens. Listen to podcast now (MP3 24 min 5.5

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MARCH 2, 2006

Over 93% of the live audience (200 marketers and sellers) strongly agreed or agreed that they found value in attending this session. MB) Why has it become more difficult to sell to large organizations? What can a marketing do to help this? MB) Why has it become more difficult to sell to large organizations?

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markempa

JANUARY 24, 2006

» The Lead Generation Advantage for Small Businesses According to John Jantsch , small businesses have a decided advantage [over big companies] to do highly personal marketing. The bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to be highly personal. The bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to be highly personal.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2005

During the summit, senior marketing executives were challenged to improve the influence of marketing by building more efficient and accountable marketing organizations.

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JANUARY 4, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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JUNE 7, 2005

As a result, most marketers are focused on improving their organic search engine visibility and trying to get top rankings via SEO. As a result, most marketers are focused on improving their organic search engine visibility and trying to get top rankings via SEO.

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markempa

MAY 21, 2007

In lead generation, the job of the marketing department is to develop leads to match the buyer’s readiness to buy and the seller’s expectations of selling. Marketing to sales: “We get the leads, you get the sales.” What organizations/associations do they belong to? Both the companies and the individuals you covet as customers.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2006

With so many people weighing in on a decision and no clear go-to target, marketing and salespeople are evaluating the best way to go about making a connection. The challenge is to create a dialogue from sales and marketing, and we need to be a lot more intelligent with our approach. based sales qualifying service InTouch Inc.,

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JUNE 8, 2005

« Closing the loop to improve lead generation performance | Main | Using thought leader content as a lead generation tool » Process Mapping is an essential step to measuring Lead generation ROI Its been well documented that quality of collaboration between sales and marketing directly impacts ROI.

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JUNE 7, 2005

If I can’t measure the tactics or programs in terms on return on invest to the organization…leads generated, business closed, opportunities in the funnel, then why should I expect the company to invest in my fund." "I look at our lead generation efforts, specifically in this economy, as a financial portfolio.

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JUNE 13, 2007

The above trigger event mind map figure (Click Image to Enlarge) shows just some of the possible trigger events that you can track. Trigger events matter for two key reasons. Relevance is one of the most difficult things to achieve with lead generation programs but trigger events can help a great deal.

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JANUARY 19, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Rather, think critically about your unique situation and what make senses for your organization.

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MARCH 30, 2005

Sirius Decisions , a leading B-to-B research firm concludes, "While brand isnt dead, we believe it has become a byproduct of reputation, the first of three overall outputs todays b-to-b organizations must systematically produce in order to be successful.

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markempa

MAY 23, 2005

from JSLogan - Making the Most of Your Business B2B Lead Generation has a thought provoking post on the measurement of marketing and the roll of the CEO in empowering CMOs. In my experience, conflicts between sales and marketing organizations are over stated and artificial. Sure, there are conflic.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I plan to ask Jill the following questions: Why has it become more difficult to sell to large organizations? When sellers have difficulty getting into large organizations, is there generally a root cause for their lack of success? Continue reading if you want to see the questions I plan to ask Jill. Are elevator speeches useful?

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markempa

APRIL 12, 2007

« Your questions answered on Lead Generation via Podcasts | Main | On B2B Demand Generation tools and Lead Generation Dashboards » Closed-Loop Marketers More Likely to Reach ROMI Goals As Ive written before, Im a big proponent of using closed loop feedback to improve marketing and lead generation ROI.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Read More] Tracked on April 04, 2007 at 03:56 PM Comments Going beyond the sales lead Ultimately, the purpose of B2B marketing is to help the sales team sell.

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