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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third.

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Depending on the length of your sales cycle, conditions at your prospect’s end may change resulting in projects being put on hold.

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Lessons Learned From a Startup

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Out of this void came the idea for a new company delivering chef-prepared, dietician-approved, ready-to-eat meals. * Image via Pattyfarmer.com. a six-month sales cycle for a large enterprise purchase). I’ve also worked with many enterprise companies who want to bypass conducting proper research.

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New Buying Paradigm Not So New for High Tech Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

When their company needed a mission-critical application, they turned to their IS buddy across town or in their industry, to find out what worked and what didn’t. I believe this is a sign of disruptive technology (Internet, Web 2.0) Image by cambodia4kidsorg on Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20. damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0