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SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation

Industrial Marketing Today

A lead is a lead, right? Depends – are you in marketing or in sales? SAL – Sales Accepted Leads is the bridge between Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL). Quantitative lead definitions reduce the friction between sales and marketing. Oh, what a waste!

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Digital Marketing Can Increase Industrial Sales

Industrial Marketing Today

Call it digital marketing or inbound marketing with content , the fact is marketing is now playing a much more active role in complex industrial sales. Manufacturers and industrial companies often use solutions or consultative selling to add value for their customers and transform themselves from suppliers into trusted partners.

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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. It scored 8.6

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Do You Know the Cost of Maintaining Your Industrial Digital Marketing Status Quo?

Industrial Marketing Today

For the past six years, more than two thirds of manufacturers and industrial companies have said that lead generation or customer acquisition is their top marketing priority according to the latest industrial marketing survey released by GlobalSpec. How will digital marketing improve your sales process without being disruptive?

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Is Your Industrial Content Marketing Reaching a Dead End?

Industrial Marketing Today

Decision makers in these companies want to jump on the content marketing bandwagon but they really don’t have a strategic plan of action and/or a clear idea of how it will drive sales and generate revenues. Not that I’m complaining, this gap means more business opportunities for me as an industrial marketing consultant.

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Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

Industrial Marketing Today

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing is not Disconnected Tactics

Industrial Marketing Today

Business as usual is not working – referrals are trickling in, if at all and the pipeline of leads is running dry. The old way of hiring away salespeople from the competition with their “ready book of business” is not producing the quick sales they had expected. Encourage marketing and sales to work together as a team.

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