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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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For decades, the ONLY way to produce any type of printed material – ranging from sales & marketing brochures, to annual reports and informational flyers – involved a multi-step, time / people-intensive, costly process requiring a copywriter, graphic designer, a typesetter and a printing press. The error of many desktop publishers?

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What the US Marines Can Teach Your B2B Firm about Marketing and Sales

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B2B companies – professional service firms in particular – can benefit by creating a culture similar to the Marine Corps; training all employees with basic marketing & sales skills that can help the firm to grow and succeed. Every Employee a Sales Rep” will not be achieved simply by establishing firm-wide mandates. Semper Fi.

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White Papers are Not Dead. They’re on Life Support.

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The original purpose of white papers as a B2B marketing tactic was to produce objective information, packaged as quasi-academic research, that might validate a company’s or product’s value proposition. Increasingly, registration barriers lose more leads than they generate. White paper supporters need only be patient.

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