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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

The Point

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Actually, it’s much easier for Marketing and lead cultivation people to get instant value out of Salesforce.com (SFDC) than it is for reps.

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Active Conversion Offers Strong Lead Management and Leaves Out the Rest

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. For example, take Active Conversion. But it only recently added even simple landing pages and Web forms, and still has limited lead scoring, email and nurturing features.

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ActiveConversion Review - SMB Lead Management

LeadSloth

Salesforce.com integration. ActiveConversion also integrates with Salesforce.com , although using Salesforce is not a requirement. Typically, new leads are assigned to sales person before they are copied to Salesforce.com: the assignment rules are flexible. Website sessions are added to the salesforce.com Lead record.

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Optimizing Lead Distribution for Higher Conversion

markempa

So do you invest your hard-won leads on your top performers, or do you try to help your weaker salespeople? Many of you reading this post do not have a choice of who you distribute leads to. What can you to do optimize your lead distribution process for higher conversion? The key is to match readiness of the lead (i.e.,

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Salesforce.com Best Practices: Thought Leadership with David Taber, Author of Salesforce.com Secrets of Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. These showed up as wild sales forecasts, leads being dropped, crummy conversion rates, and very poor visibility. Average time to convert.

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A B2B Perspective of Dreamforce

ANNUITAS

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. However, there was quite a buzz as many tried to discover which marketing automation platform Salesforce.com decided to purchase for their own use. Observation 4: Salesforce.com Needs Better Content .

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing

ViewPoint

LinkedIn's network of groups is one of the best tools for business-to-business marketers looking to contribute to conversations related to their industry and establish themselves as thought leaders, according to WSJ’s Kate Mitchell. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn. Marketing Automation Software That Delivers the Most Data Wins.