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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

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In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Maybe I was just sensitive.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

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Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead.

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Parallels: Social Manufacturing & Outsourcing Manufacturing Lead Generation

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The solution is notable for many reasons, one of which is the speed of implementation: the first customer went live within two weeks of meeting the Kenandy team. Derek notes that Salesforce’s Chatter is used to communicate both externally (customers, suppliers and distributors) and internally (production, engineering, and purchasing).

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The B2B Lead Generation-Demand Generation Book “Hall of Fame”

NuSpark Consulting

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. General B2B Marketing & Lead Generation. Content Marketing.

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Which is better in B2B Lead Generation? A $1,000 inbound lead or a $1,000 outbound lead?

ViewPoint

Knowing the B2B lead generation market like I do, here is what I expected to see : “The inbound lead is better because outbound is dead.” Stop interruption marketing.” This is great; this customer just told me what they want. ” “Inbound rules. This is not an anomaly.

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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Selling at Every Level

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Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Integrating customer relationship management and marketing automation systems can be expensive, complicated and scary, but doing so is necessary for your organization''s optimal performance, writes Justin Gray, CEO of LeadMD.

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Marketing and Sales: Done Well (2015) Do Better (2016) - Part 3 of 3

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The panelists include: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions. Matt Heinz – Heinz Marketing. One the things I was most pleased to see with many B2B companies (and in the sales blogosphere) in 2015 is a return “reasonable” thinking when it came to inbound marketing and social selling regarding their place in a sales effort.