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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

The Point

A couple of weeks ago our firm prepared a detailed ROI analysis for a client helping them substantiate to their management the investment in a marketing automation platform. Fortunately, and to the client’s credit, they had firm metrics for each stage through which a raw inquiry ultimately converted to a sale.

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Five Reasons Digital Marketers Love Automation

GreenRope

Five Reasons Digital Marketers Love Automation. In recent years, marketing automation has become very popular among businesses of all sizes. Digital marketers love it because it makes their life easier. Marketing automation has revolutionized the way businesses are able to connect with leads and clients.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

The Point

Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. Based on first-hand impressions, however, it’s not how the vast majority of clients are employing (or even thinking of) marketing automation. It’s all heady stuff.

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How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

The Point

Over time, an accumulation of stale, non-responsive leads can bump you to a higher pricing tier for your CRM or marketing automation license. . * High bounce rates and low open rates can damage your email reputation, which in turn may impact overall deliverability.

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B2B Lead Generation – Challenges & Strategies That Work

PureB2B

Generating leads for any marketing purpose is difficult, but it’s doubly challenging in the business-to-business realm. Here are three of the biggest challenges you will face in your sales lead generation efforts: 1. Assessing the market need. Track leads throughout the buyer’s journey.

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Unlock your Sales Potential with these Top Sales Database Providers

Smarte

The provider should also offer easy integration with existing CRM systems and marketing automation tools. Now the question is, in this horde of B2B database markets, which is the most accurate one? This allows businesses to target specific demographics or industries that are most relevant to their products or services.

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Five Ways to Grow Revenue (and Lower Cost)

ViewPoint

For companies to transition from where they’ve been to where they need to be, they must understand three truths: Sales lead management (SLM) is a fundamental business process. It’s not a sales-only process, and it’s not a marketing-only process. Marketing Measurement. It’s not a campaign.

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