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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads. Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. What should I know about Account-Based Marketing? Isn’t it demand generation with a new name? Simplified. : "Trust me.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

That’s what I set out to find when I presented this question to fellow industry experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

First, here’s the question we’ve been asking our experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. It's not a distraction. Complete ABM is not a black box at all.

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JUNE 7, 2011

For the past 11 years, I have been advising organizations on how to plan and execute their b2b lead generation campaigns. B2B lead generation is complex, and there is always work to be done. As a matter of fact, successful lead generation processes rarely run what we know as "campaigns."

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Matt was one of SLMA’s 40 Most Inspiring Leaders in Sales Lead Management in 2015 , and his Seattle-based marketing company’s involvement with many CMOs around the country certainly qualifies him for this topic. To generate short-term success, CMOs can purchase an expensive list of leads, but Matt warns against that strategy.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has or hasn’t happened in marketing and sales in 2012 that surprises him, Tim notes that lead generation and sales activity are up—providers are getting the “at bats.”. When a salesperson gets a lead, that’s all well and good. I think I’m OK.’

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

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MAY 21, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? What world are they living in?

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MAY 8, 2013

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Companies need to remember the sales manager’s primary job and stop burying them with unimaginable amounts of crap that has nothing to do with leading the team or driving new revenue. All of their efforts will be focused on converting these accounts from contact information to paying customer.

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MAY 5, 2011

CRM unites areas like sales force automation, lead management, customer service, and analytics. ERP unifies and extends materials requirements planning, computer-integrated manufacturing, and distribution.

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JUNE 10, 2016

The two organizations don’t understand each other, and often point fingers: Sales says marketing delivers bad leads; and marketing says sales doesn’t follow up. Define a lead. Brian Carroll, chief evangelist at MECLABS and Marketing Sherpa agrees : “Still, most of the companies I meet with do not have a Universal Lead Definition (ULD).

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MAY 14, 2013

Michael is also the author of B2BMarketingInsider.com , where he discusses content marketing, demand generation, mobile strategy, and sales alignment to name a few. It’s that personal one-to-one connection that ultimately leads to sales. Sales and Marketing Need to Speak a Common Language.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue.

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MAY 5, 2015

I feel so strongly that nurturing needs to be a focus, I asked a panel of 11 experts to weigh in on the best lead nurturing programs (and processes) and what to expect in the coming year. To be clear, lead nurturing is not an isolated activity or stand-alone “campaign” as so many in the industry have described it. Lead Reengagement.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Social Media is Becoming a Lead Gen Vehicle. While still in the early days of companies adopting it and developing best practices, Aberdeen is seeing social media marketing moving from being around awareness and thought leadership to really being around demand generation and lead management and so forth.

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JULY 9, 2015

We recently asked top industry experts the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Because it has become clear that marketing automation is making it easier than ever to generate poor quality leads.

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MAY 16, 2011

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. I will leave the Science of Lead Generation tactics to David Zarrella, Social Media Scientist in his recent HubSpot Webinar. Not everyone can do it. The Result.

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JULY 21, 2011

He responded to a proven outbound lead generation methodology driven by an experienced prospect development professional. And because inbound marketing generates contacts and supports self-education over a period of time, it’s easy to miss opportunities that could be deep in the current pipeline.

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