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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

The Point

In fact, I’ll make almost the exact opposite prediction: “By 2015, the percentage of B2B leads that arrive via corporate Websites will shrink dramatically as marketers maintain multiple, distinct online channels that are optimized for demand generation.”. But effective to the point that they generate 71% of all sales leads?

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Why Marketing Should Have a Quota

Crimson Marketing

But a quota can improve alignment between Sales and Marketing. It can drive Marketing to stay involved throughout the sales cycle. Sales and Marketing departments often treat each other with a certain amount of suspicion. More target marketing touches to help Sales get a prospect moving.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. Add this to Mister Wong.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system. Divided into six sections, as an appetizer the book starts off with eMarketing Essentials , the “why&# of using content marketing for complex sales. Share this on del.icio.us.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Kim Albee of Genoo Talks Social Media Lead Gen

Smashmouth Marketing

We run a microsite, B2B Online Marketing Pros, for our B2B Online Marketing group on LinkedIn. We cover a different subject matter on the microsite every few months and social media garnered one of our best click-through rates for email sent to the group. Of those, about 10,471 are fairly well-targeted into our niche of B2B marketing.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Kim Albee of Genoo Talks Social Media Lead Gen

Smashmouth Marketing

We run a microsite, B2B Online Marketing Pros, for our B2B Online Marketing group on LinkedIn. We cover a different subject matter on the microsite every few months and social media garnered one of our best click-through rates for email sent to the group. Of those, about 10,471 are fairly well-targeted into our niche of B2B marketing.

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The Lead Generation-Inbound Marketing- Funnel Optimization Toolkit

NuSpark Consulting

A number of tools exist to measure traffic and demographics of websites, in order to determine options for a targeted display advertising plan. Funnel Entrance: Targeting audiences who are exploring solutions. Google’s Doubleclick Ad Planner , Compete , and Quantcast are three of the most popular tools for site research. Paid Search.