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Demand Generation Blogs Continued

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In the spirit of Twitter’s Follow Friday I’d like to finally publish the remaining Demand Generation blogs that I enjoy reading. Earlier I published the Top 10 Demand Generation vendor blogs and the Top 10 Marketing Automation Blogs. This blog provides a strategic perspective on the demand generation process.

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Best CRM for Marketing Automation: Salesforce.com, Microsoft or Oracle?

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Also, it’s useful if sales people can see information from the marketing automation system within the CRM system. There are a couple of things you can look at: On-demand or on-premises. If you’re serious about Marketing Automation, I would choose an on-demand CRM system. CRM system market share.

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5 Ways to Use Social Media in Marketing Automation

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Marketing is starting to see sales as a customer who demands high-quality leads. With the right technology you can incorporate information from various online sources, so sales people are better prepared when they make the first call. Sales & marketing alignment is finally getting the attention it deserves. Conclusion.

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B2B Marketing University: What Do You Want to Learn About?

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Prospects now have instant access to much more information, so marketing’s involvement reaches much further down the sales cycle: they need to nurture prospects with relevant content until they are sales-ready. Tags: Demand Generation Inbound Marketing b2b marketing b2b marketing university continuing education silverpop.

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8 Tips to Get Started with Marketing Automation

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Marketing automation only works if you clean up junk leads, merge all duplicates, normalize company names, and verify all contact information. Or give them more background information on prospects: how did they find the website, which pages did they visit, what whitepapers did they download, and so on. Improve Your Data Quality.

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Marketing Automation Monday

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Join us at Marketing Automation Monday for an informal panel discussion on using drip marketing to find more qualified leads and for networking with other like-minded marketers. Around 6pm we’ll start an informal panel discussion about drip marketing in which several people will present their drip campaigns. Demand Generation.

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Abandon Your Marketing Automation System!?

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My first reaction was: no way, you should not want to do without any type of marketing automation system (for simplicity sake, I use this term as synonymous to demand generation and lead management ). How to Replace a Marketing Automation System? The Salesforce.com database has some big issues (e.g. What is your take on this?