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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing can’t be automated.) Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation.

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Chicken Soup for the Quota: 6 Sales Books To Help You Close More Deals

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

How it made Richardson a better seller: “The Toltecs didn’t sell enterprise software, but these principles help me every day,” she said. How it made Thiele a better seller: Thiele thought he already understood all the elements of enterprise sales. Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Always do your best.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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PowerViews with Nick Stein: The Role of Games in the Sales Office

ViewPoint

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight. They especially want to know about their job performance.

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xiQ Wins Prestigious 2016 Content Marketing Award

xiQ

xiQ Wins Prestigious 2016 Content Marketing Award. a leader in real-time personalized market intelligence, is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the 2016 Content Marketing Award for Best Integration of Mobile Devices in a Content Marketing Program. Sept 19, 2016 — xiQ, Inc.,

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xiQ Wins Prestigious 2016 Content Marketing Award

xiQ

xiQ Wins Prestigious 2016 Content Marketing Award. a leader in real-time personalized market intelligence, is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the 2016 Content Marketing Award for Best Integration of Mobile Devices in a Content Marketing Program. Sept 19, 2016 — xiQ, Inc.,

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity

It is somewhat surprising how many have only a few hundred followers, despite being social media managers, practitioners and strategists at large corporations. Followers range from less than 10 (no, that’s not a typo) to more than 10,000.