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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

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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. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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3 Steps for Effective Sales Lead Follow Up (none are the Hail Mary)

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The ways sales executives follow up on leads is a little like trying to win games with the Hail Mary. There are three main reasons why sales rep follow-up on leads is relatively ineffective: The leads suck. If you are sending raw, unfiltered and mostly unqualified leads to sales they will never follow-up on them.

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Thank You to Our 27 Guest Marketing and Sales Bloggers in 2011!

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This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Lead generation. Marketing automation. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Outsourcing lead generation.

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PowerViews with Trip Kucera: Best Practices & Surprising Trends

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His focus in the Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy practice helps his clients achieve extraordinary results. Video Marketing - A Surprising Trend. He adds that this is part of a larger, content-driven marketing trend that includes rich media. Social Media is Becoming a Lead Gen Vehicle.

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PowerViews with Ginger Conlon: Trustability & Your Customer's Voice

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She also notes that it costs less to retain current customers than to find new ones, and this points to trustability, great customer service and great customer experiences as being top priorities for marketers. If your customers aren’t on Facebook, do you really need to be there? Understand why you are where you are.