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6 Key Ways Sales and Marketing Should Collaborate on Content

Brandpoint

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. The new reality is that sales and marketing are continuously and increasingly integrated.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

markempa

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. With a complex sale, many personal touch points in customer relationship management are present – such as directly answering a question posted on social media or an online forum. Marketing, Sales (and IT) alignment.

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

LeadSloth

Forrester recently released a vendor evaluation for midmarket CRM vendors. If you look at Marketing Automation systems, the best supported CRM system is Salesforce.com. However, Forrester states that Microsoft Dynamics CRM may actually be a better CRM product. That brings up a range of questions: What does CRM integration mean?

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What The Top 4% of Account-Based Marketers Have in Common

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Author Olivia LaBarre wrote on how Forrester Research Shows Gap Between ABM Implementation and Success in her analysis of a recent report from Forrester analyst Laura Ramos, Retro Yet Revolutionary: Demystifying Account-Based Marketing. Specifically, “… ABM lacks specificity and is applied inconsistently to many different approaches.”.

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What The Top 4% of Account-Based Marketers Have in Common

ANNUITAS

Author Olivia LaBarre wrote on how Forrester Research Shows Gap Between ABM Implementation and Success in her analysis of a recent report from Forrester analyst Laura Ramos, Retro Yet Revolutionary: Demystifying Account-Based Marketing. Specifically, “… ABM lacks specificity and is applied inconsistently to many different approaches.”.

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B2B Marketing’s Measurement Problem

Digital B2B Marketing

The buying process may take 12 to 18 months. It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. Beyond cold, these leads may frozen solid.

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Vidyard Expands Ecosystem, Adds SalesLoft to Increase Sales Effectiveness With Personalized Video Emails

Vidyard

Vidyard for SalesLoft helps modern sales organizations increase their email response rates by up to 8X through the use of highly engaging, customized, and personalized video emails. With the Vidyard for SalesLoft integration, sales reps can easily record, share and track highly engaging, personalized videos from within the SalesLoft platform.