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Salesforce.com Best Practices: Thought Leadership with David Taber, Author of Salesforce.com Secrets of Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. A key issue to watch out for: how long it takes for you to first "touch" a new lead. Number of converted leads per rep per month.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Recent research shows that 63% of B2B companies that are growing faster than their competitors use marketing automation. An enterprise-grade marketing automation and analytics platform with solutions for lead management, email marketing, consumer marketing, customer base marketing, and mobile marketing. 1) Marketo. 2) HubSpot.

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9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1

ANNUITAS

The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”. Ultimately they came back, but they made Salesforce.com work for it. They are leading buyers astray.

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9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1

ANNUITAS

The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. The main attraction was five customers on stage who in their words were there to share “the good, the bad and the ugly of working with Salesforce.com”. Ultimately they came back, but they made Salesforce.com work for it. They are leading buyers astray.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. All thoughts are welcome!

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Your Questions About ABM — Answered!

The Mx Group

Demand Gen and Lead Management. We are using salesforce.com as our CRM — how well will it work to support our efforts? For a deeper dive, please check out our on-demand webinar or visit our Resources page which contains many additional insights and research on ABM! Topics Demand Gen & Lead Management.

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An Email to Bob in Sales: Thanks for aligning with us in Marketing

NuSpark Consulting

You guys spent too much time with those “tire-kicker” leads which wasted much of your team’s time. You didn’t know at the time that those doing initial research could be customers down the road if nurtured properly. In fact, I was shocked that you guys had poor follow-up practices with the leads we were sending you.