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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

The Point

In a situation like this, it may be that the Inside Sales team feel they have all leads “covered” as it were, but most likely the real issues are 1) Trust and 2) Turf, namely: 1) Trust – Inside Sales doesn’t trust marketing to deploy lead nurturing in a way without fouling up the sales process; and.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

ViewPoint

More and more marketers understand that agile, which started in the IT development realm, has good application in marketing in general, and in lead management specifically. When a real person talks to a real person, and does it well, relationships and trust follow. It was designed for lead management.

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Manticore Technology Sees Expertise as Key to Success as a Demand Generation Vendor

Customer Experience Matrix

Changes include a drag-and-drop design tool (similar to Microsoft Powerpoint); integration of opportunities and custom objects from Salesforce.com; better reporting on Web site visitors; and, real time sales alerts on Web activity. It positions itself as a "trusted advisor" that sells based on its expertise, not on technology.

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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.

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10 Most Popular B2B Lead Blog Posts of 2016

markempa

To keep valuable field salespeople productive, many of the more innovative sales and marketing departments build “sales development” teams including Oracle, Marketo, HubSpot, HP, and Salesforce.com. To do that we need to build trust. Read 16 Proven Ways to Getting Better Leads and Opportunities Now ( Part 1 ) and ( Part 2 ).

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Sharing Space: Marketing and Sales

Anything Goes Marketing

You may be selling the sharpest and finest knife set ever created with a brand that everyone knows, loves and trusts but at when money is tight, people will consider all of their options. Just the other day a marketer showed me a custom link they added to salesforce.com that integrated LinkedIn to the contact and lead records.

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Alinean Launches Interactive White Papers

The ROI Guy

The basic white paper is still one of the most important pieces of marketing content - used and trusted as the key buying decision tool by over 65% of early stage buyers and 61% of middle stage buyers (SiriusDecisions -2010).

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