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OCTOBER 7, 2010

The following excerpt is certainly important to sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. I have been a student of selling and sales management for more than twenty years, and I have used a grand total of five “closes” during that time. The prospect’s answer will tell you what you need to do to advance the sales cycle.

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JUNE 9, 2010

This strategy should include a mix of tactics that will provide support to the campaign. These social media tactics can include the following: blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, social media bookmarking, etc. Now like many marketers currently experiencing a similar situation, you probably immediately thought “why me?”

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JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. Poor data quality: capture the “lead intelligence” from each call in a database.

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JULY 6, 2010

While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. While integrated marketing approaches are nothing new, email and social media are especially complimentary marketing tactics. by Michael Brenner, July 6, 2010 Related Posts: Need to Drive Leads?

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AUGUST 5, 2010

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. Then ran marketing for 2 firms.

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JULY 15, 2010

During my presentation titled Lead Generation Programs That Work I walked through the 5 Steps to Achieve Lead Generation ROI. I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to. How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity?

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JUNE 22, 2010

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AUGUST 17, 2010

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 I have used this Perfect Turkey Recipe in case you are interested. Simple and traditional recipe for a nice and juicy bird.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3). Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3). Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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JUNE 24, 2010

That Is A Lot Of Time Spent Online Using Social Media Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Too often we grab the latest product brochure, sales presentation or case study and post it online. But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. Related Posts: The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing Need to Drive Leads?

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

The following guest post is another important topic for sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. The following guest post is another important topic for sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. Cost efficiencies The appointment setting tactic is on a strict pay for performance model.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

He also implores us to block the traditional metaphor of the funnel which I also wrote about since it no longer aligns to the consumer buying process. It also identifies the increasing importance of loyalty and the lack of marketing focus on this stage of the process. In their research with 1,000 sales executives in the U.S.,

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JUNE 11, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. And the conversation went way later than the restaurant manager and our wonderful server wanted it to. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

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JULY 21, 2010

Source: The Google/TechTarget Behavioral Research Project: Phase 2) Results Brand and solution searches are highest in both the consideration and the decision phase of the buying process. Almost 50% of the users in this study withheld accurate contact details.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I think this quote in the article from Erich Joachimsthaler, Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners sums it up well: “Brand Social Currency is not about social media, not about buzz, not about tactics. It is so much bigger. It gets to a brand’s long-term sustainability. It doesn’t mean we can’t orchestrate the movement.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

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AUGUST 3, 2010

With this approach you will reap the rewards of understanding your audience and providing them value which they will return in the form of leads and sales. Need to Drive Leads? Summary by: Michael Brenner * *This post originally appeared on B2C Marketing Insider and has been summarized with the permission of the author.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Crisis Management is a huge opportunity. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Click here to cancel reply. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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JULY 1, 2010

How to Get Your Voice Heard Using Social Media Getting yourself noticed is not an easy task especially when you are looking to promote your brand and generate sales. Here are the few tips which can help you to get yourself heard and noticed amongst your target audience using social media.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy November 24, 2010 Subscribe A B2B Marketing Manifesto? The manifesto also makes a “plea for ambition.&#

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MAY 18, 2010

Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Campaigns Click here to cancel reply. Share your thoughts, post a comment. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

How to Get Your Voice Heard Using Social Media Getting yourself noticed is not an easy task especially when you are looking to promote your brand and generate sales. Here are the few tips which can help you to get yourself heard and noticed amongst your target audience using social media. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Talk to sales to identify what kind of support they need from marketing in order to deliver their annual numbers. Well we need to focus on wringing out every lead and every deal from our funnels. So we started throwing more money at digital tactics that could show a real return on the investment. It used to be so easy.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

But if it is done right, this approach can mean better results and accolades for you and your management team. Challenging conventional wisdom in a respectful way can lead to the kind of insights that most people miss. Sales projections? These had to be validated by the sales folks. Higher risk – - higher reward.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2008

For your nuturing campaigns, create a document that outlines all of the marketing content that you have and map this to the buying process of your target audiences that you have identified (assuming you have created defined marketing segments). Create marketing campaigns that can be reused. These templates can be copied and reused.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

I have used sales pipeline return on marketing spend. If you use your CRM system to track marketing activities from inquiry to close, then you know how many opportunities you have created and how much sales pipeline that has generated. It helps here to take a narrow view. Pick a metric you can use to separate the good from the bad.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Consumers will see directly through tactics that result in a one-sided chat that focuses solely on the brand and it will turn them off almost instantly. About Brian Rice Brian Rice is the author of B2C Marketing Insider and serves as Online Marketing Manager for SAP.

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JUNE 2, 2010

The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. To sales, they are a waste of time. In the next post , I will list the actions you can take today to deliver targeted leads to sales. Some creative marketers call these lists suspects.

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MAY 26, 2007

Email Newsletter 2.0 In the "new world" of web 2.0, Lead qualification: There are two benefits here. In order to leave comments, you could add some additional lead qualification questions to the registration process. There are systems that automate this process though.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. Related Posts: Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?!

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