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If Your Leads Stink, Time to Update Your Buyer Personas

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You’ve seen the Internet decimate industries such as record labels, newspapers, and cable TV—and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s crushing the B2B sales rep’s ability to get in front of qualified prospects. (If Sales reps need leads, and it’s marketing’s job to get at least some of them—a majority would be nice.

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If Your Leads Stink, Time to Update Your Buyer Personas

Sales Engine

You’ve seen the Internet decimate industries such as record labels, newspapers, and cable TV—and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s crushing the B2B sales rep’s ability to get in front of qualified prospects. (If Sales reps need leads, and it’s marketing’s job to get at least some of them—a majority would be nice.

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Finding the Hidden Money in Your Content Strategy

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Many companies have focused on increasing their inbound traffic for new leads to combat tighter spam regulations and more concentrated email filters. But increasing web traffic without a thorough conversion strategy is just branding and awareness— that won’t supply enough leads to salespeople to hit your revenue growth targets.

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How Content Becomes a Sales Conversation

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With directives from above to grow revenue through sales, groups as varied as marketing, products, human resources, and even sales itself will rally to find ways to support the sales team. Sales reps are left to wade through this mountain of information, and they respond to it in one of two ways: 1.

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Ditch the Pitch: How Content Marketing Creates the Conversation that Drives Conversion

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Ah, the sales funnel. As a marketer, you’re no doubt familiar with this ubiquitous image: contacts fall into the top and by some kind of magic become leads, then qualified leads, then sales-ready leads, and eventually, (you hope) closed sales. Prospects expect you to be a publisher , not a marketer.

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Ditch the Pitch: How Content Marketing Creates the Conversation that Drives Conversion

Sales Engine

Ah, the sales funnel. As a marketer, you’re no doubt familiar with this ubiquitous image: contacts fall into the top and by some kind of magic become leads, then qualified leads, then sales-ready leads, and eventually, (you hope) closed sales. Prospects expect you to be a publisher , not a marketer.

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It’s Q4—do you know where your 2016 revenue will come from?

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On October 1, the sales team began Q4 and the pressure is high as reps try to make club and hit accelerators while organizations try to hit revenue goals. But what about the B2B marketer? Do you know how marketing is going to accomplish that mission? Sales needs more than Marketing’s branding and awareness initiatives.

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