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33 Questions to Ask B2B Appointment Setting and Lead Gen Vendors

Smashmouth Marketing

There are so many demand gen vendors out there, and if you are a demand gen professional in sales or marketing, we've probably called you. Outsourcing some or all of your appointment setting or lead generation activity to a third party vendor is a task that shouldn't be undertaken by responding to one cold call. Autodialers?

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CRM Software Selection Guide?

TrustRadius Marketing

It’s surprisingly easy to go through the whole selection process and buy the wrong software (many reviewers have said as much). Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. One of the most common errors buyers make is not reading the terms of service (TOS) before buying.

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When to Use a Proof of Concept in Marketing Software Selection -- And When Not

Customer Experience Matrix

“I used to hate POCs (Proof of Concepts) but now I love them,” a Customer Data Platform vendor told me recently. “We But, as the first vendor indicated, POCs have traditionally been something vendors really disliked. A similar definition applies to software development. Two comments could be a coincidence.

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Marketing work management: the forgotten essential

Martech

When talking about martech, we most often think about tools that allow us to perform a specific task related to marketing — analyze traffic on our websites, aggregate and understand customer data, deliver personalized messaging, etc. But most marketing initiatives require we employ multiple tools to achieve our objectives.

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20 questions to ask digital asset management platform vendors during the demo

Martech

Digital asset management can play a vital role in your marketing organization, unifying online and offline marketing channels and leading to more efficient marketing resource allocation. Given all of that promise, marketers are certainly evaluating these technologies and one crucial part of that process is the demo.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy. In this article, we’re sharing every social media marketing template we’ve ever made. Facebook marketing strategy template Facebook is synonymous with social media.

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Don't Misuse Proof of Concept in System Selection

Customer Experience Matrix

Call me a c**k-eyed optimist, but marketers may actually be getting better at buying software. user stories) and having vendors demonstrate those. (If Instead, buyers correctly see use cases as part of an agile methodology that evolves a solution by solving a sequence of concrete, near-term objectives.