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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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Why Marketing Management Must Master Deep Digital Analytics

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The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

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Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing? But it isn’t.

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Wanna Win? Jump Up the Lead Quantity and Add Nurturing!

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If you don’t implement a nurture program, you’ll waste marketing dollars by giving salespeople more than they can handle, and irritate prospects because follow-up falls. What’s worse, sales will not incrementally increase in proportion to the marketing spend. If you don’t have a marketing automation tool, get one.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

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While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Selling at Every Level

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Integrating customer relationship management and marketing automation systems can be expensive, complicated and scary, but doing so is necessary for your organization''s optimal performance, writes Justin Gray, CEO of LeadMD. Via Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog. Via Harvard Business Review online/HBR Blog Network.

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