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Avoiding Cascading Zipper Failures between Marketing and Sales

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James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Of course what I am thinking about are the functions of sales and marketing. No lead management system. No marketing automation system.

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Bubble in the Funnel

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We generate, qualify and nurture leads using Account-Based Marketing processes. At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. Only 42% of marketing generated leads were accepted and worked in those same years. Their “reward”? Need proof?

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Jill Konrath Reveals How She Overcomes a Problem by Reframing It

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Sharing her fresh sales strategies, she helps salespeople to speed up new customer acquisition and win bigger contracts. Her clients include IBM, GE, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Staples and numerous mid-market firms. Her newest book, Agile Selling shows salespeople how to succeed in a constantly changing sales world.

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Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011? | B2B Marketing Insider

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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 December 21, 2010 4 Subscribe Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?

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What if CRM had not been invented?

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James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Last month we discussed Counterfactual Reflection (CR) as it pertains to marketing automation. ” What would be the state of sales and marketing?

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The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing

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The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. Some creative marketers call these lists suspects. To sales, they are a waste of time. Inbound marketeering requires 2 simple things: First you need to be found and that requires the basic techniques of understanding how prospects search and the keywords they use.

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Prevent Defense or Permit Offense? What a Football Argument Has to Do with B2B Sales Lead Generation

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According to Wikipedia, the Prevent Defense is a defensive alignment in American football that seeks to prevent the offense from completing a long pass or scoring a touchdown in a single play and seeks to run out the clock. Others in our industry content that 70% of the buyer’s journey is complete before sales needs to get involved.

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