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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

The Point

One of the reasons for this under-utilization, and the inability of some marketers to deploy, for example, automated lead nurturing at every stage of the selling process, is resistance from the sales organization, and in particular, Inside Sales. Marketo sends first follow-up email. Marketo sends second follow-up email.

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Segmentation, Social Media Drive Lead Nurturing Success for iDirect

The Point

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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Salesforce.com Certification: it’s for Marketers, too!

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

As a Salesforce.com user group leader, I often talk to marketers who are looking to get more and/or better data out of their Salesforce.com system. Because of this, many marketers have picked up Salesforce.com admin skills that are highly valued at their companies. .

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

ViewPoint

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. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: Sales Intelligence

Heinz Marketing

Eliminate productivity bottlenecks and create more sales conversations with email and phone automation. Qualify and route more leads to sales with a solution that brings intelligence to chat conversations. Integrations: Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach.io, Google, Microsoft, Marketo, and more. Lead form enrichment.

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The Top Takeaways from Marketo Summit to Bring Back to Your Office and Implement

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The 2,800 of us attending last week’s Marketo Summit all came for various reasons and got the opportunity to attend different agenda tracks. As a CMO, I’m not necessarily hands-on with marketing automation, but I went to the Summit to optimize my plan for content marketing and sales and marketing alignment.

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Openprise Gives Marketers Easy(ish) Tool to Manage Their Data

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s primarily used to set up data processing flows for data cleaning, matching, and lead routing. Most are marketing and sales operations staff supporting Salesforce.com and Marketo who use Openprise to supplement the limited data management capabilities native to those systems.