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Frenemies: The Dangerous Distrust Between Sales and Marketing

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If she was outright rejected by Sales, rather than kept in the pipeline and fed nurturing content, you will have lost a deal that you otherwise could have closed.

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How to find the right story to tell

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A new software product that the product manager says is “cool” Anything that happened more than two days ago Shameless self-promotion of your company or product or yourself A big sales deal that is all about the numbers. I’ll start by saying what doesn’t make a good story.

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How to find the right story to tell

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A new software product that the product manager says is “cool” Anything that happened more than two days ago Shameless self-promotion of your company or product or yourself A big sales deal that is all about the numbers. I’ll start by saying what doesn’t make a good story.

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Redefining sales prospecting in an era where no one wants to talk to you

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JG: Use promotional (sales-based) articles and offerings sparingly. Only offer promotional stuff 20% of the time, or when they’re further down the sales pipeline with your value offerings. SE: How do you tell sales people to use content in a way that creates curiosity and gets the prospect asking more questions from you?

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Quantifying the Value of Lead Nurturing: A Case Study

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Sales Engine built a library of multimedia content for this client and used email marketing, social media, search engine optimization (SEO) and ad retargeting to promote it to the 18,000 lead records in the client’s database.

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Content is the new currency—and your invitation to the dance.

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It’s important however to provide content that people will thank you for—it has educated them on a certain topic, It’s helped them get promoted, it’s helped them form their thinking. Content is the best opportunity that you have to influence a buyer’s perception and behavior when they’re looking for a solution.

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How to think differently about B2B Content: Interview with Florence Quinn

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As a 25-year veteran owner of a public relations firm in New York and Miami, Florence Quinn has certainly seen some changes in the various ways that brands promote their stories. “In In the early days it was all about quantity of clips,” she says.

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