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7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up

Marketing Insider Group

In my 20 years of marketing, sales and Telemarketing experience I have created many “Tele Web” programs, and here are the top reasons they succeed. You will also diminish the chances that a competitor has called the prospect and is “first at the table” for purchasing discussions. Need to Drive Leads?

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5 Sales Closing Techniques

Marketing Insider Group

Time Line Close The Time Line close is effective when a product or service will impact a prospect’s project plan, especially if the purchasing decision is a prerequisite to other activities in the project plan. The larger the difference is between the quantified impact and the required investment, the easier it is to close the sale.

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7 Common B2B Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Marketing Insider Group

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.

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7 Digital Marketing Channels That Empower Your Results

EveryoneSocial

When anyone describes marketing today, they’re most likely talking about digital marketing. Print ads, billboards, telemarketing, radio, and television were the main sources of marketing to audiences for decades. But today, there are many digital marketing channels that have changed the industry completely.

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The New Marketing Accountability

Marketing Insider Group

See in a “campaign world&# marketers think we have way more control over the prospect situation than we really do. What we really want is to “manage&# demand from awareness to consideration to purchase intent. We want to get people to know us, like us and trust us so much that they want to buy from us and stay with us.

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Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

Blogs Influence On Buyers When asked “what is your likelihood to purchase a brand, product or service from these information sources?&# 42% reported that blogs influence their purchase behavior.

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The Future of B2B Marketing: It's Social

Marketing Insider Group

Brazil and China, Ogilvy found that social media is extremely influential over buyers’ purchase decisions, that sales people see this change but do not think their companies are adapting quickly enough. In their research with 1,000 sales executives in the U.S.,