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New Report: Alliance Marketing Trends 2014

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Here are the Top-5 Trends in Alliance Marketing (for more details download the report ): Revenue generation (87 percent), demand generation (72 percent) and joint sales engagement (66 percent) top the list of alliance marketing program goals.

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Lead Generation Checklist - Part 4: Clear and Universal Lead Definition

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This will get sales and marketing on the same page to share a common understanding and treatment of the leads in your funnel. The definition of the lead dimensions also acts as the standard for rating leads and determining whether they are sales ready or need more nurturing by marketing.

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You Have No Metrics for B2B Social Media Measurement? (Survey Sneak Peek)

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Take a look the chart below to see the popularity of various social media metrics for measuring activity, followership, engagement, leads, and sales results (click chart to enlarge | n = 210). Something tells me that B2B marketers will get away with this only for a short time until investment in social media comes under increased scrutiny.

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Put an End to Flying Blind: A Ten-Step Process for Creating a Go-to-Market Tactical Plan

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As the CEO, we hope you will mandate that a GTM plan be created and reviewed before any resources are deployed to pursue a new market. Second, it helps allocate resources toward the most profitable opportunities and fosters focus. Second, it helps allocate resources toward the most profitable opportunities and fosters focus.

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework

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Buyer Centric Tools & Content Layer The next layer "Buyer Centric Tools & Content" aims at creating deeper insight into the buyer to create the tools that inform message creation, marketing content, education of sales and marketing teams, creation of campaigns, etc. But that's content for another blog post.

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A Framework for B2B Customer Segmentation – Part 1: Why Segment Your Market?

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This way, vendors can optimize their product offering, marketing, and sales approach to meet the specific requirements of the segment better and more cost efficiently than the competition. And many companies simply don't allocate sufficient resources for defining the right segments. In complex markets, segmentation is not trivial.

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Developing Your Marketing Analytics Strategy - A 3 Step Approach

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With a collaborative balance of internal and external minds, a robust set of tools and resources, and defined goals driving actionable questions, your firm will have everything in place to not only achieve an incisive understand of its marketing and audience, but the way forward to greater success.

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