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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

This includes activities like demand capture, lead generation, pipeline acceleration, inbound marketing tactics, brand awareness, and more. Lead generation focuses on gaining interest from potential customers and capturing those contacts in a database to be nurtured and guided through the sales funnel. Let’s get started.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

This includes activities like demand capture, lead generation, pipeline acceleration, inbound marketing tactics, brand awareness, and more. Lead generation focuses on gaining interest from potential customers and capturing those contacts in a database to be nurtured and guided through the sales funnel. Let’s get started.

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How to Build a Paid Media Strategy in a Down Economy

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Case in point: Businesses that advertised aggressively during the 1980s recession had sales 256% higher than those who didn’t. For marketers, this can look like this: Instead of putting all the eggs in one basket, expand impact across channels to ensure that if one channel or tactic goes down, your entire strategy isn’t dead in the water.

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How to Measure Your Facebook Ads ROI (With Metrics That Matter to Your Boss and Business)

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Ultimately, you want to tie your ad spend to revenue, but since your sales cycle might make that an excessively long process, these are strong performance indicators to report on and optimize against along the way. They want you to present metrics like: Pipeline and revenue created Opportunities created Cost-per-opportunity.

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How to Measure Your Facebook Ads ROI (With Metrics That Matter to Your Boss and Business)

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Ultimately, you want to tie your ad spend to revenue, but since your sales cycle might make that an excessively long process, these are strong performance indicators to report on and optimize against along the way. They want you to present metrics like: Pipeline and revenue created Opportunities created Cost-per-opportunity.

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The Marketing Revenue Accountability Roadmap

Ledger Bennett

Go Beyond Sales & Marketing Alignment. And functioning optimally for many will entail leaving behind the very notion of Sales and Marketing as siloed activity-centers that need to be aligned. Well here’s some news… Buyers are no longer the most important part of the revenue process. Refocus from ABM to URM. Controversial?