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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.

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Depending on the length of your sales cycle, conditions at your prospect’s end may change resulting in projects being put on hold.

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Twitter Rolls Out Analytics Tool

Hubspot

Want to be able to measure your Twitter ROI? Soon you’ll be able to, right on Twitter. Twitter has started inviting a select group of users to test their new Twitter Analytics dashboard. How Twitter Analytics Dashboard is broken down: Timeline Activity. Screenshots are via Mashable. Summit in San Francisco.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

Even to the point on the second day where a whole panel discussion was dominated by twitter talk. annekeseley : " sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 damphoux : Tom Barrieau of IDC admitted he has twitter envy.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

Even to the point on the second day where a whole panel discussion was dominated by twitter talk. annekeseley : " sales 2.0 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.” Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. How has your role changed? Leave your comments below.

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content.