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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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If your company hasn’t created formal battle cards (aka kill sheets, competitive cards, competitor takeout), it will at some point, as this is typically one of the first things sales teams ask. Just the sales team? Only frontline sales or sales executives as well? Only frontline sales or sales executives as well?

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Why Sales and Marketing Don't Get Along « The Effective Marketer

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along Talk to marketing mangers and sales managers about their biggest complaint and you will likely hear “They don’t follow up on leads!&# from the sales guy.

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Maximizing Marketing Spend with Attribution Models

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Pay for the biggest audience you can afford – whether that’s a billboard, newspaper advertisement, radio or otherwise – and trust that increased sales after the fact resulted from that investment. Which channels move your ideal customer down the sales funnel fastest? Once upon a time, marketers just played the quantities game.

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How to Build a Lead Scoring Program

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By Ashley Furness, guest blogger and Software Advice market analyst. Every company wants high leads volume – but not prioritizing those opportunities can leave sales wasting time on leads that will never buy, while the best prospects fall through the cracks. This content was provided by Software Advice.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Problem is, sometimes the rush to get the software installed and running ends up trampling the creation of processes, content planning, and other key ingredients that are necessary for a successful marketing automation implementation. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams.

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When Leads Go Cold

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It seems with all the systems we have today to generate, score, and nurture leads, it all comes down to sales. The amount of time it takes for a sales person to follow up with a lead can determine whether the deal is closed or not. Plugging this hole in the funnel takes more than software.

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Demand Generation and Lead Management Explained

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Last week Carlos Hidalgo , CEO of the Annuitas Group , shared on the Software Advice blog a nice video explaining two basic concepts that are often used interchangeably by vendors and even analysts in the Marketing Automation space but should in fact be treated as separate concepts: Demand Generation and Lead Management.