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The B2B Sales Role in the New Buying Process

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I recently had the opportunity to attend the Sales 2.0 The conference was full of great content and information on the state and the future of B2B Sales. It also allowed me the opportunity to mingle with many great B2B sales people, which is a departure from my norm of usually interacting with B2B Marketers. the sales person).

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Business Leaders Not Satisfied with Marketing Success Metrics

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Most of our ANNUITAS Perpetual Demand Generation® work was being requested by C-level and Sales leaders with revenue responsibility – not CMOs, as we had previously suspected – and they are frustrated with Marketing’s performance in and around Demand Generation. Why is marketing’s story so different than sales?

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Who Are Your B2B Buyers?

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If you spend a lot of time and resources on social media, and your target buyers rarely have Twitter accounts, you are wasting your time – no matter how great your tweets may be. Your buyers just aren’t on Twitter. Start with this short list for your internal and external interviews: Sales (Inside Sales and outside reps).

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Put The Phone Down – I’m Not Ready

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It’s always a sales call. However, sales teams, please use them wisely or their power will backfire on you. I almost didn’t answer the phone because I thought it may be a sales call, but I was also expecting a call today from a 415 number, so I answered it. When to make that first sales call? Seriously. Big mistake.

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Looking Outside In: Know Your Buyer First

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Marketing and sales roles provide most of the inputs to buyer personas with about half of respondents interviewing customers and a third interviewing prospects. Buying process questions should cover the process itself, stakeholders and, in the case of customers, how the sales process matched up with their buying needs.

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Notes from the Marketing Operations Executive Summit 2014

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Rather than write a summary of the fantastic Marketing Operations Executive Summit , which just wrapped up in San Diego yesterday, I thought I might share the highlights by pulling together my “stream of consciousness” twitter stream from the event. RT @RHsays What does sales need from marketing? marketingopssummit.

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Two Reasons Your B2B Marketing Programs Are Failing

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Many marketing organizations have good intentions when it comes to developing their demand generation programs: they want to increase qualified leads, sales opportunities, and closed/won revenue. Maybe you’ve got a great social media plan, but are your buyers even using Twitter? Is the outcome the same for each channel?