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How Marketing Can Supercharge Sales with Big Data & Social Selling

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Chances are you subscribe to a variety of industry blogs and regularly engage in discussions on social networks like LinkedIn and Twitter. The traditional buyer/sales rep relationship has been turned completely on its head. The post How Marketing Can Supercharge Sales with Big Data & Social Selling appeared first on.

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How Marketing Can Contribute To Revenue Generation

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They’re studied up, Internet savvy and turning to social communities, like LinkedIn and Twitter, to see what people are saying about brands. In response, sales needs to adapt and be on equal footing with the buyer. Marketing needs to be seen as an equal partner to sales. Marketing needs to be seen as an equal partner to sales.

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Digital Display Advertising in the Data Analytics Age (with Jennifer Davis, VP Marketing and Product Strategy at Planar Systems)

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Tracking data, identifying buyers and following leads throughout the entire sales cycle has become a conventional practice, even in areas like digital display signage. Highlights include: Pinball wizards: Jennifer explains how Planar tracks leads through its sales cycle. marketing is one of the flippers and sales is the other.”.

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The Future of Social Media: My 2014 Prediction

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How Will It Impact Marketing, Sales and Customer Service? B2B companies will invest 80% of their effort on blogging, LinkedIn and Twitter, and largely ignore Facebook, G+, Pinterest and others. Getting results will dominate social marketing. This will mean turning “engagement” into lead generation and an investment in social selling.

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Marketers, Give Your Salespeople the Info They Need to Succeed

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In his new book To Sell is Human , Daniel Pink talks about information asymmetry in the sales process. In fact the asymmetry has become so significant that the ability of the sales rep to do their job is greatly at risk. I am talking about arming the sales rep with the same or better information than the buyer.

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Forget Vanity Metrics: How To Get Serious About Marketing Analytics

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How many people from Twitter clicked-thru and filled out a form, or showed significant engagement (e.g. Instead, make it a point to meet with your prospects at the event and require your sales team to report on their meeting metrics. 4 page views or more)?” “The real value of events is mid-funnel. ” 4.

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Is Email Marketing Making a Comeback?

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Despite the promising numbers behind email marketing, many marketers made the switch to focusing more on social media strategy and spent more time developing campaigns for Twitter, Facebook, and other social marketing channels. Email marketing was somewhat forgotten, but is it dead ? The short answer is: no. First thing’s first.