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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department

markempa

« Lead generation and the number | Main | Reaching Decision Makers » Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department For the complex sale you need enthusiastic referrals to help you build your reputation, differentiate yourself, demonstrate your value proposition, shorten your sales cycle, and drive revenue.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Top Six Lead Generation Challenges for the Complex Sale in 2006

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Commoditization will continue and will be more difficult to overcome: Marketers must work much more diligently and creatively to differentiate their organizations against increasing competition. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Talent Management - Taking the Talent Pulse: What Drives High Potentials?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Conferences Talent Management Magazines Strategies 2009: Innovation to Impact. February 23rd — 25th, 2009 The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Dana Point, California. Talented employees expect their pay to accurately reflect their level of contribution, personal effort and to differentiate them from average performers.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: In defense of thought leadership

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Bauer writes, “What differentiates a thought leader from any other knowledgeable company [or individual] is the recognition from the outside world that the company deeply understands its business, the needs of its customers, and the broader marketplace in which it operates.” So what is a thought leader? So what is a thought leader?

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

If you don't have remarkable content, you have not differentiated yourself and therefore is no reason for people to pay attention. I'd rank the goals of blogging – or any communication – thusly, in order of priority. Content Blogging is and always be about content first, no matter what your goal.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? However, in environments of 20 servers or more, 20 to 30% licensing and infrastructure cost savings was indeed the normal cost differential between Microsoft and the competition. Advantage Microsoft, but not by much. Advantage Microsoft.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Think Different Here’s 6 ways to differentiate agency social media services: 1.