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

The Effective Marketer

It is interesting that back in 2009, MarketingSherpa had published a chart showing the key challenges marketers faced and “generating high quality leads&# was the top one. In their “ CMO Perspectives on B2B Marketing Automation &# this challenge for high quality leads is shown as having increased from 69% in 2009 to 76% in 2010.

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Marketing By Objectives « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing By Objectives Objective-Action-Budget In a recent article for the CMO Council’s Newsletter, Nicolas Watkis argues “ Marketers won’t succeed if they don’t have objectives ”. Right on, my friend!

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Peformance Measurement, Corporate Culture and the CMO

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« State of the Art Lead Tracking | Main | Blueprint for Personal Lead Generation Success » Peformance Measurement, Corporate Culture and the CMO Yesterday, I met with the CEO, CMO and CSO at a top 500 software company. CMOs are faced with a challenge that they can influence - their company culture. What do you think?

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Embattled CMOs share strategies to improve marketing influence

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Sridhar Ramanathan (a CMO Council Member), over at the Pacifica Group Blog , shares a collection of ideas that stood out to him during the conference in his post Gold Nuggets from the CMO Council Summit Heres one of the nuggets that Sridhar captured: "Marketing is here to do one thing—impact topline and bottomline.

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effective marketer principle 4: take responsibility for decisions

The Effective Marketer

The names of the people who will be affected by it, especially if approvals are needed (think for example about whether the CEO, the CMO, or another high level executive needs to review and approve your ad campaign before it goes out the door. It needs to be taught explicitly to everyone in organizations that are based on knowledge.”

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Budget Wars: Sales & Finance vs Marketing

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" Related post: Closed Loop Feedback: The Missing Lead Generation Huddle It was interesting to see that according to MarketingSherpas report, marketers complain they dont have the resources to close the loop on their marketing investments. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: On B2B Demand Generation tools and Lead Generation Dashboards

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In 2005, I wrote a post predicting that lead generation dashboards would become a hot topic and according to the CMO Councils 2007 Outlook Report the time for marketing performance dashboards is now. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0