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Three Truths Behind Sales and Marketing Alignment

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Collaborative lead scoring is the basis for effective qualification. To create the best scoring system, marketing and sales have to combine their definitions of the ideal lead. If the two teams can’t agree on what a lead is and how they are scored, then that’s the first area of improvement that you need to focus on.

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The 4 Secrets of Effective Prospect Nurturing

Hubspot

This is a guest blog post by Mari Anne Vanella , one of the 20 Women to Watch in Lead Management in 2011. Lead generation has more and more moved away from a transactional activity, or generating single events for reps, to initiating and maintaining a relationship that leads the buyer to the best choice (i.e.,

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33 (of the) Best Marketing Strategy Guides and Insights of 2010

Webbiquity

They want to be able to engage with a vendor when they are ready and actively seek out advice, often very late in the buying cycle, and have the vendor guide them through a complex buying and problem solving process.&# Best Practices Produce Mediocre Results by iMedia Connection. ** 5 Stars. by Masterful Marketing.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions for the B2B Marketer

ANNUITAS

I have said before that there is no better time to be in B2B Marketing and with all the momentum that was built up this year, I am anxiously waiting for what’s to come in 2011. With that in mind, let me offer up the Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions for the B2B Marketer in 2011. 2011 should be the year of the customer.