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Marketing and Sales: Done Well (2015) Do Better (2016) - Part 3 of 3

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This is the third in a series of three blogs about what experts feel companies did well in 2015 and what they would do better in 2016. What B2B Companies Did Well in 2015? Trish Bertuzzi – The Bridge Group: 2016 is the year we will modify our sales process to truly reflect how our buyers want to buy. Simplified. …

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Salesforce reportedly close to deal for Informatica

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It was taken private in 2015 for about $5.3 Dig deeper: MarTech’s CRM experts to follow The deal would be Salesforce’s largest since it bought Slack in 2021 for $28 billion. Business email address Sign up now Processing. billion by a consortium that included Permira and CPPIB. Informatica went public again in 2021. Why we care.

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How Iron Mountain implements conversational AI to drive engagement and revenue

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Conversica was founded in 2007 under the name AutoFerret — as a CRM and lead validation tool for auto dealers. Under the new name, Conversica, the company expanded to other industries in 2015.) Email: Business email address Sign up now Processing. Very early stages, we are looking at options for accounting and collections.”

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Will New Marketing Automation Tools Let Sales Climb Back Up The Funnel?

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If the pendulum is really swinging the other way, then sales people will be taking a more active role earlier in the buying process. Advanced data enhancement and lead scoring make it easier for sales people to automate lead nurture processes without becoming marketing automation experts. I can definitely see the motivational poster.

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Customer education is a vital part of the customer experience

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They didn’t allow for external distribution and integration into CRM and marketing systems. Northpass was launched in 2015. ” Customer education meets CRM. “By pushing learning data into the CRM records, it gives the business a more complete view,” he said. “There are two big parts,” he said.

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How a smart email strategy helped Apple Rose Beauty thrive during the pandemic

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She founded her cosmetics company in 2015, naming it after the women to honor them and highlight a larger mission — to help stop human trafficking. She chose ActiveCampaign, a marketing automation platform that includes email marketing and CRM capabilities. That really changed the direction of my life.”. What do you need?”.

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ZenIQ Account Based Marketing System Maps Buying Centers, Finds Data and Exection Gaps, and Recommends Actions to Fill Them

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ZenIQ assembles account data from a company’s CRM, marketing automation, and Web systems; supplements this with account and contact information from external sources; assesses the current state of each account; and takes actions to improve that state. These will be processes that execute in ZenIQ and, mostly, in external systems.