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Do Self-Service Systems Really Lead to Better Results? Our Member Survey Offers Surprising Answers to Industry Questions

Customer Experience Matrix

That has been true since the survey began in 2017 through last year’s survey: both CDP deployment and presence of a unified customer database have increased steadily. Past surveys have found that about 60% of deployed CDPs are reported as delivering value, while the remaining 40% are struggling. Self-service leads to success: false.

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Five Surprising Findings from the 2017 Marketing Strategy Report

Webbiquity

CoSchedule, a top content planning and research tool vendor, just released its State of Marketing Strategy Report 2017 , based on a survey of nearly 1,600 marketing professionals. Just 30% of marketers say “generating qualified leads” is their top key performance indicator (KPI). But a few stood out as…unexpected.

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

ViewPoint

Unless you are the low-price leader, value selling is essential to the success of your business. That takes more persuasive skills, better navigation of the prospect organization, a broader understanding of strategic objectives - and frankly a likable demeanor - to convince your target of the value you offer. Our people do as well.

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How to do lead management that improves conversion

markempa

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

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Our Favorite Articles & Blog Posts of 2017

KoMarketing Associates

We asked team members to highlight content pieces that provided value to their day-to-day responsibilities, offered inspiration, or added to their professional development. The State of Paid Social 2017. Digital in 2017: A Global Overview. What’s the Value of a Like? 3 Ways to Build a Better Agency-Client Relationship.

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5 Ways We Helped Clients Overcome B2B Content Marketing Challenges in 2017

KoMarketing Associates

With 2017 coming to a close, it’s time to look back on the past 12 months and prepare for 2018. More about this challenge : This was the number one challenge reported by B2B marketers in the 2017 CMI report , and from my experience working with clients this year, it was the most common challenge for them as well. Final Thoughts.

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KoMarketing Year In Review: Top Posts & Milestones from 2017

KoMarketing Associates

A post shared by KoMarketing (@komarketing) on Dec 18, 2017 at 4:06pm PST. What a year 2017 has been. KoMarketing’s Top 10 Posts of 2017. It has been an incredible team effort in generating over 200 content marketing assets throughout 2017. 30 SEO Best Practices for B2B Organizations in 2017.