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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for B2B Marketers

KoMarketing Associates

Why it’s great: Search Engine Land’s LinkedIn Group is a go-to destination for discussions on all facets of search engine marketing but specifically aspects of search technology, campaign execution, and news related to conferences and events run by Third Door Media (the organization that runs Search Engine Land). Salesforce.com.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

Today we will discuss why it’s vital for marketing to develop a training guide for sales so all are on the same page as far as understanding what constitutes a lead in your organization, and what’s the best way to follow up on one. Organizations should strive for lead acceptance rates that are 90 percent or better. The day of the call.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

ViewPoint

They go into a black hole (sometimes called CRM). From SiriusDecisions (2016): "The positioning of tele-prospecting at the center of most organizations’ demand creation schematics suggests that it should be treated as highly strategic. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Marketing That Reaches Decision Makers In Big Companies

markempa

» Marketing That Reaches Decision Makers In Big Companies I was quoted in an article on B-to-B marketing in Marketing News, a publication of the American Marketing Association. « Macs Tasty Recipe for Lead Generation Success | Main | Will Writing a Business Book Generate Sales Leads?

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead qualification and scoring for better leads

markempa

« E-book: Why Naked CRM Doesnt Work | Main | Targeting Your B2B Lead Generation » Lead qualification and scoring for better leads The biggest mistake made by marketers is to give mere inquiries to a salesperson. For this reason, most leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded.

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Three barriers to B2B data-driven marketing

Biznology

Organization and process. Jim Bampos, VP of quality at EMC, recently explained in DMNews that his group transformed their organization around data to enhance the customer experience. It may be “predictive analytics,” “CRM,” “Big Data,” or a zillion other buzzwords.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Word of Mouth Marketing relies on reputation not branding

markempa

Sirius Decisions , a leading B-to-B research firm concludes, "While brand isnt dead, we believe it has become a byproduct of reputation, the first of three overall outputs todays b-to-b organizations must systematically produce in order to be successful.