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BtoB 2010 Lead Generation Guide

markempa

The guide contains information about trends, expert columns, market statistics and vendor lists. I recommend you check it out. BtoB: 2010 Lead Generation Guide.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

The Point

Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”. I doubt it. What do you think?

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Why Field Marketing is on SiriusDecisions’ Radar

DemandBase

Despite being one of the oldest teams within marketing, field marketing has largely remained a generalist role loosely defined as supporting sales efforts to meet local growth objectives. Field Marketing can help uncover trends and opportunities seen during the sales cycle or they can pressure test new marketing ideas with the reps.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. April 2009.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles.

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ClickInsights: Mistakes to avoid in copy used for lead generation

Ambal's Amusings

If your objective is to help businesses capture a lead, close a sale or establish themselves as kings in a crowded market, here's some tips to avoid: Don't lead with the product pitch: In today's economy nobody likes to be sold to. You can do this by talking about things they care about, such as problems and trends. Cindy King's Tip.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

The savvy marketing and sales enablement professional will proactively recognize the issues that the frugal and empowered decision maker creates, using 2011 to reshape the strategies and investments to better engage, dialogue and sell to ever more empowered, skeptical, overloaded and frugal buyers.