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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

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Companies are recognizing that simply sending one-off, one-size-fits-all broadcasts to an entire database regardless of buying persona or interest level is out of step with the reality of today’s selling cycle. The Changing Role of Email. The email blast is dead. The reason?

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How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

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A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”? Over time, an accumulation of stale, non-responsive leads can bump you to a higher pricing tier for your CRM or marketing automation license. . What best practices should we put in place?

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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

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Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. Unfortunately, the data in most CRM systems isn’t tight enough to help marketing.

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

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Or even if the processes with which those leads are shepherded along the sales cycle are woefully inadequate, a company may not generate the volume of inquiries necessary in order for marketing automation to make a difference. Inevitably, much of the business case for a marketing automation solution comes down to intangibles.

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Top 5 Benefits of Adopting Marketing Automation

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Regardless of how good your inside sales team is, putting in place automated lead response via marketing automation ensures that every inbound lead receives a prompt, systematic, personalized response, and that none fall through the cracks. Increased sales productivity due to better identification of sales-ready leads.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

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As a Marketo agency partner, I attended along with colleagues from Spear Marketing Group to greet clients, talk shop, and hear how other companies – including Marketo themselves – are putting technology to use in the service of improved lead management. Think you have enough content?

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Lead Gen: A proposed replacement for BANT

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For marketing departments, it’s impossible to deliver BANT qualified leads unless marketing owns an inside sales function. Making matters worse, BANT does not align with customer buying behavior early in the decision process when Marketing and Sales generally need to engage prospects to win new business.

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