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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

ViewPoint

There have been more comments from marketing automation vendors that cold calling and other traditional ways of generating sales leads are going away. Based on SLMA Radio interviews with 120 marketing and sales leaders and other conversations, a big change is the way companies are spending more dollars on marketing and lead generation.

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More Systems for Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent yesterday prowling the exhibit hall at the Direct Marketing Association annual conference in Boston. This uncovered several additional candidates for mid-tier business-to-consumer marketing automation.

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. And you can show demos.

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

ViewPoint

Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. And you can show demos.

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33 Thought-Provoking B2B Social Media and Marketing Stats

Webbiquity

“Lack of understanding” was cited as the top challenge in using programmatic for 47% of B2B marketers. Between 28% and 35% percent of B2B leads come from marketing, while 45% to 52% on average are generated by sales teams. Direct Marketing ). 3 B2B Lead Nurturing and Marketing Automation Stats and Facts.

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Native iPhone QR Code Reader…Coming Fall 2017

Boingnet

With great fanfare, Apple unveiled a new version of the iPhone operating system at the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) in June. This is a post from Boingnet - Direct Marketing Automation for Brands, Agencies & SMB's. Read the original post: Native iPhone QR Code Reader…Coming Fall 2017.

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Fractional Response Attribution is Worse Than Nothing

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent most of the past week in San Francisco at overlapping conferences for the Direct Marketing Association and Marketo. My Marketo presentation was based on the marketing measurement white paper I recently wrote for them, which argues that measurement should be based on tracking buyers through stages in the purchase process.