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Top 5 Benefits of Adopting Marketing Automation

The Point

Most salespeople are compensated on closed business, NOT on keeping leads warm. As a result, absent marketing automation and a well-designed lead management program, all but the hottest leads typically die a lonely death in the CRM database.

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To Gate or Not to Gate, That Is the B-to-B Content Marketing Question

Biznology

Myself, I grew up as a marketer in the world of measurable direct and database marketing. I like marketing campaigns that provide predictable results. Where I can stand up in court and show a history of my campaign response rates, conversion rates, and cost-per-lead numbers.

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The Ongoing Challenge of B2B Multi-channel Attribution: 7 Practical Workarounds

Biznology

When other techniques are too expensive or too problematic to justify, you may opt to measure only your lead-generation activities—those occurring before the hand-off to sales, such as response rate, conversion rate to qualified lead, cost per lead, campaign executed on time, on budget, and others.