ViewPoint

JANUARY 26, 2012

Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. That compares to $7 billion spent on direct mail and $4.5 billion on search marketing for the same purpose. Business marketers spend an average of 18.6%

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markempa

JUNE 29, 2007

Companies who provided fewer but higher quality "sales ready" leads to their sale people have better sales conversion rates than those that send lots of early stage leads and that creating a "cost per lead" culture just does not work.

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markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

« Webcast: 8 Critical Success Factors for B2B Lead Generation | Main | Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department » Lead generation and the number Many financial executives still view marketing as an expense a.k.a. cost center rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue.

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markempa

DECEMBER 21, 2006

« Podcast: Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way | Main | Podcast: What Sales Really Needs From Marketing » Budget Wars: Sales & Finance vs Marketing I look at the challenge that marketers often face when it comes to getting their budgets approved by finance and I wonder why does it have to be so hard?

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markempa

JULY 16, 2007

BtoB Magazine: Effective search strategies July 16, 2007 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Inquiry management and search marketing strategy : » Moving from Monologue to Dialogue. Its simply unrealistic to expect advertising to sell business solutions.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

But I believe that most of our colleagues in finance don’t fully understand marketing. It’s not a surprise that financial executives still view marketing as an expense, a.k.a. cost center, rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue. As marketers we need to do more to educate our peers on the value of marketing.

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

They measured their response - used phone qualification - worked closely with their sales team - sent on only sales ready leads - closed the loop on each lead - increased revenue - cut costs - gave remarkable reports. Now look like heroes. A CEO I know said, "small budgets foster maximum creativity."

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