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Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions

The Point

Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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How Often Should I Email My Database?

The Point

This is becoming a common question, driven in part by the trend in B2B towards more proactive lead nurturing and the rapid adoption of marketing automation systems. Suddenly, companies have the tools at [.].

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

The Point

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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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

The Point

Email is now a means to a conversation, not merely a one-off broadcast, and marketing automation solutions enable sophisticated, automated, triggered, multi-step, “drip” marketing campaigns that respond to changing demographic and behavioral criteria.

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5 Ways To Incorporate Direct Mail Into Your Marketing Mix

The Point

Tags: B2B Marketing Database Marketing Demand Generation Dimensional Mail Direct Mail Installed Base Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing direct marketing b2b demand generation b2b lead generation direct marketing best practices.

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

The Point

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. HS: Thanks David!

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases. The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.