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The New Marketing Accountability

Marketing Insider Group

Finally, take a poll: ask marketers if they can a) recite the company’s 30-second elevator pitch on why a prospect should pick them vs the competition b) demo their product c) talk to a customer. This also brings marketers into the dicussion around real value created for the organization. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0 insideview : Listening to Cliff Dorsey, VP Sales @ LivePerson Veritable lovefest for ConnectAndSell (I've seen a demo, it's pretty darn cool) #sales20.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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The 4 Cs of Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

Context: this is important because some traditional marketing assets like white papers or product demos do not perform very well in social media. And something that is often overlooked: simply sharing the valuable content of others. The reason is context. People do not “like&# brands on Facebook because they want to be marketed to.

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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

Nurture your email list with an invitation to visit a resource center that provides thought leadership from well-known experts, webcast and podcast replays, short videos and product demos, customer testimonials and case studies. You can also look to 3 rd party list sources but expect a lower response rate and thus a lower ROI.

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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Each tool could engage a client either in a self serve or facilitated manner.

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The Recession is Here - Time to Become an Eco-Marketer

Anything Goes Marketing

You would be amazed at how you can reuse the content you already have (blog posts, newsletter articles, industry white papers, demos) and create a specific and defined automated program that is designed to target a specific segment and has a specific marketing goal. Create marketing campaigns that can be reused.