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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

ViewPoint

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Winning the Complex Sales Cycle with Thought leading Content

markempa

« B2B Lead Generation Blog Adds FeedBlitz for Email Notification | Main | Google Makes Web Analytics Free but will it help your lead generation? » Winning the Complex Sales Cycle with Thought leading Content David Meerman Scott shares some great ideas on how to leverage your thought leading content on your website.

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What the hell does “marketing” even mean??

EMagine B2B Blog

Some of my early favorites consisted of: Managing Sales Leads: How to Turn Every Prospect into a Customer. Direct Mail Copy that Sells. Permission Marketing. Business to Business Direct Marketing. To me, “marketing” means: A tightly-defined strategy that will be executed by the best marketers I can hire.

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The Lead Generation-Inbound Marketing- Funnel Optimization Toolkit

NuSpark Consulting

Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads…. Nowadays there are hundreds and hundreds of online tools and platforms that assist us in generating, converting, and nurturing leads into sales. Similarly, marketing automation is the link between inbound campaigns and CRM platforms.

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What the hell does “marketing” even mean??

EMagine B2B Blog

Some of my early favorites consisted of: Managing Sales Leads: How to Turn Every Prospect into a Customer. Direct Mail Copy that Sells. Permission Marketing. Business to Business Direct Marketing. To me, “marketing” means: A tightly-defined strategy that will be executed by the best marketers I can hire.

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ClickInsights: Biggest roadblock to converting marketing leads

Ambal's Amusings

So marketing tries to feed the pipe. If your company’s sales cycle is 9 months and you run 3-month campaigns—switching focus along with a change in quarter—you’re leaving most of your prospects hanging. The message you send them is that your marketing efforts are really all about you, not them.

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The 3 P’s of B2B Lead Generation: People, Process, Platforms

NuSpark Consulting

When people ask me what I do, I usually give them my standard 15-second commercial; generate quality inbound leads and shorten sales cycles via lead generation, lead nurturing, and content marketing. You can say our approach is more of a before-during-after with regard to lead generation strategy.