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Making Social Engagement Data Work for You: How to Nurture Leads Effectively

Oktopost

At its core, lead nurturing is rooted in data. The more data you have on leads, the better you can craft engaging content and messaging. Getting social right so your sales teams can use social engagement data to personalize their conversations with their prospects. Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders?

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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

The Point

In addition, the platform integrates with leading marketing automation platforms, such as Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo, and Pardot. By using this integration, our customers can use social engagement data to build highly targeted lead scoring, segmenting, nurturing and attribution programs. (DK) HS) Thanks Daniel!

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Woods , CTO and co-founder at marketing automation provider Eloqua, for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of marketing and the challenges faced by those adopting marketing automation / demand generation systems. Here are six key points that surfaced from our conversation.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. Continuing expansion of sales efforts means it will continue to be the largest cost. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers. The sales cycle may grow longer as larger companies are targeted.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

markempa

Paul Greenberg, Managing Principle, The 56 Group, LLC, and author of CRM at the Speed of Light , said although there are some technology suites that attempt to provide these solutions through the entire sales cycle, it is much more common for companies to integrate CRM technology from more than one vendor.