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The universal digital marketing audit

Velocity Partners

If you haven’t come across it yet, it’s an insightful framework that challenges the outdated strategies we B2B marketers have relied on to spur growth over the last decade. Something is shifting in the realm of B2B marketing It’s hard to put your finger on it just yet, but it’s there, quietly brewing beneath the surface.

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How to Deliver a Great B2B Sales Experience

Webbiquity

On the other, there’s pressure to build positive, engaging relationships with prospects, without being pushy about lead generation. Lack of Sales and Marketing Alignment When sales and marketing teams operate in silos, it’s a recipe for inefficiency. This post aims to help you understand and tackle those challenges.

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How To Run Your Pipeline Engine To Drive Growth

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Pipeline is the glue between the marketing and sales departments. They focus on outbound prospecting and are responsible for making calls to leads and then passing them to AEs who drive them to closure. How marketing fuels pipeline. Why pipeline? This keeps our focus on continued growth. How to build a pipeline engine.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

And despite any reservations you may have, social media can help you get ahead. By better understanding their customers’ purpose within each community, marketers can construct the right strategy to both engage and assist.” Trend #1: Social media is being used more and more by professionals for decision making.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

ViewPoint

Is it the name on a list you bought from a content aggregator for $23? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified. They won’t get followed up.

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Landing Page Optimization: Why Lower Conversion Rates Are Never a Good Thing

The Point

Over at Marketing Experiments , Daniel Burstein posted recently on how what he calls “friction” on landing pages can reduce or increase conversion rates by making it easier or more difficult for prospects to complete a form. Secondly, shorter forms don’t necessarily generate lower-quality leads. Except that is not always a bad thing.”.

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10 Simple Tricks to Accelerate Your Sales Pipeline

PureB2B

It’s said that it takes around 84 days to convert a lead into an opportunity, and another 18 days to turn it into a deal—all of which may only have a 6% success rate regardless of how long you’ve worked on it. Nurture Your Leads. These are the leads who need nurturing before being passed off to sales. Automate Where Possible.