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Industrial Marketing Strategy Must Be Documented for the Best Results

Tiecas

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? In my experience working with manufacturers and industrial companies, too many are in a rush to pump out more content without a strategy in place.

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What Is Sales Commission? Formulas, Examples, and Best Practices

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories.

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Long sales cycles, the #1 enemy of SEO attribution

Kevin Indig

Attribution models are the most common way to quantify the returns on marketing investments, but not every company can use them successfully. Long sales cycles (+90 days) are the biggest enemy of attribution models, often to the detriment of channels like SEO that play an important role in early touches.

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Controlling Lead Leakage with Lead Management Best Practices

LeanData

For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel. The sales funnel for almost every company is shaped, indeed, like a funnel, or a cone, with its sides tapered closer together down the length of the funnel.

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5 Steps for Creating a B2B Digital Marketing Strategy

The Marketing Blender

A robust B2B digital marketing strategy can and WILL drive growth in revenue, reputation, and resilience for your business. Otherwise, you’ll get overwhelmed by ALL the options available for marketing online. These are our best tips for helping you focus on what matters. Go deeper than demographics and even firmographics.

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Why Sales-Marketing Alignment Is Necessary for ABM to Be Effective

Marketing Insider Group

All of these things can clearly lead to a more profitable company and a better customer experience, which is why many companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budget towards this strategy. ABM gives the sales team fewer leads to work with. Why Sales Marketing Alignment Matters.

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How to Leverage HubSpot’s Operations Hub to Manage Duplicate Records

SmartBug Media

To achieve that longevity, you'll need your marketing, sales, and customer service teams to work together as one. Revenue operations (RevOps) can make this process much more manageable. We’ll then show you how HubSpot's Operations Hub helps with your RevOps process and removes duplicate records.