markempa

AUGUST 30, 2011

Tweet Longer selling cycles and stalled deals are impeding sales funnels everywhere. Use these three practices to convert more leads into revenue: Use Funnel-Specific Market Research. For example, if prospects lack capital budgets, perhaps a “buy-now-pay-later” program will get the sale back on track.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration? More leads. More sales. Less money.

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SalesIntel

JULY 30, 2021

Top Whitepaper of the Month: Determining the Return on Investment for Your Marketing Strategy. Top eBook of the Month: B2B Sales Playbook. As businesses adopt modern sales and marketing strategies, they need these elegant solutions to make them work. Every company with a sales team is now a potential customer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2011

They agree it helps them get found in search engines early and often, drives hordes of traffic to their site and fills the top of their funnel with qualified leads at a lower cost per lead. Then comes the silence because they are having trouble connecting the dots between inbound marketing and sales.

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markempa

AUGUST 15, 2011

Tweet Too many marketers think that their inside sales teams are alchemists. They dump data that’s absolute garbage into the top of the sales funnel and expect sales lead gold to come out the other side. This came to mind when my teleprospecting team was struggling with one of our lead-generation clients.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association , and host of the Funnel Radio Channel. Jim recently interviewed PointClear’s Dan McDade about the five most important things he’s learned in business and life—in one of an ongoing series of radio programs featuring sales and marketing industry leaders.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

Too often we grab the latest product brochure, sales presentation or case study and post it online. But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. Use the key insights from your surveys to create whitepapers on the top pain points.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads. So marketing tightens the quality standards and sends fewer but higher quality leads. Help sales fill their pipeline funnels. So marketing sends more.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

As well, we received a large amount of anecdotal feedback about how great the content was. Some of the top ones included: What is the best way to align your efforts with sales ? How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity? How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity?

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

“We’ve seen a problem now where, even though marketing is doing a great job of generating leads, sales still cannot handle the volume and they slip away,” explains Paul. We had to put ourselves in line with our buyers’ journey so we knew how to engage them at the right level ,” she points out. “We

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3). Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3). Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The following guest post is another important topic for sales and comes from my colleague, Rob Krekstein. Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. To sales, they are a waste of time. Second, you need to have compelling content that meets the prospects needs. Do these 2 things and you will find valuable leads. In the next post , I will list the actions you can take today to deliver targeted leads to sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Allow your content to be shared. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Amplify good news. Consider carefully whether to respond to negative comments. Allow your audience to follow you.

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markempa

AUGUST 1, 2007

to Generate and Follow Leads | Main | Webcast: Closed-Loop Lead Generation & Management » 7 Tips to Improve Sales Follow-up & Close More Leads If you are like most B2B marketers, lead generation is at top of your priority list. Could you have helped move it along by going deeper in the sales cycle?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

The companies that are able to create a sustainable responder generation program will see higher conversions and sales. However, it is difficult for companies to gain inbound responders in large volumes, and too many companies do not have an optimal responder program in place to drive whatever responders they receive to an eventual sale.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. and then provide targeted content based on that information.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. and then provide targeted content based on that information.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 15, 2010 Subscribe The Secret To B2B Social Media? Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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markempa

MAY 13, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. We all want our ROI, and we want it now! The soution?"

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Share: Read more from Strategy marketing plan Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

He goes on to explain how most marketers’ budgets are not aligned to what McKinsey calls the &# customer decision journey.&# He also implores us to block the traditional metaphor of the funnel which I also wrote about since it no longer aligns to the consumer buying process.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Talk to sales to identify what kind of support they need from marketing in order to deliver their annual numbers. Well we need to focus on wringing out every lead and every deal from our funnels. We had become sales order-takers and now we were paying the price. So what happened in B2B Marketing? It used to be so easy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Follow these 6 Content Marketing Tips That Drive Leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

But the same content will not always work in both mediums. Content strategy needs to be considered and offers may need to be adjusted. Registration-required content is not always viewed favorably by social respondents. Registration-required content is not always viewed favorably by social respondents.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

Below are some of the metrics that you can use for measurement: Followers/Connections Impressions Clicks Sales/Registrations It is recommended to use these two free tools for tracking your campaigns: Google Analytics – use those on your landing pages to track site metrics such as traffic sources, time on site and sales funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. I agee that ALL marketing spend should be tied to quanitifiable results that the sales team and executives want to see.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 22, 2010 1 Subscribe 10 Reasons Why Mobile is Hot!

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Marketing needs to be the engine to identify qualified leads for sales. ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. The metrics you chose should be quantifiable and aligned to your sales goals. Think sales, leads, pipeline.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 19, 2010 2 Subscribe Life Is Short!

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2010

In the past I spoke about The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing and described the importance of understanding and analyzing keywords. These insights will guide the content you need to create for an effective campaign. As with organic search, social monitoring can assist with keywords, messaging and content direction.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 5, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 5, 2010 Subscribe Holy Cow!

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2010

How to Get Your Voice Heard Using Social Media Getting yourself noticed is not an easy task especially when you are looking to promote your brand and generate sales. Here are the few tips which can help you to get yourself heard and noticed amongst your target audience using social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

While great content is extremely important, it is essential to use your blog, Twitter/LinkedIn accounts, and other social media tools (RSS syndication) to build a group of influencers that will amplify your content. Not building networks or using syndication – This is not the “Field of Dreams” (if you build it, they will come).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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