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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration.

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Demand vs. Lead Generation

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-09-01. Teaser: Marketers often exchange the terms demand generation (demand gen) for lead generation (lead gen), but they’re not the same strategies. Marketers often exchange the terms demand generation (demand gen) for lead generation (lead gen), but they’re not the same strategies.

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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. The result?

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 1 - The Why & What

Pointclear

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process. Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Added an SDR team.

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PowerOpinions: Making Lead Scoring a Success Part 2 [Expert Advice]

Pointclear

We recently asked top industry experts the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Because it has become clear that marketing automation is making it easier than ever to generate poor quality leads. Rich Wilson.

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PowerOpinions: Making Lead Scoring a Success Part 1 [Expert Advice]

Pointclear

Marketing Automation makes it easier than ever to deliver more poor-quality leads to sales. According to SiriusDecisions’ Research Brief 1 , the problem with lead scoring at many organizations is as follows: Lead scoring models are based on assumptions or inadequate sales input. A key to this trend is lead scoring. If not, why not?

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Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales?

Corporate Visions

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. In 2015, an average of 5.4 The same can be said about basing your sales and marketing messages on personas. by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. Here’s why.