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How to Avoid a Marketing Automation Catastrophe

SBI Growth

Marketing leaders must prove their contribution to Sales Revenue. Advertising and tradeshows are not enough. Marketing must produce leads that generate new business. In this environment, many of your peers have turned to marketing automation as the solution. If marketing automation is the car, content is the fuel.

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Marketing Is Not What You Think It Is

The Sales Heretic

Many people believe that marketing and advertising are the same thing. Or if not, that marketing consists of the promotion you do to drive sales. Marketing is everything you and your business do that can potentially impact sales. Using this definition, marketing includes: • [.]. And that’s an awful lot.

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How to Write a Marketing Plan in Six Easy Steps

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Lonny Kocina A well-executed marketing plan is like a GPS. Done right, your marketing should result in more leads, higher sales and a stronger brand. Thankfully marketing your business can be simple, if you have a system in place that everyone on your team wants to use because it makes their jobs less stressful.

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Your 2014 Marketing Budget Roadmap

SBI Growth

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. Those that miss critical spend categories altogether.

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A New Tool to Drive B2B Leads from LinkedIn

SBI Growth

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. The best B2B option until now has been LinkedIn ads. Case Study.

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The Ultimate List of Marketing Podcasts

Zoominfo

Given its rising popularity, podcasting is now an avenue marketers can explore to publish more branded content and reach new audiences. But, it’s also a great resource for marketers who simply want to learn new tips and strategies or find a bit of motivation for their day-to-day efforts. 1. This Old Marketing Podcast.

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Marketers Just Want To Market: Here’s How

Sales and Marketing Management

The best marketing minds are like that – a marriage of seeming opposites that end up working together. Strategic marketers today must balance the right brain that controls creativity and intuition and the left brain that processes information logically and analytically. Here tonight,” he said, “we have apple and orange.

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