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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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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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35+ Marketing Jokes to Brighten Your Day

Zoominfo

A little bit of humor can go a long way– even in the marketing world. Today’s marketing professionals must juggle a number of high-priority tasks throughout the day, and often, they find themselves under a significant amount of stress. In these cases, a few lighthearted jokes can ease the tension of the day-to-day marketing job.

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Demand Generation Advice for the CEO

SBI Growth

Your marketing department must be skilled at stimulating latent demand. My bet is your marketing department is terrible at this. These are PR firms, social media consultants, advertising agencies-you name it. B2B marketing service providers are not very good at this. There is only so much active demand in a given market.

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Poor 'Quality' Marketing Leads for the Dumpster?

SBI Growth

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales. Grading sales qualified leads.

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The Top 8 Takeaways from Social Media Guru Paul Gillin’s FIR B2B

Pointclear

Co-hosts Paul and Allan tee up the show by discussing several hot news items relevant to the B2B market - Here’s what they noshed on, on Episode #5: According to the latest CMO Survey, 85% of CMOs either have not shown any impact from social media spending or have only a qualitative sense of its effectiveness. Voicemails work.

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The 21st Century Illusiveness of Marketing Engagement

Increase Sales

Marketing has evolved to at least two new animals: social media and mobility. Yet all this evolution has made marketing engagement even more illusive. Marketing engagement is still very illusive for many small business owners not to mention the big marketers (advertising firms). Is that marketing engagement?

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