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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

Pointclear

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. But it’s only a tool. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences.

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5 Marketing Trends That will Impact 2013

SBI Growth

Assessing their impact on marketing strategies makes for tough annual planning on the right formula to connect with buyers. Download this Marketing Plan Assessment Tool to rank your planning ideas across Impact & Ease of Execution.). From my point of view, three big trends will affect marketing planning in 2013.

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Get Better Results From Your Leads – Through the Sales Rep Lens

SBI Growth

Today’s post gives the sales rep a recipe to get more from their marketing leads. Reps often hunt down new leads themselves, discounting many from marketing. But it’s marketing that has the tools and data to deliver. Marketing must be on the hook to get good quality leads to sales. They have the tools and data.

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Quick Tips to Utilize Social Selling and Leverage Your AEs Today

SBI Growth

This is why there is such a push for compelling content marketing strategies these days. As the Sales Leader, you have high expectations for Marketing to deliver. Are you prepared to defend yourself if Marketing places the same accountability on you? Don’t get stuck with a team incapable of leveraging the tools of Sales 2.0.

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3 Steps to Combining Social Media & Competitive Intelligence

SBI Growth

Your competitor rolls out a new groundbreaking feature / tool, and you had no idea it was coming. Download this tool for Tips on Tracking Competitive Activity. An article written by Jenna Cheng cites the following: “Several research studies reveal the growing importance of social technologies to competitive and marketing strategy.

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7 Critical Skills of the Social Seller

SBI Growth

The market is changing. Then I provide several tools for success in the Social Seller Mobile App Guide. I recently met Jill Rowley, a Sales Rep at Eloqua. Jill is buyer-centered and focused on ways to personally evolve with her market. Jill remains Eloqua’s #1 Sales Rep since 2006. The market moves quickly.

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CMO: Are you going to have a job in 2014

SBI Growth

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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