Pointclear

APRIL 12, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. The 7 Biggest Misconceptions of Successful B2B Marketing.

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B2B PointClear Top of Funnel Marketing 154

Pointclear

APRIL 16, 2018

With the advent of new marketing automation capabilities, AI apps and other technology, marketing is inserting itself deeper in the pipeline at almost every level. I recently talked to Dan McDade with PointClear as part of a series on SLMA Radio that I’m hosting that deals with the issue of pipeline ownership.

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Pipeline PointClear Marketing Top of Funnel 150

Pointclear

APRIL 30, 2013

I''m pleased to have as my guest today Jamie Turner, CEO and Founder of The 60 Second Marketer, an organization that provides tools, tips and tutorials on the newest techniques in marketing. Jamie was recently profiled in Advertising and Promotion , the world''s best-selling college-level marketing textbook.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 248

Pointclear

JANUARY 2, 2018

A 2017 MARTECH TODAY infographic lists the almost 5,000 companies that are part of the marketing technology landscape, up from just 150 in 2011. 02 is that technology has made it possible for marketing to get more poor-quality leads to sales faster than ever before. I don’t place all the blame on marketing. Not 50 things.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 180

Pointclear

MARCH 26, 2013

CRM properly applied, in conjunction with marketing automation software, explains the most data on marketing performance and gives more evidence than any other combination of software. Those with the most marketing toys win.”. What this means is, those companies with the most marketing toys really do win! I think so.

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Software Software Data Marketing 205

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

RESEARCH: Are folks responsible for reaching out to your market knowledgeable and prepared for quality conversation? NURTURE: Are you getting maximum return on marketing programs? Lead nurture programs done well triples your B2B sales lead generation marketing ROI. There is disagreement on the value of research.

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Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 315

Pointclear

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. And an excellent tool provides you with insight into the value of inbound vs. outbound leads. We’ve found that marketers often overestimate this contribution—it needs to be measured.). Guess what.

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Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2012

As a member of the Executive Advisory Group, he delivers CMO and Sales Advisory Services that provide senior technology marketing and sales executives with insights into how to improve productivity and efficiency in their organizations. My PowerViews guest today is Rich Vancil, IDC Group Vice President for Executive Strategies.

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Marketing Outbound Inbound Vendor 247

Pointclear

MAY 1, 2013

Frank Donny is founder and CEO of Marseli , a marketing and sales analytics and performance software company. Frank''s remarkable 25-year career of driving marketing and sales operations divisions within Fortune 500 and start-up organizations is highlighted by his passion for business development and empowering others to succeed.

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Analytics Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Negotiation 216

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

What you should do: Nothing new here — keep your crew well-trained in professionalism, product, and market. I do believe salespeople can and should write blog posts about their market or selling in general if they are thoughtful and articulate. Those are as much for sales as they are for marketing. PointClear PD.

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Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

Pointclear

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I recently read Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman’s book: “Social Marketing to the Business Customer” I liked the book (so much so that I wrote an Amazon recommendation) for a number of reasons. The book is broken down into three sections: Tools, Technology, Tactics. Traditional marketing is push.

Social Media 210

Social Media Engineering Marketing Customer 210

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I am deeply honored to be selected as a finalist in two categories for the 2011 Top Sales & Marketing Awards. Now in its second year, the Top Sales & Marketing Awards combine peer voting with a judging panel of industry experts to recognize leading sales and marketing books, articles, thought leaders, solutions, resources and tools.

Marketing 189

Marketing Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Nurturing 189

Pointclear

AUGUST 21, 2012

Such a failure may happen in many types of systems, including power transmission, computer networking, finance, bridges, sales and marketing, (the last two are our words). Of course what I am thinking about are the functions of sales and marketing. No marketing automation system. No lead management system. Keeping It Zipped.

Marketing 168

Marketing ROI Follow-up Lead Generation 168

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The question which begs to be answered is, “What is the Keystone in the sales and marketing process?” Is it the Marketing Automation system, without which 100% follow-up would be lost? And yes, the Marketing Automation system reduces the failure rate where the sales activity of follow-up lies fallow and under-performed.

CRM 169

CRM B2B Marketing Hiring 169

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

Analytics 164

Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As an editor and marketer, I spend a lot of time thinking about the “how to”—in other words, how to translate the best and more interesting marketing ideas into truly actionable steps for organizations looking to grow their business. In other words: B2B marketers + social = lots of room for improvement.

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Trends B2B Social Media Marketing 180

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 178

Pointclear

AUGUST 22, 2011

And, for many, the goal for 2012 will be to finally implement marketing automation. Unfortunately, too many marketers begin this process with the question, “Which automation tools should we look at?” First, you’ll become more efficient in your marketing and sales efforts. What's the point of that?

Marketing 164

Marketing Lead Qualification Lead Management Lead Nurturing 164

Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2011

How does it relate to B2B marketing? And I was treated accordingly, no doubt thanks to some nifty lead scoring algorithms that have become de rigueur for B2B marketers. And what do you know, just recently an industry colleague asked me for advice on similar tools, and I was only too happy to share my buying experience privately.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Prospecting 185

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Marketing automation. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

They assist with implementation strategy, productivity & performance initiatives, processes, technology and tools. Among those folks are: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions. Matt Heinz – Heinz Marketing. Dan McDade – Pointclear. Bob Apollo – Inflexion Point Strategy Partners.

Lead Management 114

Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 114

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Continued engagement in the form of account-focused outreach (also referred to as Account Based Marketing) makes sure your company is on their radar when the right disruption happens to necessitate a decision, when their current solution’s weaknesses reach the boiling point, or when competition encroaches and fear sets in.

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Sales Qualified Lead Forecasting Outsourcing Services PointClear 100

Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Why not use all the tools in your toolbox? Are these truly leads? Not really.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

Pointclear

MAY 20, 2016

Make marketing accountable for sourcing revenue is the third of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue. Tier 3: SMB/Channel Accounts.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 133

Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Here is the Twitter transcript for Day 2 Twitter activity for the #sm20 hashtag during the Sales and Marketing 2.0 Congratulations to the winners of the Sales & Marketing Awards in the following categories: Best Alignment of Sales & Marketing – HubSpot. Best Sales & Marketing 2.0 Solution - Marketo.

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Twitter Conference Omniture Airlines 74

Pointclear

MARCH 29, 2011

Marketing automation tools are becoming increasingly important to today's lead generation efforts, but firms cannot abandon the human element of working with prospects. There are so many companies now, and rightfully so, looking at marketing automation solutions and other tools.

Marketing 113

Marketing Lead Nurturing Lead Generation Tools 113

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

CRM 133

CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 133

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Thinking back on my career, I realized early on that marketing spending of any sort, whether for people or programs, must be rooted in my ability (and our marketing department’s ability) to justify the expense. Yet taken as a whole, a company’s marketing should be measurable, with the goal of always making a defined predictable return.

Lead Gen 184

Lead Gen ROI Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 184

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2013

Surviving Change Under Tough Market Conditions. Salespeople often forget to follow up or follow through when they lack a tool that reminds them, Dan says. Tools like Salesforce and Boomerang can help keep opportunities from falling through the cracks. Connections. Like family pets, relationships require routine care and feeding.

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Conversion Automotive Face-to-face Decision Maker 264

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. But what are the most effective outbound marketing channels for kicking off a business relationship? billion on search marketing for the same purpose. billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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Media Direct Mail netFactor Trade Show 233

Pointclear

AUGUST 27, 2018

Peter Drucker is more widely quoted as saying "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.".

Company 124

Company Marketing SalesForce Enterprise 124

Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

Demand Generation Agencies 219

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Top of Funnel How To 219

Pointclear

MARCH 18, 2014

Everyone in sales recognizes that there is an unfortunate gap between marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM). When 80 percent of marketing-qualified leads fail to convert into sales-qualified leads, it’s time for the industry to reconfigure its thinking. CRM is good at forecasting, he said.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Video 230

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Tony also served in the role of Vice President in Sales and Marketing capacities for TRW, Knight-Ridder, and Compaq (HP). in Marketing Management. Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. He holds a B.S.

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Sales Process Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 194

Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. He has decades of experience as a marketing communications manager, marketing manager, and sales manager. Marketing automation in the hands of a fool is still a fool’s tool.”.

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Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 230

Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2013

I continue to enjoy the insightful discussions I have with sales and marketing experts in our PowerViews series. For this ‘best of’ edition we revisit the hot topics—social media, mobile marketing, sales lead follow up. Jamie Turner, The 60 Second Marketer, Are We Returning to the Days of "One-to-Many" Marketing?

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Follow-up Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Media 207

Pointclear

MAY 7, 2015

The marketing word of the year is Nurture. Nurturing is one of the most effective, yet underutilized, activities in the sales and marketing process. So they began to sell follow-up as a tool to mix with mail. Marketing became further educated when they asked sales about the customer buying process and the sales selling process.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100