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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

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Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

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This is what your CMO was getting at by requesting a business plan from everyone and I love that example. These days, we really have the feeling that B2B marketers are all about following trends: we should have a blog, we should do lead nurturing, we should have a group on linkedIn. OK, but WHY.

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Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

Marketing Insider Group

This is what your CMO was getting at by requesting a business plan from everyone and I love that example. These days, we really have the feeling that B2B marketers are all about following trends: we should have a blog, we should do lead nurturing, we should have a group on linkedIn. OK, but WHY.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

The article also refers to: The CMO Council ’s “State of Marketing” survey did not ask about click-throughs specifically, but found marketers worldwide were most likely to measure their campaigns through page views, registrations, and the volume and origin of site traffic. Because it is an easy metric to obtain.

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How To Align Marketing With Sales

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She also recapped a CMO Council study: Sales and marketing—according to the report, which surveyed 506 sales, marketing and channel management professionals online—were more “antagonistic than synergistic” and there was “mistrust, misunderstanding of function, and a lack of alignment and singularity of purpose.