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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

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Related Posts: The New Marketing Accountability Lead Generation Programs That Work B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011 11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail How To Align Marketing With Sales About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

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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. This is what your CMO was getting at by requesting a business plan from everyone and I love that example. OK, but WHY.

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Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

Marketing Insider Group

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. This is what your CMO was getting at by requesting a business plan from everyone and I love that example. OK, but WHY.

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5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI

Marketing Insider Group

ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. Because it is an easy metric to obtain.

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How To Align Marketing With Sales

Marketing Insider Group

Bannan wrote “ Creating a true partnership between marketing and sales ”. In the article, she offered this call to action for marketing and sales: “Partner or Perish”.