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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

I wrote about this subject in my book titled How to Create an Unstoppable Marketing and Sales Machine. When a CMO asks a CSO what he wants from the lead program, he often hears something like the following: I want a lot of leads and I want them to be highly qualified.

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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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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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Change Is Coming To B2B Marketing. Are You Ready?

Marketing Insider Group

Inbound marketing costs 62% less per lead than traditional, outbound marketing. Change isn’t coming to B2B Marketing. It’s already well established… What’s a marketer to do? 78% of Internet users conduct online product research. 57% of businesses have acquired a customer through their blog.

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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”.