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How Giving Money to Your CMO Will Save Your 2013

SBI Growth

This year is no different than years prior in that every VP of Sales is getting ready for the annual 2013 sales planning season. Your CMO will love you for it, and furthermore, you can now hold him accountable for delivering the number of opportunities down the funnel that you need to make your 2013 number. The answer: Marketing.

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SiriusDecisions Summit 2012 Recap: Alignment Key to Revenue & Profit Growth

Pointclear

The new demand waterfall recognizes several new sources of opportunity: inbound AND outbound, rep generated, multi-touch nurture programs. True demand generation health is all about balance (it is not all inbound and not all outbound). Surveys generate a tremendous amount of content that can be repurposed inexpensively.

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Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2013? Not so Fast!

The ROI Guy

By a wide margin, SiriusDecisions indicates that Marketing would rather spend the incremental 10% on their bread-and-butter, Demand Creation (35%), followed by Brand (17%). 2013 - The Year for Sales Enablement? The demand for better Sales Enablement has increased dramatically over the past three years.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Demand Generation (181). 2012 (9049). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? MORE >> THE SALES INSIDER AUGUST 13, 2013 What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics and Shakespeare have more in common than you think.

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. And the same ones that I saw in 2013, 2012………1980. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Systems/Processes/Tools. Recruiting/Onboarding. Marketing/Sales Integration.

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How B2B Buyers Search for Tech Solutions

Tenfold

The Salesforce’s Pardot survey, 2013 State of Demand Generation Report, claims that 71.7 This data is up from 2012’s 27 percent, which signifies the growing influence of this generation. This is almost twice the devoted mobile users/ B2B buyers of 2012. This share spans across a variety of channels.

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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

Sales Hacker

Chris is a 20 year Silicon Valley veteran having launched the first part of his career at EMC before finding his way to Snowflake in 2013. We started building that in 2012. Chris Degnan: The first hire I had was of course an intern where she helped me build a demand generation, because I was my own demand generation machine.

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