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5 Marketing Trends That will Impact 2013

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Assessing their impact on marketing strategies makes for tough annual planning on the right formula to connect with buyers. Download this Marketing Plan Assessment Tool to rank your planning ideas across Impact & Ease of Execution.). From my point of view, three big trends will affect marketing planning in 2013.

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39% of Marketers Do Not Have a Defined Content Marketing Strategy

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In the Future of Content Marketing survey, 39% of nearly 60 respondents indicated they did not have a defined content marketing strategy. If you have read my past three articles on content marketing ( article 1 , article 2 , and article 3 ), then this percentage number is strikingly similar. Effectiveness.

Marketing 314
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2014 Planning Metrics for B2B Marketing Leaders

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The Holy Grail of 2014 Planning: Marketing Contribution as a % of Total Revenue. 2013 is the last year executives accepted activity-level results from marketing. CEO''s don’t accept activity reports from Sales leaders without revenue results. Executive marketing leaders need to push the debris aside.

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Do You Need a Resource Dedicated to Nurturing Leads?

SBI Growth

If you are a marketing leader and you’re missing or deficient in one of these, there’s a problem. According to the study, a CMO's number one success measure is marketing ROI. For your CEO, results equal leads that generate new business. For your sales force, results equal leads that are ready to buy. ROI came up.

Lead Rank 288
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PowerViews with Anthony Iannarino: Changing Business Models

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Anthony is also the Managing Director of B2B Sales Coach & Consultancy, a boutique sales coaching and consulting company. In addition, he is author of The Sales Blog , where he writes about sales and selling, sales management, the sales process, and what it takes to succeed.

Lead Rank 201
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7 Steps to Build Your Lead Gen Machine

SBI Growth

I have never spoken to a sales leader who didn’t ask for more qualified leads. Leads fuel the revenue engine. Yet most organizations struggle to generate truly sales-ready leads. In this post I want to walk you through the 7-steps to building a lead generation machine. In 2013, the number has grown to 65%.

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Power Opinions - BANT is BUNK … Revisited

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I have written articles and blogs against BANT (as a lead qualifying criterion) for years. I summarized Ardath’s thoughts, and mine, in a blog published on July 11, 2013. Ginger Conlon (Editor-in-Chief, Direct Marketing News). "I Think: lead nurturing. I believe that this is market dependent. BANT is dead.".