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CMO: Are you going to have a job in 2014

SBI Growth

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Trick or Treat? Dreamforce Goodies for B2B Marketers

SBI

Analyst for Smart Selling Tools and advises executives in SaaS MarTech companies and interactive marketing agencies who seek a competitive advantage in meeting the needs of marketers. -. I’ll separate the Snickers from the Candy Corn, or in this case, the really yummy tools that will energize your 2015 Marketing Journey!

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How Will You Sell With A Restrictive US Privacy Policy Act?

SalesforLife

In the early 2000s I worked at Dun & Bradstreet, selling sales and marketing databases. 2000-2005: Transformation Era: 2000 - Marketing automation was in its infancy ( Eloqua - now Oracle – was only founded in 1999), so generating leads by email wasn't as strong as it was today. 2006-2014: The Portable Sales Era.

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Nudge Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Identify Genuine Relationships

Nudge.ai

With more than a decade in the marketing sales automation sphere Paul Teshima and Steve Woods felt sales reps were letting their relationships with their networks run on autopilot. So in 2014 the incorporated Nudge.ai, with the aim of building a platform capable of offering actionable insights to all sales professionals. “We

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How Enterprises Are Adopting Social Selling

Tenfold

Remember this Sales 101 basic: be where your market is. It’s different from social media marketing. Marketing targets many. In the case of Eloqua, a software company, their average sales cycle has decreased by 20 days, with 25 percent more leads that convert to opportunities. Right now, they are online.

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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

Pointclear

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences. This worries me.

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The Sales Playbook to Social Selling

Hubspot Sales

After adopting social selling practices and LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator, marketing software company Eloqua decreased their average sales cycle time by 20 days , and boosted the rate of leads converting to opportunities by 25%. What does this look like in practice at a company? Be consistent.