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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing.

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How to Build Your LinkedIn Center. Social Selling 3.0

Tony Hughes

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). is about powerful mash-ups. Social Selling 3.0 SSI can be tracked and bonused as a KPI.

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PowerOpinions: Making Lead Scoring a Success Part 1 [Expert Advice]

Pointclear

According to SiriusDecisions’ Research Brief 1 , the problem with lead scoring at many organizations is as follows: Lead scoring models are based on assumptions or inadequate sales input. Part 2 (coming up). Part 3 (coming up). Next up is the always on target, Ardath Albee who weighed in as follows: The simple answer is no.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

Pointclear

First, here’s the question we’ve been asking our experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Up to a point, I agree with Megan.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 4]

Pointclear

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before? What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it?

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Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales?

Corporate Visions

In 2015, an average of 5.4 The decision-making science that backs this up is called “Fundamental Attribution Error.” For example: You’re responsible for selling marketing automation software to help manage a company’s marketing campaigns, social media presence, and demand generation efforts. Here’s why.

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A Guide to Mastering Paid Social Media Advertising

SugarCRM

Social media ads represented 14% of digital ad spend in 2015 according to Hootsuite , and that number is on the rise. million in 2015 to well over $35 million by 2017. Twitter, for example, already demonstrates this increase, with ad revenue increasing 60% year-over-year from Q3 2014 to Q3 2015.