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CRM 2016: Stop Thinking Technology; Start Thinking Strategy

Cincom Smart Selling

And with very few exceptions, it has remained essentially the same until the last few years, when a new evolution of CRM began incorporating new devices, analytics and mobility. Understanding the buyer’s journey across multi-channel, multi-touch engagements is of primary importance. What’s Ahead in 2016 for Manufacturing?

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What Do the IDC Predictions Mean for the B2B CMO?

SBI Growth

By 2020, the Marketing function in leading companies will be radically reshaped into three organizational "systems" - content, channels, and consumption (data). Multi-channel coverage becomes an opportunity and a challenge area, as CMOs integrate media silos. Digital marketing investment will exceed 50% of total program budget by 2016.

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6 Questions to Ask When Creating Your Email Marketing Budget

Zoominfo

Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. In fact, email marketing has a median ROI of 122%– more than 4 times higher than other marketing channels, including social media, direct mail, and paid search ( source ). Do you have access to the analytics you need?

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3 Ways Growth Leaders Can Use GTM Technology to Their Advantage

SugarCRM

Scaling Smart Decisions with Analytics Growth leaders have embedded analytics into everyday processes which puts more in-depth insights into the hands of more employees. This is a challenging state to achieve, with only 21% of the respondents claiming that they provide analytics insights to sales and marketing professionals.

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6 Predictions for Sales Software in 2017

SalesLoft

In the near future, more businesses will use analytical tools to combine customer data with unstructured communication, industry benchmarks, and artificial intelligence (read: algorithms). automatically filter those responses to the correct channel, and notify your teams about urgent matters. Let’s take a closer look. Social Media.

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How B2B Buyers Search for Tech Solutions

Tenfold

Analytics Advocate at Google Adam Singer confirms this at a ClickZ Live conference in San Francisco and adds that a person, on average, checks out 10.4 This share spans across a variety of channels. The Multiple-Channel B2B Buyer. The increase in video viewing is another metric attributed to the multiple-channel buyer.

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

Go To Customer/Sales Deployment Models/Inside/Outside/Channel/Web/Hybrid. Analytics/Big Data. This is my prognostication, these will be the critical issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2016. But Analytics and Big Data are giving us insights and abilities that were unimaginable in 1980. Customer Engagement.

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