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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Reporting and analytics can only be as good as the underlying data – if the data does not exist, the reports cannot be effective. In order to win more customers, these shiny features become the focus of the product roadmap vs. more basic needs such as reporting and analytics. Marketers’ needs are becoming more sophisticated.

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Sales Engagement: Here’s What You Need to Know Before Buying

Zoominfo

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. Today, sales is driven by insights. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations of all sizes are turning to sales engagement platforms to manage this workload.

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Revenue Performance Management: Doing For Revenue What ERP Does For Ops?

Pointclear

CRM unites areas like sales force automation, lead management, customer service, and analytics. The core idea of RPM naturally brings to mind other approaches like CRM and ERP, both bringing strategies, applications, and integration together into unified wholes.

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Seismic Surpasses 70 Technology Integrations Available to Customers

SBI

Seismic, the recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement, today announced that the company now boasts more than 70 integrations across the technology ecosystem found among sales and marketing teams. For enterprises to truly align their sales and marketing teams today, their technologies need to be aligned as well.

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Business Growth Marketing Liaison The Next Generation of Talent Management

Increase Sales

Many small business owners believe that hiring another sales person will increase sales and expand business growth. Since small business owners initially start in the role of specialist usually sales, the marketing is also left to these crazy busy people through: Business to business networking events. Cold calling.

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Trick or Treat? Dreamforce Goodies for B2B Marketers

SBI

If you’re like most Marketers today, you’re seeking high performance results via tools that complement your primary Marketing Automation platform; such as Marketo, Pardot, Eloqua. If you are a database marketer like me, you are thrilled that the tool vendors are now embedding proven analytics. Learn more here.

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Is Lead Generation Slipping Away From Marketing?

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Sales and marketing operate on different frequencies. Sales isn’t into sharing data. Marketing’s plate is full.