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Key Take-aways from 3 Compelling Sessions at #DemandCon

SBI

Umberto Milletti , CEO of InsideView spoke of better lead conversion through ‘enrichment.’ Engaging a prospect in a quality conversation requires that you have something of interest to offer and most salespeople don’t. The Information derived was from a Forester Research Study of 208 small and mid-sized companies done on their behalf.

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

Pointclear

In fact, I would argue that all the broad-based demand generation work many companies are doing is the real distraction if their sales model and growth targets focus on a defined universe of accounts. In a recent SiriusDecisions study, 92% of B2B organizations said ABM is “extremely” or “very” important to their marketing efforts.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The question any marketer needs to ask - Are your marketing efforts adding to the clutter, or driving a valuable dialogue and as a result, connecting meaningfully with prospects to advance the buying cycle? Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

Providing the decision support early in the buying cycle is essential to engagement success- illuminating issues, identifying improvement opportunities and delivering strategic roadmap recommendations. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales.

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A Conversation With Doug Davidoff Part II: The Art of Optimizing Sales Playbooks

Costello

In the second part of our conversation with Doug, he talked at length about how sales playbooks are properly used in winning sales teams. With so many incredible insights to share, we had to split the conversation into two parts. Enjoy the rest of our conversation with Doug! And the overall natural buying cycle.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if.

The ROI Guy

Using this content, buyers are taking control of the buying cycle from direct / channel sales, making the content that marketing delivers more important than ever in driving shorter sales cycles and increasing the number and value of transactions. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base.

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