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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

Social media = Lots of room for improvement. It’s true that B2B marketers are embracing social tools as a way to both connect with customers and grow their businesses. Most businesses have some kind of social presence or plan to have one: Most have attempted a blog or Facebook page, or have at least peeked at Twitter.

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Top 5 Hiring Trends for 2020!

Pipeliner

As the newest generation (born between 1995–2015) comfortably settles into its 20s, hiring managers have begun understanding its potential, talent, technological insight, and social media expertise in its entirety. 5. Focusing on Soft Skills.

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Get It Together! Marketing and Sales Collaboration That WORKS

The Pipeline

Instead of finding a positive solution to honor the common goal of growing the company, the two teams debate who is right. Smart companies today realize the problems of communication breakdown between sales and marketing teams. It’s unproductive…but it doesn’t have to work this way. It’s costing them money.

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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

Your customers are one of your company’s most important assets. Although new sales are important, smart companies also focus on retention. Educate New Customers about How to Use Your Product or Service. Education can be active or passive, synchronous or asynchronous, formal or informal. What Is Customer Retention?

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Outbound Sales vs. Inbound Sales: How to Win Big With Each Strategy

Crunchbase

However, the primary difference between outbound and inbound sales for companies is where the lead originated. An inbound sale begins with the prospect reaching out to your company. They want to know more information, connect with you on social media, or are already confident they are ready to make a purchase.

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B2B is Dead – Long Live B2P

DiscoverOrg Sales

While B2C enjoys its continual evolution of character and color as companies market to an ever-sophisticated internet audience on social media apps, B2B stands in a completely different light. In either sense, whether it’s through big budget research or social media presence, consumers are generally easier to track in B2C.

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