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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

In 2015, they found that 70% of B2B marketing organizations reported the amount of pipeline they sourced as a KPI. For example, lead-to-close conversion rate measures the average percentage of leads that end up becoming customers. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing. Everyone’s happy.”

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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). They become part of the conversation building credibility and precious trust. This Social 3.0

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End Death by PowerPoint and a 1,000 White Paper Cuts

The ROI Guy

Most organizations spend a significant portion of their marketing budget on creating content to fuel demand generation programs, and to arm sales reps to have better conversations and engagements. Unfortunately, the majority of this content spend is currently wasted.

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 1 - The Why & What

Pointclear

When they start falling short on conversions or missing revenue, they simply treat the symptoms of a misaligned or broken lead-to-revenue process—more leads, more sales people, more technology. Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Invested in content generation.

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Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales?

Corporate Visions

In 2015, an average of 5.4 While this seems like a reasonable and responsible premise at first blush, you can see how crafting, learning, and delivering customized conversations to nearly six different people with varying roles and responsibilities quickly becomes unmanageable. Here’s why. And it gets worse.

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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. It's not a distraction.

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

Pointclear

My question to you and top industry experts is this: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? 1 SiriusDecisions’ Research Brief – Demand Creation: Planning Assumptions for 2015. Here’s an example: I am Joe Schmo at ACME Co.,

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