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Demand vs. Lead Generation

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-09-01. Teaser: Marketers often exchange the terms demand generation (demand gen) for lead generation (lead gen), but they’re not the same strategies. Marketers often exchange the terms demand generation (demand gen) for lead generation (lead gen), but they’re not the same strategies.

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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. The result?

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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Sales Process/Methodology. Marketing/Sales Integration.

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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. From these findings, ½ of the waste is because sales reps can’t find the content they need for particular selling situations.

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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). Create an initial team of 5 of your best sales people. Here is how it can work. This Social 3.0

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Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales?

Corporate Visions

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. In 2015, an average of 5.4 The same can be said about basing your sales and marketing messages on personas. by Tim Riesterer appeared first on Corporate Visions. Here’s why.

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

Pointclear

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process. Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Added an SDR team.

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