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The Pipeline ? How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff

The Pipeline

The key is that buyers don’t care which side is communicating with them, they care about what’s in it for them as they work toward solving business problems. The challenge is in developing the processes for sharing the data in ways that help salespeople have better conversations and more relevant interactions that serve buyers’ needs.

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Demand Gen Cloud: Funnels and Pipelines are Old School

Green Lead's B2B

techniques and tools, optimized Inbound Marketing strategies, and a much more sophisticated buyer, the days of a funnel are gone. Buyers put themselves in the funnel where they want to be. I took a different approach to the discussion, and came up with the concept of a Demand Gen Cloud: With the advent of Social, Sales and Marketing 2.0