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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing.

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What are the 5 stages of sales and marketing alignment?

Showpad

In fact, the experiences buyers have with your company — both while doing their own research and interacting with one of your reps — have the power to make or break a sale. The pressure’s on for organizations to start delivering the very best buying experiences. Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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How Well Do You Know Your Customer?

SBI Growth

Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. The burden of “selling when a rep isn’t present” has shifted to the marketing department. They rely less and less on a sales rep for information. Unfortunately, most marketers are ill-equipped to do in-depth Buyer Research. Perceived values.

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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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Cold Calling Never Went Out Of Style

Partners in Excellence

As you look at the performance of consistent top sales performers, you see they always have held themselves accountable for making sure they generated a sufficient number of opportunities to achieve their goals, quarter after quarter, year after year. Sales people who don’t want to do the hard work. But go ahead and wait.

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Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and Internet Fueled Decisions

The ROI Guy

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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

Pointclear

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?