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5 Marketing Trends That will Impact 2013

SBI Growth

Assessing their impact on marketing strategies makes for tough annual planning on the right formula to connect with buyers. Download this Marketing Plan Assessment Tool to rank your planning ideas across Impact & Ease of Execution.). From my point of view, three big trends will affect marketing planning in 2013.

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What Are the Different Levels of Account Based Marketing?

LinkedFusion

Account-based marketing is a marketing tactic that is sales-oriented. Generally, marketing strategies generate leads, and then sales teams try to convert them. But the same is not the case with account-based marketing. With account-based marketing, the efforts of sales and marketing are aligned to convert leads.

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Are You Too Hard to Reach?

No More Cold Calling

In this month’s guest post, Brian Hansford, director of client services for Heinz Marketing, explains why he won’t buy from vendors who make him look up their phone numbers: . Phone conversations are still important, more so than through any other channel besides face-to-face meetings. . I didn’t even get his full name.

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Business Growth Marketing Liaison The Next Generation of Talent Management

Increase Sales

This person will be 100% about business growth; will be the in house liaison between marketing and selling; and will represent the next generation of talent management. Brand marketing. Web marketing. Analytical skills to understand and measure marketing ROI. Traditional buying of advertising.

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Sales Engagement: Here’s What You Need to Know Before Buying

Zoominfo

The most successful sales teams rely on a combination of sophisticated technology and human expertise to ensure they’re selling the right product, to the right prospect, at the right time. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations of all sizes are turning to sales engagement platforms to manage this workload.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

Pointclear

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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Customer Intelligence: The Secret Treasure from your Value Selling and Marketing Tools

The ROI Guy

If you are using Interactive Value Selling and Marketing Tools, you may be sitting on a wealth of customer intelligence that you could be leveraging. Self service Value Marketing Tools from Alinean collect data directly from each prospect and customer, including key profile data and metrics about their current challenges and opportunities.