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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

Pointclear

Outbound vs. Inbound and the Need for Immediate Proactive Contact. Click to start video at this point — Craig talks about how the outbound marketing vs. inbound marketing debate can be confusing and says the best companies have a mixture of both. He adds that inbound marketing “takes time, and it takes a lot of effort.

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Buckle Up! Sales Reps Share Perceptions of Marketing-Generated Leads

Pointclear

The survey sample is nicely balanced with responding reps engaged in field sales, inside sales, and inbound and outbound lead generation and lead qualification. Deal size is representative of a broad spectrum of offers with nearly one-half of the reps selling solutions valued at greater than $50k.

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Ask Steve: How Do I Navigate Around Low-Level Contacts Who Only Want a Price Quote?

ExecVision

Use the inbound lead as a springboard to the correct level. Eloqua started taking this approach years ago. You’re excited to get someone on the phone, they sound qualified, but they don’t reveal they lack buying power until AFTER they get the demo and your price. The best way to avoid it? Start higher in the first place.

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Marketing vs. Sales B2B Lead Sourcing

SalesLoft

This surprised us…a marketing automation and inbound marketing company sourced more leads through sales than they did through marketing? The funny thing is these companies, who are preaching the world of inbound & marketing automation software all have some of the strongest and most invested sales teams in the world.

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

Pointclear

There is something of an irony at work here in that the MA offerings focus on generating inbound leads, and it’s a requirement that MA vendors need to supplant their own functionality with huge investments in outbound lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing if they want to achieve enterprise-level, complex sale success.

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

Pointclear

On the marketing side, companies like Eloqua, Marketo, Pardot, Silverpop and HubSpot are adding features that are nudging them closer to the sales side. ” Inbound Marketing: Search Spending Up—Mobile Search Even More So. All of this is occurring in the context of the “grand effort toward revenue production.

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The Pipeline ? Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead.

The Pipeline

If you don’t have your inbound web strategy in place, outbound sales will have to work harder to find prospects and nurture them. A solid inbound web strategy also includes nurturing, but if you don’t have marketing tools then outbound sales will have to manually nurture as well. This is small business lead nurturing.