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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 helped build Salesforce.com with an outbound marketing perspective into the mid-market.

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

Pointclear

The two groups of characteristics speak to a question posed in Lauren’s article, “Why do you need that much money to build a software company?” Frequent and rapid new competitor product introductions.

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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. Need for the product. Timeframe of purchase.

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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. ” Outbound Marketing Is Not Going Away. All of this is occurring in the context of the “grand effort toward revenue production.

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PowerViews with Chris 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. ” Outbound Marketing Is Not Going Away. All of this is occurring in the context of the “grand effort toward revenue production.

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How Enterprises Are Adopting Social Selling

Tenfold

Traditional sales strategies, such as outbound B2B sales, have become less effective because of this shift. Businesses, big and small, have needed to support their outbound sales strategies with social selling. The training ranges from basic guidelines in online engagement to the use of the company social media software.

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The 15 best sales prospecting tools that integrate with your CRM

Nutshell

For outbound sales teams, prospecting software is essential to finding new leads and nurturing them into customers. ZoomInfo integrates natively with several popular sales software platforms , which automatically enrich lead profiles within your CRM. Clearbit Prospector. Which leads are more likely to close?

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