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

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And I might add, you’ll need to use outbound to interrupt prospects earlier as many savvy self-educators can be getting 70% of the way through the buying process without talking directly with one of your sales reps.

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PowerViews with Jill Rowley: Social Employees Should Connect and Amplify

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Rowley, who oversees social selling enablement for 23,000 sales professionals at Oracle, earned her marketing handle during her previous decade at Eloqua. She spent six years in management consulting and 52 quarters in software sales. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement. Connect and Amplify.

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

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” The following chart looks at reps’ perceptions when the “sweet spot” qualifier is combined with the target prospect’s role in buying. Said another way, Sales Reps believe roughly 70% of the leads they receive have a low probability to purchase.”

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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

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Craig talks about the critical role of the phone in connecting with the right prospects as quickly as possible: “I was just reading Aaron Ross’s blog post the other day. And they say, ‘Oh, I’m doing a great job, I’ve got Eloqua.’ He helped build Salesforce.com with an outbound marketing perspective into the mid-market. It’s hard.”.

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

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Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. And for the specifics on how to go about it all, walk through this presentation by Eloqua on how to map content to the buyer’s journey.