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The Pipeline ? How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff

The Pipeline

Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing automation integrated with CRM helps to bridge that chasm that used to serve as a dividing line between unknown entities and qualified leads acceptable for sales pursuit. January 2008. December 2007.

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Demand Gen Cloud: Funnels and Pipelines are Old School

Green Lead's B2B

The influence of content and word of mouth jumps them from side to side to back and down again. I took a different approach to the discussion, and came up with the concept of a Demand Gen Cloud: With the advent of Social, Sales and Marketing 2.0 Buyers put themselves in the funnel where they want to be. They jump around.