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Content Marketing: How a telecommunications company uses controversy to drive millions in pipeline

Learn how to build and distributes thought-provoking content with a case study of a firm that created a multi-million dollar pipeline of pending deals every year. How? Via controversial content. Read on.

How Dissatisfied CEOs Push Marketers into the Future

According to a MarketingWeek article, 70% of CEOs have lost trust in marketers. However, CEOs have just woken up to a new trend in marketing: aligning key performance indicators (KPIs) with clear marketing objectives. This disappointment is merely a snapshot of what is happening right now. Read on to learn how marketers are making it a goal to improve acting on data to boost performance.

Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

For a complex sale, CRM technology can make the difference between a customer moving up through the marketing-sales funnel to completely falling out. Many companies use more than one vendor for their CRM needs, as sometimes Marketing and Sales can require different specific needs. See how marketing automation technologies may offer some companies another option if they are working with multiple CRM software pieces.

End the budget war of Finance vs Marketing

I look at the challenge that marketers often face when it comes to getting their budgets approved by finance and I wonder why does it have to be so hard? Many financial executives still view marketing as an expense, a.k.a. cost center, rather than viewing it as an asset that creates revenue. What’s the bottom […]

Why 75% of Marketers Are Experiencing Lead Generation Pain and How to Stop It Before It’s Too Late

The precursor of change is always pain. For most of us over the past four years, our marketplace has inflicted varying levels of it as we have slogged through the most challenging economic climate since the Great Depression. This is apparently not enough to make marketers and sales professionals embrace change and develop a formal […]

B2B Selling: 4 steps to gain customer intelligence before your sales call

Research into the needs of your prospects can provide your sales team with an immediate advantage. Here are 4 steps that you can take to give you’re the right information before your next sales call.

Lead Generation: Phone calls turn first-time webinar into million-dollar leads

What’s a marketer to do when leadership dismisses marketing and insists that a superior product will sell itself? Follow the lead of Jeremy Scully and take a high-stakes gamble: Put your reputation on the line to prove marketing’s value. Scully, the Business Development Manager for Planisware, a leading provider of project and portfolio management solutions, […]

How to Get the CEO to Support Your Next Marketing Plan

Do you feel you have the full support of your CEO for your marketing plan? I caught up with with a colleague who coaches marketers. He has a lot of experience to offer but he often feels like his hands are tied. He voiced his frustration to me: “Nearly everyone I talked to say they […]

Top Takeaways B2B Roundtable Webinars

I can’t stress this enough: when it comes to marketing, if we’re not constantly learning, we’re going to find ourselves left behind faster than ever. Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? I am astonished by what I didn’t know then […]

Aha! Marketing Leaders Reveal Their Most Powerful Business Insights from 2011

At the B2B Summit 2011 in San Francisco, Daniel Burstein, Director of Editorial Content at MECLABS, asked me and a few other attendees to reveal our most important “aha” moments in 2011. Our responses are compiled in the video below; hearing what my colleagues had to say produced even more “aha” moments for me, and I’m […]

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