Category Archives: Marketing Automation

Marketing Automation: What Is It & Why Do I Care? (Webinar)

August 23, 2011 – 7:07 am

Do you feign understanding when your CEO talks about “sales and marketing alignment”? Unclear on the difference between lead management and revenue cycle management? Horrified at the responsibility of investigating marketing automation solutions for your company? In a recent study, Marketing Sherpa reported that 54 percent of CMOs have either begun or implemented marketing automation, [...]

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Is “Please Have a Rep Contact Me” a Good Idea?

May 31, 2011 – 9:13 am

A client asks: “On every registration form, we give prospects the option to request contact from a sales rep. Is that even worthwhile when we’re going to call everyone anyway? If it is a good idea, what should the verbiage be? Currently the form reads: [Yes/No radio button] I would like to have a sales [...]

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Podcast (Part 4): Offer Strategy & Pipeline Acceleration

April 22, 2011 – 10:55 am

In the final part of my podcast with Steve Farnsworth of Jolt Social Media, we discuss offer strategy for social media, lead generation, and lead nurturing, and the role of marketing automation in converting raw inquiries to qualified prospects and opportunities. In just 9 minutes, you’ll learn: • how to know when to serve up [...]

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Dialogue Marketing: A Conversation with Maria Pergolino

March 18, 2011 – 10:48 am

Late last year at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco I was fortunate enough to chat with Maria Pergolino, Marketing Director at Marketo (and renowned Content Marketing Queen.) In an engaging 15-minute discussion, we touched upon topics including: • striking the balance between demand generation and lead nurturing • how to bring potential customers into [...]

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Call Every New Sales Lead 6 Times? Sorry, that’s Crazy.

February 24, 2011 – 3:50 pm

I only recently came across the results of research published late last year by Leads360, a leading provider of hosted (SaaS) solutions for managing sales leads. In their August 2010 report, “Building the Optimal Inquiry Response Strategy,” Leads360 use the data collected to make some startling claims, amongst them the following: “The findings of this [...]

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