February 8, 2012 – 7:36 am
In a phone call this week I was swapping war stories with a well-known sales and marketing consultant, who, like us, works with B2B companies to improve their return on marketing automation. Interestingly, our experiences in the rapidly evolving marketing automation category were quite common, especially in one area: A year ago, most of the [...]
November 9, 2011 – 3:35 pm
In an exclusive online event, discover how to get the most from your lead nurturing program, and how to plan for success if you’re just getting started. Join me on Wednesday, December 7 as I present a Webinar on “Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success,” hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). In under [...]
September 6, 2011 – 8:55 am
When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect, a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. Using satellite technology for internet connectivity has particular appeal for companies with operations in remote, hard-to-reach locations, so it’s no [...]
By Howard Sewell
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Posted in B2B Marketing, Campaign Measurement, CRM, Database Marketing, Installed Base Marketing, Lead Management, Lead Nurturing, Marketing Automation
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Also tagged idirect, Lead Management, Lead Nurturing, marketo, Spear Marketing Group
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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, [...]
A client confessed recently that one of the reasons his company selected Marketo as a marketing automation provider was because he was so impressed by their marketing. His logic (presumably): if a technology provider is promising to help improve our marketing effectiveness, shouldn’t their own marketing reflect those same high standards? (Tangentially, I’d argue that [...]
Howard J. Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group and a B2B marketing veteran with more than two decades' experience in direct marketing, demand generation, and lead management.
