As you’ve seen in previous posts, customer needs and revenue trajectory dictate technology decisions for the companies providing services. As mid-sized companies contemplate how to get their sales teams more productive and get revenue quicker, they have a variety of...
“The leads are weak.” In an average B2B company, 15% to 80% of closed annual revenue is aided through teleprospecting efforts, which could either be a sales or marketing function. Outbound leads are more challenging than inbound leads to pursue and/or...
Along with 1000 others, I attended yesterday’s #Cloudforce in Washington DC sponsored by Salesforce.com where the emphasis was a convergence of social, CRM, and mobility in the enterprise – this content was brand new in preparation for the uber Dreamforce in August. ...
This week at the first @DemandCon conference which featured sales and marketing best practices, an impressive number of presenters discussed B2B buying cycle attributes and techniques to reach enterprise buyers. (Full disclosure – I was one of the speakers). ...
Here are 5 lessons to consider when creating an executive level marketing dashboard to measure marketing impact and ROI. This topic is something I’ll be leading a discussion on at DemandCon next week and I look forward to hearing how others are looking at this...
At the SiriusDecisions’ (#SDS11) sold out conference featuring over 750 people, this year’s keynote featured both the head of sales Jerry Rulli and Colleen Langevin who heads marketing in a dialogue around historic performance, current activity, and a single go...
