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Posted by Dan McDade on Feb 2, 2017 11:34:09 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment, Sales Leads

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How to Establish a Meaningful Lead Definition

Walk out of your office and ask the first three marketers and the first three sales executives you encounter one question:

What constitutes a lead?

I suspect that you will get 6 almost entirely different answers to this..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jan 27, 2017 5:36:39 PM

Tags: B2B Marketing, B2B Sales

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Expert Panel’s Feedback on Our Lead to Revenue Calculator

During the last week of December I asked a panel of experts for feedback on our Leads to Revenue Calculator. I was surprised at the level of detailed feedback I received. Not all of it was positive, but it was all..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jan 23, 2017 8:55:00 AM

Tags: Account-Based Marketing

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Proof that Account-based Marketing Works

Companies that spend less on their marketing programs and generate better and bigger deals using a super-targeted approach to marketing are using an approach that you might have heard about—account-based marketing.

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jan 18, 2017 3:45:00 PM

Tags: B2B Sales

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Our AE’s Would NEVER Have Been Persistent Enough to Uncover This Opportunity

We recently turned over a huge opportunity to one of our clients. When we explained the number and type of touches this lead required, the president of that company said: “our AE’s would never have been persistent..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jan 13, 2017 10:46:48 AM

Tags: Account-Based Marketing

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5 Steps to Account-based Marketing Success

ABM drives bigger, better deals. Most marketing and sales folks I talk to agree … in theory. Many are still trying to figure out how to put ABM principles in place.

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