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Posted by Dan McDade on Sep 9, 2015 12:00:00 PM

Tags: Marketing Strategy, Big Data

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Make Better Data-driven Marketing Decisions

You can never have too much of a good thing … right?

Well, in an article published by the Georgia Institute of Technology, “Too Many Choices Can Lead to Bad Decisions” (February 2015), researchers found that “The..

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Posted by Pam Hege on Aug 20, 2015 9:30:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 2 - The How

In part one, I provided insight into the why and what of a lead-to-revenue assessment. I challenged marketing and sales leadership involved in 2016 planning to pause and consider conducting the assessment before making..

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Posted by Pam Hege on Aug 18, 2015 9:00:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 1 - The Why & What

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Proper alignment is the result of a documented, effective, efficient and measurable process for capturing, engaging, nurturing, managing..

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Posted by James Obermayer on Aug 11, 2015 11:05:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment, Marketing ROI

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Follow the Money: The Primary Responsibility for CMOs

The term ‘follow the money’ was made famous in the 1976 drama documentary All the Presidents Men, and has been used variously as the basis of journalistic articles ever since. Its purpose is to follow the money trail to..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jul 28, 2015 9:00:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment, Marketing Strategy

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"Marketing is too important to be left to marketers."

This saying always amuses me. Partly because it’s true, partly because it’s funny, but also because it’s often misunderstood. It’s funny because it sounds like marketers are too stupid to be in charge of marketing. And,..

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