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Posted by James Obermayer on Feb 18, 2014 8:22:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Marketing & Sales Alignment, B2B Sales, Guest Blogs

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True Story: Without a marketing plan, he planned to fail!

As Casey Stengel said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” For this company ‘someplace else’ had been growth, but at low margins, with chaos in the sales ranks, and a poorly installed..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Feb 11, 2014 8:19:00 AM

Tags: Lead Generation, B2B Marketing, PowerViews

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PowerViews with Ruth Stevens: The Science (not the art) of Marketing

The amount of data available to marketers today can be overwhelming. Sifting through the information to siphon out the promising leads is less of an art than it is a science, said my latest guest on PowerViews, Ruth..

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Posted by Christopher Hosford on Feb 4, 2014 8:39:00 AM

Tags: Inbound Marketing, Big Data

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REVENUE: The Golden Opportunity with Big Data and Content Marketing

By Christopher Hosford, editor-in-chief, HosfordGroup.

Never before have marketers had so much information about prospects, customers, the competition, and the markets they hope to reach. Sounds like a happy situation,..

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Posted by James Obermayer on Jan 21, 2014 8:11:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment, Marketing Strategy, Guest Blogs

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Taking away a marketing manager’s excuses!

I was sitting in a meeting of marketing and operations people when I worked at Inquiry Handling Services (long ago scooped up by Harte Hanks). I listened to excuses about a series of initiatives we were undertaking...

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Posted by Dan McDade on Jan 14, 2014 9:24:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Inbound Marketing, PowerMinute

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How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline

A healthy, driven inbound marketing department is great, but over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I like to call “inbounditis”) negatively affects the revenue backbone of any company. In fact, it makes the whole..

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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association, and host of the Funnel Radio Channel. Jim recently..

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It’s truly strange when companies enter the stealth mode. They hide phone numbers, dial-by-name directories, and employee names,..

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I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads..

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I've written many blog posts on the fact that cold calling isn't dead. In fact, doing the right amount of research, adding a..

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Companies providing complex, high-investment solutions are facing a significant risk management issue in light of Sirius..