Measuring B2B Lead Gen Spend: Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy (1 of 3)

As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Mar 1, 2012 6:23:00 AM

Tags: Demand Generation, Lead Management, Sales Leads

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Demand Generation Strategies & Lead Management Processes First

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group

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Posted by James Obermayer on Feb 28, 2012 6:49:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, Lead Management, Marketing ROI, Guest Blogs

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Confidence is the Feeling You Have Before You Understand the Situation

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint.

There are many marketing managers blithely..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Feb 23, 2012 6:32:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, B2B Sales, Lead Management

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6 Sales & Marketing Strategy Recommendations for 2012

I’m an avid reader of Bob Apollo’s “Accelerating Revenue Growth” blog. Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and..

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Improve Sales Lead Generation via Marketing Analytics Part 1: Four Steps

When it comes to improving sales lead generation results, using marketing technology without analytics expertise and business acumen results in a numbers glut devoid of action items. And analytics expertise without..

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