Lead vs. Lead: Point of Interest vs. Point of Contact
B2B companies all experience similar problems when implementing lead management processes and technologies. However, few problems are as universal as how they define a lead. I don’t mean the definition of a qualified lead that marketing and sales agree on. I’m referring to what a lead is at its core. Is it a person or…
Communitech Strategic Marketing P2P
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Three Stages of the New Revenue Funnel
History The traditional revenue engine is growing. It started with a sales stage. Then a demand generation stage was stacked on top. Now another stage is appearing: social. With the advent of new technology these 3 stages are being integrated into a single, predictable process. Starting from the bottom up… Stage 3: Sales This stage…
Salesforce.com to become an SCRM and Marketing Automation vendor?
The News By now you’ve heard the news: Salesforce.com has acquired Radian6. According to the press release the plan is to “enhance all Salesforce products – extending the value of the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force.com with social intelligenceâ€. This means your contact database can now include data and updates from contacts social…
The Secret to a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation: Focus
I recently read a great planning document that clearly outlined 32 steps to successfully rolling out a marketing automation system. It spread tasks such as ‘document customer profiles’, ‘integrate with CRM’, and ‘build lead scoring’ over a one year period which creates a great road-map to a complete marketing platform. It seemed pretty simple. This…