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Feb. 21, 2012

nikil123 jagal and 3 other people answered this question

What is the role of a sales development team?

Sales Development is an outbound sales activity that involves performing company research, navigating to key decision-makers, probing for need, generating interest, qualifying and closing on an appointment or demo. Unlike inbound-based roles such as customer service, order-taking, or telemarketing, sales development requires proactive, quota-carrying reps ... more

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Jan. 15, 2012

Matthew Balfour answered this question

What is the best method for developing a price setting strategy?

You should make sure your analysis and process in focused on realistically maximizing margins not just volume. Depending on what you are selling you should appropriately segment your market by customer types based on their price sensitivity and perceived value of your products/services and then ... more

Oct. 4, 2011

Scott Albro and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

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What makes Eloqua's content marketing strategy so effective?

Yes. I've been walking around for too many years telling people that the presentation of information is just as important as the information itself. more

Oct. 4, 2011

Matt Given and 2 other people answered this question at this roundtable

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What steps should we take to prepare CEO's for marketing changes that should happen now?

Demand ROI from all marketing investments. Air cover just doesn't cut it anymore. Marketers need to become accountable or face extinction.
Hint if you're a marketer: Start showing up with ROI commitments in your proposals. Get ahead. more

Oct. 4, 2011

Marjorie Ocho Kouns answered this question at this roundtable

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Can everyone repeat their 3 actions?

Collaboration-
Action-
Extension-
Olé!

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Lisa Pool asked a question at this roundtable

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how do you get sales to respond quickly before the life cycle of a social lead expires?

Oct. 4, 2011

Lauren Harper asked a question at this roundtable

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What is the best way to collect customer data detailing how they want to be contacted?

Oct. 4, 2011

Michael A Brown and 2 other people answered this question at this roundtable

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What are some best practices allowing sales to step into a sales conversation more gracefully?

Hi Dan! On the strategic level, best practice is to assure flexibility in the opportunity development process so that sales can get involved at ANY appropriate point. Worst practice is to mandate that sales wait until marketing “blesses” the lead. In engineered products and many ... more

Oct. 4, 2011

Anthony Cole and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

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Should CRM for sales be separate from CRM for marketing?

I'm also in agreement that CRM for sales, marketing and customer service can be separated. Optimizing for functional utility allows effective adoption among the respective audiences. Effective analysis of departmental KPI is much easier to sift through in this form. more

Oct. 4, 2011

Ardath Albee answered this question at this roundtable

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What are some tips for compiling & acting on the customer feedback we receive about our content mkt?

That's a great question, Liz.
First of all, don't overreact. I have clients that get feedback from one individual and want to go change everything. Unless you can validate their point, sit tight to see if there's feedback that's consistently in agreement. As is true of ... more

Oct. 2, 2011

Alan Kay and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

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What are best practices for converting someone consuming your third party content into a prospect?

Agree about finding the pain point and that some folks - marketers and sales people - automatically think, 'I have your solution'. They don't have a solution for the holder of pain until they fully understand that person's issues and what what it is that ... more

Sept. 30, 2011

Karen J. Marchetti answered this question at this roundtable

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What are the best ways to determine which content is useful and which isn't for your leads?

Some ideas:
1. Ask your salespeople what some of the key objections are
2. Ask your inbound customer service people what some of the key questions are
3. Check your website analytics for the FAQ topics that get the most traffic
4. Identify the key differences between you and ... more

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