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Why Your Marketing Plan Will Fail in 2015

SBI Growth

For most marketing leaders, the annual planning cycle is upon us or will be soon. CMO Marketing Resources planning Marketing Strategy' Your teams are most likely putting together their wish list for next year. New tactics, content, channels and the next big ideas are on their list.

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Need More Leads? Fix Your Marketing Strategy

SBI Growth

This is the time of year leaders begin to plan for 2015. As you look back on 2014, did your marketing team accomplish their goals? Lead Generation CMO Resources CMO Marketing Strategy' Did your team provide enough leads for your sales leader? As you review your performance, and contemplate next year, you have two choices.

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Defeating the "No-Decision" Trap: The Power of Divergent Thinking

Holden Advisors

They build a shared vision around the ability to address a compelling business need or market opportunity and build the scaffolding of commitment to make this vision a reality. References: 1 Kahneman and Tversky, 1979 2 Forrester Research, Myth-busting insight, 5/25/2015 3 Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. They sell potential.

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Marketing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – The power of reflection?

Red Star Kim

Once a year I have to produce four reflective learning statements for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in order to maintain my Chartered Marketer status as a Fellow of CIM. Marketing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – The power of reflection? Integrated marketing communications. Partnership marketing.

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15 Stats That Prove the Power of Sales and Marketing Alignment

Hubspot Sales

This is especially true when it comes to sales and marketing. In an ideal world, sales and marketing processes would be built with the other team in mind. Here are some numbers that just might convince you of the value of Sales and Marketing alignment: Sales and Marketing Alignment Stats to Know. LinkedIn, 2020 ).

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Marketing technology system review – Clean contact data with Cirrom

Red Star Kim

I’ve known David Brady – the serial entrepreneur specialising in professional services marketing technology – for more years than either of us care to acknowledge (but see the articles below if you’re interested). So here is a Marketing technology system review – Clean contact data with Cirrom. Hooray to that!

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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

Prior to MetaCX, he led customer success at Sigstr (acquired by Terminus) and held various customer management roles during his tenure at ExactTarget/Salesforce Marketing Cloud from 2005 to 2015. Dave is also the host of Value Builders, a podcast that aims to uncover the evolving role of value creation in business relationships.