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Simplifying Local Marketing For Brands [Infographic]

Nearly half (48%) of distributed marketers cite “lack of marketing expertise” as a top challenge, while 56% point to “maintaining brand consistency” as a channel-wide issue. Regardless of their industry, national brands struggle to streamline and automate marketing, so partners can put a more tailored, personalized spin on their content and campaigns.  This infographic, courtesy of […]

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OptifiNow Helps Mountain West Financial Streamline Relationship Management

Up to 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales due to insufficient lead nurturing efforts, according to research from Marketing Sherpa. Nearly two thirds (65%) of B2B marketers don’t have lead nurturing processes in place. Mountain West Financial, a mortgage brokerage with more than 400 employees, half of which are field-based agents, has improved […]

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Beyond Customer Feedback: The Keys to Knowing What Your Customer Really Wants

Kent Potts, EVP Marketing, Skura Corporation Today’s enterprise sales and marketing teams face some very unique challenges. The advancement of technology, the expectation of marketing materials to be readily available online and the expanding social ecosystem that provides insight and clues into prospective customers make the role of these departments more multi-faceted than ever before. […]

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Generating Channel Leads Through Content

By Patricia Hume, President, Trapit Over a long career, most of my time has been spent managing channel operations for some of the best — IBM, SAP, and Avaya among them — drawn by the challenge of helping the business grow through the reach of “alternatives” to direct sales; distributors, resellers, service providers and others. […]

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Realizing The Value Of Content Curation Across The Channel

Research conducted by SiriusDecisions has confirmed what some marketers and sales representatives have believed for quite some time: Most of the buying journey is now done digitally.  With 67% of the researching and consideration process now done online, most buyers are first turning to search engines. So how can vendors and their partners get found […]

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Blending Content And Social Strategies To Maximize Real-Time Marketing

By Brian Anderson, Associate Editor The content marketing and social media worlds are converging, helping savvy marketers maximize overall brand reach and ROI. In a recent webinar, titled: How To Impress Your Boss, Get Ahead, And Tighten Your Bottom (Line) In 2014, executives from MarketingProfs discussed key tactics and communication channels that will help marketers […]

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Channel Thought Leaders, Experts Share Predictions For 2014

In 2013, content marketing, social media and mobility all came into focus as priority investments for businesses and their channel networks.  Improved channel communication, collaboration and visibility were key goals for many businesses, while still optimizing end-user engagement and sales results.  Although the channel marketing universe saw extreme evolution in 2013, the next year will […]

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Digimind Social Helps Businesses Track, Respond To Social Feedback

The Problem: Consumers produce, on average, 4.5 billion Facebook “likes,” 400 million tweets and 5 billion Google searches a day. This equates to a staggering amount of potentially powerful data on a brand or company. However, this variety and velocity of data is overall very difficult to rack, analyze and leverage to improve business results.  […]

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