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Quantifying the Impact of Marketing Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Marketing analytics is becoming big business. of their marketing budgets on analytics and expect to spend 11.1% In the end, analytics effectiveness boils down to two questions: Do marketing analytics improve profits or ROI? And are companies using marketing analytics effectively? For marketing ROI, the figure is 0.61%.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

A study by McKinsey specific to the business-to-business (B2B) area suggests that businesses that optimize QTC for end-to-end accountability significantly outperform peers that don’t. Learn more at www.RBO-book.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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How to Get Your Salespeople to Execute Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey & Co. research on B2B purchases indicates that 25% of the buying decision depends on the interaction with the sales professional. Many companies in my experience have a similar disconnect between their intended market or customer type and their actual client base. It’s a balancing act.

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Social Media's Productivity Payoff

Harvard Business Review

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually.

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What You Need to Know About Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. There is nothing new about this kind of segmenting in the pregnancy test market, however.

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How B2B Marketers Can Get Started with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Many B2B CEOs still believe that social media isn’t right for them. But social media marketing can offer B2B marketers a range of benefits if they take advantage of it, from increasing engagement and influencing decision making before the sales call to customizing sales messages and enhancing their company’s reputation.

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