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isPermaLink="false">http://fusionb2bmarketing.com/?p=1082</guid> <description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the not-so-secret but often neglected success factor in B2B direct marketing?  Simply this: your in-house prospect list (house file) can be your most important asset in a successful direct marketing operation. And this is equally true whether you are communicating with prospects at their email addresses, physical addresses or telephone numbers.  A house file can vastly decrease your cost of lead and new ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/lead-generation/b2b-direct-marketing-house-file/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bridging the Gap Between B2B Marketing and Sales by Christopher Ryan</title><link>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/bridging-the-gap-between-b2b-marketing-and-sales/</link> <comments>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/bridging-the-gap-between-b2b-marketing-and-sales/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>fusionm1</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[B2B Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Integrated Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[b2b sales]]></category><guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://fusionb2bmarketing.com/?p=742</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.” – Willie Mays
Wouldn’t it be good to know who the “ideal” prospect or prospects are before sending out email blasts, newsletters, Twitters, facebook fan page invites or webinar invitations? Assuming what most of us naturally assumes and that is, of course everyone wants to ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/the-ideal-prospect-by-john-leavy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Build a Great B2B Marketing Team by Christopher Ryan</title><link>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/build-a-great-b2b-marketing-team/</link> <comments>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/build-a-great-b2b-marketing-team/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:02:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>fusionm1</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[B2B Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://fusionb2bmarketing.com/?p=617</guid> <description><![CDATA[In my new book, How to Create an Unstoppable Marketing and Sales Machine (available at http://bit.ly/4zTeAs), I devoted four chapters to the subject of how to find, motivate and manage marketing and sales personnel.  I gave this subjet valuable book space because it is not just the budget, programs, and technology that generate the results, ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/build-a-great-b2b-marketing-team/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Stop What is Hurting You in B2B Marketing and Sales (by Christopher Ryan)</title><link>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/stop-what-is-hurting-you-in-b2b-marketing-and-sales-by-christopher-ryan/</link> <comments>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/stop-what-is-hurting-you-in-b2b-marketing-and-sales-by-christopher-ryan/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christopher Ryan</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[B2B Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Business to Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing Strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://fusionb2bmarketing.com/?p=585</guid> <description><![CDATA[Take a sober assessment of your B2B marketing campaigns, strategies, lead generation programs, expenses, etc., and immediately stop: lead generation programs that are not followed up by the sales team, campaigns that do not reinforce your core message, expenses that do not contribute to the overall objective, unnecessary reporting and analysis, working with people who are unreliable and/or unproductive, and anything that you are doing as a manager that is impeding your staff’s ability to get their jobs done quickly and efficiently.
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isPermaLink="false">http://fusionb2bmarketing.com/?p=546</guid> <description><![CDATA[I just read an interestng post at the Smashmouth Marketing Blog about the importance of timing when it comes to reaching business prospects at their desks. According to an MIT/InsideSales.com study, you are 2-3 times more likely to catch someone in the eastern time zone between 4 and 5 pm as you are between 11 am and ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/timing-is-everything-in-b2b-marketing-from-chris-ryan/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>B2B Lead Issues</title><link>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/b2bleadgeneration/</link> <comments>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/b2bleadgeneration/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christopher Ryan</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Lead Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales Leads]]></category> <category><![CDATA[B2B]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://fusionb2bmarketing.com/?p=452</guid> <description><![CDATA[In research reported in Brian Carroll's B2B Lead Generation blog (http://blog.startwithalead.com), the biggest pain point (34%) is converting leads to pipeline revenue. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/b2bleadgeneration/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Do you have the right sales model?</title><link>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/do-you-have-the-right-sales-model/</link> <comments>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/do-you-have-the-right-sales-model/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:25:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Christopher Ryan</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Lead Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lead Generation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sales Leads]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Web Marketing]]></category><guid
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Sometimes, a business struggles because it has the wrong sales model. It is based on 100% direct sales when it should be all or partial indirect. Or it is not utilizing sales development, inside sales or the Internet channel. And despite all the possible permutations of how you can get there, there are only three ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://fusionmarketingpartners.com/marketing/do-you-have-the-right-sales-model/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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