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8 Helpful Tips To Know Before Choosing a Digital Marketing Agency

8 Helpful Tips To Know Before Choosing a Digital Marketing Agency With so many digital marketing agencies clamoring for your business and offering, in theory, the same type of services, how do you judge the quality of the services and their ability to execute? When choosing a digital marketing agency, here’s how to tell whether one is truly a cut above the rest. (more…)
Shannon Prager
November 2, 2016
Demand GenerationFunnel MarketingMarketing AutomationMarketing PlanningSirius Decisions Waterfall

How to Correct Sales Pipeline Shortfalls With Demand Modeling

  How to Correct Sales Pipeline Shortfalls With Demand Modeling It's easy enough for businesses to look back over past sales figures and see why pipeline shortfalls occurred. What is far more difficult is tracking efforts in real time in order to make corrections that will solve problems before they seriously impact earnings and undermine annual sales projections. The key to adjusting performance strategies on the fly is careful planning based on a solid understanding of annual trends, as well as the ability to collect, track, and analyze data in a timely manner. With appropriate demand modeling, your business can…
Shannon Prager
October 14, 2015
Integrated MarketingMarketing AutomationMarketing PlanningMarketing Tactics

What’s All the Hype About Predictive Analytics?

What's All the Hype About Predictive Analytics? By now, most business owners are aware of sales and marketing automation software and how they can streamline the customer acquisition process. However, there's still a major chasm between the two. Bridging that gap has long proved difficult, but that's all supposed to change thanks to an emerging new technology: predictive analytics. Chances are that you've at least heard predictive analytics, it seems to be the latest marketing buzzword these days!  Can it make a difference for your business? The technology is still evolving, but odds are that it can provide insight into your customers' behavior. (more…)
Shannon Prager
September 3, 2015
Buyer PersonasFunnel MarketingMarketing AutomationMarketing Planning

Widen Top of Funnel Marketing and Generate More MQLs

  Widen Top of Funnel Marketing and Generate More MQLs Guest Blogger Contribution by Brain P. Hession, President and Founder of Oceanos As marketers, we are in constant pursuit of an increase in the number of marketing qualified leads (MQLs). We understand that it starts with a strong top of funnel. The programs we initiate need to produce leads from an audience that can be nurtured into a pool of viable MQLs. If not, conversion rates suffer and, more importantly, we waste resources on misguided opportunities. In response, we have embraced account-based marketing (ABM) as a means to ensure investments are…
Shannon Prager
August 18, 2015
Demand GenerationMarketing AutomationMarketing Planning

CRM: The engine that drives marketing and sales teams

  CRM: The engine that drives marketing and sales teams Managing prospect and customer relationships can be a huge challenge for many B2B companies. I see it time and time again, the bigger the company and the more people touching the CRM system, the more challenging governance of that system becomes.  It's really quite simple though.  If this is the tool that glues so many departments together, it's worth the investment in people, processes and SLAs to govern it to ensure it's a source of truth for your company. (more…)
Shannon Prager
June 4, 2015