Infographic: ‘The Dynamic Duo: Marketing Automation and CRM Platforms’

Salesforce has put together an infographic showing what the integration of marketing automation and CRM platforms looks like. “While CRMs and marketing automation have a lot to offer on their own, integrating the two systems can provide your organization with a supercharged suite of tools that can give sales and marketing teams a dramatic edge…

How to Perform Damage Control and End the Cold War Between Sales and Marketing

By Debbie Qaqish, principal partner and chief strategy officer for The Pedowitz Group This is the eighth in a series of articles taking the CMO back to school to learn how to drive repeatable, predictable, scalable revenue performance from marketing. We call this revenue marketing. One foundational aspect of revenue marketing is the "Revenue Marketing…

10 Mistakes Marketers Make When Using Email to Generate and Nurture Leads

Email is a common tool for marketers looking to generate and nurture leads. Nevertheless, with wide adoption come widespread blunders. To help marketers tread carefully through the path to successful email campaigns, we spoke with some experts who point out 10 common pitfalls to avoid. Not Engaging Upfront One of the biggest mistakes B2B marketers…

How to Be Spontaneous With Automated Content Marketing: 2 Lessons Learned

By Micky Long, vice president and practice director of lead nurturing, Arketi Group Two unrelated personal events recently got me thinking about the value of customer loyalty and what, as B2B marketers, we can do to drive deeper connections from customers. One answer, which deserves more thought, is to occasionally forego our automated, scheduled content…