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With Halloween right around corner and before the zombies break down our doors, we wanted to get this urgent message out to all our Marketing comrades. There are already zombies among us and there’s not much time left before the full-blown zombie apocalypse. Here’s how to tell if they’ve already infiltrated your Marketing and Sales organization…
Joe Zuccaro (@joezuc), Allinio’s President & CEO, continues to blog from the Dreamforce trenches in San Francisco:
OK, only some of this was blogged in the trenches. By Day 3 of Dreamforce, I was starting to experience “information overload,” so I had to come back East, get over the jet lag, do my laundry, and finally collect my thoughts about the last day of this terrific event. But at least I still followed the brief format from the last two postings.
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This is a the last installment of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week.
Ardath Albee (@ardath421) kept the post-lunch crowd awake with a lively talk about storytelling. The conversations that you have with customers should involve storytelling. A customer has questions at each stage of the buying process, and in each of your answers you should include a portion of the story you are trying to tell. [Read more...]
This is a continuation of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week.
Doug Sechrist of Eloqua
Doug Sechrist (@dougsechrist) of Eloqua started the second day with a keynote – “Pulling the Right Levers to Drive Revenue.” Growth is hard. The S&P’s growth over the last few years has been choppy. A lot of this can be alleviated by adopting the principles of “Revenue Performance Management.
Eloqua defines Revenue Performance Management as a systematic approach to identifying the drivers and impediments to a firm’s revenue, persistently measuring them, and then pulling the economic levers that will optimize top line growth. Using real examples of customers like Polycom, Doug was able to narrated how lead flow rose 82%, resulting in increased revenues of 34%. [Read more...]
This is a continuation of the activity at DemandCon in San Francisco this week. So much is happening we thought it would be better to break it up in AM/PM, easily digestible blogs.
Click picture above to see the full Photosynth panorama of the main DemandCon conference room.
This week heralds the very first DemandCon, the brainchild of Shawn Elledge (@IMSummit) and Steve Gershik (@SGersh). Launching in San Francisco, the event is, in our opinion, the center of the Marketing Automation Universe. Here are some highlights of the great keynotes and panels that we got to hear.
