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March 2009   VOLUME 6 ISSUE 3  
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To Exhibit or Not To Exhibit?
Featured Sales Cycle Technology
Voice of the Experts
The Pursuit Group TidBytes
Buy: The Numbers
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To Exhibit or Not To Exhibit?
A key question for business leaders in belt-tightening mode.
by Josh Stailey, The Pursuit Group

Tradeshows are an expensive line item in the B-to-B sales and marketing budget. This year, managers are being forced to make hard decisions about their company’s participation. What’s the best answer for you? This checklist can help you make – and optimize – your decision.

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Featured Sales Cycle Technology
Our monthly pick to make your sales efforts more effective.

Good salespeople know that the more they are clued in to their prospects and customers, the better. But keeping track of all the news, activities, articles, and blog posts that involve your contacts and their companies is overwhelming. Gist makes it easy to gather, organize and use customer information to give you a winning edge.

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Voice of the Experts
Important business questions answered by our favorite thinkers.

We meet some great people on our journey. In “Voice of the Experts” we put a few of them to work, asking for their thoughts on important sales and marketing questions. In this session, we’ve asked internet guru John Edwards and incentive products leader Scott Wieclaw this timely question:

What are the best opportunities for sales leaders to do more with less?

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The Pursuit Group TidBytes
Bite-sized initiatives to improve sales and marketing.

TidBytes is our way of sharing quick and interesting tips and ideas with you. This month, learn how “negative” keywords can improve your adword results, how a free collaboration tool will make you more efficient, and how you can help visitors easily translate your website into foreign languages.

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Buy: The Numbers

We're always on the lookout for interesting and relevant statistics from the world of marketing and sales. Each month, we collect and present some of the more useful information in this column.

This month:  Why Lead Generation is still the biggest disconnect between Marketing and Sales

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Quick Poll: 2009 Tradeshow Participation
Which best describes your company's tradeshow participation for 2009?
We have significantly reduced the number of shows we will exhibit at.
We have somewhat reduced the number of shows we will exhibit at.
We have not reduced the number of shows, but we have reduced the size of our booth.
We will exhibit at about the same level we have in previous years.
We have kept the same number of shows, but we have increased the size of our booth.
We have somewhat increased the number of shows we will exhibit at.
We have significantly increased the number of shows we will exhibit at.
We typically do not exhibit at any tradeshows.
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Jim Dickie, Partner, CSO Insights; to firms that have implemented a CRM system, but are failing to generate increased revenues from it. 

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