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10 Ways to Optimize Your Lead Conversion Rate

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80% of marketing leads are lost or discarded, according to a MarketingSherpa presentation delivered at B2b Marketing Summit 2009. It’s critical in lead nurturing to know where a prospect is in their buying cycle so that helpful information relevant to the need at a specific point in time can be delivered. The biggest reason?

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

The client’s engineering team created Flash demos of their software, which we incorporated into the new site. We converted several of their PowerPoint files into online Flash presentations to highlight the primary benefits and features of their software suite.

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

Don’t spend all your time and resources crafting lead generating offers (white papers, webinars, online demos etc.). Leave a Comment Previous post: Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Next post: Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job?

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage. The same holds true for video white papers.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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New Research on the Attributes of Complex Buying Decisions

B2B Marketing Directions

For example, a majority of survey respondents have been reporting that the length of their buying cycle is increasing for at least the past four years, as the following table shows: Demand Gen Report presented the survey panels with several statements describing various aspects of their purchasing process.

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