ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. This second blog is about the importance of valuing qualified inbound and outbound marketing prospects and the proverb “A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.”. In the last blog we talked about lead rates.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 24, 2012

As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. The problems and costs of a cost-per-lead approach.

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markempa

OCTOBER 31, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

As we move closer to 2010, New Year’s resolutions are top of mind. As a B2B marketer, there’s no better time than the present to resolve to maximize conversions of leads. With effective B2B lead nurturing, that resolution is as good as done. . You respond to the lead immediately.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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LeadSquared

MARCH 11, 2013

In sales & marketing, the most important discipline is to stay focused on Leads that matter most. It is, of course, important to nurture leads so that they start mattering. That’s the art and science of Lead Nurturing and we will not talk about it in this article. The answer lies in knowing the “Lead Pulse”.

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Rev

APRIL 17, 2019

Math is not my jam – but luckily, it is the jam of our Chief Data Scientist, Steve Biafore, so if you’re looking for that, here’s a video series on B2B targeting vectors that he put together for you to enjoy. I mean the coin toss stuff is true, but the rest of it was made up for Disney’s 2010 Secretariat movie.

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Valasys

AUGUST 30, 2019

Millennials redefined the businesses & marketing technics in all spheres & were on the key focus radar of the marketers from all the sectors including the B2B industry. Nevertheless, after owning & dominating & some of them even playing the role of marketers in the B2B industry for over a decade, the millennials grew up.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

Summary: the demand generation market will continue to grow in 2010, and it may attract some new, big competitors from outside the industry. Perhaps most important, many potential buyers still don’t understand the value provided by these systems—although vendors are working very hard to educate them. What will 2010 bring?

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markempa

JULY 29, 2013

Tweet Using online video advertising as another channel to support your lead generation efforts can help you craft a global audience of potential leads. Today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post features three reasons why you should adopt video content into your B2B marketing mix. from 2010 to 2016.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2011

Summary: Here are my estimates for the size of the B2B marketing automation industry, broken down by customer segments. I've been working madly on my new report on B2B marketing automation vendors. These methods all yield similar figures -- around a $200 million in revenue for 2010. Services are also excluded.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

LinkedIn is firmly ensconced among the “big 3″ social networks for marketing and business purposes, and though its base of 80 million members is far smaller than the 600 million users of Facebook, its impact in B2B marketing is larger. Blogs represent 50%, Facebook 47% and…Twitter scores 41%.”.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Their latest study points out that “The majority of B2B organizations are increasing marketing budgets for inbound marketing tactics, including social media, virtual events and webinars, SEO and PPC&#. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

During my presentation titled Lead Generation Programs That Work I walked through the 5 Steps to Achieve Lead Generation ROI. I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to. How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

If we pay close attention to avoid the common mistakes, content marketing can drive leads that are more relevant, targeted and qualified than a traditional outbound push. So here are my 6 tips for creating content that drives the leads that sales wants… Define your audience on their terms not yours. Know how they rank.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 10, 2010

We asked Maria Pergolino "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Maria Pergolino works as Director of Marketing at Marketo , leading their efforts in adoption of social media channels for brand awareness and demand generation html. Maria Pergolino.

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markempa

AUGUST 29, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! And if not, should you start?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

The CSO Insights 2010 Lead Generation Optimization Study identifies some of the best practices that companies are focusing on to optimize their lead generation performance. And a key part of delivering sales and marketing ROI is the ability to track the dispositions of all sales leads via a CRM system.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. And when quality is required, you need to be able to deliver leads that convert. The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. Sales says they want better leads.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Ranking well on Google searches is one of the most important things a business can do to add more customers. At the Mobile World Congress in 2010, then-Google executive Eric Schmidt announced that the company would be developing its new ideas and technology for mobile devices first and desktop technology second.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Online lead generation is one of the best ways to identify customers early in the journey and produce a solid and predictable return on investment. Marketing needs to be the engine to identify qualified leads for sales. I will say it here: every B2B marketer should know how to do this. Why is this important?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Social Media Leads Content Marketing: New Survey Reveals by Jeff Bullas. 7 “Rs&# for B2B Marketing Content Planning by Customer Think. Lead nurturing content expert Ardath Albee writes that “Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. How Much B2B Content is Enough? by Savvy B2B Marketing.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The Best B2B Marketing Ideas of 2010 A guest post by Jeff Ogden , president of Find New Customers Although companies like Marketo, Eloqua and Kinaxis have produced terrific written content in blogs, e-books, etc., As we like to say, “Personality is the missing ingredient in B2B marketing.&# Did we miss any? b2bmarketing

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

One of my recent posts (“ The Top-10 B2B Marketing Trends for 2011 ”) received a lot of great comments. The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads.

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markempa

JUNE 14, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 17, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking B2B Email Design – Gallery 2 Last week I started an email design gallery containing a series of HTML emails I received. Big blue lead in. Compelling lead in. Click on the images for larger version.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

You will see a diminishing return on every call made outside of 48 hours, and after 7 days you will see a 60-70% drop in leads generated. One responder can lead us to several opportunities within the company if the discussion we have is centered around the needs and pains of the company and not only one product or service.

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Everything Technology Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2010

According to MarketingSherpa , the top challenges for B2B marketers are becoming, well, more challenging. 2) Generating a high volume of leads (35% to 44%) - Certainly a big challenge in an environment of shrinking marketing budgets and declining productivity of traditional marketing tactics.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Generating leads in SaaS now is different from what it was in 2010. These days, setting up a landing page and pop-up and driving some traffic to your website is no longer enough to get the best quality leads. More engaged leads, higher LTV, and lower churn are a few reasons that make ABM such an attractive strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

2010 has been another tough year for the industrial sector but I’m encouraged by all the good news that I’ve heard throughout the year about a modest rebound in U.S. In keeping with that spirit, here are my five most popular industrial marketing blog posts from 2010. B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Okay, not really.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads.

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