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Use Content Marketing to Manage Industrial Sales Funnels

Industrial Marketing Today

B2B and industrial marketers are usually tasked with two main responsibilities: Fill the top of the sales funnel (ToFU) with high quality leads. Maximize the middle of the funnel (MoFU) for converting more leads into sales opportunities. How do you use content marketing to manage your industrial sales funnel?

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A Conversation on 7 Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011

Tony Zambito

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    By the time they get to sales folks, whether it is in person or on the phone, they already are armed with enough information to help make a decision.  Image via Wikipedia. What do I mean? 

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B2B Sales Cycle: 4 steps to avoid the wasteful ‘no decision’

markempa

No deal = broken sales cycle. He says the escalating number of “no decisions” is a sure sign that sales cycles are broken. If a sales professional says, ‘I submitted a proposal,’ and your customer says, ‘I got a price quote,’ that’s a sign of misaligned perceptions and selling-buying cycles,” says Dickie.

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3 Tips to Stop Leads from Falling Through the Cracks

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Send pertinent messages related to where your prospect is in the buying cycle offering them information to help move them from one stage to the next. Automation sifts through leads, qualifies them and keeps them in follow up mode until they move forward or drop from the buying cycle.

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Prevent Demand Generation Failure with Buyer Personas

Tony Zambito

You don’t frame your demand generation plans in terms of the “reverse funnel math”.   Acquiring a deep understand of your target buyer and their buying process.    Too often B2B demand generation plans are not built around the modern B2B buyer and his/her information consumption needs."

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Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

When prospects are ready to buy, they will use keyword search to research products and solutions. And when prospects land on your website, it is important that they find the information they are seeking. Intuitive navigation, deep content, and obvious contact information are keys to utilizing your website to drive leads.

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Three Truths Behind Sales and Marketing Alignment

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

After agreeing to what a lead is and what characteristics help score the lead, begin incorporating information such as online registration, and tracking your prospects’ online behavior to dynamically change the score of active versus inactive leads. When this tracking engine identifies the specific condition of leads in the process (i.e.