Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2012

As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. And here are the results: 1 - Integration of social media Social media remains the #1 topic in 2012. What marketing areas are becoming relatively less important in 2012?

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Thought I’d give it a shot as well, running through a master list of “resolutions” as preparation for improving your inbound marketing and lead generation strategies for 2012 and beyond. Process: Set your lead generation campaign goals. How many qualified leads. Cost-per-lead. Revenue-per-lead.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 4, 2012

Although there are five, I’m hoping that each B2B marketer should resolve to focus on at least one for 2012. If this is still the marketing and sales approach for your organization, you should resolve to stop it in 2012. The branding and communications focus of yester-year is no longer applicable in today’s B2B buying process.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 17, 2020

Generating leads is one of the hardest but most important tasks in business—it attracts interest, builds relationships, and helps you increase your revenue. Using authoritative content can help you generate leads, and there are some great content strategies that you can use to boost your chances of getting the leads you want.

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markempa

JUNE 24, 2013

These marketers have the respect of the C-suite because they connect their efforts to what their leadership wants most: More leads. Optimize Web assets for more conversions, leads and sales. I believe when leadership can connect to what Marketing is doing to drive revenue, buy-in isn’t a problem. More sales. Think again.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

and Business Insider Target based on audience type, device, geography, income, gender, and age; by channel, by demo or interest The numbers 247M viewers (94% US reach), 122M mobile uniques Consumers look at in-feed ads 52% more frequently than banner ads 500+ Native Ad campaigns delivered since 2012 4. Why Zemanta?

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LeanData

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Customers Want a Better Buying Journey. The current B2B buying journey is so painful, so filled with friction, that buyers are going to previously unheard of lengths to avoid. That’s right, the B2B SaaS buying experience is so bad buyers are using other software just to cloak their activities! Time for a mea culpa. Hear me out.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 22, 2011

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. To learn more about The Annuitas Group and their proprietary methodology, the Lead Management Framework™ , go to [link]. Obtain Executive Buy-in.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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markempa

MAY 13, 2012

Tweet B2B marketers, stop focusing on generating leads. By sending them only qualified leads. Most leads aren’t qualified. Leads are only qualified when they fit your universal lead definition (ULD). Before you do any more lead generation, make developing one your highest priority. How do you do that?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What’s the key to generating more inbound marketing leads? B2B Lead Blog ).

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ANNUITAS

JULY 10, 2014

About two years ago I wrote a blog post on Why BANT No longer applies for B2B Lead Qualification. Given the environment in which we live as B2B Marketers, BANT (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe) is not a trustworthy indicator of the qualification status of the leads. BANT is not Aligned to a Buying Process. “I

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BenchmarkONE

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In bigger corporate settings (and even some frustrating small ones, when they’re run by micro-managers), it can be difficult – if not frustratingly impossible – to get company buy-in from management for major systems overhauls. It beat out lead scoring, testing and long-term strategic planning. . Credit: Marketo.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. My PowerViews guest today is James Obermayer.

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markempa

OCTOBER 21, 2011

At the beginning of the webinar, Jen Doyle, MarketingSherpa Senior Research Manager and Lead Author of the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , revealed that 1,745 marketing organizations are reporting remarkable declines in marketing effectiveness in 2011. 61 percent send leads directly to sales. • What does this mean?

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 7, 2020

In crisis times, when people are doing more of their searching and buying online and less time at the mall or travelling, online visibility is even more crucial. You can minimize lost sales and business opportunities by making your services and products easy to find and buy online. Remote Serviceability. Start Marketing Anytime.

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markempa

AUGUST 19, 2012

But don’t expect them to convert as fast as other leads, because you’re catching them much earlier in the buying process,” warns Kelly. He believes blogs are ideal for this purpose if they provide relevant content – content that will help the customer whether they buy from you or not. How many people converted.

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markempa

MARCH 4, 2012

I fully realize this is a silly scenario, but it’s really not unlike what sales professionals do when they call prospects every few months to “touch base” and ask “whether they’re ready to buy yet.”. This is what lead nurturing is all about. What sort of information informs your buying decisions? Know whom you’re talking to.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 15, 2013

Given that I run one of the many lead generation companies it will not surprise you to learn that I believe a 3rd party focused on response management, lead generation and qualification and lead nurturing is capable of doing a much better job of those services than you are likely to find inside most companies.

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NuSpark Consulting

MARCH 17, 2012

The infographic summarizes key data from a variety of research reports covering B2B and technology lead generation, media strategy, and content marketing trends, from initial solution research to lead nurturing. Chief Marketer’s 2012 Business-to-Business Lead Generation Survey: Your Best Prospects.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2011

However, for many B2B marketers, 2012 planning is right around the corner and usually starts right after Labor Day. Instead reviewing your current lead management process, making improvements where they are needed, and finalizing a plan and map for the improved process will have two effects. Obtain Executive Buy-in.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Tweet According to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , 24% of marketers ask a timeline-to-purchase question on their lead capture forms. Q: Please select the most important fields that you need to collect from your leads on the lead generation form. Lead qualification in a post-BANT world.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Twice over the past two years I blogged about the dangers of using cost per lead as a metric to measure marketing. As a foundation, I published three blogs in 2012 in which I outlined three critical elements that impact B2B lead generation costs in the complex sale: 1. The marketing team sees this as a “great source of leads”.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Is ABM the Holy Grail to lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before? Today in part 3, we hear from James Obermayer , Executive Director of the Sales Lead Management Association. Less than 50 beds.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Number One rule in B2B marketing: Never, ever, pass an unqualified lead to your sales force. In this kind of situation, the lead should stay with the marketing team, where the relationship can be developed, and nurtured, until it’s ready to take up a salesperson’s valuable time. Enter the concept known as lead qualification.

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markempa

JUNE 24, 2012

Unbelievably, most are still sending only raw leads to Sales, and they aren’t making an effort to bring those leads to a place where they’re ready for Sales to bite into. Consider data from a new report released by our sister company MarketingSherpa, the 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report (free excerpt at that link).

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markempa

JULY 15, 2013

Tweet To determine the most used lead gen tactics, and map that to their effectiveness and difficulty, we asked the following questions in the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report …. Which of the following lead generation tactics does your organization currently use? Be the resource.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Today, the decision of whether to rent or buy an email list isn’t quite so clear-cut. If you’re looking to integrate email into your lead generation mix in 2012, you would do well to consider list purchase as an increasingly viable option. That was then. List Purchase.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

The connective tissue that brings together these activities is the customer buying journey as an organizing principle. Strategic Demand Marketing thus seeks to operationalize engagement, nurture and conversion of customers through this buying journey. In the past, Demand Marketing was focused on two elements.

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markempa

APRIL 8, 2012

Tweet Marketers use lead scoring to slice all the potential deals in their pipelines and serve the sales team what it’s hungry for — leads that are ready to buy. Values are assigned to each prospect based on attributes like authority, title, vertical and timing to buy, as well as behavior. Watch a webinar?

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markempa

AUGUST 26, 2012

This is apparently not enough to make marketers and sales professionals embrace change and develop a formal lead generation strategy, considering that 75% of marketers still don’t have a formal lead generation process or guidelines according to MarketingSherpa’s 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. What is a ULD?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

by Dayna Rothman IDC recently released their 2012 CMO Advisory Service Best Practices Series: Realizing the Vision of the 21st Century Lead Management. Here are some questions that IDC sought to answer with their survey: How do leading companies staff and organize teams for effective lead management?

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Contently

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

(Facebook bought the company in 2012.). ” It turns out that 72 percent of users make buying decisions based on what they see on the site, and the average cost of a sponsored post is $300. .” Facebook and YouTube still hold a sizable lead in terms of active users, but Instagram’s influence is rapidly on the rise.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

This sector generates nearly 60% of 2012 revenue ($200 million) from 33% of the installations (9,400 as of mid-2012). Although small businesses generally buy lower-priced systems, they have largely the same requirements as mid-size companies. They have one to fifteen marketing automation users. And, no, they’re not my client.)

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Martech

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Google’s disavow links tool launched nearly a decade ago, on October 16, 2012. A lot has changed since 2012! Frequent link-building tactics necessitating a link disavow include: Buying guest blog posts or “sponsored content” without the appropriate link attributes. Buying links with a guaranteed minimum level of “authority.”

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Furthermore, it looks like MGM has researched some of the leading-edge trends in the industry as well. After declining revenues between 2012-2017, the company needed to extend its brand beyond cola. Get started today – and generate more traffic and leads for your business.

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