Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 13, 2011

First, I did some research and identified some of the top 2012 marketing predictions posts, listed below. So here I will update my list of predictions for B2B Marketing in 2012 and ask that marketers not forget about our important link to the business and our sales colleagues… Will Marketers Leave Sales Behind in 2012?

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Tweet I am especially looking forward to the next B2B Lead Roundtable webinar. Jen Doyle, MarketingSherpa Senior Research Manager and Lead Author of the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , will reveal key takeaways from this just-released publication, which is based on a survey of marketers from 1,745 B2B organizations.

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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. Multiple targeting options (e.g.

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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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markempa

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Tweet For proven approaches to drive the highest return on the money you’ve invested in marketing and sales this year, watch the replay of the second half of our webinar presentation, “ Six Funnel Focal Points to Finish 2011 Strong. ”. 3:43 – Poll – Would you consider your lead-management process a closed loop?

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markempa

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Tweet We surveyed 1,915 marketers for the 2012 MarketingSherpa Lead Generation Benchmark Report , and asked them about their most widely used lead gen practices. Which of the following lead generation tactics does your organization currently use? Is email a lead gen tactic?” Here is what the data says….

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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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SnapApp

MAY 14, 2018

From helping them understand that they have a problem at the top of the funnel, to offering solutions in the middle of the funnel to convincing them that you are the right man for the job to at the bottom of the funnel. Here are 4 killer bottom funnel campaign types to test. . . Need some inspiration? Source ). .

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markempa

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

That “waterfall” is a metaphor for key funnel stages. Part of the beauty of the demand waterfall vernacular is that it added descriptive language to the word “lead.” All too often, sales and marketing have very different definitions of what a “lead” is. What Does “Marketing-Qualified Lead” Mean to You?

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SnapApp

MAY 14, 2018

From helping them understand that they have a problem at the top of the funnel, to offering solutions in the middle of the funnel to convincing them that you are the right man for the job to at the bottom of the funnel. Here are 4 killer bottom funnel campaign types to test. Need some inspiration? Case study Campaign.

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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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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

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. Track your prospects’ activities throughout the marketing and sales funnels. You have to measure the most important thing and that’s not likes, that’s leads,” adds Baggott. Want to learn more?

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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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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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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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Webbiquity

MAY 22, 2018

participants have to like a particular post to get a chance of winning); others motivate them to provide extra information that can be further used in your lead funnel. We’ve all been hearing “content is king” for years now, but it is not sufficient simply to create original content to generate leads.

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ViewPoint

MAY 3, 2012

The introductory post in this series addressed the problems and costs of applying the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments. In the second post, we looked at elements of a complex sale that impact B2B lead generation costs. Leads must offer high potential close value.

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markempa

JUNE 10, 2013

He reinvented his lead funnel based on this insight, changing everything from his company’s landing pages to his team’s call scripts. So, in the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , we asked…. So, how can you discover your value proposition ? But email is just one channel for testing value proposition.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

A sound content marketing plan is critical to the success of your lead generation efforts. world, how do you think leads get through the funnel? Prospects won’t even consider entering the funnel unless they are attracted by message. Lead Nurturing Content Map. Some of the biggest challenges we see are: 1.

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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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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. Each attribute and action adds to a lead’s total score. When the score hits a pre-determined threshold, the lead is served to Sales. Watch a webinar?

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markempa

JUNE 11, 2012

McGlaughlin revealed how one company clarified the value proposition of a landing page for a 201% increase in captured leads. The goal of the page was to capture a lead. The winning treatment generated a 201% increase in captured leads by clarifying the value proposition of the page. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At our next B2B Lead Roundtable webinar, I will once again be joined by an outstanding in-the-trenches marketer, Pamela Markey, MECLABS Director of Marketing & Brand Strategy. In just 45 minutes, you’re going to learn how to effectively seize the next three months to drive the very best outcomes and begin 2012 from a place of power.

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markempa

DECEMBER 3, 2012

So it is with generating leads – yet, when the funnel needs to be fed now, we toss in more leads, turn up the pressure, and voila! I was reminded of this mindset when I recently taught a day-long seminar on B2B Marketing Best Practices at ExactTarget’s Connections 2012 conference. Uncover qualified leads.

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Hubspot

JUNE 20, 2017

And it’s one of the most underutilized lead generation tools we marketers have in our quiver. Sure, it has a paid lead capture form, but even without it, organic calls-to-action (CTA) work beautifully. As a result, it is absolutely prudent to include a top to mid-funnel CTA at the end of the presentation. Chad Pollitt.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. By focusing on top-of-funnel metrics, you’re missing the whole story, and more often than not, when you dig deeper, you might find out that you’re driving the wrong kind of traffic. Play around with this formula to better understand your funnel.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2018

These business leaders had legitimate concerns about the performance of their Demand Generation efforts, which often manifested in a number of ways: sales leaders needing to add headcount to “fill in the gaps” around lead generation shortcomings, or a distrust driven by a disconnect between marketing and sales when it comes to performance reporting.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

Perfect for: Driving lead management. Marketo is a multi-functional cloud-based marketing automation software that enables businesses to drive revenue with lead management and mobile marketing. Provides lead generation. Collects aggregate profile and behavior data to manage and score leads without involving IT.

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Biznology

JUNE 22, 2016

The chart below, presented by online video platform Brightcove back in Dec 2012, puts some perspective on the rise of online video content over the past 10+ years. The reason a Video 1st content marketing strategy makes a solid investment is because we have become a society of viewers and not readers.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago.

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Crimson Marketing

JULY 26, 2013

Content marketing is a core part of how you can drive your inbound lead generation funnel. Rishi Dave is the Executive Director of Digital Marketing at Dell, where he is globally responsible for implementing marketing, lead generation, and content strategies for Dell.com, social media, communities, and mobile.

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

So I was reading with some interest the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report from Marketing Sherpa because I always like to see B2B marketers’ top challenges in their businesses, which not surprisingly, is generating quality leads. 78% of their biggest challenge is generating quality leads. Generate Leads: 46%. .

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RebelMouse

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This enables publishers to reach new audiences and nurture reader loyalty to funnel readers to their websites, where first-party data strategies kick into action. We also equip your Apple News publication with all the necessary components to boost reach, nurture reader loyalty, and funnel those engaged readers back to your website.

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FunnelEnvy

JULY 24, 2023

In 2012, Google even conducted an internal study codenamed “Project Aristotle” to study the dynamics of groups within a larger company. To summarize, pipeline acceleration means moving prospects through the sales funnel more quickly. What steps have your sales and marketing team taken to move prospects down the funnel faster?

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. In 2012, the top focus for B2B marketers was understanding and leveraging social media.

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