PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Leadiro Earns Lead Intelligence “High Performer” Recognition in Fall 2018 G2 Crowd Awards. G2 Crowd users recently recognized Leadiro as one of the top lead intelligence platforms for fall 2018. Leadiro is a lead generation platform and account-based marketing tool geared toward B2B marketers, sales professionals, and recruiters.

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ViewPoint

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is Executive Director of Revenue Optimization at MECLABS where he leads business units that include Applied Research, Strategy Group, Conversion Group, Leads Group, Agency Group, Technology Group and Training Group. Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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LeanData

MARCH 14, 2023

A common refrain is being heard from revenue teams across the B2B space — Where have all the inbound leads gone? Inbound is usually the first of go-to-market (GTM) motions for a company, and it starts with a website. workforce is made up of millennials, those born between 1981 and 1996, and Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012.

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ViewPoint

JULY 31, 2012

Generating sales leads that are actually followed up by sales is a basic business process that is broken in most companies. The reason is that marketing and sales are part of a Granfalloon. ” The functions Mr. Rackham spoke about are marketing and sales. What constitutes a good lead? Measure what matters.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

I recently conducted a poll on LinkedIn asking respondents what they believe should be the #1 priority in 2012 for generating leads in B2B firms. The poll was promoted throughout LinkedIn Groups; a mix of b2b marketing and sales groups that I am a member of. I received 172 votes and the results were quite interesting.

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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.

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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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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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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). The only way to qualify leads is to call them.

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markempa

APRIL 15, 2012

Tweet Confession: I wish I could flash this across every marketer’s computer screen the moment it powered up: A universal lead definition (ULD) clarifies what a lead is to everyone in your organization. Has been qualified as sales-ready. Spells out the responsibilities and accountabilities of Sales and Marketing.

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ViewPoint

JULY 10, 2012

We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP. It would be cool if we could do both, but as you will see it appears that lead rates are the result of GDP, not the other way around.

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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?” Click to enlarge.

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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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Tomorrow People

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Do you have a marketing plan for 2012? Is it simply to spend less on your marketing or to work towards a specific goal? Here are a few tips to creating a marketing plan for the year ahead. Assess what your business approach is for the year ahead, then consider how you can reach your target market.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

He does a great job of clearly presenting, assessing and recommending solutions for today’s pressing sales lead management challenges. I encourage you to visit and explore the entire post in which Hugh suggests that leaders should adopt these six sales and marketing strategies in 2012: 1.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 22, 2012

As Q3 draws to a close, B2B marketers are already thinking ahead to 2013, strategizing about what’s worked thus far in 2012—and what hasn’t. In 2012, 67 percent of survey respondents cited customer acquisition/lead gen, with 20 percent indicating they are more focused on brand awareness than they had been previously.

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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 13, 2012

What does 2012 mean to you? Holidays 2012? London 2012? Olympics 2012? For your business, 2012 could mean many equally high profile aspects. The key is to take a look into the future: Wider customer-base: Does 2012 hold a wider customer-base in store for your business?

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The stats, guides and tips to effective lead nurturing abound in the B2B marketplace and yet with all of this information, still only a fraction of B2B companies are using or effective in the use of lead nurturing according to MarketingSherpa. This is why fewer than 4% of marketing generated leads are ever converted into sales.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 30, 2012

Brian Carroll is Executive Director of Revenue Optimization for MECLABS and spoke midday here in Orlando on Day Two of the MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Summit. Some key takeaways all organizations should think about are: 64% of leads generated go directly to field sales without filtering or prequalification. In one case $4.9

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Digital B2B Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2011

So to claim my status as a blogger and not put my right to use WordPress at risk, here are my 12 serious predictions for B2B marketing in 2012. Content Marketing 1. Video will come into its own for B2B marketers in 2012. B2B marketers will use video as a way for subject matter experts to more easily create content.

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Digital B2B Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2011

So to claim my status as a blogger and not put my right to use WordPress at risk, here are my 12 serious predictions for B2B marketing in 2012. Content Marketing 1. Video will come into its own for B2B marketers in 2012. B2B marketers will use video as a way for subject matter experts to more easily create content.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in many marketing and sales departments is the importance of certain metrics. Yes, while the cost per so-called raw lead was $23.15, the real cost per qualified lead was 1.96

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Search engine optimization (SEO) is a main focus now of many advertising and marketing campaigns for businesses. After all, most leads these days tend to be generated online. Online content marketing makes up most of the advertising budgets of some organizations.

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Cintell

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

71% of companies who exceed revenue and lead goals have documented personas vs. 37% who simply meet goals and 26% who miss them Source: Understanding B2B Buyers 2016 Benchmark Study. Samantha Stone, Founder, Marketing Advisory Network & Cintell Persona Coach.

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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. A = Authority.

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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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markempa

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Most lead-generation marketers are not in crisis, but many could use an orderly process to help combat challenges. I chatted with Jen Doyle, Senior Research Manager at MECLABS, about her work as lead author of the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report (coming out this spring).

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Tomorrow People

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Here’s why your marketing needs inbound marketing in 2012: Broader reach. Which marketing channels did you use in 2011? Inbound marketing boosts your profile by allowing you to go bigger and multi-channel and to see a better ROI on your marketing. So why not consider something different?

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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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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. No doubt those traditional marketers were driving revenue, but no one could effectively measure the impact. In a marketer’s iceberg, at the absolute very least, you must ensure that you’re optimizing for MQLs (Marketing Qualified Leads).

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markempa

JUNE 24, 2012

Frankly, you could rightfully draw the same conclusion if you extended that analogy to marketers. 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. 59% still don’t have lead nurturing programs.

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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. Thank you for following and contributing to this blog.

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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. Because they’ll hate you in the morning… But seriously, if the role of B2B marketing is to provide leverage to sales, then burdening a sales rep with a prospect who is not a realistic potential buyer is no help.

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SWZD

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you manage a very high volume of leads, and how can new conversational chatbot technologies assist? This is one of the topics that emerged from our recent conversation with Jeanne Hopkins , Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Ipswitch. Managing Lead Flow. About Ipswitch. Enter the Chatbots.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 28, 2012

So before we look at calculating ROI of social media let’s understand the following: Social media marketing IS marketing; and that means the goal is leads and sales; no argument there. All marketing must contribute to revenue. Now back to analytics and getting ready to measure social media ROI for lead generation.

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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. If you don’t understand every campaign or every program that someone responded to, you really don’t have an accurate cost per lead and cost per customer,” continues Kelly. How many people converted.

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Writing on the Web

JANUARY 19, 2012

2012 Content Marketing – how did we get here so fast? I hope you’re doing the same, so you’ll get an idea of what’s needed for your own business in 2012. Which posts generated the most comments? Where did your most qualified leads come from? What about you? What are your favorites?

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