Valasys

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Universal Analytics, released in 2012, introduced cross-platform tracking, which enabled businesses to gain a more comprehensive view of user interactions across various devices. One of the most significant advantages of GA4 for modern businesses is its applicability to lead generation. How to use GA4 for Lead Generation?

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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. What marketing areas are becoming relatively less important in 2012?

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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. Perhaps no word or concept strikes more fear and angst into an organization than the word “change”.

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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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LeanData

MARCH 14, 2023

A common refrain is being heard from revenue teams across the B2B space — Where have all the inbound leads gone? If an organization creates the right type of valued content and custom, personalized experiences, site visitors — and, in time, prospective customers — flock to them. It’s becoming a topic of great importance.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 27, 2012

For KoMarketing Associates, 2012 was a year of growth, collaboration, successes (and challenges), and good fortune. As the year draws to a close, we wanted to look back and share some of our favorite posts from 2012, organized by a handful of KoMarketing team members. You can never stop learning and sharing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

After all, most leads these days tend to be generated online. Online content marketing makes up most of the advertising budgets of some organizations. Companies with an informal SEO process: About 42% of these businesses will raise SEO budgets in 2012, with 14% planning to spend 20% more on it.

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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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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

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

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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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Invigorate your strategy with insights from marketers at TikTok, Glossier, Zillow, lululemon, and more Convince & Convert started the Social Pros Podcast back in 2012 as a way to get to know the “real people doing real things” in social media. Creators are leading the way now. How do they do this?

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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). asks Doyle. Click to enlarge.

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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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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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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 It doesn’t.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

by Dayna Rothman The Lenskold Group and The Pedowitz Group recently released their 2012 Lead Generation Marketing Effectiveness Study. The study draws on 373 B2B marketers to discuss the practice of lead generation , marketing automation, ROI, and how they are all interrelated. How Effective is Your Lead Generation?

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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. What constitutes a good lead? Ensure that leads are passed back for reheating, nurturing or re-qualification rather than having them simply stalled out in the pipeline which is usually a black hole.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 7, 2020

As your brand moves activity and operations online, SEO can extensively help in gaining higher visibility and growing organic search traffic. While employees are working remotely, SEO and online marketing tools can help generate leads, communicate with prospects, and close sales. Brand Recall. Remote Serviceability.

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markempa

AUGUST 5, 2013

Tweet Content marketing is one of the most effective and widely used lead generation tactics, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. Related Resources: Lead Gen Summit 2013: Sept. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012. 30 – Oct. 3, San Francisco.

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markempa

MARCH 4, 2012

That time between the first “not yet” or “maybe” and the next phone call is the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to prospects — through appropriate contact on a regular basis — the value you can bring to their organizations. This is what lead nurturing is all about. Want to learn more about lead nurturing? Have a minute?

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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. Are these truly leads? Anyone who expresses interest in what you sell is an inquiry , not a lead.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

If you are like many organizations you’ve invested in web analytics tools, marketing campaign management systems, and sales force automation. Odds are you are coming to expect more accountability from your marketing organization. Most marketers remain challenged with defining metrics and measurement from lead-to-pipeline-to-revenue.

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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? Managing Lead Flow. From 2009 to 2012, Jeanne was Vice President of Marketing at HubSpot where her team was responsible for generating a large amount of leads. About Ipswitch. Enter the Chatbots.

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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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Martech

JULY 11, 2023

This also happened in 2012, when users were forced to change from the original Google Analytics (GA2) to Universal Analytics (GA3, AKA UA). Critics argue that the new data model and measurement protocol lead to inconsistencies, making relying on GA4 for accurate reporting difficult. This is a flaw in their logic. This is not new.

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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

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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DiscoverOrg

JANUARY 2, 2019

“Big data” is very 2012. But what we found most intriguing were some numbers behind TOPO’s predictions surrounding data; specifically, the coming “B2B customer data tsunami:” How big is it, how can we operationalize it, and what competitive advantages will it bring for forward-looking organizations? How do we deal with data breaches?

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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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ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

It is a strategic component of a company’s overall go-to-market motion — complementary to and collaborative with a company’s sales and channel organization(s). The connective tissue that brings together these activities is the customer buying journey as an organizing principle. ’ It’s also a necessary evolution.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 10, 2017

Marketing Suite is based on the Conversen, a cross-channel messaging system that Experian acquired in 2012. Longer term, Kazi said Cheetah’s goal is to become the world’s leading independent marketing technology company, distinguishing Cheetah from systems that are part of larger enterprise platforms.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Tweet In the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , 1,745 marketing organizations revealed that trade shows took up the biggest chunk of their marketing budget – over 21%. Smart marketers apply some type of lead scoring to leads generated from website, SEO, and email initiatives. They need to do the same with trade shows.

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Martech

MARCH 1, 2023

Targeted messaging leads to higher open rates, click-through rates and conversions. Outcomes, not outputs This 2012 HBR article highlights the importance of focusing on outcomes rather than outputs in marketing efforts. total impressions, clicks or leads generated) rather than achieving desired outcomes (i.e.,

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markempa

APRIL 1, 2012

Tweet In my most recent research project, the MarketingSherpa 2012 Executive Guide to Marketing Personnel , we identified key behavioral and motivational differences between marketing specialists. Much of what we learned applies beyond HR and can improve your lead nurturing and sales efforts. Lead nurturing based on personality.

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