markempa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Tweet “One of the most important things you can do for your sales team is to generate qualified sales,” Kelly Harman, Vice President, Marketing, Carousel Industries, said at B2B Summit 2012. Related Resources: Lead Gen Summit 2013 (September 30 – October 3, 2013 in San Francisco).

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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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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With just a few small changes to your job descriptions, you can improve the quality of your candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process. Keywords should be your secondary concern when writing a job description – your first should be to capture the attention of qualified candidates. Keep reading. Eliminate vague buzzwords.

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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. Send them 1,000 leads generated at a cost of $23.15

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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

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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Valasys

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It enables businesses to track user behavior, measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and make data-driven decisions. From tracking website traffic and engagement to analyzing e-commerce transactions and customer journeys, Google Analytics remains an indispensable tool for marketers, website owners, and data analysts.

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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.

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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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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

Measuring ROI from paid marketing for B2B is a critical problem a lot of marketers are trying to tackle. B2B marketing is not transactional, and that’s easy to forget. That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. During this time, the customer engages with your brand in a variety of ways.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At LeanData, we recently held our 2021 Revenue Kickoff , and I took the opportunity to run the team through the relay race as a metaphor for the go-to-market (GTM) motions we help our customers to improve. We help them do this ahead of their competitors by ensuring smooth handoffs of leads. Your customers win. The value of teamwork.

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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?

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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. When done properly, it can help a business achieve its revenue goals more efficiently and help marketing and sales team members work together to create less waste and redundant work.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

They were a test of the schools evacuation plan — a calm, orderly process to follow should an emergency strike. ? Most lead-generation marketers are not in crisis, but many could use an orderly process to help combat challenges. Battle a harsh market flooded with skeptical buyers. Email marketing.

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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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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With just a few small changes to your job descriptions, you can improve the quality of your candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process. Keywords should be your secondary concern when writing a job description – your first should be to capture the attention of qualified candidates. Keep reading. 2. Eliminate vague buzzwords.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in marketing and sales circles is the importance of certain metrics. In the last blog we talked about lead rates. For many, this is a remarkable takeaway.

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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

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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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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Cintell

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Guest post from Samantha Stone, Founder of the Marketing Advisory Network. Garnering buyer insights remains one of the most difficult jobs for modern day marketers. Marketers who use personas and map content to the buyer’s journey enjoy 73% higher conversions from response to marketing qualified lead (MQL) Source: Aberdeen Research.

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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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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. Click to start video at this point —Andrew expressed some surprise that last year there weren’t more mergers and acquisitions in the marketing and sales spaces. Look for Greater Process Integration and Alignment in 2012.

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Engagio

MAY 22, 2017

As the market evolved, so too did the thinking about how to go to market. Inbound marketing was just taking off, and SiriusDecisions was among the first to recognize that sales can also generate leads, and first to stress the importance of teleprospecting. Over the next five years, the market continued to evolve.

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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 23, 2012

Tim has more than 20 years experience in marketing and sales. Tim is also co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale: Using Power Messaging to Create More Opportunities, Differentiate your Solution, and Close More Deals and Customer Message Management: Increasing Marketing's Impact on Selling.

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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.

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Outgrow

AUGUST 12, 2021

The SaaS market will be clocking in revenue worth $123 Billion by 2021. Reports suggest that the growth in revenue in SaaS companies is directly correlated to the measure of marketing efficiency. We are talking about interactive lead-generation calculators that add value by answering your prospect’s most pressing questions.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. In the last blog we talked about qualified rates. Based on over 60,000 completed company dispositions per year (annualized for 2012). Managing “No Response” dispositions is not an art, it’s a science.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 26, 2012

Content drives leads into the funnel; content nurtures leads into sales opportunities. Marketing and Sales alignment is essential to a well-oiled lead funnel. I understand the importance of a sound media, social media, conversion and content strategy that generates quality leads until they are sales-accepted.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2017

This was the day that one of our biggest clients, the one we delivered our best results to and was the most revered of all our case studies, decided not to renew our service (we provided qualified leads for content agencies). She said she absolutely loved the blog and felt like she found her calling around content marketing.

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markempa

DECEMBER 3, 2012

For marketers and sales professionals, the pressure cooker we live in all year is turned up a few notches. 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! Uncover qualified leads. Uncover qualified leads.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 13, 2012

If you were in marketing, you had media kits and circulations statements. Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads…. Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads…. In the old days, we had a phone. And a fax machine. Paid Search.

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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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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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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

There are over 20 presentations available, ranging from Social CRM and Lead Generation, to Case Studies and Sales Enablement. The State of Demand Generation 2012. According to Tony Jaros, marketers will typically spend 60% of their budget on demand generation programs. This all leads to a few things. Inbound marketer.

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