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More Evidence That Waiting Even 5 Seconds to Contact a New Sales Lead Can Be Disastrous

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Software Advice analyzed more than 6 million unique visitors to their own Website between 2008 and 2013, and the impact that various factors (speed of response, time of day, day of week, month of year) had on the rate at which those leads were qualified based on a telephone needs analysis and BANT qualification.

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Apparently It’s Now Safe (Again) to Use “Free” in a Subject Line

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In follow-up to the recent 2013 Marketo Summit , the marketing team at ReachForce , a leading provider of B2B data services, sent a message to attendees (including this blogger) crowing about the success of their traffic builder campaign , an email that generated a 42.8% The subject line that generated such success? Well, apparently, they do.

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3 Demand Generation Goals to Avoid in 2013

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And it’s that end goal, the business objective, that should be the true measuring stick for the year. What business processes are you hoping to improve? Lead nurturing is a means to an end, a program in the service of a goal. Ask yourself: why lead nurturing? What sales and marketing metrics are you hoping to impact?