Everything Technology Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Our 40,000+ member B2B technology marketing community on LinkedIn is conducting a lead generation survey to better understand how B2B marketers are adjusting to new challenges around lead gen, and to identify new trends and best practices for 2013. Thank you for participating in the survey!

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markempa

APRIL 6, 2015

Tweet Ask most executives and marketers what salespeople need to sell in this economy, and they will say one thing: more leads. That’s why many marketing and lead generation programs tend to focus on quantity. It creates sales-ready leads and nurtures the leads that aren’t sales-ready. 1 challenge.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 11, 2021

In the inbound marketing world, you likely understand the importance of a landing page to help convert visitors into leads. Instead, they create a great landing page followed by a simple message thanking the lead for their submission. Here’s how to use thank you pages to increase your lead conversions.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Read on to find out what B2B Lead Roundtable Blog posts were shared the most as well as the three topics B2B marketers valued most in 2014. Topic #1 — Lead generation is king. Lead generation was a huge topic for 2014 and for good reason. But what’s the best way to optimize your lead gen efforts?

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markempa

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But, in reality, any marketing process can be optimized. Including lead generation. EST – “ Planning for 2013: How to best utilize top lead gen tactics in the New Year ” – David Kirkpatrick, Senior Reporter, MECLABS, and I will review the basics of the lead generation funnel.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. “Of We create a marketing plan every year.” Do you create a marketing plan that drives sales based on the sales forecast? Lead Generation Based on Forecast?

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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. Use social media to generate leads and connect with prospects.

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markempa

APRIL 7, 2014

It’s also no surprise to me that marketers continue to discover new opportunities to increase conversion through their testing of copy. In today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, we’ll take a look at how a one small tweak to the copy on a lead generation page increased conversion and what we can learn from the results.

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markempa

DECEMBER 16, 2013

People look to me as an expert at lead generation because I wrote a book and speak about it. I probably am more acutely aware of this because I work for MECLABS, an organization that is laser-focused on learning and teaching others – including many global organizations – about how to continuously improve marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 14, 2014

Few people would suggest you learn salesmanship from the play Glengarry Glen Ross ,* but its central message rings true: good leads are the lifeblood of a sales organization.** Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. • I last reviewed them in June 2013.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JUNE 27, 2013

Content marketing is going mainstream in 2013. B2B marketers are increasingly using content marketing tactics to engage B2B buyers with compelling content to educate, inform, entertain and guide them along their buying journey. But what’s behind the buzz and growing popularity of content marketing?

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I wrote last month about Everstring ’s expansion to the world of intent data and account based marketing. The past week brought three more announcements about predictive vendors expanding beyond lead scoring. I've written about this sort of thing many times, as recently as this July and as far back as 2013.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 10, 2013

. — Dan McDade (@dandade) April 9, 2013. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 9, 2013. Rules to lead: ask employees, involve everyone, chart progress, reward good/confront bad, fire people, mood is everything @ jeffreyhayzlett. — Dan McDade (@dandade) April 9, 2013. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 9, 2013. Day two Sales 2.0

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markempa

JUNE 30, 2014

Tweet For her first week on the job, Debbie Pryer, Program Manager, Siemens Healthcare, arrived ready to accept an intimidating challenge: Bring Marketing and Sales together for one common cause – generating quality leads. The end result was a sales team overwhelmed with unqualified leads, 65% of which were tossed out. “I

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The Point

JANUARY 14, 2014

In my experience, most of the mental energy and strategic thinking around the practice of lead nurturing and lead management is usually applied to the goal of accelerating prospects through the sales process – from MQL to SQL, from SQL to Opportunity, and so on. And that lack of focus can be a big mistake. Probably not.

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markempa

JUNE 9, 2014

Tweet Content marketing can be an effective tactic for lead generation as customers look to your brand as an authority in the marketplace delivering relevant information that is useful to their needs. We decided that we could use content to start qualifying these leads,” Shelby explained. You may also like.

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markempa

JUNE 23, 2014

Tweet Marketing automation can help you manage lead nurturing efforts in a complex marketplace. As I mentioned at the start of this post, automation can help you manage lead nurturing, but you can’t automate trust. Lead Generation: 2 simple tactics to determine cost per lead [More from the blogs].

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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

MAY 12, 2014

Tweet At Lead Gen Summit 2013, Keith Lincoln, Vice President, SmartBear Software, discussed the importance of speaking the language of your customers, and, more importantly, when to say nothing at all. “If Keith explained that they already captured the lead, and the lead was using a free trial version of the software.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JULY 6, 2013

Check out our latest B2B Content Marketing Report 2013 and find out what is going on in the world of content marketing. The popularity of white papers as a content marketing format is declining relative to interactive, easily digestible formats such as video.

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

How to Use Twitter’s Lead Generation Cards to Actually Generate Leads. On August 28, 2013, Twitter officially rolled out their new Lead Generation Card. Here are a few ways to maximize the enormous potential of these lead generation cards. . Just look at these statistics.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 13, 2016

The Webbiquity report also indicated that companies view increasing brand awareness as their top objective on social channels, followed by lead generation. However, many are still missing the boat when it comes to using social platforms to nurture those B2B leads. Who Can Nurture B2B Leads?

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ViewPoint

APRIL 9, 2013

. — Dan McDade (@dandade) April 8, 2013. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 8, 2013. Abundance of information leads to a paucity of insight. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 8, 2013. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 8, 2013. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 8, 2013. Dan McDade (@dandade) April 8, 2013.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Planning season is well underway and I think it is never to early to look at the B2B Marketing 2012 year in review and start to make some predictions for Marketing and Social Businesses in 2013. So here I will lay out my perspective – a narrative really – of what happened in 2012 in B2B Marketing.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 6, 2013

The conference roadmap is one of those planning initiatives and as I have been reviewing the conference opportunities in the second half of 2013, there is no shortage of impressive events to attend for B2B marketers. This event is being held in multiple locations in the US and Europe throughout 2013. eMetrics Summit Boston 2013.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 10, 2013

93% of B2B marketers are using content marketing—but only 44% have a documented content strategy. ( B2B Marketing Insider ). 57% of marketers say content marketing is their top external social priority this year. 82% of businesses plan to increase spending on content marketing in the coming year.

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The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Deb Calvert’s 2013 bestseller, DISCOVER Questions® Get You Connected: For Professional Sellers , introduced this framework and revolutionized how we think about questions.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 20, 2014

You know when you get excited about new inbound leads. Well, I called 185 inbound leads like that, in one week. After making that many calls, you start to recognize behavioral patterns in the leads. You start to see unique trends based on the specific source of the leads. What Was Wrong with Marketing''s Inbound Leads.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2012

It’s that time of year; a time to reflect, assess, and think about what can be optimized for inbound marketing in 2013. . Internet marketers are under more pressure than ever to deliver high quality leads to the sales folks. Well, that ends a brief checklist for your 2013 inbound marketing resolutions.

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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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ViewPoint

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing, The Quality of Sales Leads is Abysmal. The quality of leads being generated nowadays is abysmal.

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Webbiquity

JULY 1, 2013

While you may have a website and a Facebook page, there is much more to maintaining a successful online marketing presence. Here are a few of the top online marketing trends for the second half of 2013 that may help you grow your sales both online and off faster than you expected. Social media will remain important.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 4, 2012

So read on to hear what I think is in store for marketing in 2013… Content Marketing Matures. Content marketing has become a huge buzzword in marketing lately as people have mastered the mechanics of social media channels but are finding that they aren’t seeing any results. Do you Agree?

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This is the question I posed: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Click here for part 1 & part 2.). Less than 50 beds. 50-250 beds. 250-500 beds.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 5, 2013

They are the expandable tweets that typically are used to hold photos or Vine videos, like this one from Lowe’s ( read more about Lowe’s excellent new Youtility marketing program ): Put that old rake head to good use by turning it into a tool hanger. Lowe’s (@Lowes) May 30, 2013. LowesFixInSix #Vine vine.co/v/bYwJZ7JrrEK.

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markempa

JUNE 10, 2013

The case studies at Optimization Summit 2013 reaffirmed the importance of value proposition testing for me. For example, through testing, Jon Ciampi, Vice President Marketing, Business Development & Corporate Development, CRC Health, learned his customers craved trust, not luxury. How important is value prop testing?

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