The Point

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Bear with me as I relate a quick story about lead nurturing: A few months back I became a sales lead. I sent an email to a marketing technology firm, one with whom I was vaguely familiar, about a client campaign for which I thought their technology might be useful. A question: at this point, what kind of lead am I?

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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.** Types of predictive models available. Some vendors only rank leads while others build multiple models for different purposes. •

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Conductor

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With Google constantly updating its search algorithm and how it ranks content, it can be difficult to keep up and ensure your content marketing strategy remains aligned with the latest best practices. Instead, they are ranked by Google based on the value and information they provide related to the user’s given keyword or search phrase.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In 2015, JW Player piloted a small-scale, in-house SEM program on Google AdWords to gauge the potential efficacy of using search advertising to drive qualified leads for its enterprise video platform. JW Player contacted Spear Marketing Group , a leading B2B demand generation agency , for help.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

For most inbound campaigns, success is measured by the number and quality of leads generated. Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Marketing Qualified Leads.

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Terminus

JULY 27, 2021

We live in a world obsessed with leads. Does sales really care about the magnitude of leads marketing generates? Let’s break this down to see if leads have the impact that we’ve been brainwashed to believe. What Even Is a Lead? Basically, a lead is anyone who shows an interest in your offering.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Demand Gen Report, a lead publication for B2B marketing professionals, recently released a special report on strategies for improving lead scoring. Automation and Predictive Analytics Fuel B2B Lead Scoring Success reveals how marketing automation helps to maximize the overall effectiveness of lead scoring.

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Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2023

Conversely, marketers are most likely to see cuts in the ecommerce/retail & fashion, manufacturing, government, logistics, and science/technology & space sectors. 3) Marketing has more responsibility for revenue. But the #2 goal for all marketers (#3 for B2B) in this survey was “increase sales.”

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

Since email continues to be a dominant channel for most B2B marketers, let me suggest that a good candidate for #1 on your “to do” list for 2015 is to improve the way you measure email campaigns. The only way to really gauge email success is to measure the impact that leads generated by a campaign have on pipeline and revenue.

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The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”. Virtually none.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The digital era has changed the way we do business, and it’s important for marketers to keep up with the demands of their prospects by building a well-oiled lead generation machine. How to Generate Leads With Your Digital Marketing. Use Content Marketing to Establish Thought Leadership. Segment Email Marketing.

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Sales Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 94

markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. I was recently asked by someone how to utilize lead distribution to gain the best results.

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The Point

JANUARY 29, 2015

Recently I sat down with Amanda Nelson, Director of Marketing at RingLead , a leading provider of cloud-based data solutions that make it easy to analyze, remove, merge and prevent duplicates in Salesforce. What is the first B2B marketing strategy that marketers must consider for 2015? (HS) 2015 is no exception.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 22, 2016

This is the third in a series of three blogs about what experts feel companies did well in 2015 and what they would do better in 2016. The panelists include: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions. Matt Heinz – Heinz Marketing. What B2B Companies Did Well in 2015? Miles Austin – Fill the Funnel, Inc.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 6, 2015

First, here’s the question we’ve been asking our experts: 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. It’s also more than just lead generation.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Tweet Generating leads organically can ease the qualifying process, throwing “bad” leads out that are simply not worth pursuing. Growing a list organically also allows marketers to know more about a prospect right from the get-go, passing more qualified leads on to Sales.

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Webbiquity

MAY 18, 2021

For the past decade, Twitter has (most often) been ranked as #2. ” Khoros acknowledges that “80% of leads sourced through social media for B2B marketers come from LinkedIn,” but contends “Although the use of Twitter is down 8% since 2014,7 it still ranks second in the list of top social media platforms.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Harvard Business Review outlined a matrix to evaluate new markets for possible expansion. Briefly, the matrix ranks three metrics: The size of a new market compared to other markets. How a company already performs in a new market. The ease or difficulty in addressing customers’ needs in a new market.

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ConvertKit

JANUARY 30, 2022

This is in contrast to the traditional funnel model which centers around one and done purchases and constantly filling the top with more people. If you’ve hit a dead end with your creative business, or you’re thinking about scaling in a sustainable way that feels authentic to you, then it’s time to consider the flywheel model.

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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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NetLine

JULY 2, 2020

From the millions of gigabytes that we have access to, the one common element that continues to win out is content providing tangible, actionable value. What the Data Tells Us About Value. Leading with Empathy. The easiest thing to decipher here is how much value is expressed within the title itself. AI and Deep Learning.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Many businesses aim for their websites to rank highly in search engines, but it's a moving target. You might remember when Google's featured snippet addition disrupted the numbered ranking system of search pages. With this in mind, here are a few user engagement metrics that Google and other engines seem to value as priorities.

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The Forward Observer

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However you define business growth–total revenue, net income, margin expansion, number of products and services, or customer loyalty–sustained and strategic growth requires an organization to do more than sell by simply communicating the value of its products or services. But they can only do all this if you lead them.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Whether it’s unfamiliar terminology, information overload or inconsistent rules of engagement, every enterprise marketer has been guilty at some point of creating more frustration than value. A solid lead management framework is key to shared understanding and accountability. Ham Porter: Hey, you want a s’more?

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Unbounce

AUGUST 13, 2019

The nature of the software as a service (SaaS) model is that your customers need to resubscribe every month (or year, depending). For SaaS marketers, volume is the name of the game. You need to be constantly feeding more leads into the top of the funnel—leads that your team can nurture, demo, and convert. Just ask Taylor.

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The Point

MAY 16, 2015

More than 2,300 marketers, including this writer, gathered in Nashville this past week for SiriusDecisions’annual confab on all things marketing. For the last five years or so, inbound marketing and demand generation have been virtually synonymous. Demand Generation Marketers Need to Think Sales Enablement.

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 2015

Tweet For the new year, I’m sharing 15 ideas on how to make your lead management more effective. This post isn’t just about generating more leads; it’s about generating better and higher quality of leads. These 15 tips (across all three blog posts) will help make your lead management more effective.

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B2B Marketing Traction

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A recent study showed that Inbound Marketing generates 54% more leads than outbound marketing campaigns. Sure, more leads sound great, but how do you make sure they are qualified? The findings included the following: 78% of CMOs believe custom content is important for future marketing. Score your leads.

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Brandpoint

JUNE 1, 2018

But you can’t get a customer without capturing them as a lead first. Demand generation and lead generation are marketing activities that help with this process. In this post, we’ll describe the difference between demand and lead generation, and what kind of content to create for each.

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MLT Creative

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I had the opportunity this month to present to our biggest meetup yet on Inbound 2015 Takeaways and how to step up their marketing. The topic of conversation was lead scoring. This blog will draw on my presentation and show the role of lead scoring and the different ways available to score your leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

It’s a treasure trove for brands to engage users and drive leads. In this blog, I’ll give you an actionable guide to drive leads from Instagram. And even better: I’ll show you the super simple strategy that a real brand uses to drive leads from Instagram on autopilot. A Step by Step Strategy to Drive Leads from Instagram.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 1, 2015

Saturn will backpedal to Scorpio again from June 14 until September 17 in 2015, but after that he''ll be in Sagittarius until December 19, 2017. Here’s how I, Danmac the Magnificent, read the stars for your sign in 2015: Taurus (April 21 - May 21): You are working close to full-time trying to beat your quota in the first half of the year.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Research firm Software Advice have released their 2014 B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Report , a handy reference for anyone planning 2015 marketing spend. Based on responses from more than 200 BtoB marketing professionals, it provides useful insight on the types of demand gen programs and content that are trending in the marketplace.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s hard to believe 2015 is coming to a close. It has been a successful year within our organization and I’ve witnessed our content marketing team grow in both size and ability over the last twelve months. This was overwhelmingly the number one challenge we faced when working with our clients in 2015 as well.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 13, 2015

Buyer personas drive your content plan as well as the tactics you choose to engage them and an understanding at what point they become a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) and are ready to speak with sales. Finally be sure to look at your own internal marketing and sales processes, and make sure they’re aligned as well.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 16, 2015

What’s a good lead rate? How much should a lead cost? The lead rate for high quality, enterprise opportunity leads has been roughly flat.) That said, for several years the elephant in the room has been inbound marketing and inbound marketing lead rates. Just google them.)

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Cost per Lead PointClear 120

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing.

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