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10 Reasons You Don’t Know Where Your Most Profitable Customers Are Coming From

Leadspace

You haven’t defined your lead funnel or scoring. You want to assign value to every stage in the lead generation funnel through lead scoring. As someone moves through the funnel and becomes a “hotter” lead, their value generally increases. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platforms.

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The 8-Step Process HubSpot Uses to Optimize Google Advertising Costs

Hubspot

However, there’s enormous demand for the top ad rankings for a lot of keywords, and all your competitors are duking it out to win the top keywords in your industry. Over the past three years, HubSpot has spent millions of dollars and ran over 1,200 controlled experiments on acquiring free CRM users through Google advertisements.

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6 Tips For a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation

Circle Studio

In many ways, marketing automation software is a lot like CRM software in that it’s a fantastic technology tool with tremendous power, but it’s only as good as the implementation, process and commitment behind it. Most automation platforms have a similar set of tools, such as automated programs, website visitor tracking, lead scoring, etc.

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Four “Random Acts” of Demand Marketing You Need to Stop If You Are Going to Achieve Perpetual Growth

ANNUITAS

Or worse – we SPEND WAY TOO MUCH on AdWords driving to free trials – and then cross our fingers. Random Act #2: More Leads; ANY Leads! Lower the scoring threshold and let those leads flow, baby! Close rates stay low, and we burn potentially decent, early-stage leads by attacking them when they are not ready to buy.

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Microsoft buys LinkedIn: the largest martech acquisition in history?

chiefmartech

Last week, Microsoft announced that it was acquiring LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 This is the largest acqusition in Microsoft’s history — over three times the size of its acqusition of Skype for $8.5 But it’s not entirely dissimilar either, in spirit or tactic. It represents 19.4% of LinkedIn’s total revenue. Actually, yes.

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More New Systems Challenge the Marketing Automation Status Quo

Customer Experience Matrix

It also provides the rest of the standard marketing automation functions, including landing pages and microsites, Web behavior tracking, lead scoring, and integration with Salesforce.com. Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses.

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Prediction: Statistical Methods Will Replace Conventional Rules for Marketing Decisions

Customer Experience Matrix

I haven’t looked closely at any of these but they all seem to promise the core demand generation capabilities of email, landing pages, automated nurturing, lead scoring, and sales system integration. The question this raises in my mind is where the industry goes from here. This brings us back to features.