The Point

JUNE 8, 2016

Email may still be the workhorse in how B2B companies build relationships, maintain awareness, qualify leads and nudge prospects along the sales cycle, but these days, it pays to think about “lead nurturing” as more just an email campaign. That’s not because email is going away any time soon.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in August 2009.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 7, 2013

Lead Nurture Planning. Considering that around 80% of leads never turn into sales, you need a proper lead nurturing plan, including lead scoring, with the goal to transform those leads you do have into potential sales opportunities. Save time following up on bad leads. . Lead Flow Planning Matrix.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 13, 2012

Then Compuserve and Prodigy … You also had Thomas Register and mailing lists to find leads…. Nowadays there are hundreds and hundreds of online tools and platforms that assist us in generating, converting, and nurturing leads into sales. Funnel Entrance: Targeting audiences who are exploring solutions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. That's fewer functions than traditional demand generation, but if those are the functions you need, who cares? Leads can enter from channels other than email.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 19, 2011

Much has been discussed about the importance of aligning sales and marketing with regard to marketing automation and lead management processes. Social media marketing is also a channel where marketing and sales departments need to be closely aligned, but the assignment of roles and tasks can be unclear to many firms.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Yesterday’s post described one strategy to sell marketing automation to small businesses: provide a specific, turnkey service that requires virtually no skill or effort from the user.

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Varicent

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today's conversation is with Joel Burke , Partner and Analytics Practice Lead at Outshine , about doing ABM at scale. Outshine started out close to eight years ago as a pay-per-click company working with other agencies to manage the day-to-day operations of things like AdWords. In your experience, what's the best strategy?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 3, 2009

Second of three posts on demand generation interfaces.) I spoke last week with Marketbright client Michaline Todd, director of corporate marketing at Serena Software , to see how Serena likes Marketbright’s campaign interface. She meant this as praise, although I suspect that many marketers don’t find Visio all that easy.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2017

@funnelholic : Account-Based Everything is the coordination of personalized marketing, sales development, sales, and customer success efforts to drive engagement with, and conversion of, a targeted set of accounts. That is Account-Based Everything. Google AdWords, marketing automation, etc.)

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SnapApp

JULY 10, 2018

Demand generation is a rapidly evolving field — just a few years ago brands were still largely focusing on traditional outbound marketing strategies. Terms like inbound marketing and demand generation seemed more like buzzwords than actual marketing strategies. Demand Gen Books to Read.

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SnapApp

JULY 10, 2018

Running an effective demand generation campaign means you need to stay current with changes in the industry. And while this may seem simple enough, keeping up with industry trends entails keeping a finger on the pulse of marketing at all times to know what’s working and what’s not. Evolution of demand gen over the past decade.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Summary: SalesFusion combines all channels within marketing, and merges marketing automation with CRM as well. Look, I know online marketing is important. But let’s not forget that offline channels still account for nearly 90% of total advertising expenditures. But these are awkward solutions.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

This could be a real game-changer in the small business marketing automation landscape. Salesforce.com and Google announced their long-anticipated entry into the marketing automation industry, in the baby-step form of investments in HubSpot. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead?

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 29, 2018

Many clients then implement remarketing strategies within media campaigns, taking what we know from our initial engagement and building audiences that refine their targeting. Nurturing known contacts via marketing automation email nurtures, generating MQLs and pushing prospects through the sales pipeline.

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Circle Studio

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

And MarTech is loaded with benefits for marketers: it empowers them to better listen to and engage their target audiences; it helps to amplify their reach; it allows them to build smarter and more effective campaigns; and it ultimately helps them to better measure the success of their efforts and the contribution to the bottom line.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality.

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SmarkLabs

JANUARY 7, 2020

Outlining your plan to stay on track is a great way to know what direction you’re headed in, ensuring you’re targeting the right people. Establishing your go-to-market strategy. Getting clear-cut answers to these questions will help you target your marketing to the correct audience. Which ones are you targeting?

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Stay tuned for an up-to-date agenda, with advanced SEO and SEM classes including an SEO bootcamp and AdWords training. Great for: SEOs, SEMs, marketing analytics pros. Speakers for 2019 include Jay Baer and Ann Handley, among a squad of industry experts in leading social platforms. What to Look for in a Marketing Conference.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

As a demand generation firm, we are consistently reading about new technology, strategy, and tactics that contribute to a client’s lead generation efforts. I have an RSS reader with 150 or so blogs to stay up to speed on the ever changing world of demand and lead generation. Search Marketing.

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Terminus

APRIL 27, 2017

There are three things you need to know about Aditi Karandikar , Director of Demand Generation and Marketing Ops at Panasas : She is on the cutting edge of B2B marketing process and technology, including account-based and lead-based marketing. Her wit is as sharp as her marketing skills.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 4, 2009

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 25, 2016

As illustrated in Scott Brinker’s graphic below, marketers now have access to an incredible array of software tools to help with all aspects of their roles, from online advertising and email marketing to social media management, content development, project management, lead nurturing, and big data analytics.

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The Point

JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s a new year, so what better time to get your demand generation strategy “in shape” for improved performance? Measuring opens and clicks may tell you something about email performance, but it says nothing about the impact that email campaign had on qualified leads, or opportunities, or revenue. Improve campaign measurement.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 4) Lead scoring — in a prior post , I make the case for quantitative scoring.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2014

Last week’s post looked at newer marketing automation systems that focused on small businesses. The general notion is that small businesses are finding existing marketing automation products too hard to use and would be happy with something simpler, especially if it costs less.

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Prospectr

APRIL 14, 2017

” — loudly proclaim all the B2B sales professionals around the world as soon as they fail to generate B2B leads and sales on LinkedIn… The. In this post you’re going to find an inside peek into our exact methodology for how we get a steady stream of leads and sales in our ideal customer market.

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ViewPoint

MAY 5, 2015

It's a critical component in the sales and marketing process; yet, most companies aren't implementing it effectively—that is, if they are at all. I feel so strongly that nurturing needs to be a focus, I asked a panel of 11 experts to weigh in on the best lead nurturing programs (and processes) and what to expect in the coming year.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010.

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Rollworks

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you may be wondering why some of your B2B lead generation strategies haven’t quite panned out the way you hoped they would. After all, quality lead generation is at the heart of B2B marketing. But by staying on top of the latest marketing trends, you can turn this challenge into an opportunity.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 20, 2009

Summary: basic demand generation features are close to a commodity. Vendors who replace conventional decision rules with automated statistical methods may gain a key competitive advantage because the automated methods produce substantially and measurably better results.

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SnapApp

MARCH 21, 2018

. Marketing isn’t as simple as it used to be. It’s no longer a matter of bringing in as many leads as possible and handing them off to the sales team for qualification. Leads are looking for information to solve a specific problem, carefully evaluating your competitors, and contacting sales when they are ready to buy. .

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Terminus

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Malachi Threadgill, Director of Demand Generation at Masergy. Meet Malachi Threadgill , the director of demand generation at Masergy and winner of SiriusDecisions’ 2018 ABM Program of the Year. I was brought onto Masergy about four years ago to start diversifying our demand go-to-market strategy,” explains Malachi.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 20, 2017

That’s why many marketers count on a relatively new tool (compared to billboards) to generate leads and make sales—the landing page. Landing Page Technology: Top Marketers’ Favorite New Tool. And how do you offer your prospects and leads a “good experience”? But, what exactly is a landing page?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Summary: 2011 will see continued adjustment as B2B lead generators experiment with the opportunities provided by new media. Marketing automation hits an inflection point, or maybe two. This will eventually lead to a backlash against marketing automation, although that might not happen until after 2011.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

While some have predicted the consolidation of Twitter and Facebook or the demise of Foursquare, I am sticking to the practical topics most B2B Marketers I know are talking about: Marketing automation and automated lead nurturing will become a foundational B2B marketing activity as we are expected to accelerate deals through our funnels.

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Hubspot

MAY 1, 2017

Whether you want to save time doing marketing tasks or simply cut time wasted doing those daily tasks like saving emails and files to spreadsheets, having a tool that makes your life easier and saves you time is ideal. CRMs are such an essential part of any good marketing and sales team that we think everyone should have one.

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