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Add Google Analytics to Emails and Gain B2B Lead Generation Intelligence

Industrial Marketing Today

While working on an email campaign for a client who markets to manufacturers in the Process Controls and Automation industry, I was asked if there was an easy way to combine web analytics with email marketing. He was already using Google Analytics (GA) to monitor his Web site. How to add Google Analytics to Benchmark emails.

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Using E-mail Marketing for Lead Generation

Industrial Marketing Today

It has been my experience within the industrial sector that these companies rarely use email marketing proactively for lead generation. To me, those contacts are prospects and not leads. For more on that, refer to my post, “Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads.”. There is a difference. How about free?

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Manufacturers: Don’t Start a Lead Generation Campaign Without Sales

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Recently, a manufacturing client retained me to help them improve their industrial lead generation program. In short, very poor ROI from their lead generation efforts. Inside Sales Manager – “Lead generation is outbound telemarketing and appointment setting for my sales people.”. The s**t hit the fan!).

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Industrial Marketing, Lead Generation and Sales: It’s Complicated

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Content Marketing Industrial Marketing Sales Strategies Analytics Industrial sales Industrial sales strategies Measurement and tracking' Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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How Landing Pages Can Make or Break Lead Generation Campaigns

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Your landing page may be the culprit if your lead generation campaign is performing poorly. I realize that successful lead generation depends on many factors but the landing page is where your site traffic and email clicks convert into qualified prospects and leads. Bad landing pages kill conversions.

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SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation

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Clearly defining and understanding the implications of MQL, SAL and SQL are critical to the success of B2B lead generation. Assigning a numeric score to business sales leads based on a predefined set of rules, takes away the subjectivity out of qualitative ranking like Hot, Warm and Cold leads. Oh, what a waste!

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Subscribers to Free Content are NOT Leads

Industrial Marketing Today

Visitors who sign up to download your white papers, eBooks and other free content definitely grow your list of contacts but calling them leads without taking the next step is premature at best if not a costly mistake. See SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation ). Timeframe.