Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. I believe this is a key capability.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform. My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Using numerical, quantifiable scores to grade leads turns the art of marketing into a science and marketers who use this approach tell me numeric scoring is one of the biggest factors in raising marketing’s value to the sales organization. Tags: B2B marketing , lead management , lead scoring :: Add to del.icio.us

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