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Marketing Automation And Advocate Marketing: A Sweet Combination

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Marketing automation + advocate marketing = delicious! Advocate Marketing content marketing lead nurturing lead qualification lead scoring marketing automation user-generated content' This post was originally posted here. 2013 has been a year of transition for me. My wife and I will be. moving startup.

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Automated Customer Scoring - Going Beyond Leads

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Automated Lead scoring is a term that many in the B2B world are familiar with. Essentially, you take the typical manual lead qualification process that a sales rep or call center does over the phone to find the best leads and let technology do this for you. Can you apply this same concept to customers?

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When Lead Scoring Will Fail

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Having worked with B2B marketers for many years, it's typically a no-brainer when someone asks me "should we implement lead scoring?". Lead scoring, which is the process of automating the qualification of leads that you generate, is a key stepping stone to get marketers to the next level.

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Marketing Automation Not Just About Revenue (But it's Damn Important)

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I've had the following conversation a few times with clients who have implemented marketing automation: "so now that we have marketing automation in place we want to do ROI reporting - TODAY". Jumping into ROI/closed loop reporting right away can be difficult.

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Lead Nurturing - How to track ROI?

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The concept of lead nurturing is something that is complex for some but very straightforward for others. Quick Overview on Trends in Lead Nurturing Lead nurturing can present itself in many ways. The shift that I've seen is to automate the process using technology. Great - How do I track ROI for Lead Nurturing?

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Lead Management and Football

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In one of my meetings these past few weeks I was thinking of an analogy where I could break down the lead management process into much simpler terms so everyone could understand their roles - this is where football comes in. In the lead management process, the defence represents anything that is preventing the offence from scoring touchdowns.

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How To Build a Lead Nurturing Culture Part I

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There are many similarities between the concepts that Jim Collins discussed in his book and lead nurturing. Lead nurturing can mean many different things to may different people. There is no question that lead nurturing has been a proven tactic for B2B marketers. Content is at the core of your lead nurturing efforts.