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5 Most Common Fails in B2B Search Campaigns

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Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges. Here are the five most common “fails” we see in B2B search campaigns: Not Bidding on the Correct Keywords.

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Does Demand Generation Really Generate Demand?

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An insightful comment from CMO Joe Chernov on Twitter: “In B2B, demand generation is typically a misnomer. Consider these two subject lines: Suffering from low bandwidth? Maybe that reader has low bandwidth and just doesn’t know it. Maybe he or she has low bandwidth but is perfectly happy with the status quo.

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Tips for Increasing SDR Engagement Rates

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It ensures that every lead gets a prompt, personalized response, regardless of sales bandwidth, and the resulting engagement with that first touch (or lack of engagement) gives the SDR more information with which to prioritize human follow-up. But how much better if that first outreach is automated?

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More Evidence That Waiting Even 5 Seconds to Contact a New Sales Lead Can Be Disastrous

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But that doesn’t mean that you can’t use marketing automation, and a simple autoresponder program, to ensure that each and every lead receives an instantaneous response via email, regardless of sales bandwidth. Would sending an automated email to a new lead within 5 seconds have the same impact as reaching that same individual by phone?

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Do You Need Marketing Automation to Do Lead Nurturing? Sort Of.

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Ensuring that inbound sales leads are all followed up with promptly and personally, independent of sales bandwidth. .” Here’s a short list of what else marketing automation can do that your ESP likely can’t: • Responding immediately and automatically to sales-ready behaviors (like visiting certain high-value pages on your Website).

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

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In our work developing lead nurturing programs for B2B companies , we often hear statements like the following: “We won’t be implementing lead nurturing for new leads because our telesales manager says his team is following up on every lead.”.

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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

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It works in tandem with inside sales by eliminating the chance that new leads will go without follow-up due to issues of bandwidth or lack of profile data (i.e. Tags: B2B Marketing CRM Database Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation. Marketing automation helps eliminate marketing waste.