The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? Take lead nurturing : is it strictly essential that every lead nurturing touch include a specific, gated, call to action? I have my concerns, however, about extending it to lead nurturing and the email medium.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2013

How to Plan and Buy B2B Email Lists. While email marketing may not have the current gravitas of social media marketing, it remains an important and underused tactic to reach potential customers for your business. When utilized correctly, email marketing is a powerful tool that can replenish and locate contacts for your company.

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Valasys

AUGUST 18, 2020

LinkedIn, besides, being a popular professional networking website can also be used as an effective tool to generate leads for B2B companies. According to LinkedIn, 80% of B2B leads coming from social media are generated by LinkedIn. Marketers can run ads on LinkedIn using Lead Gen Forms, or through the PPC campaigns.

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The Point

JUNE 1, 2010

So where does this leave the B2B marketer? To learn more, I talked with Mark Talkington, a senior sales executive with Blockdot , a Spear Marketing Group partner and world-renowned digital studio specializing in Interactive Entertainment and Advergaming technologies. B2B games are one of our fastest-growing segments.

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The Point

AUGUST 17, 2010

c) regaining popularity in B2B circles. Yet many B2B marketers continue to be allergic to the idea of using direct mail, simply because it seems such a throwback in our mobile-social-online era. Here are 5 areas that make ideal candidates for including direct mail in the marketing mix: 1. Lead Nurturing.

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The Point

JUNE 29, 2009

Here’s an interesting post by Mike Damphousse of Green Leads that I found through Funnelholic (thanks Craig) on how lead nurturing impacts the effectiveness of calling campaigns designed to secure qualified sales appointments.

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The Point

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Maybe prospects are just tired of the same emails and messages over and over again, but might respond to a creative spark.

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The Point

MAY 13, 2009

This is becoming a common question, driven in part by the trend in B2B towards more proactive lead nurturing and the rapid adoption of marketing automation systems. Suddenly, companies have the tools at [.].

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The Point

MARCH 18, 2014

(Full disclaimer: my firm, Spear Marketing Group , is a leading Marketo partner.). But even then, I’d argue that emailing to a “cold” list still has a place in the arsenal of today’s B2B Marketer. Today’s modern demand generation is driven by content marketing, social media, search marketing, and other inbound strategies.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A client asks: “Now that we have our marketing automation system in place, is it really necessary to use registration forms in our lead nurturing (follow-up) campaigns? After all, we already know who these people are, correct?

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Here are 21 of the more useful, practical or inspiring ideas on lead nurturing, content marketing and demand generation that I heard: 1. Enable sales reps to turn off lead nurturing for specific prospects from within the CRM system. Including the recipient’s company name in subject lines increases response.

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The Point

MAY 6, 2010

Or even if the processes with which those leads are shepherded along the sales cycle are woefully inadequate, a company may not generate the volume of inquiries necessary in order for marketing automation to make a difference. And lastly, to be frank, it depends how bad you are.

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The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Email is now a means to a conversation, not merely a one-off broadcast, and marketing automation solutions enable sophisticated, automated, triggered, multi-step, “drip” marketing campaigns that respond to changing demographic and behavioral criteria.

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. The most important principle in using marketing automation is to keep it logically separate from the CRM system, yet synchronized with it. HS: Thanks David!

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The Point

JULY 19, 2010

The article contains some valuable insights on where Webinars fit in today’s B2B demand generation mix, and is definitely worth a read. Tags: B2B Marketing Database Marketing Demand Generation Webinar Invitations Webinars direct marketing email marketing webinar strategy. that appeared online today.

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The Point

JANUARY 24, 2013

Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Here are the top 5 questions to ask about your current lead management process: 1. How many leads do you generate each month and what is the source of those leads?

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The Point

JUNE 27, 2012

For today’s B2B marketer, content is the fuel that feeds the demand generation engine. But when lead generation, lead nurturing , customer marketing and social media programs all require a constant feeding of new, compelling content, what do you do when the pace of new programs outstrips your ability to generate that content?

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The Point

MARCH 27, 2013

A client writes: I attended a Webinar recently at which one of the speakers prescribed scheduling lead nurturing emails on different days of the week – for example: newsletters on Mondays, product announcements on Tuesdays, Webinar invitations on Wednesdays, etc. What do you think? Is this a good idea?

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I suspect marketers do so because they have heard about “BANT qualified leads” and apply these criteria to Web forms. As I wrote in my previous B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post , BANT is not feasible without someone having a conversation with a prospect. For the uninitiated, BANT is an acronym: B = Budget. A = Authority.

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MarketJoy

JUNE 25, 2018

Strategies to Transform “Outbound Marketing” Big Time. B2B (Business-To-Business) outbound marketing is a dynamic form of sales development and drives action. In times of contemporary marketing, outbound is believed to not bode reasonably well for companies. How Outbound Marketing Boosts Inbound Sales.

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Oktopost

JULY 20, 2023

The introduction of CRM happened way back in the 1980s, when databases were just starting to make the rounds in the corporate world. These days, very few salespeople can do without a CRM to track every phone call, email, or chat between the business and a promising lead as it moves through the funnel.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What single hurdle keeps B2B marketers from achieving the best possible results from inbound marketing, social media, and lead nurturing? Without a consistent stream of compelling, original, relevant information to offer, landing pages fail to convert visitors to leads, blogs wither, and lead nurturing [.].

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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. Synchronizing prospect and opportunity databases is key.

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The Point

JANUARY 6, 2014

Studies have long shown that responding to new leads within minutes, not just hours, increases the rate at which those leads are qualified and converted to opportunities. An effective autoresponder program complements your telesales team by increasing contact rates and highlighting those leads that need the most attention.

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The Point

APRIL 30, 2012

I’ve written previously in this space about how to reduce unsubscribes by giving prospects and customers the option to update their contact information rather than forcing them to opt out of email entirely.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Content Standard

JANUARY 9, 2015

If so, read on to learn how you can pair your MAP knowledge with your content marketing strategy to get the most out of your creative assets. Lead Nurturing with Emails. Sending personalized emails to niche segments will activate leads and cause more of them to convert, compared to mass emails to your entire database.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

They have added new capabilities for delivering highly personalized direct mail, SMS/voice reminders, and on-demand fax and RSS delivery – interesting stuff that, while I’d need to talk to a client or two to be convinced of their specific usefulness, show that Eloqua is delivering a broader range of lead nurturing, drip marketing capabilities.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Right from lead data capturing, lead nurturing to lead qualification , technology has been evolving to help automate the demand generation process and help marketing and inside sales work smarter. What does this mean?

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