Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 7, 2013

Now that I got that confession out of the way, let’s admit it: Lead nurturing is not easy. Nurturing practices vary by company, industry, and buyer persona. You’ve seen the topic in countless blog posts, webinars, white papers – you name it. So, how do companies nurture leads successfully?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Prior to the Marketo user summit I had heard a few great examples of nurturing programs being created without a lot of content, but after I shared some of these stories at the event I was approached by many others with similar stories. Unfortunately, they only have enough money for one white paper to be written, created and produced.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 27, 2009

This week Marketo released the final chapter of our Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing which focused on calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. This webinar had over 1300 marketers register to learn about lead nurturing from Sergio Balegno, Sr.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. Q: What marketing metric(s) should I use to capture lead nurturing effectiveness?

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just released Blind Date to White Wedding: Best Practices for Lead Nurturing that creates B2B relationships, builds trust and increases sales , a white paper on B2B lead nurturing. The Win.").

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2010

As part of a ‘mini-series’ of virtual events happening at the beginning of every month, MarketingProfs has collected a number of speakers including Sara Erzin from CheetahMail, Greg Cangialosi of BlueSky Factory and Scott Voigt of Silverpop to discuss topics ranging from email segmentation to social media and lead nurturing.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Launching lead scoring too soon. Lead scoring is a core marketing automation functionality, and a key driver for one of the primary benefits of the technology, namely sales productivity. A well-planned, well-designed lead scoring schema ensures that sales reps are spending time with the leads that most merit the investment.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The following tips will provide a framework that you can use to evaluate your email marketing approach and revisit best practices. Before you start sending messages at scale, segment the leads in your database to organize them by categories such as lead source, content downloaded, industry, or size of company.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2009

I recently received a question from a Marketo customer about best use of links in emails. Here is what you should keep in mind for your links when building emails for email marketing or for lead nurturing: Links should be easy to identify and clearly labeled. Example: Marketo.

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The Point

JUNE 20, 2012

However, if the creative foundation for those campaigns is suspect, even the best technology simply results in a faster time to failure. lead nurturing) or when you want to segment emails by product line or target audience. Use sidebars. Sidebars allow you to showcase items (offer images, speaker bios, etc.)

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The Point

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A client asks: “If we’re planning on using a particular white paper as part of a lead generation campaign, or even for lead nurturing , is it a good idea to remove that same content asset from our main Website? I’m concerned about people bypassing the campaign and just downloading the paper from our site.”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 17, 2011

by Carol Fox If your sales leads aren’t receiving lead nurturing efforts from marketing to convert them quickly into business, they ultimately aren’t going to benefit your bottom line. If your team excels in quantity but lacks in quality, try these three methods to improve the quality of your leads.

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The Point

JANUARY 25, 2012

Improve conversion (click to lead) rates by just a percentage point or two and you can increase lead volume (and slash Cost Per Lead) disproportionately. Information offers (white papers, ebooks, information kits) often work best because they appeal to prospects across a broad segment of the selling cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

You’ve created a new white paper. In a recent webinar which Marketo conducted with MarketingProfs, we looked at the tips and tricks you will need to develop a powerful content marketing strategy. Director of Marketing, Marketo. Posting it on your website is just the beginning.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 4, 2009

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. The guide itself is well-researched, clearly written and highly practical.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

by Katie Byrnes The most recent Marketo white paper, Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM , describes the key features offered by marketing automation systems as well as the various benefits of CRM systems and Marketing Automation systems can provide to your organization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

by Katie Byrnes The most recent Marketo white paper, Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM , describes the key features offered by marketing automation systems as well as the various benefits of CRM systems and Marketing Automation systems can provide your organization. Sixth-sense lead intelligence for sales.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Here are 16 must-read B2B marketing strategy ebooks to help you stay current on best practices, techniques and tools. This B2B email marketing strategy ebook from Marketo offers insight on how to nurture leads successfully through email marketing. 5 Steps to a White Paper that Pulls in the Perfect Prospect.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2010

We found that using our CRM to handle our lead management and reporting ended up creating more problems, such as duplication. We decided to explore marketing automation to help simplify our marketing efforts, namely in the areas of lead management, lead nurturing , and campaign tracking.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 1, 2010

It serves as the foundation of revenue cycle analytics and allows marketers to discuss results in a way that shows the effectiveness of lead generation and lead nurturing activities, activities that affect every stage of revenue. Adjusting lead scoring rules and sales alerts by stage.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

They are a great way to promote thought leadership and generate leads. Using lead management and marketing automation systems, we can narrow our focus and choose a target audience based on industry, job role, and previous interest. But registration doesn’t necessarily lead to attendance. A final note on webinar attendance.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

by Dayna Rothman We had a great webinar last week on content marketing with Toby Murdock, CEO and Co-Founder of Kapost , and Jason Miller, Social Media Strategist at Marketo. Shouldn’t white papers be gated? There are no hard rules, and you have to find your own balance to meet your own audience and lead goals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 27, 2010

Marketers are working hard to create great content that can be used to create sales leads , drive website traffic, promote brand, and educate customers and prospects. An added benefit of this useful information is it’s ability to be used in lead nurturing. . Unfortunately, not all content is created equal.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

At my previous company my success was measured by number of leads. If the total lead count was high, I was awesome. If I was short of my lead goal, I had some explaining to do. More leads equals more won deals. The problem with this kind of mindset is that more leads does not equal more deals. Makes sense, right?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2010

Fortunately, there are more tools available than ever before to support time-honored customer feedback practices such as: Listening. By incorporating A/B testing as a tactic of your B2B marketing strategy, you can maximize conversion rates and get more leads for your money. Take lead management to the next level.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

An industry analyst report, a technical white paper, and a short customer case study are enough to build out a lead nurturing campaign. An investment into a webinar and complementary white paper would give you the opportunity to promote the live event and promote the archived event for months after.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2020

Not all leads are at the same stage. Some are just visiting (leads), some know their problems (MQLs) and some are considering your product or service as a solution to their problems (SQLs). The first two categories are nurtured to become the third category and finally, to become a buyer. Lead Nurturing. MQL vs SQL.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2009

This interview with Jill provides great insight and best practices to improve sales and marketing alignment and shorten the sales cycle for B2B companies. I experimented with new strategies all the time to figure out what worked best. sales leads for their team? I loved the challenge, flexibility and creativity.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. ” “…the technology solutions make it easier to get more bad leads faster to sales than ever before. “ The unsung hero – lead nurturing.

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NetLine

AUGUST 2, 2023

High-quality, validated, opt-in leads are essential to driving sales and revenue growth, but generating them is no easy task. With that in mind, here are 25 rocket-fueled strategies and ideas that can help propel your pipeline and turbocharge your B2B lead generation efforts. Image caption: Take your B2B lead generation to the moon!

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LeanData

OCTOBER 13, 2015

It’s why Coveney, the president of RevEngine Marketing, joined with LeanData Chief Marketing Officer Adam New-Waterson for a recent webinar called “Smarter Lead Nurturing” about the practical steps businesses can take to better engage prospects. That’s precisely when lead nurturing can have a profound impact. “We

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2014

The 44-page guide is based on 400 in-depth reviews and more than 10,000 comparisons performed by Marketing Automation buyers, and provides a very detailed and useful comparison of the leading brands. The guide also includes insights from leading marketing automation practitioners. What sort of content works best? (HS)

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LeanData

OCTOBER 13, 2015

It’s why Coveney, the president of RevEngine Marketing, joined with LeanData Chief Marketing Officer Adam New-Waterson for a recent webinar called “Smarter Lead Nurturing” about the practical steps businesses can take to better engage prospects. That’s precisely when lead nurturing can have a profound impact. “We

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LeanData

OCTOBER 13, 2015

It’s why Coveney, the president of RevEngine Marketing, joined with LeanData Chief Marketing Officer Adam New-Waterson for a recent webinar called “Smarter Lead Nurturing” about the practical steps businesses can take to better engage prospects. That’s precisely when lead nurturing can have a profound impact. “We

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The Mx Group

AUGUST 1, 2018

Marketo is a SaaS platform designed to help B2B organizations automate and measure marketing engagement, tasks and workflows. With Marketo you can centralize all your digital marketing campaign emails, landing pages and other marketing materials. Salesforce.com is the leading CRM in the industry. Content Marketing Institute.

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