Contently

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They became especially effective with the mainstream adoption of email in the 1990s, giving smart marketers and media pros a direct line to their audience. Nearly five years ago, I wrote about why the email newsletter is the most important part of content marketing. Damn near every marketer uses email as a marketing channel.

Newsletter 217

Newsletter Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Ad Building 217

Lead Liaison

JANUARY 3, 2023

5 ways to increase lead capture adoption at events. With in-person and hybrid events coming back in full force, it’s time to think in-person lead capture again. These apps are great for quickly getting contact data from your event and into your marketing automation or CRM system of choice. Who should booth staff be scanning?

Lead Capture 89

Lead Capture Lead Liaison Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Automation Services 89

SmartBug Media

JULY 25, 2022

Your lead numbers are low, and you’re running out of time. It’s nearly the end of the month or quarter, you view your marketing dashboard to check on your metrics, and you see that your lead numbers are not hitting the mark. Lead numbers can be impacted by a number of factors that are out of our control as marketers.

Lead Gen 98

Lead Gen Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Leads 98

Webbiquity

JULY 30, 2020

As event professionals know, even the best-planned gathering can fall flat without the right marketing. To maximize the impact of and business results from your online or real-world event at a time when some people might be hesitant to travel, it’s vital to start with a comprehensive event marketing plan.

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Planning Event Marketing Marketing Plans Blast Campaigns 331

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Here are some of the results from the game that marketers can take note of for the year ahead, including social media winners and top-performing brands. Mountain Dew, “Having a Blast.” Image: Influential Market Intelligence. Disney+, “Well Said.” NYX Cosmetics, “Duck Plump.” CeraVe, “Michael CeraVe.” Verizon, “Beyonce.”

Digital Asset Management 134

Digital Asset Management Paid Search Agency Peer-to-peer Blast Campaigns 134

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 21, 2016

In the age of content marketing, blogging has fast become one of the most effective ways to market your brand. It’s simple, cost-efficient, and a nicer way to drive traffic to your website than traditional interruptive marketing tactics like email blasting.

Business Blogging 205

Business Blogging B2B Sales Tips Blast Campaigns 205

Rev

JUNE 21, 2023

But you’re not wrong for thinking that the goals of lead generation and sales prospecting sound similar. While both strategies aim to generate new customers, lead generation focuses on generating large volumes of leads, while sales prospecting focuses on targeting and converting specific, high-quality prospects.

Lead Generation 78

Lead Generation Work Management Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Management 78

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Ready to start or improve your email lead generation strategy? Email marketing is one of the most effective digital marketing strategies around. You can use email for generating leads as well as bringing them through your marketing funnel towards closing the sale. What Is Email Lead Generation?

Lead Generation 89

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 89

Ontraport

JANUARY 21, 2021

Your leads opted in…now what? Getting new leads only to watch them slip through your fingers is one of the most frustrating parts of marketing. Many marketers solve this by segmenting their list and sending targeted messages, but that’s often a big project. Everyone struggles with getting ghosted by leads.

Sales Qualified Leads 105

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Leads 105

BOP Design

MARCH 30, 2021

Email marketing continues to be a fantastic method for nurturing B2B marketing leads. In the first post of our four-part series on email marketing, we take a look at best practices for using B2B email marketing for lead nurturing. 73% of successful content marketers nurture subscribers, audiences, or leads.

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Lead Nurturing Planning Top of Funnel Work Management 117

Launch Marketing

JULY 21, 2021

B2B marketing can sometimes have the reputation of being impersonal, especially with the widespread usage of mass email blasts, generic copy and uninspired media usage. In reality, B2B marketing can be as personal as the best B2C marketing. B2B Marketing Personalization. Today, personalization is data-driven.

Lead Generation 118

Lead Generation Personalization B2B Marketing Generation 118

B2B Marketing Exchange

JANUARY 4, 2023

Co-hosts Klaudia Tirico and Kelly Lindenau are kicking off the new year with a welcome blast from the #B2BSMX past! If you like what you hear, you’ll LOVE what we have in store for the 2023 B2B Marketing Exchange event in February! Plus, Cosby shared insights into how a successful ABM strategy generated $5.7

Lead Gen 52

Lead Gen Blast Campaigns Leads Lead 52

Prospectr

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Customer stories, also called “success stories” or the more mundane “case studies,” have amazing lead generation power. In fact, written right, they can bypass nearly the entire sales cycle and literally almost close your leads for. Personalization in Email Lead Nurturing. Yes, You Can Heat Up Your Leads.

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Tactics Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Autoresponders 164

ViewPoint

APRIL 6, 2017

Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. The main reason for these failures is that there is a LOT of mediocrity in the lead generation industry, which is why some say outbound is supposedly “dead.” There is no strategy in their market approach.

Lead Generation 192

Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads Sales Leads 192

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And while it’s an effective tool for marketers to engage their subscribers—most will agree it’s a time-consuming task. Or at least, this was true until email marketing templates came along. Let’s explore how you can use templates to make your email marketing more efficient. Nurturing leads to a sale.

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Template Email Marketing Blast Campaigns Planning 132

ANNUITAS

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Marketing has already made their list this year , so it’s time to hear from sales! . More Leads of Quality not Quantity . The lifeline of any sales person focused on closing new business is leads, so it makes sense that this is the top of our list this year. Marketing Alignment . Data We Can Trust . Goal Alignment.

Cold Calling 130

Cold Calling Blast Campaigns Work Management Click Rate 130

ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

According to Salesforce research, fewer than half (49%) of marketing leaders believe they provide an experience completely aligned with customer expectations, and customers agree. These people are blasted with interruptive sales and marketing activities day in and day out. How Demand Marketing Needs to Adjust.

Blast Campaigns 130

Blast Campaigns B2B Lead Ranking High Quality Lead 130

Navigate the Channel

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If your outreach relies on email blasts that are not opt in, you should change your strategy immediately. Non-compliance may cost you the ability to expand your business into emerging markets and established populations across seas, and that will definitely not sell well at the next board meeting. appeared first on ER Marketing.

Privacy 65

Privacy Blast Campaigns Opt-out Paid Search Agency 65

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What is the measure of your B2B marketing campaign’s success? As CEOs worldwide are looking at marketing as a growth driver , they have become more critical in measuring all marketing efforts’ performance. Leaders are looking beyond engagement numbers and qualified leads. The Basics of Marketing Metrics.

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Cost per Lead ROMI CPL Churn Rate 258

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For decades vanity metrics have been the guiding light for measuring marketing success – largely because the capabilities didn’t exist to measure closed-loop KPIs. As a result, marketing has become thought of as a cost-center with very little measurable output. Here are five vanity metrics your marketing team needs to be wary of. .

Blast Campaigns 147

Blast Campaigns Elasticity Eye-Tracking B2B Thought Leadership 147

markempa

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Have you ever wondered about how can you use LinkedIn for better lead generation and business. Then came a couple of decades of marketing positions – mostly in the technology industry. I see sales and marketing people trying too hard to automate and template-ize their actions, focusing on quantity and not quality.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Linkedin Sales Qualified Leads Generation 120

SalesIntel

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Lead generation has been around for a long time, but methods have progressed beyond seeing who replies to marketing emails and directing them to the sales team. Marketers must focus on discovering and creating connections with their prospects, leads, and customers than depending on mass marketing and email blasts to attract customers.

Sales Qualified Leads 52

Sales Qualified Leads Ideal Customer Profiles High Quality Lead Leads 52

Ontraport

JANUARY 21, 2021

Your leads opted in…now what? Getting new leads only to watch them slip through your fingers is one of the most frustrating parts of marketing. Everyone struggles with getting ghosted by leads. You’re not the only one losing hard-earned leads before closing the sale — it’s a problem for marketers everywhere.

Sales Qualified Leads 59

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Leads 59

Valasys

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Once you get a lead that has recently shown interest in your product or service, your next quintessential step is to nurture the lead. Nurturing the lead at right time is the first step towards conversion. In order to boost conversion rate, marketers are incorporating different marketing strategies.

Lead Nurturing 69

Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Leads Automation Paid Search Agency 69

Martech

JANUARY 2, 2024

There is much talk about how marketers can leverage customer data. However, this also means thinking about how this same customer data needs to flow throughout all the marketing platforms marketers use to do their day-to-day jobs. We have already seen how marketers can leverage conversion data in top-of-funnel activities.

Ideal Customer Profiles 116

Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Top of Funnel 116

Navigate the Channel

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Coordinate a Marketing Strategy Be sure that you and your marketing team are on the same page when it comes to the presentations, videos, and slideshows that you’ll display at your trade show booth. Blog about the days leading up to the trade show as well as your experiences during the event.

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Trade Show ROI Tips Press 65

Spiralytics

APRIL 25, 2024

Surely, you’d use CRM basics to manage leads and track sales. 1: Segmentation for Focused Engagement Gone are the days of mass email blasts. One way to hit them right is to personalize your messaging in all your marketing campaigns. This is where you’d want to extend CRM use rather than keep it to store customer data.

CRM 62

CRM Cross-Selling Paid Search Agency B2B Marketing 62

FMG Suite

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Feb 21, 2024 – FMG, an industry-leading SaaS company specializing in marketing software and services for financial advisors and insurance agents, has been recognized as a Practice Management Solutions Provider of the Year by Wealth Solutions Report’s (WSR) Wealth Exemplar Awards. SAN DIEGO, Calif., million social media posts.

Marketing Management 59

Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Practices Customer Satisfaction 59

ANNUITAS

APRIL 28, 2020

Our current world environment has proven the need for companies to build marketing strategies that can withstand pivots when necessary. What’s the problem with sales and marketing in financial institutions today? These teams spend countless manhours connecting offline with each lead in their portfolio.

Work Management 165

Work Management Marketing Management Service Paid Search Agency 165

Stevens & Tate

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Closed-loop marketing sounds like a fancy way to reel in customers, but it’s far from being the new-fangled way of doing business and attracting new customers to your brand. In fact closed-loop online marketing has been used and refined for over a decade by some of the world’s top companies. Landing & Lead Lift Off.

Sales Qualified Leads 59

Sales Qualified Leads Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 59

Outgrow

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 Best Lead Generation Tools You Need to Try Out in 2021. Is the drying pipeline of leads giving you stress and anxiety attacks? According to a Hubspot report, most of the midsize and large companies generate less than 5,000 leads per month. Yet, we know of marketers who ace it and scale their businesses to new heights!

Lead Generation 94

Lead Generation Paid Content Budget Programs Lead Ranking 94

Engagio

JULY 6, 2023

By focusing on intent-based advertising, you can improve your targeting and drive more qualified leads. Warm-Up Accounts Before Email Blasts Email marketing can be a highly effective way to nurture leads and drive conversions. Then, you can create targeted ads that speak directly to their needs and interests.

ROI 71

ROI Ads Allocation DemandBase 71

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Which means things shaking up in the B2B world — holiday emails are being blasted, sales deals are being closed, and 2021 recruitment strategies are finishing up. And to get there, you have to ramp up your visibility and engagement with your best sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. Our post, “What is Buyer Intent Data?

Work Management 237

Work Management Marketing Management Cold Calling Tips 237

SalesIntel

AUGUST 11, 2023

As a marketing leader, your success hinges on your ability to generate qualified leads that are both engaged and converting into loyal customers. Here are five indispensable tips to help you achieve your lead-generation goals. Here are five indispensable tips to help you achieve your lead-generation goals.

Sales Qualified Leads 40

Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Allocation Lead Ranking 40

Contently

JANUARY 11, 2023

As countless marketing messages flood email inboxes, McKinsey research suggests 71% of customers expect the messages they receive from brands to be personalized—and 76% are frustrated when they’re not. Marketers have been trying to master personalization since the dawn of the Internet. 3 trillion in value over the coming years.

Personalization 177

Personalization Top of Funnel Business Enterprise Management 177

SnapApp

JANUARY 24, 2019

Finding quality leads is often easier said than done. Gone are the days of making a few phone calls and sending an email blast to catch the attention of interested—and high paying—prospects. Recently on the blog, we’ve been talking a lot about the quality vs. quantity debate around leads. For marketers, that means two things.

Top of Funnel 111

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Personalization 111

Martech

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The curator greets you, recalling your love for impressionist art and leads you to an unseen Monet. That’s what we’re aiming for in B2B marketing. Advanced strategies for personalizing B2B email campaigns B2B marketing emails are often lost in the mountain of the daily inbox, but they don’t have to be.

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Email Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy 134