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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | FUNNEL FOCUS AUGUST 1, 2011 Content Marketing Strategy – Step 1: How to Perform a Content Audit Start with your collateral pieces or offerings, such as webinars, whitepapers, videos, eBooks, reports, and case studies, then look at blog content, and finish with additional web pages, emails and third-party material. Type of Content: whitepaper, webinar, video, article, blog post, interview, case study, analyst report, etc. Jeff Ogden posted a good content audit article on B2Bbloggers, and Cari Baldwin’s interview on the Content Connection blog discussing content mapping is helpful as well. If your organization has not performed one, I would highly recommend it. | FUNNEL FOCUS OCTOBER 20, 2010 Decrementing a Lead Score: They’re just not that into you lead could attend webinars, download whitepapers, and visit your blog every few days; however, if their interest never escalates into viewing product information or responding to a sales rep’s inquiries, chances are they are not yet sales-ready or are doing research for another purpose. Many of you have seen the 2009 film He’s just not that into you. For those of you that haven’t, bravo – it was terrible. However, the premise of the movie resonates with most of us because we may have been on one side or the other. No activity. Change in Purchase Timeline. | | | | | | | FUNNEL FOCUS MAY 11, 2011 Interview: Brian Hansford Shares 5 Tips on Lead Nurturing for the Complex Sale Maybe there’s a sales rep or an engineer that can provide expertise on a subject, which could then be turned into a three-paragraph blog, for example. In the B2B market, long, complex sales cycles come with the territory and can last anywhere from 6 months to 3 years. Therefore, lead nurturing is a critical part of many organizations' sales processes. | FUNNEL FOCUS MARCH 31, 2011 Interview: Tibor Shanto Reveals How to Use Lead Nurturing to Prevent Sales Funnel Leakage You can read our blog, The Pipeline with new material three times a week, and follow Tibor on Twitter @Renbor. In today’s b2b environment, connecting with buyers over the phone and in one-on-one meetings is becoming increasingly difficult. Marketers can provide this by developing lead nurturing programs to support the buying process after prospects have begun to interact with salespeople. | | FUNNEL FOCUS JUNE 5, 2012 5 Ways to Use Marketing Automation to Its Full Potential What to Read: " Use 3 Components to Create a Lead Scoring Model ", Manticore Blog. For additional insight, look for our upcoming blog series on “Quantifying Marketing’s Impact on Revenue”. I was recently sent this article written by Howard J. Sewell ( @HJSewell ), President of Spear Marketing Group, on the “Immaturity of Most Marketing Automation Deployments”. Sewell makes the case that many marketing automation users are not leveraging the technology to its full potential. So, I took it upon myself to take Sewell’s 5 keys and expand on them with some additional resources. | | | | | | | | | -
FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2010 Spotlight: Craig Rosenberg Reminds Us Marketing Automation is Not Plug and Play He is also the author of the popular b2b sales and marketing blog, the Funnelholic. Craig is the Vice President of Products and Services at Focus where he oversees product creation, management, and delivery. He is known as an expert in b2b sales marketing across the entire funnel from demand generation to overall marketing to sales process and organization. Craig starts off by outlining how to determine where you want the system to take you, then defines the roles you need to support the system. Let us never forget that people buy complex offerings from people. MORE >> -
FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2011 Interview: Craig Rosenberg Dishes on the Details of Successful Demand Generation Craig Rosenberg, Vice President of Products and Services at Focus and author of the award-winning blog The Funnelholic, participated as an “Expert Chef” on this recipe offering marketers insight on how to make it even more of a sales team crowd-pleaser. He is also the author of the popular b2b sales and marketing blog, the Funnelholic. Statistics show that the average number of touch points it takes to propel a prospect into action is between 3 and 7. asked Craig if he could offer us just a little more insight into how to build and execute effective demand generation campaigns. MORE >> -
FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010 Interview: Mac McIntosh Shares How Marketing Automation Can Impact Your Bottom Line Mac McIntosh is a b-to-b marketing and sales consultant and writer of the popular blog Sales Lead Insights. In the new era of marketing accountability, it is critical for marketers to adjust their marketing processes to reach farther across the funnel and help drive revenues. Marketing automation plays a critical role in helping marketers accomplish this. To help you gain some insight on what it enables you to do and how to use it effectively, I've invited BtoB Sales Lead Expert Mac McIntosh to answer a few questions about the value marketing automation can bring to your business. MORE >> -
FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011 Interview: Ardath Albee Shares 5 Tips for Customer Nurturing If you want an alternative to a once a month or quarterly newsletter, why not a customer-specific blog? Ardath is a frequent industry speaker and the author of the popular Marketing Interactions blog. You’ve worked hard to turn prospects into customers. Do not make the mistake of treating them like they're less important once they sign on the dotted line. The same emphasis should be placed on customer nurturing as on lead nurturing. Here’s what she had to say: EM: In the Cookbook, you offer tips on nurturing customers. Boring! It’s not. Their subscription options have multiplied. MORE >> -
FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011 Interview: Carlos Hidalgo Shares Tips on Turning Recycled Leads into Revenue It would be wise of organizations to harness some of this content and push it out to these leads and also pull them into sections of their website that showcases user content in form of case studies, user video, user generated blog content, etc. Carlos Hidalgo, President and CEO of The Annuitas Group , a well-respected B2B Marketing thought leader and a recognized expert in marketing automation , recently participated as an “Expert Chef” in the Lead Nurturing Cookbook on a recipe we created for nurturing leftover or dormant leads. The best content for this is thought leadership in focus. This MORE >>
- How to Incorporate Social Media with Lead Nurturing Programs FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010
- The Quintessential Marketing Automation Guidebook Spotlight: Ardath Albee Suggests Marketers Put Content to Work FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010
- Decrementing a Lead Score: They’re just not that into you FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010
- What You Can Learn About Prospects from the Content They Read – 4 Questions for Ardath Albee FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2010
- 5 Tips for Impactful Lead Nurturing Programs FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
- Tips for Getting from No to Yes for Marketing Automation FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
- Developing Content to Reveal more Details about our Prospects – 5 Tips from Ardath Albee FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
- Use 3 Components to Create a Lead Scoring Model FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010
- Spotlight: Brian Massey Shares Insights to Optimizing Your Marketing Process FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
- Q&A Excerpt: Driving Leads with Social Media FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010
- Thought Leadership Interview: Ardath Albee Shares More Secrets to Content Marketing Effectiveness FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
- Best Practices in Video Content Marketing FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2013
- Content Creation & Social Media: Jobs for the Entire Company FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- Inspiration for Compelling Content Found in the Simplest of Places FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
- Marketing Automation Challenges FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010
- Q&A: Finding & Implementing the Right Marketing Automation Platform FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2010
- B2B Marketing Tips for Reaching the Web-influenced Buyer FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010
- Thought Leadership Interview: Jep Castelein Provides Tips on Improving Lead Nurturing Programs FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2010
- Brian Hession Shares the List Intelligence Approach with Marketing Automation Users FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011
- Interview: Jeff Erramouspe Discusses the Difference Between Drip Marketing and Lead Nurturing FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011
- The Content Marketing Basics FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- How the Human Touch Impacts Marketing Performance – 5 Questions for Brian Carroll FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
- Spotlight: Brian Massey Provides Pointers on Performance Marketing FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2010
- B2B Buyers Looking a Lot Like B2C Consumers FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010
- 2013: Prepare to Battle (for Market Share) FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012
- Content Marketing Retreat This Week FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
- 3 Questions before Content Marketing Retreat FUNNEL FOCUS | THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
- A Busy January FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
- Big Data, the Next Big King? FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013
- Video Content for Asure Software FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013
- Webinar: 5 Ways to Improve Marketing Performance with the Human Touch FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2011
- Q&A: Making the Case for Taking the Plunge with Marketing Automation FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
- Turning Two Into One FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012
- Improving Your Social Skills: Top Social Media Tools FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013
- Turning Two Into One FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012
- Build a “Mayan-Worthy” Editorial Calendar FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2013
- Tips for Getting from No to Yes for Marketing Automation FUNNEL FOCUS | FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
- 5 Tips for Impactful Lead Nurturing Programs FUNNEL FOCUS | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
- The Content Marketing Basics FUNNEL FOCUS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
- 5 Ways to Use Marketing Automation to Its Full Potential FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012
- Turning Two Into One FUNNEL FOCUS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012
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