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Quantifying the Value of Lead Nurturing: A Case Study

Sales Engine

In this article, we look at a case study of lead nurturing that finds that nurtured leads were three times more likely to convert to sales-accepted leads than traditional marketing-qualified leads. This kind of buyer isn’t ready to be handed over to a senior sales executive and should instead be nurtured, or so common wisdom dictates.

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Recent Writings: Negativity, Social Gaffes and Farewell to Case Studies

Paul Gillin

Good Riddance to the Corporate Case Study. In this post I rant just a bit about corporate case studies, those pervasive and largely useless vessels of happy talk that no one really believes. It’s not the concept of the case study I don’t like; it’s the format.

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Report: Trade Shows Generate Highest Quantity & Quality of Leads

The Point

Based on responses from more than 200 BtoB marketing professionals, it provides useful insight on the types of demand gen programs and content that are trending in the marketplace. Research firm Software Advice have released their 2014 B2B Demand Generation Benchmark Report , a handy reference for anyone planning 2015 marketing spend.

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Brilliant Marketers at BtoB Magazine's NetMarketing Breakfast

MLT Creative

BtoB Magazine’s NetMarketing Breakfast in Atlanta. For the tenth year, BtoB Magazine hosted the NetMarketing Breakfast, this time, at Atlanta’s Four Seasons hotel. Moderated by the affable bureau chief, Christopher Hosford, the panel included four senior marketing executives from enterprise organizations.

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32 Influential B2B Social Media Profiles (People) to Follow on Twitter

KoMarketing Associates

BtoB Online (@btobmagazine) : “The resource for #marketing strategists” Follow BtoB Online at https://twitter.com/btobmagazine. “MarketingSherpa provides B2B and consumer marketing professionals practical Case Studies, research and training on email, demand gen, search, social and more.”

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Winning The War: Content Marketing Adoption Widens

Biznology

BtoB Magazine’s recent study, “Content Marketing: Ready for Prime Time” found that content marketing was either “fully integrated” (12%) or “very integrated” (22%) for about a third of respondents. (34% Here are a few more interesting data points from that BtoB study. 57% Videos.

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11 Conferences for B2B Marketers to Attend in the Second Half of 2013

KoMarketing Associates

The conference breaks out into two separate tracks for sales and marketing professionals, coming together to highlight the latest BtoB research and keynote sessions. According to the conference overview, this four day event will expand beyond B2B and also include case studies and in-depth analysis in B2C marketing as well.