Marketing automation combines technology, typically hosted, with business processes that score leads based on fixed criteria like title and size of company, as well as dynamic criteria, such as which web pages the person viewed, whether the individual attended a webinar or clicked through to an offer. That process is generally called “lead nurturing,” which is a popular buzzword in the industry. Turn your marketing into a 24/7 sales generating machine. This business requirement would require monitoring, notification, editing, proofing, and executing for every item. MORE >>

B2B Lead Generation | Where Are You Today? An SVP of Worldwide Marketing used this to describe where his 1/2 billion software company fit today in B2B Lead Generation. His point: They were primitive – no content marketing, no lead nurturing, no lead scoring, no marketing automation, etc. handful of companies are like the motorcycle on the right – Marketo, Eloqua , Kinaxis and Hubspot are a few that come to mind. So many companies lack good content, fail to nurture leads, and especially score leads. What do you think? MORE >>

by Carol Fox Why are a few B2B marketing people so effective at producing high quality leads, while a majority seem to just dither around conference tables trying to figure out their next move? Do the lead generation superstars have a special gift, or a bag of tricks the rest of us don’t? Do they understand certain fundamentals of business that most overlook? It’s clear that the long-term health of any business is contingent on its ability to attract high quality leads for its sales team. Are you a lead generation superstar? MORE >>

B2B Lead Generation | Learning from the Best. believe one of the best ways for you to learn about how to improve fiscal results is to look at how the best-performing businesses do it. Marketo , sponsor of our white paper, How to Find New Customers , is one of the fastest growing companies on Earth. Marketo recently toured the country hosting Revenue Rock Star events. The President of Find New Customers attended the Marketo event in NYC. believe every B2B marketing leader can learn a lot from this when they see how Marketo did it. Jon Miller. MORE >>

by Jason Miller To the folks out there who say that Facebook is not an effective lead generation tool for B2B, I will tell them that they need a new strategy. Facebook boasts the largest user base of any social network and it’s essential that you have a presence here or your business will simply be missing opportunities. Over the past few months I have been experimenting with different types of ads, new content, eye catching visuals, and tracking my success using Marketo and Facebook insights. Does Facebook Work for B2B Lead Generation? Hell Yes! MORE >>