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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

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Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. Score those strong purchase indicators highly and send these white-hot leads to sales.

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How Not to Buy Leads

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Last week a prospect told me that he needed higher quality leads than were currently being provided by two third-party outsourced solution providers. His definition of a lead was the loosest that I have ever heard. An employee of a targeted company needed only to download some content to be qualified as a lead.

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Build vs Buy Your Customer Data Platform?

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The build vs buy debate has existed as long as packaged software itself. That discussion, in turn, usually leads to a recommendation that companies build software which will create unique competitive advantage and otherwise buy when a satisfactory option exists. This work is the same whether you’re building or buying.

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

ViewPoint

I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (We The challenge is that some companies and some roles do not lend themselves to selling value. The challenge is that some companies and some roles do not lend themselves to selling value. People buy from people whom they like and trust.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Join Jen Spencer, VP of Smartbug Media, as she discusses how to grow an inbound strategy and framework in your organization to attract leads and establish your brand. In this webinar, we’ll cover: How to establish an inbound program that will attract leads. How to secure organizational buy-in (and cooperation!).

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How Buying Signals Rise from Layers of Data

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Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. Savvy sales reps and marketers can take this approach to engage with leads earlier and stay ahead of their competitors. Buying Signals Reveal Interests.

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How to Recognize and Respond to Buying Signals (and Close More Deals!)

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You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. How to spot buying signals. Let’s break that down.

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6 Steps to Optimize Your Media Buys

It’s also an opportunity to innovate, lead, and rethink the way your company uses media. In this media optimization guide, you will learn: 6 key steps to plan and pace your media buys. How to optimize your media buys with a data-driven approach. Ways to be more efficient and drive growth from every investment.

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Seven Things Marketers Need to Know About Lead Generation

Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY

Lead generation is the process of attracting and converting strangers and prospects into someone who has indicated interest in your company's product or service. One of the biggest responsibilities and challenges for marketers is generating leads. In this webinar, you will learn: The fundamentals of effective lead generation.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

The highest priority for B2B marketers is effective demand generation (increasing lead quality and quantity). In this webinar, you’ll learn how to go beyond rational-logic-based sales/marketing and adjust your strategy to understand better how buyers feel so that you can connect and help more customers buy.