Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Content marketing ain’t easy… but isn’t that why it’s so valuable? Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. Does your content alleviate a pain point?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers.

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, just one hour to follow up with leads and secure the best chance of speaking to key decision-makers and converting them into customers—at least, that’s what a study from the Harvard Business Review found. Unfortunately, at many companies, that’s not always the case. What is lead handoff between marketing and sales?

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2016

Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that nurturing leads is essential to maintain a digital connection with buyers who want to learn about a business pain, product, or service—but who are not yet interested in talking to a sales person. The sales rep rejects the lead altogether.

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Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The answer is high-quality leads. Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. High quality leads can not only boost conversion rates and customer loyalty but also significantly reduce marketing costs. What makes a lead high-quality?

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Are your leads ready for market? The age-old conflict between sales and marketing appears to always come down to one thing: leads. While marketing teams have historically been judged on the amount of demand they drive, sales teams are frequently seeking for more quality prospects to sell to. Lead Scoring And MQLs.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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Envy

JULY 31, 2017

The Challenges: Market Education and Lead Generation. While many startups are often tempted by the quick wins, Aqua’s team was clearly looking for a long term marketing strategy and goals from the outset, focusing on market education and setting up well thought-out lead nurturing campaigns. The Winning Strategy.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 15, 2022

In today’s fast-paced sales race, no matter how great your product or service is, your business will find it difficult to survive without high-quality leads. Defining Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) for your company can be achieved through a collaboration between sales and marketing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 14, 2020

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Event marketing had been on the upswing with between 20%-25% of the typical marketing budget being spent on tradeshows, roadshows, etc. The typical client was a B2B tech company.

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SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What type of leads and prospects make it into your ‘right fit for my business’ category? Your sales and marketing teams spent a lot of time and effort answering this question. Because of the fact that lead qualification – from marketing qualified lead (MQL) to sales qualified lead (SQL) – encompasses more than “fit.”

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.”

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Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2023

When it comes to lead generation and new customer opportunity qualification, many businesses have traditionally relied on the waterfall approach which leverages the concept of a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL).

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. A recent study found that such alignment brings 208% more value from marketing with 108% less effort. Marketing efforts also generate leads.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

79% marketing leads never convert to sales. Picture this: Your marketing team generates vast quantities of leads while operating under a set of ambiguous and vague lead qualification procedures. Thus, keeping the quality of their generated leads a mystery. Qualified Leads.

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Golden Spiral

JANUARY 18, 2022

Improve audience-facing content: Many HealthTech companies have lean marketing teams. Closer and more frequent communication with sales helps your marketing team write better articles, sharper case studies, and deeper content that helps your prospects overcome their biggest obstacles during the sales process.

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SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. You need to reach the right prospects, fill your pipeline with quality leads , and eventually turn those folks into paying customers. Leads should: Have enough money to afford your solution.

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Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the most important lead generation tactics you have at your disposal is your website. If you’re looking to boost your lead generation efforts, your website is one of the first places to start. Here are some common lead generation mistakes organizations make with their website and how you should fix them.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Marketing teams, with their rich industry insights, often take the lead in crafting the messaging platform.

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Stevens & Tate

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Well-written, targeted pieces of content rank well in search engine results. Convert: Once you have your website traffic flowing, the next step is to convert this traffic into leads. Here are two to get you started: Case studies: These showcase how your business helped a customer with a specific problem.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. In the study, reps gave customers six tubes of toothpaste — a trivial offering. Below is an example of how we offer gifts to cold leads when encouraging them to sign up for a webinar.

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Strategic-IC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

How can you drive value at every stage of the buyer's journey, with video content? Our Head of Sales, Fes Askari details how marketing and sales teams can use a variety of video formats at different stages to drive value and help both prospects and customers. Driving Value With Video Across the Buyer's Journey.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . According to a 2017 study , the marketing technology landscape grew 40% last year to a total of 5,381 different solutions. 2: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). .

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SnapApp

JANUARY 22, 2019

We tend to get caught up focusing on more: More sales, more traffic, more leads. Here’s why: Doing more and more marketing work is not better. But doing more effective (and thus better) marketing tasks? And having more leads is also not necessarily better, but having better leads? They are bottom-funnel leads.”.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Anchovies add an important flavor element even though, in many cases, you don't specifically taste them in the final dish. The benefits of a strong B2B brand - and of investing in marketing programs that are specifically designed to build the brand - have been demonstrated in numerous research studies conducted over many years.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 11, 2017

How to know whether your lead is “qualified” enough to be a sales qualified lead? While Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) is vetted by both the marketing and the sales team; Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) are prospects that “likely to become a buyer” according to the marketing team.

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Conversica

MAY 22, 2020

Intelligent Virtual Assistants operate on a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence and intelligent automation to connect with leads and customers in personalized, two-way conversations. In this way, IVAs act as a virtual team member assisting revenue-generating teams such as Marketing, Sales or Customer Success.

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6sense

APRIL 13, 2016

“When Gartner first wrote about predictive lead scoring in August 2014, the practice was still in its early stages.” In their March Tech Go-to-Market report, Gartner notes that “predictive lead scoring is now a “must have” for B2B technology marketing leaders with high volumes of leads from inbound channels and events.”

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead.

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Strategic-IC

MAY 29, 2018

A considered lead nurture strategy is important to support your sales and marketing activities and ensure prospects keep moving through the funnel. We explore 5 lead nurture tips to consider for an effective process. Why is Lead Nurturing Important? 5 Lead Nurturing Strategy Considerations. Related: 2.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Content Examples: Whitepapers, case studies, reports, webinars, Ebooks, Gated Blog Posts, Guides, Competitive Comparison Charts. Channels: Facebook Lead Gen Form, LinkedIn Sponsored Post (lead gen form), LinkedIn InMail, paid search, any type of CTA retargeting. How to Qualify a lead in the Marketing Funnel.

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Televerde

JANUARY 23, 2018

Read the solar energy case study now. As revenue starts to roll in, you need to know which of your marketing activities are pulling it in. As you determine your own, be sure to think beyond typical marketing or channel engagement metrics (email, PPC, click through, etc.) Number of sales accepted leads (SAL).

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Furthermore, we’ve interviewed leading sales teams to collect 11 AI sales predictions that you should watch in 2023. AI recognizes facial impressions and drives emotion-based decisions The market size for facial recognition software was valued at USD 4.35 AI augments lead scoring and qualification.

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SnapApp

MAY 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series that explores best practices for nurturing prospects, generating qualified leads, and improving conversion rate. In part one of this blog series, we looked at the ways marketers can lay the foundation for an effective lead generation strategy.

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Hubspot

JULY 22, 2018

Did you know that B2B marketers who implement marketing automation increase their sales pipeline contribution by an average of 10% according to a report by Forrester ? Lead nurturing campaigns aren't the only type of email marketing automation you can use to get more out of your contacts database. there's more.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

subscriber, lead, marketing-qualified lead [MQL], sales-qualified lead [SQL], opportunity, customer). According to HubSpot, “ Just over 75 percent of marketers are reporting on how their lead generation campaigns are directly influencing revenue.” Give your new contacts some extra love.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

subscriber, lead, marketing-qualified lead [MQL], sales-qualified lead [SQL], opportunity, customer). According to HubSpot, “ Just over 75 percent of marketers are reporting on how their lead generation campaigns are directly influencing revenue.” Give your new contacts some extra love.

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