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SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation

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A lead is a lead, right? Depends – are you in marketing or in sales? SAL – Sales Accepted Leads is the bridge between Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL). Quantitative lead definitions reduce the friction between sales and marketing.

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Manufacturers Use CAD and 3D Parts Catalogs to Generate Leads

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For a while now, manufacturers have been using online searchable product catalogs to generate new leads and sales. That in turn helps manufacturers get in early in the industrial sales cycle and generate more sales opportunities. That represents a 27 percent increase in downloads over 2009.

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

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How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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Manufacturers Use Evaluation Kits for Effective Lead Nurturing

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Lead nurturing plays an important role in industrial lead generation programs because it is rare that an industrial sale is completed on the first call or the first visit to the manufacturer’s website. Forrester, CSO Insights and Marketo reported that lead nurturing produced much better results.

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What You Ought to Know About Inbound Marketing

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However, overall adoption rate of Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation (MA) is still low among smaller manufacturers and industrial companies. This is slowly changing and I am finding many of these companies are now more willing to listen to me talk about it. It is not all about buying marketing software.

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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

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If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

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That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads.