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Information Kits: Packaging Offer Content for Higher Response

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For most B2B marketers, information offers like white papers, case studies, and analyst reports strike an effective balance between response rate and lead qualification. You can expand the appeal of content like these by packaging them into information kits. ”

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I Need Hot Leads, and I Need Them Now

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Response rates from tactical, sales-driven campaigns are likely to be lower (because they only attract highly qualified, late stage leads), so companies need to spend more money to generate relatively few opportunities. Focusing campaigns, content, and resources on BOTH generating net new leads but also nurturing existing prospects.

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

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No matter what your marketing resolutions this year – more content, better creative, etc. – Opens/Open Rate. Clicks/Click Rate (CTR). Click to Open (CTO) Rate. Leads/Response Rate. Opens, clicks and leads can be thought of as measures of volume – the amount of response that a campaign generated.

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Measure Your Way to Lead Nurturing Success

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In our firm’s marketing automation practice , we define success not as email clicks, response rate, or even overall engagement, but instead: clear, demonstrated, and attributable movement of leads through the lead lifecycle – for example, inquiry to MQL, MQL to SAL, and so on. The results were dramatic. increased a massive 75 percent.

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Does Renting Email Lists Make Sense Any More?

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I can vividly remember getting 8-10 percent response from rented lists in the early days, but even 1 percent response from a rented B2B email list today is considered wildly successful by most standards. Which means that even though the production cost of email is still attractive, the actual cost per response has skyrocketed.

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New White Paper: Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success

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Inside, you’ll discover the secrets to success and core lead management principles that can increase response rates, convert more leads to opportunities, and accelerate the ROI from marketing automation software. Other topics on tap include: * Scrapping Traditional for Content Marketing. *

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Why I Don’t Care About Spam Rates and Sender Reputation (and Neither Should You)

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For example, in this earlier post , I discussed how whereas in the past spam triggers were largely triggered by content (for example, the word “free”), we’re told that the biggest variable today is now sender reputation. Response rates and even ROI are the metrics that should guide your email strategy, not spam rates.