It feels like every month a new marketing automation vendor hits the scene making grandiose promises ranging from immediate ROI increases to more effective marketing to the delivery of lead management.    While some of these “promises” can be achieved over time, it’s a fallacy to think that the purchase of technology will solve or eliminate all of our lead management issues.   In fact three of the top five marketing automation vendors either use the term “lead management” to describe their solution or have it listed as a product/solution offering. 

This is the fifth installment in an eight-part series, the ‘Lead Generation Checklist.’ The goal of this series is to provide a checklist that will help organizations optimize their lead generation process. Treat your marketing marketing database as a valued asset. For this reason, I believe many readers will be tempted to skip reading but I cannot overstate the importance of your marketing database asset. I've believe the quality the marketing database can influence your lead generation or nurturing program’s success by a factor of 50 percent.