The Point

AUGUST 17, 2010

Direct mail is tangible, personal, and gives you a measure of creative license that’s increasingly difficult with email, where even minor graphics can be a sure-fire trigger for spam filters. Here are 5 areas that make ideal candidates for including direct mail in the marketing mix: 1. Lead Nurturing. Top Management.

Marketing Mix 100

Marketing Mix Planning Lead Nurturing Demand Generation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Rather, it has conceded the lower tiers of business marketing to simpler systems and aimed Marketing Studio at marketers who need greater sophistication and will accept higher cost and complexity to get it. For more on vendor classifications, see my list of demand generation vendors from last November.)

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Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

The Point

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

A client asks: “Now that we have our marketing automation system in place, is it really necessary to use registration forms in our lead nurturing (follow-up) campaigns? After all, we already know who these people are, correct? Can we do without?”.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Nurturing 100

The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It works in tandem with inside sales by eliminating the chance that new leads will go without follow-up due to issues of bandwidth or lack of profile data (i.e. which leads merit sales investment and which don’t.) The reason?

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Budget 100

The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management. The company must direct end user inquiries promptly and efficiently to the sales channel, while responding to prospective partners and end users with a message tailored to iDirect’s specific experience in that company’s market.

Lead Nurturing 100

Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. Synchronizing prospect and opportunity databases is key.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40