The Point

JULY 19, 2010

The article contains some valuable insights on where Webinars fit in today’s B2B demand generation mix, and is definitely worth a read. Tags: B2B Marketing Database Marketing Demand Generation Webinar Invitations Webinars direct marketing email marketing webinar strategy. that appeared online today.

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The Point

JULY 15, 2010

Salesforce.com is a dominant player in the CRM category and an integral part of many companies’ lead management, database marketing, and demand generation programs. HS: Thanks David!

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The Point

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Similarly, marketing automation helps companies get more from their investment in demand generation by nurturing and cultivating the vast majority of leads that aren’t immediately sales-ready. Many of the companies we see buying marketing automation technology are upgrading from older-generation email broadcast platforms.

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The Point

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The clients we work with are concerned with more basic, day-to-day issues: enhancing sales productivity, converting more inquiries to sales-ready leads (or trial users to paying customers), better leveraging their marketing database, and increasing demand generation ROI. I’m just not sure the rest of us are quite there yet.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Increased demand generation ROI due to improved conversion of leads to sales opportunities. Without marketing automation, most salespeople chase new, hot leads, ignore the rest, and then wait for the next marketing program to generate a fresh new batch of “ready to buy” prospects.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Relevancy is one of the key factors in generating a consistent response from your lead nurturing emails: the more relevant your message to the reader’s job function, industry, interests, and stage in the selling cycle, the more likely he/she will be to respond. To download your free copy, click here.

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The Point

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Someone opening emails but not engaging with the content may be interested in your message but just not have a current need.

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The Point

JUNE 27, 2012

For today’s B2B marketer, content is the fuel that feeds the demand generation engine. But when lead generation, lead nurturing , customer marketing and social media programs all require a constant feeding of new, compelling content, what do you do when the pace of new programs outstrips your ability to generate that content?

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JULY 13, 2012

Is lead nurturing always about generating measurable response, increasing lead scores, progressive profiling, and moving leads to sales? Occasionally? More than once every couple of weeks? Not so much.”. What do you think? Or can it also be about establishing trust, thought leadership, and affinity with the target prospect?

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The Point

JANUARY 24, 2013

Furthermore, an inside sales representative can offer real world perspective on lead quality, sales cycles, common objections, audience segmentation, even content strategy – that marketers often lack when they work at arm’s length from the sales process. How many leads do you generate each month and what is the source of those leads?

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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.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Certain days of the week may generate better email response. From a planning perspective, going the day-of-the-week route certainly makes it easy to control your editorial calendar. However, I’d advise caution: 1.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

It’s a new year, so what better time to get your demand generation strategy “in shape” for improved performance? Blogs have long been the exclusive province of the PR team, but demand generation marketers are starting to realize the potential for blogs to generate leads in a big way. Improve campaign measurement.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Whether a company should predominantly use inbound or outbound marketing; 2. The type of content most likely to work best for demand generation. I’ll explain: For a company selling a commodity-type product, or close to it, there’s little need to educate the market on why a particular company needs that product.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

My response: It’s true that most marketing automation implementations involve either customers or existing prospects – people with whom the company has had prior contact – but there’s no reason why you couldn’t use the same technology against a cold list.

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APRIL 30, 2012

I’ve written previously in this space about how to reduce unsubscribes by giving prospects and customers the option to update their contact information rather than forcing them to opt out of email entirely.

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