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Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions

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Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

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Or even if the processes with which those leads are shepherded along the sales cycle are woefully inadequate, a company may not generate the volume of inquiries necessary in order for marketing automation to make a difference. Inevitably, much of the business case for a marketing automation solution comes down to intangibles.

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Getting the Most from Salesforce.com: A Conversation with David Taber

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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. That’s why the process issues have to be dealt with from the beginning. But they are different systems, focused on different processes.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy. All thoughts are welcome!

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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

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* lengthening sales cycles during a down economy and the desire to support sales reps who are reluctant to dedicate their valuable time to nurturing buyers throughout that process. Tags: B2B Marketing CRM Database Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation.

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Top 5 Benefits of Adopting Marketing Automation

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Shortened sales cycles due to more systematic nurturing of leads through the selling process. Most salespeople are compensated on closed business, NOT on keeping leads warm.

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5 Ways to Segment Your Lead Nurturing Campaign

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The challenge is identifying that interest early in the process. Another is to utilize progressive profiling: asking incremental qualifying questions as part of the nurturing process. For some companies, however, knowing the prospect’s primary area of interest will be critical to delivering a relevant message.