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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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How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

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A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”? Over time, an accumulation of stale, non-responsive leads can bump you to a higher pricing tier for your CRM or marketing automation license. . What best practices should we put in place?

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10 Questions: Do You Need Marketing Automation?

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For other companies, the decision of whether or not to take the plunge into marketing automation is less of a slam-dunk. Not everyone is able to measure the precise ratios at which sales leads currently convert to sales. Inevitably, much of the business case for a marketing automation solution comes down to intangibles.

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

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As a Marketo agency partner, I attended along with colleagues from Spear Marketing Group to greet clients, talk shop, and hear how other companies – including Marketo themselves – are putting technology to use in the service of improved lead management. Including the recipient’s company name in subject lines increases response.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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Unlock your Sales Potential with these Top Sales Database Providers

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The top sales database providers offer a range of services, from basic lists of contacts to more advanced solutions that include data cleansing, account-based marketing, and lead generation. They must have a vast database of companies and contacts, covering various industries and geographic locations.