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Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel

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Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. HS) What’s the potential payoff from integrating social media into the demand gen mix?

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Case Study: Segmentation, New Creative Boosts Lead Conversion Rates by 75%

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Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a nurture campaign targeted to “Mid Stage” leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.) “A

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Accelerating the Pace of Inbound Leads: An Interview with Paul Albright of Captora

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Paul Albright boasts a 30-year track record of success in Silicon Valley, including executive roles at companies such as Marketo, SuccessFactors, NetApp, and Informatica. PA] If you think about how marketing has evolved, you need to get your back-office systems sorted out before you attack the top of funnel opportunity.

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Top 10 ABM Mistakes

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How can ABM best coexist with a more traditional funnel-based demand generation model? In the giddy, early days when solutions like Marketo first arrived on the scene, the reigning view was that the technology was all a company needed to solve their lead management and email marketing woes. Measuring the wrong thing.

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Forget About Hot Leads. It’s Cold Leads that Make the Difference.

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This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. Note: the source for this statistic wasn’t quoted, so if someone from Marketo reads this, feel free to provide any source reference in the comments.]. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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Lead Generation Losing Out to Social Media? Not So Much.

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A recent industry study on Lead Management Optimization, conducted by CSO Insights and conducted in partnership with SMEI and Marketo , sheds insight on the relative budget marketing organizations are investing in areas such as lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation. Simply said: social media is not a budget category.

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How to Measure Email Success in 2015: A Call to ROI

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As a B2B agency , our firm creates and executes dozens of email campaigns every month, and that experience tells me that a large percentage of B2B marketers, even at companies that otherwise do a very sophisticated job at demand generation , fail to measure or compare email campaign performance using any metrics other than opens and clicks.