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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. So yes, paid social media can be an effective demand gen channel. Click To Tweet. (HS)

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21 Tips & Other Impressions from the Marketo User Summit

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Earlier this week, Marketo , the marketing automation company, held its second ever user conference in San Francisco. For one, I can report that no companies are coming to our firm asking us to help them align sales and marketing. Systems like Marketo can be used to remind sales reps (via sales alerts) of untouched or stale leads.

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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

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Sirius Decisions wrote an insightful article last week about the acquisition by Marketo of Insightera (a Web personalization platform), and included was the following projection: “By 2015, we expect to see 71 percent of b-to-b organizations’ new inquiries coming via the corporate Web site.”. Virtually none. I doubt it. What do you think?

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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. The key is to do this in a new way – don’t just tell marketing where they’re falling short via diagnostic tools; instead, help marketing fix the problem.

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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. And therein lies the first mistake.

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5 Reasons to Gate Lead Nurturing Content

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Progressive profiling is an ideal method for capturing both additional demographic data (company size, industry) to drive campaign segmentation, and behavioral data that can help identify hot leads. Landing pages help drive further engagement.

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

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When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot 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.]. Why is Marketo’s percentage so much higher than the average?