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Is it Time to Add Chatbots to Your Demand Generation Engine?

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One, because I’m generally wary of any technology that promises to “revolutionize” B2B marketing, and two, because I struggled to envision the use case for chatbots beyond customer service and support. However, the more I learn about chatbots, the more I get excited about their potential for B2B marketing, and demand generation.

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Which Comes First: Lead Nurturing or Inside Sales?

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For a long time, “ lead nurturing ” was thought of as something you did with the leads that sales didn’t want. The theory was: leads come in, the sales team gets the hot ones, and the rest go to lead nurturing. Today, of course, a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy is much more than that.

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8 Surprising B2B Use Cases for Chatbots

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However, chat is also a powerful tool that can integrate into virtually any type of B2B demand generation program, campaign or initiative. Welcome back …”) with language that speaks to known, account-specific benefits and pain points can pay big dividends. Lead Nurturing.

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Lead Nurturing Isn’t a Stage in the Sales Funnel

ANNUITAS

Take a look at an excerpt from a Leadspace Radio via Sales Lead Management Association with Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and founder of ANNUITAS. How can we STOP DOING lead nurturing campaigns? It’s not perpetual -which demand generation should be. We eat it up. Listen to the full interview here.

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Do You Need Marketing Automation to Do Lead Nurturing? Sort Of.

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A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss? Comments welcome.

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What's Required for Effective Demand Generation

B2B Marketing Directions

The CSO Insights study focused specifically on the performance of the sales function, but the survey findings provide valuable insights for everyone involved with B2B demand generation. The Defining Attributes of High Performance CSO Insights identified three defining attributes of high-performing sales organizations.

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I Need Hot Leads, and I Need Them Now

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Inevitably, this short-term outlook trickles down to a company’s demand generation strategy. Or that you need to fill the pipeline with qualified opportunities quickly, so that your sales team can close that business before year-end. But here’s the reality: most demand generation is a long-term process.