The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2015

One new set of insights published by DemandGen Report and Marketo is the 2015 Demand Gen Report Benchmark Study. Registration required – no they didn’t ask me for a promo, but I respect a good lead capture!). You may think webinars, events, and white papers are great top-of-funnel lead generation tactics.

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The Point

AUGUST 10, 2009

When marketing automation vendor Marketo released their “Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing” last week (see earlier post) they knew pretty quickly they had a hit on their hands. Think about it: that’s 1,000 sales leads (and make no mistake, that’s what they [.].

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A client asks: “I notice that you’re recommending we gate our offer content behind landing pages as part of the lead nurturing campaign. If you send the prospect directly to the content (say, a white paper) upon him or her clicking in the email, how confident can you be that the individual is expressing an active interest in your topic?

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Rev

MAY 21, 2018

If you have a marketing automation platform — like Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, HubSpot, or Pardot — then you are probably using intent data. Ideally, you are using this intent data, among other things, as an input to your lead scoring model. . Page views, email opens, white paper downloads, site search strings, and so on.

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B2B Marketing Directions

AUGUST 27, 2017

The new SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall has received lots of accolades since its introduction this spring, and the accolades are richly deserved. But one of the new demand stages should be labeled Use With Caution. In May, SiriusDecisions unveiled the latest iteration of it venerable Demand Waterfall with great fanfare.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Launching lead scoring too soon. Lead scoring is a core marketing automation functionality, and a key driver for one of the primary benefits of the technology, namely sales productivity. A well-planned, well-designed lead scoring schema ensures that sales reps are spending time with the leads that most merit the investment.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

by Jon Miller Last month I participated in a webinar on Adding the Human Touch into Your Lead Nurturing with Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale and the “godfather” of lead nurturing. Q: What marketing metric(s) should I use to capture lead nurturing effectiveness? from those we do not.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

Improving email campaign measurement won’t generate more leads or better leads, in and of itself, but it will help accomplish both those goals by providing the data necessary to identify what’s truly working. Leads/Response Rate. Leads are at least a measure of genuine interest. Nothing else really matters.

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The Point

MARCH 25, 2016

Try sending last-minute reminders in the form of “forwarded” emails from the assigned sales representative, including the contact’s first name and a personal note (e.g. Marketo, Pardot) with your Webinar platform (e.g. Use SEM to generate incremental leads outside of your target list. Citrix, Webex.)

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Walker Sands

JULY 16, 2019

Fueled by advances in data analytics and marketing automation, a well-designed and executed ABM campaign can speed up your sales cycle and dramatically increase conversion rates. So, it’s imperative to begin the process by having sales and marketing work together and agree upon granular-level goals for each targeted customer.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! "Simple Content Creates Quality Leads!"

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns. Here they are, in a nutshell: 1.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? Take lead nurturing : is it strictly essential that every lead nurturing touch include a specific, gated, call to action? I have my concerns, however, about extending it to lead nurturing and the email medium.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

Rather than asking your prospect to slog through a 30-page white paper, you can offer real-time, personalized results that add value through a 5-question quiz. And that interest is borne out in the results marketers see: a study by Demand Metric found that interactive assessments convert on average 2x better than static content.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2013

Marketo – Marketo.com – Marketing software. Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place. Gartner_Inc – Gartner – The leading global provider of independent and objective technology related to research and advice. Global – [link].

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

One of the goals of marketing is to generate leads. What is the next logical step once you have managed to get high quality leads? Yes, getting those leads into the sale pipeline. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping! Salespeople need leads—right now.

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Leadspace

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article was originally posted on the Marketo Blog , and is republished here with permission. Take Artificial Intelligence (AI)—a hugely powerful technology that’s revolutionizing everything from healthcare to demand generation; from advertising to gaming; from Siri to Tesla, and so much more. Hear me out. Then who should be?

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. B2B marketing and lead generation experts point to a lack of lead nurturing as the primary cause of this poor performance. Why is lead nurturing important? What is lead nurturing?

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Marketo's Modern B2B Marketing. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center.

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The Point

JANUARY 25, 2012

Improve conversion (click to lead) rates by just a percentage point or two and you can increase lead volume (and slash Cost Per Lead) disproportionately. Information offers (white papers, ebooks, information kits) often work best because they appeal to prospects across a broad segment of the selling cycle.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

by Maria Pergolino Demand Generation Managers are responsible for finding and executing the program mix that is going to drive revenue for their organization. This includes selecting programs that are going to identify new leads and campaigns that are going to cause current leads in the system to move farther down the funnel.

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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Payscale , a compensation information company, integrated the concept of a “purple squirrel” (a rare, perfect hire) into a personality assessment for prospective leads. Find Your Inner Purple Squirrel filled both needs, bringing in 1,200 leads and increasing the numbers of visitors to their booth. What Style of Home Are You?

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Get Customers. Ardath Albee.

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The Point

MARCH 29, 2012

Capturing new subscribers is one of the most efficient ways to convert random visitors into loyal readers that you can nurture over time and eventually turn into actionable sales leads. A simple text link will do the trick: White Paper: 5 Keys to. Increased Developer Productivity. Download Now. Share this blog!

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SnapApp

AUGUST 20, 2015

To get the ebook, you have to fill out a lead form on a landing page — no big deal. You balance the need for rich data and quality prospects with high numbers and low cost per lead. Advantages of Shorter Lead Forms . As you may have guessed, shorter lead forms improve conversions. Are you still interested?

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Leadspace

JUNE 1, 2017

This article was originally published on the Marketo Blog. B2B marketing—and demand generation more generally—is quickly catching on to the AI trend. Still, the most exciting thing about AI for B2B sales and marketing is what’s to come. No, it won’t turn your brain into a supercomputer. And it won’t let you hear colors.

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

And nobody has more experience working hand-in-hand with customers than Brian Hansford, Director of Client Services for Demand Generation and Marketing Technology. So I actually started my career as an inside sales rep at a startup in the early 90s when Windows 3.1 Times have changed from when I first got into sales.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Demand for Interactive White Papers, Diagnostic Assessments, ROI Calculators and TCO Comparison Tools Drives Growth. During the quarter, Alinean also expanded its partner community to include leading IT publisher IDG, and leading marketing automation firm Marketo. "As

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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