The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss?

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 11, 2018

There’s the booth rental, the booth design/display, travel and expenses for your employees working the booth. We are often asked for examples of how a business can (and should) nurture leads post-event. Below is an infographic that examines a tried-and-true post-event lead nurturing strategy. .

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The Point

JANUARY 24, 2013

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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The Point

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The lead nurturing program they implemented included 40+ (yes, forty) separate and distinct tracks of emails, tailored to different audience segments, product interests, and stages in the lead lifecycle. nurturing and cultivating contacts over time so those contacts remember the client’s brand when the need arises.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 24, 2010

On Thursday I’m presenting a webinar with Treehouse Interactive , called “Lead Nurturing 101″ One of the registrants sent me the following question: How much of this webinar will be about content, i.e. exactly what to say in each subsequent email in a series designed to move someone from prospect stage to buying stage?

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The Point

MAY 18, 2010

That conclusion was prompted by this question, posed on Focus : “We want to start doing more lead nurturing with our leads, and really aren’t quite sure how to go about it. Do you use a specific software for lead nurturing? If so, what do you use, and how does it help build your pipeline?&#. It won’t.

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The Point

AUGUST 15, 2012

You know that monthly newsletter you blast to your entire database under the guise of “lead nurturing”? And those Webinar invitations that you broadcast to every trade show lead you’ve generated since 2005? There was a time when lead nurturing was synonymous with simply staying in front of prospects.

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The Point

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A client asks: “I know the answer is probably “it depends” but curious if you think there’s a best practice for how many follow-up nurture emails to send TOFU content syndication leads before you stop due to non-engagement?”. That could be months, or even years down the road.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Lead Management is the process of generating, converting, qualifying, and closing sales leads. Lost in the shuffle of all of those marketing tactics you are trying to get a handle on for your business (Twitter, Facebook, Pay-per-click, SEO, email campaigns, website design) is the concept of Lead Management.

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The Point

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If your organization is generating plenty of leads but those initial inquiries aren’t converting to sales qualified leads, meetings, or pipeline, a myriad of things could be at fault: 1) sales follow-up may be sub-standard in either cadence, frequency, or message. 2) lead nurturing. Better Lead Nurturing.

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markempa

APRIL 7, 2008

The ones that aren't qualified yet (but are a fit) you put into a lead nurturing process. The need to better manage leads and inquires has given rise to a slew of new software companies offering a variety of lead management or marketing automation solutions. “Pure play” lead management.

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Martech

JANUARY 9, 2023

MAPs help businesses identify potential customers and automate the process of nurturing the leads to sales readiness using channels like email, social media, webpages and display ads to bring customers and prospects to customized landing pages and through other experiences designed to move them down the purchase funnel.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. In most cases only a relatively small percentage of your inbound leads will be ready to make an immediate purchase, leaving upwards of 90% of your inbound leads on the table.

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Avitage

MAY 2, 2012

With our company’s location in Waltham, MA – we are privileged to have access to a wealth of local resources in content marketing and marketing technology – so we took this as a project to the Bentley University graduate school course: Human Factors – Managing a user-centered design team.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

A great addition to Marketo’s Resources has been the Spear Marketing Group white paper, Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success , written by Howard Sewell. Not only is it a helpful resource when starting your lead nurturing , it also embodies and reinforces so many Marketo best practices.

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BOP Design

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What happens to your B2B marketing leads after they are qualified? Go into an automated lead nurturing process that hasn’t been updated in years? If you aren’t sure the answer to the above, it’s likely those hard-earned leads aren’t getting the love and attention they so rightly deserve. Qualify Your Leads.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

It’s designed to address a specific business need: helping small to mid-size businesses use leads generated by their inbound marketing programs. The system does create emails for multi-step lead nurturing campaigns, although these are still sent by the external email serivce.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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BOP Design

JULY 15, 2022

A great resource you should be utilizing is by integrating lead generation into your B2B website design. Don’t just look to speak to sales-ready leads. Build up a funnel of leads by creating top-of-funnel conversions. Read more: Why Does Sales Ignore or Mismanage Website Leads? Prioritize Inbound Leads.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In early 2014, Sungard AS hired B2B demand generation agency Spear Marketing Group to audit their current lead nurturing programs and to recommend improvements, with two main objectives: • Increase the rate at which new leads and existing prospects convert to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Re-posted with permission.

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Only B2B

MAY 19, 2022

The ideal option is to use a queue-based lead management system, which combines all of these features and allows you to make the most of communicating with individuals at the correct moment. So, what is a lead management system based on a queue?

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

Pardot : A Salesforce product, Pardot provides a B2B marketing automation tool excellent in lead management and ROI reporting. ActiveCampaign : Combining email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM categories, ActiveCampaign provides small businesses a platform for managing and growing their customer base.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2017

MARKETING AUTOMATION AND LEAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS have allowed for a near-scientific breakdown of the sales funnel. Leads in each stage of the buying process meet very specific criteria and behave in certain predictable ways. The sales-accepted lead (SAL) designation can be an excellent indicator of lead quality.

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BOP Design

JULY 27, 2021

Make it easy for the lead to click these links. Read more: B2B email marketing and lead nurturing. Send a maximum of 3 emails to engage with a lead. It’s as simple as you want to move forward with a call our you don’t, so I stick to 3 emails when appealing to leads. Team Bop Design is here to help.

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The Point

APRIL 8, 2015

Spear Marketing Group has published an informative report detailing results of a survey designed to gauge the maturity of marketing automation deployments within the B2B community. The survey covered topics such as email frequency, program design, reporting, landing pages, and data hygiene.

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Sales Engine

MAY 17, 2016

Marketing automation and lead management systems have allowed for a near-scientific breakdown of the sales funnel. Leads in each stage of the buying process meet very specific criteria and behave in certain predictable ways. The sales-accepted lead (SAL) designation can be an excellent indicator of lead quality.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 15, 2020

There are countless opportunities to streamline processes and communication to existing database contacts through lead nurturing and other automations. Keeping this data in mind can help you be more successful with future lead and demand generation efforts. Develop an SLA to Streamline Lead Management.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

You’ll also want to discuss things like when to start lead nurturing and what makes a bad lead. Developing a lead scoring system is a core component of lead management—and no department is better suited to help your company bring this system into fruition than your marketing operations team.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Welcome to a journey that unveils the transformative force within B2B lead management – the omnipotent power of lead enrichment. This blog embarks into the realm of lead enrichment, unraveling the secrets that propel businesses toward immediate discovery and qualification of their potential prospects.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2016

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. But “segmented prospect email followup sequence design and automation,” while a more accurate label for the category, certainly isn’t as catchy.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, effective lead management is not all about the first impression. It’s about building and continuously nurturing connections in order to build a strong customer relationship that wins you deals. What you’ll learn: What is lead management? Why is lead management important?

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LeadSloth

JUNE 18, 2010

I’ve recorded an introductory video on lead nurturing and how it can turn more raw leads into qualified leads. Effective lead nurturing will prevent prospects from falling out of the funnel before they are ready to talk to a sales person. gotomeeting.com/register/594743683.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 27, 2012

To make the hours spent worthwhile, it’s important to ensure that your sales team is only talking to the most qualified leads. Lead management is a strategy and set of corresponding tools that help companies filter out unqualified leads and better understand the buying cycle of their good leads.

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ClickZ

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An efficient tool must contain a complete lead nurturing method where it can handle lead assigning, scoring and information. The software should integrate by providing information about the types of emails that went out to each lead or customer, along with the types of services and products they buy. #5 Advertising.

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BOP Design

JANUARY 4, 2019

If revenue is the vibrant plant flourishing, leads are the seeds nourished to grow. Effective management of leads is the critical indicator of increasing revenue. In this post, I explore why lead management is so crucial and how it directly affects annual revenue. Precursor to Revenue.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 8, 2017

Hopefully your team is working towards the latter, but (as you may know) this is no small undertaking and requires a well-designed strategy. Lead Management Strategy: A lead management strategy is the mechanism that maps out the stages a lead passes through from the point where it’s simply a name in your database to a closed/won customer.

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