Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.

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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. Brian Carroll's book Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

People said they couldn’t remember downloading the white paper.” The common thread amongst these complaints is lack of 1) sales satisfaction and 2) lead quality. So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? “We couldn’t reach half the contacts.”

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thePoint

MAY 25, 2018

This inventory can help gauge where you are now and create a roadmap over time to accomplish that staffing/outsourcing goal. Those are areas where you are going to lead and provide key input and skills. You must have a least one strong advocate in sales leadership. Talk to editors and sales people. No, indeed!

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the biggest challenges b2b marketers face is what to do with all of those "names" that come into your system that aren't really "leads" yet; contacts collected from white paper downloads, webinar registrations, trade shows and other activities. How do you separate hot leads from long-term leads from tire-kickers?

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 21, 2015

A mechanism for collecting form submissions and / or nurturing existing prospects and customers. With these reasons in mind, here are eleven key factors that help influence and improve landing page development for B2B online marketing campaigns. Sales Readiness. Contact Sales. Sales Readiness. Keyword Strategy.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2017

While your average tweeters usually take inventory of the basics, such as share counts and likes, very few are equipped to unravel deeper and more meaningful data that can be attributed to leads and sales. The main objective was leads for the sales team. This tactic is called social media attribution.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 9, 2014

This type of stagnant lead environment is the reason every marketing team needs an outstanding lead nurturing program. Cetera Financial Group had these types of nurturing goals in mind early in 2014. To start… What Goes Into an Award Winning Nurturing Program?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Captures rich customer intelligence for superior lead nurturing and accelerated sales cycles Alinean introduced Interactive Content Connectors at the Eloqua Experience event, helping integrate Alinean-value sales / marketing tools with CRM / Marketing Automation solutions, including salesforce.com, Eloqua and more.

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Despite these disappointing success rates, marketers continue to do the same thing: drive people to a landing page and request the consumer’s contact information in exchange for something (a guide, white paper, case study, webinar, etc). Tools that help with landing page creation are abundant and cheap. Don’t get me wrong.

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Vidyard

JULY 21, 2017

In this post I’ll share some tips and tricks to help everybody add the special sauce and really amp up their nurturing campaigns. When sending communication to top-of-funnel leads, the associated video should be short and sweet and doesn’t necessarily have to go into product details.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I hadn’t seen the product in a while and was impressed with the UI improvements the Eloqua team has produced. Lastly, new campaign design UI will help shorten the time it takes to get first campaigns up and running. And this is where I think the marketing rubber hits the sales road.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2015

MAPs will automate redundant tasks like following up with leads that download a guide or sign up for a webinar, thus saving marketers time. It also automatically nurtures prospects until they are qualified and ready to buy, which shortens the sales cycle and decreases the amount of time a business developer spends with each prospect.

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Sales enablement. I do exactly that at my agency, Web Profits by creating content & videos about our core values, beliefs, process and inner workings which helps us show our human side and potential clients feel like they know us. For help, see What Makes People Share Content? That will help humanize them for you.

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