The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The conclusion: most B2B companies were failing to follow even the most basic lead management best practices, even in areas that one would assume were a primary business case for purchasing marketing automation in the first place. Why Is #MarketingAutomation Maturity Still Woeful? Click To Tweet.

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Leadspace

MARCH 22, 2023

Use cases include propensity to buy, inbound lead conversion, higher LTV, upsell/cross-sell, etc. It is typically implemented within the Marketing Automation Platform (Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, Hubspot, etc.) Fit models are critical to prioritizing which account opportunities to spend expensive campaign dollars and sales resources on.

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Onalytica B2B

JANUARY 8, 2019

I have worked in B2B marketing, sales and alliance management for 25 years. My very first professional job was an inside sales rep for a PC-based software company that sold developer tools in the early 90’s. I clearly remember how as a sales rep, I controlled the information my prospects and customers received.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. Books are listed by funnel category. Brian Carroll. Ardath Albee.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Craig Rosenberg, the demand gen expert from Focus.com recently asked me to participate in putting together the eBook, The Focus Experts Guide: Sales and Marketing Pipeline and Funnel. I took a different approach to the discussion, and came up with the concept of a Demand Gen Cloud: With the advent of Social, Sales and Marketing 2.0

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PathFactory

MAY 29, 2022

Alerts that are sent to Sales and/or the customer team notifying them about prospects and clients who are highly engaged. This reduces the notification fatigue for the sales team and helps them prioritize meaningful engagement. bottom of the funnel content). Lead Engagement Alert. Value Proposition. FMB in Marketo.

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Ledger Bennett

MARCH 25, 2020

At a basic level, it’s obvious that where a human touch can be replaced by a digital touchpoint, the process becomes more efficient, less prone to error, and ultimately far more cost effective. Enabling the digital sale is the project businesses can start working on right now. Other blogs that may interest you.

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Ledger Bennett

APRIL 1, 2020

At a basic level, it’s obvious that where a human touch can be replaced by a digital touchpoint, the process becomes more efficient, less prone to error, and ultimately far more cost effective. Enabling the digital sale is the project businesses can start working on right now. Other blogs that may interest you.

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PathFactory

MAY 29, 2022

Lead Score. A scoring methodology used to determine when a potential prospect is engaged enough to be considered a “marketing qualified lead” (MQL) so this can be passed along to sales for further follow up. Marketing Ops team creates or updates the lead scoring model in the MAP based on these new requirements.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. Email and e-newsletters use now equals tradeshows in popular use.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Well, welcome, everyone, to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. Sales management and executives, however, are focused on hitting monthly and quarterly targets.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 17, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Sales and marketing operate on different frequencies. Sales isn’t into sharing data. Marketing’s plate is full.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago.

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Crimson Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

One of the results of an increasingly connected digital world is the spectacular rise of demand generation at the top of the sales funnel. In order to successfully scale in this new paradigm, high growth companies must think carefully about their business processes and the infrastructure needed to support them.

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Ledger Bennett

JUNE 25, 2018

So now you’re educated on the subject, let’s look at some B2B companies that are smashing the social selling process. Having an excellent understanding of their target audience (millennial decision makers who want to choose a supplier quickly and by doing minimal research), SAP acted quickly using LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

While many have seen quick success implementing basic video marketing tactics and using YouTube to scale their video libraries, most don’t yet have an appreciation for how to approach this channel in a strategic manner and what the real potential is for video technology within the context of modern marketing and sales programs.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 28, 2014

Today’s marketing organizations are aggressively modernizing, automating and adding more digitally centered marketing tactics as they focus on their mandate to discover prospects and create new customers. We are not connecting that media investment, the prospects generated, nor their data, with our marketing systems and processes.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Have you ever wondered about how you can leverage social selling for better lead generation and business development? I say I’m a sales professional trapped in a marketer’s body. The reason is, of the 13 years that I was in software sales, I sold into marketing for 10 of those years. Jill: Sure, Brian. Why is that?

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markempa

AUGUST 4, 2014

Tweet “I think at its core, lead generation is really about relationships,” said Brain Carroll, Executive Director of Revenue Optimization, MECLABS. Steve: So 10 years ago, you published Lead Generation for the Complex Sale. Here’s a transcript of that discussion: Steve Girshik : My guest today is Brian Carroll.

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Everything Technology Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The number one marketing trend for 2011, according to the 17,000 member B2B technology marketing group on LinkedIn, is the increasing integration of social media with traditional marketing tactics to drive qualified leads. John Cook’s comment to the blog post got straight to the point: "How do you accomplish this”?

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Ideally, your team would define this process once, perform maintenance checkups, track the provided analytics, and take action on those insights. Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Lead Management Features.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 30, 2012

Not of basic marketing concepts like the 4 P’s , advertising , or branding but their utmost ignorance of modern marketing tactics and tools like webinars, marketing automation, and even CRM software. If you ever hired a recent college graduate for a marketing position at your company, odds are you were amazed at their lack of knowledge.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Without standardization of fields, metrics, data and processes, reporting will be skewed, integration of the technology stack will prove challenging, and too many manual processes will be necessary to understand performance, if it’s even possible. Where to start?

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Ledger Bennett

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) is responsible for all revenue generation processes in an organisation. The CRO has a wide remit, with a skills requirement ranging from leadership level strategic thinking and relationship building, extensive on the ground sales experience, to the tactical aspects of programmatic methods and data analysis.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We loving sharing Sales Pipeline Radio with you (live every Thursday at 11:30 pst). We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. Most recently she spent 9 years at Eloqua in customer success and global market readiness roles.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 24, 2012

Because as consumers are tuning out marketing messages at all stages of the buying process, conversion rates are starting to plummet. And the cost per lead of many marketing programs is starting to soar. And the answer was that marketers were realizing they needed to move from primarily push to primarily pull-marketing tactics.

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Kapost

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Marketing automation platforms such as Marketo, Eloqua, and Hubspot had burst onto the scene. Lead scoring helped to prioritize and elevate active leads with firmographic fit to the sales team, which would go on to turn prospects into closed revenue. Account-based sales (ABS) has always existed.

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Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2019

Thank you to all our many followers of Sales Pipeline Radio. The 30 minutes goes quickly as it is fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. I, along with our guests, cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Martech

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite criticisms that it’s inefficient and ineffective, lead generation remains an important marketing tactic in B2B and in some B2C sectors, including high-ticket items like auto and home sales. Some lead gen strategies are more effective than others, which is why marketing organizations continue to spend on the tactic.

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markempa

MARCH 8, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Digital B2B Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2013

You examine everything in your bid for more opens, more clicks, more leads and more sales. Personalizing email subject lines dramatically increased open rates, according to this post from Eloqua. Do you really want to copy email spam tactics for your B2B email marketing program?

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Chris Koch

JULY 24, 2009

Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale. Two of the companies I spoke to for my report use analytics to determine which marketing tactics are working and which ones aren’t. So you have to start with the bigger process picture. Universal lead definition. Lead scoring.

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Chris Koch

JULY 24, 2009

Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale. Two of the companies I spoke to for my report use analytics to determine which marketing tactics are working and which ones aren’t. So you have to start with the bigger process picture. Universal lead definition. Lead scoring.

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Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services 100

Ledger Bennett

MARCH 12, 2020

As we all know, events are a significant investment from both a financial and resource point of view, and they’re critical to generating new leads through face to face interaction. You still need to pay wages, increase brand visibility, generate new leads and ultimately continue to grow your revenue – with or without Coronavirus.

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Top of Funnel Eloqua Digital Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking 52

Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 22, 2018

Social media management encompasses a host of tools, from Opal , an editorial planning tool, to Spredfast , a publishing tool to manage its social channels (primarily LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook). Fifteen- to 30-second videos were used for retargeting ads, leading back to the primary content on iQ.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And it likely won’t slow down: according to Aberdeen Group, companies that utilize marketing automation have a 107% better lead conversion rate and 40% greater average deal size. So without further ado: Eloqua. Marketing automation really isn’t just for marketing teams; it’s a viable tool for sales teams, too. Read the post.).

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