KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. A marketing automation solution is one tool B2B marketers use for succeeding at these lead management challenges. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Frequently, this is due to a backlog of campaigns and other tactical needs – as soon as the platform is deployed, the company moves immediately into “campaign mode” to address that backlog, and never has the time thereafter to hit “pause” and address the big picture. Not setting up SPF and DKIM. Sending too many emails. Lack of segmentation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2017

To succeed in this new climate, you must adapt your tactics and shift your brand to become more human and digital native-friendly. For example, tracking leads, cost per lead, and closed deals will help you identify the program’s true ROI. The “Engagement Economy” represents a clear shift in the way marketers communicate with customers.

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The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. Buyers’ needs, not yours, drive the purchase process. Too-early sales contact is frustrating for both buyers and salespeople.

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Leadspace

JANUARY 17, 2017

B2B Marketing and Sales leaders are constantly looking for the next innovative method to give them a competitive edge – particularly in driving revenue for their business. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, I continue to hear many questions on this subject.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Share one example of ROI tool/strategy that has worked either for you or your client." Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The most glaring symptom was the absurdly high scores: hundreds of contacts had lead scores of more than 1,000, even though the supposed threshold for a sales-ready lead was a mere 100 points. Once a contact’s lead score exceeds the threshold value for sales-readiness or “hot lead,” any further increase ceases to have much relevance.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We also know that, as marketers and salespeople, we need to understand where our prospects are in the sales process in order to utilize appropriate strategies, and lead scoring helps you make that a reality. Lead scoring is not a process that can be done by marketing alone. What Is Lead Scoring? Lead Scoring Disclaimer.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Many marketers understand the power of implementing automated drip campaigns to turn leads into customers by moving them through the sales cycle. That’s math anyone can understand and it’s a process that begins with onboarding new customers. Serving your customers relevant content can help move them closer to another sale.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

One oft-cited example is a quiz from The New York Times , which was the newspaper’s most shared article in all of 2013. You may not be The Gray Lady, or even the viral media powerhouse of the day, but you can borrow their tactics to get unprecedented results in your B2B marketing. is perfect top-of-funnel content.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

For example, how can trade show marketing strategy be consistent with blogging and other social media strategy? Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. " Read on to get their insights.

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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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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Pick two pieces of content(ebook, white paper, flash video, total cost of ownership calculator) that you consider outstanding - 1 example of a B2B Marketing content addressed to a Technical Decision Maker and 1 B2B Marketing content addressed to a Business Decision Maker" Read on to get their insights. Tom Pick's Tip.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The best way to gauge a lead’s level of interest is to set up a lead scoring system using a marketing automation platform like HubSpot or Marketo. For example, you could assign 5 points for an email click and 10 points for a white paper download. Sales qualified leads. Landing pages.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 28, 2015

Author: Glen Gow Too often marketers talk about activities instead of outcomes—for example, how many campaigns they ran, how many trade shows they participated in, how many new names they added to the lead database. Balance: How many prospects are in each stage of the sales funnel? Do they download a white paper?

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ViewPoint

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Lake One

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

So if you’re starting a blog, for example, you need to create a content strategy. And more than just creating content like blogs, white papers, and case studies, you’ll need to master SEO, have a social media presence, and don’t forget about email marketing. Related Reading: The Surprising Ways B2B Website Design Affects Sales.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

Did you know back in 2015 we started producing a weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio? It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If your emails are sent to the right person at the wrong time, the chances of conversion are lower than if the same person receives a message at the right time in their buying process. If someone downloaded a specific white paper or viewed a video, reference that action in your messages to them. Always be testing.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The best way to gauge a lead’s level of interest is to set up a lead scoring system using a marketing automation platform like HubSpot or Marketo. For example, you could assign 5 points for an email click and 10 points for a white paper download. Sales qualified leads. Landing pages.

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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. At Marketo, our prospect-to-lead conversion rate triples with lead nurturing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Management could understand these metrics. It was easy for the VP of Sales to see my results via a dashboard in the CRM system. Well, that is unless you were a sales rep. Your sales reps know this. Here at Marketo, we use lead nurturing and scoring to help us identify when someone is ready to buy.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2018

This is vital, as today’s buyer doesn’t want a sales pitch, they seek personalized and consultative digital experiences. Shares a copy of the assessment report – We’ve all gotten that follow-up call, “I noticed you downloaded a white paper from our site”.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

Creating and managing a successful pay-per-click (PPC) campaign is hard work. In the pay-per-click world, there is a budget that needs to be set, there are keywords to bid on, and an audience that requires segmenting—and that’s barely cracking the surface of the things you need to manage to run successful paid campaigns.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2012

by Dayna Rothman We had a great webinar last week on content marketing with Toby Murdock, CEO and Co-Founder of Kapost , and Jason Miller, Social Media Strategist at Marketo. Shouldn’t white papers be gated? At Marketo we typically only put industry and analyst reports in front of a gate and sometimes mid-stage content.

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Webbiquity

MAY 23, 2011

Recently, that’s begun to change a bit as blogs like TopRank and Marketo have highlighted b2b social media success stories. First, social media activities more often influence a sale (by helping with awareness and branding objectives, for example) than lead directly to one in the B2B world. Tactics (Primary).

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

We asked B2B Marketing experts: " How should B2B marketers balance the need for free content (helpful for prospects decision making) Vs. the need to have content that produces a steady flow of good leads (that can directed to sales team)? Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping!

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Leadspace

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article was originally posted on the Marketo Blog , and is republished here with permission. In short, companies who aren’t effectively leveraging their sales and marketing data face a very real, relatively imminent risk of getting left far behind their competitors. Marketers: it’s time to stop thinking about data. Hear me out.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

For example, take this blog our agency designed more than a year ago for Navicure , a leading online medical claims clearinghouse. The blog generated more than 500 leads in its first 9 months alone, and this from a target audience (billing managers at small- to mid-sized medical practices) that can hardly be described as the Facebook crowd.

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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. Page views, email opens, white paper downloads, site search strings, and so on. In that case, your sales enterprise CRM sales person will likely waste time talking to that prospect.

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Schubert B2B

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The best way to gauge a lead’s level of interest is to set up a lead scoring system using a marketing automation platform like HubSpot or Marketo. For example, you could assign 5 points for an email click and 10 points for a white paper download. Sales qualified leads. Landing pages.

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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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The Point

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

However, that doesn’t mean that your nurturing program should end just because the trial period expired and you didn’t get the sale. Depending on the response you get (particularly if the response is: “I just haven’t had the time”), you can trigger a follow-up call from inside sales.

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Ambal's Amusings

DECEMBER 17, 2009

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. Mapping Content to the Buying Process - Slidecast. Sales Lead Expert’s Learning Center. Marketing and Sales Alignment – Marketo eBook (New!).

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2010

For example, marketing efforts that focus on email marketing can incorporate social networking channels to maximize reach. In fact, a recent eMarketer report found that 40% of executives surveyed said integrating the two tactics is their No. For example, test a landing page with two unique headlines to see which is more successful.

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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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