markempa

APRIL 7, 2008

The common-sense answer to this challenge is easier said than done: Have your best people respond to them quickly and consistently in order to qualify them into sales ready leads. The ones that aren't qualified yet (but are a fit) you put into a lead nurturing process. “Pure play” lead management.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

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. Welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio.

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FunnelEnvy

JULY 24, 2023

When many people hear “pipeline acceleration,” they might initially think it’s strictly a sales term. We typically speak of pipelines as a sales concept. When done properly, it can help a business achieve its revenue goals more efficiently and help marketing and sales team members work together to create less waste and redundant work.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the key aspects of gaining an edge is the efficient management of leads. This is where Automated Lead Qualification steps in as a game-changer. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the intricacies of Automated Lead Qualification, demystifying its key components, benefits, and challenges. The result?

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Leadspace

MARCH 31, 2022

As a leader in the Forrester Wave, Leadspace is fortunate enough to meet with hundreds of companies every quarter who are looking to tackle sales & marketing challenges. Their Go-to-Market team was tasked with doubling Sales Qualified Opportunities driven through both new logo capture and installed base customers.

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Vidyard

MAY 18, 2018

Implementing marketing automation can effectively bridge the gap between the various technologies, and empower marketing and sales to work closely together. #2 2 – Lead Scoring Many EMEA marketers are passing leads over to sales as soon as they get, vs implementing lead scoring but they are not alone.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some pretty incredible results. The winners of the 2018 Video in Business Awards Sales categories. No problem! Winner: Punch!

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The Point

MAY 14, 2012

A new report from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by marketing automation provider Silverpop , offers little in the way of groundbreaking insights, but does provide plenty of data confirming what most already know: that many companies are failing to realize the true potential from their investments in marketing automation.

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PathFactory

MAY 20, 2022

Well, that’s what I get in spades at Forrester Summit – for me personally and for PathFactory in general. I love Forrester Summit – always have done, always will. So, what validation did I get from Forrester Summit? Marketing & Sales has evolved well beyond their historic MQL obsession.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve recently been involved in an ongoing online discussion regarding marketing automation, lead generation, and lead management (including lead nurturing). Should it be on lead generation, or lead management? Which of these processes should have priority? The Lead Management Framework TM.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By personalizing the approach to specific accounts, companies using ABM show their prospects that they understand the challenges they’re facing, which increases engagement and leads to more sales. ABM works best when marketing and sales collaborate. Better alignment between marketing and sales teams.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some pretty incredible results. The winners of the 2018 Video in Business Awards Sales categories. No problem! Winner: Punch!

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

Implementing an effective lead nurturing strategy can have a huge impact on the results of your inbound marketing strategy. Research conducted by Forrester has shown that marketers see an average 20% increase in sales opportunities from nurtured vs non-nurtured leads. Which lead nurturing tactics work best?

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

This process helps marketing automate repetitive tasks like email campaigns, social media posting, and even ad campaigns. Pardot : A Salesforce product, Pardot provides a B2B marketing automation tool excellent in lead management and ROI reporting. B2B marketing automation helps to manage these complexities efficiently.

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Influitive

JANUARY 15, 2016

With Halloween just around the corner, we decided to center our campaign around the message “ Buying Is Scary ”, using imaging from classic horror movies to address four of our most common sales objections. Data Intelligence Manager: Created targeted lists for email, direct mail and social media campaign.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the technology brands use to nurture relationships with their customers. These solutions are designed to help sales and service agents communicate with customers more effectively. How a CRM platform helps sales and marketing teams collaborate effectively. Process scaling.

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thePoint

APRIL 4, 2019

This third barrier to timely follow-up is specifically related to the ability to deliver “actionable” leads vs. just marginally interested people or even just lists of people (they-stopped-by-our-booth kinds of people). So what are “actionable” leads? At the top of the sales funnel, there are just leads.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 5, 2016

“Hold the vision; trust the process.”. Marketers are often eager to get started on the road to Demand Process Transformation℠. We tell them it won’t be easy and that only by way of a structured process will we get to the finish line and accomplish the established goals. — Author unknown.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

It includes five pages of properly sourced industry statistics from Aberdeen , Forrester , Gartner and SiriusDecisions. The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% The data is a couple of years old but still valid. Statistics include: • 16.5%

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Selecting the right in-person event platform to manage your onsite events is critical to their success. But with so many options on the market, how do you determine which onsite event management software is the best fit for your needs? An in-person event platform is the software and tools used to plan, organize, and manage live events.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Do All Leads Need to Go to SDRs? Marketing tirelessly gets prospects interested in learning more about your products or services and then routes them to sales for follow-up. Sales development reps (SDRs) get all the leads and start calling and emailing—over and over again until they get a response.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some pretty incredible results. The winners of the 2018 Video in Business Awards Sales categories. Runners-Up: Forrester, LeadIQ.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. Most importantly, a sound lead nurturing marketing program has proven to increase revenues for firms. Sirius Decisions.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

Taking a tactical versus strategic approach. A recent Forrester study showed that of 25 different tactics listed, B2B organizations are using on average 15 different tactics in their demand generation mix. This tactical approach presents several problems, the first being that the tactic becomes the focal point.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. Most importantly, a sound lead nurturing marketing program has proven to increase revenues for firms. Sirius Decisions.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 27, 2012

Walk into any active sales room, and it’s easy to tell how time-intensive most sales operations are. To make the hours spent worthwhile, it’s important to ensure that your sales team is only talking to the most qualified leads. Lead Intelligence. Customer Relationship Management.

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PureB2B

APRIL 21, 2017

With a holistic understanding of buyer intent, your business can improve the lead qualification process and enhance sales conversions. Buyer intent comes down to knowing what makes a great lead. And this means putting your customer’s needs, wants and interests at the center of all your sales and marketing campaigns.

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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. This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research.

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LeadSloth

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I attended the advanced track, and it was a nice combination of detailed feature descriptions and lead management best practices. They covered the main parts of the Marketo application: Lead Database, Design Studio, Marketing Activities and Analytics. Forrester Lead Management Overview.

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PureB2B

APRIL 21, 2017

With a holistic understanding of buyer intent, your business can improve the lead qualification process and enhance sales conversions. Buyer intent comes down to knowing what makes a great lead. And this means putting your customer’s needs, wants and interests at the center of all your sales and marketing campaigns.

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markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Dave Green interviewed Trish Bertuzzi ( @bridgegroupinc ), author of the popular book, The Sales Development Playbook. For the majority of B2B companies with complex sales, marketing-generated leads rarely account for 50% of revenue and often it’s often much less. How Empathy Will Grow Your Sales and Marketing Pipeline.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

The days are long gone when sales representatives could rely on their ability to “read” prospects to make the sale, thanks to buyers researching their purchases online. The need to better understand online behaviors to convert leads jump-started the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM).

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ClickZ

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It serves an international client base of more than 3500 brands including Fortune 500 companies, providing digital marketing, marketing analytics, content management, personalization, mobile marketing and marketing automation solutions. But AI’s pattern recognition abilities really helps speed up the process.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

According to Forrester, Forbes Insights and others, more companies will expand their marketing budgets in the coming year, with one very important caveat, marketers will need to justify the spending, prove the effects of marketing campaigns, and demonstrate program success…or risk losing budgets.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 18, 2012

Just because a website visitor has downloaded your awesome ebook or registered for your informative webinar doesn't exactly mean he or she is ready to chat with one of your sales reps and jump right into a purchasing decision. Let's face it: those middle child leads deserve some attention, too!

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