Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2015

One new set of insights published by DemandGen Report and Marketo is the 2015 Demand Gen Report Benchmark Study. Registration required – no they didn’t ask me for a promo, but I respect a good lead capture!). Top-of-the-funnel heavy, that is. But don’t neglect the mid-and-late-stage funnel needs of your leads.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Lead generation is at the top of almost every B2B marketer’s responsibility list. Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. Marketo is considered a leader in the lead management / marketing automation industry.

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Conversica

JUNE 22, 2022

Marketing automation allows Marketers to disseminate information through blog posts, white papers, social media, email, and a variety of other avenues. The value of technology to the company has grown exponentially because there’s clear evidence that the output of marketing collateral converts prospects and leads to customers.

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

You might be releasing top-of-funnel content to boost brand awareness, but you’re probably looking for increasingly measurable ways to tie your videos to ROI. Asking viewers to enter their email address before gaining access to a video allows you to create a new lead as soon as a prospect expresses interest.

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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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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In order of simplest to most advanced, these include: Opportunity lead source. Opportunity Lead Source. Lead source” is a native system drop-down field on lead records. Things get murkier when multiple leads are entered into Salesforce from the same person (email address). UTM tracking. Salesforce campaigns.

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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. Until the marketing automation system indicates that your lead is qualified and ready for direct sales engagement.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Launching lead scoring too soon. Lead scoring is a core marketing automation functionality, and a key driver for one of the primary benefits of the technology, namely sales productivity. A well-planned, well-designed lead scoring schema ensures that sales reps are spending time with the leads that most merit the investment.

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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. Ideally, you are using this intent data, among other things, as an input to your lead scoring model. . Page views, email opens, white paper downloads, site search strings, and so on.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

At my previous company my success was measured by number of leads. If the total lead count was high, I was awesome. If I was short of my lead goal, I had some explaining to do. More leads equals more won deals. The problem with this kind of mindset is that more leads does not equal more deals. Makes sense, right?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 17, 2011

by Carol Fox If your sales leads aren’t receiving lead nurturing efforts from marketing to convert them quickly into business, they ultimately aren’t going to benefit your bottom line. Improving lead quality requires a commitment from sales and marketing to focus on both quality and quantity, not just one or the other.

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The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

Improving email campaign measurement won’t generate more leads or better leads, in and of itself, but it will help accomplish both those goals by providing the data necessary to identify what’s truly working. Leads/Response Rate. Leads are at least a measure of genuine interest. However, not all leads are created equal.

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SnapApp

MAY 12, 2015

Rather than asking your prospect to slog through a 30-page white paper, you can offer real-time, personalized results that add value through a 5-question quiz. is perfect top-of-funnel content. Different types of assessments provide value further down the funnel – “Are you ready for marketing automation?”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Follow these six ways for increasing conversion rates and improving lead generation: 1. Include a mock-up of the white paper or photo of the webinar presenter. Test: Testing is an essential tool for lead generation. Testing the landing page can lead to increased conversion rates of up to 115% or more.

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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. Q: What marketing metric(s) should I use to capture lead nurturing effectiveness? from those we do not.

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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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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Within a 3-month period of execution for the program, the combination enabled the company to reactivate dormant leads and add $4.5M

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Walker Sands

JULY 16, 2019

According to TOPO’s 2019 Account-Based Benchmark report , one in five accounts targeted through ABM created a new sales opportunity, far surpassing success rates for traditional mass marketing and funnel-based approaches. To learn more about this process, read our Seven Steps to Generating ROI with B2B Content white paper.

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Biznology

JULY 18, 2016

In today’s B2B world, your prospects don’t want to hear from you until much later in the buying process, so attracting, engaging and nurturing them until they’re ready to talk to a sales person is no longer a nice way to supplement the top of your funnel. Those prospects should get a CTA that leads them to the next step of engagement. (A

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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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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Which content should be gated to genereate leads? 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)? Enter into your information product funnel.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

These companies suffer from fractured relationships, lost leads and sales, processes that are inefficient and lowered revenues. Sales and marketing teams need to unify, execute joint strategies and reap major benefits from their shared success and there are many, some of which are: Improved quality of leads.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Common automation themes include outbound and inbound lead generation, campaign management, workflows, email sequences, reporting, and analytics. Tools like landing pages and segmentation can help you to build leads and drive interest to new visitors. The goal is to convert leads into long term satisfied customers.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 22, 2018

Wanna know the secret sauce to a great lead generation website and how it feeds into your overall content marketing strategy to deliver leads and ROI? Strategy for lead generation — content marketing’s primary goal — involves looking at what you want your website to do, rather than what it is. Well, you’re in the right place.

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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? There are no hard rules, and you have to find your own balance to meet your own audience and lead goals.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 1, 2010

It serves as the foundation of revenue cycle analytics and allows marketers to discuss results in a way that shows the effectiveness of lead generation and lead nurturing activities, activities that affect every stage of revenue. Adjusting lead scoring rules and sales alerts by stage.

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Only B2B

MARCH 13, 2020

Not all leads are at the same stage. Some are just visiting (leads), some know their problems (MQLs) and some are considering your product or service as a solution to their problems (SQLs). Lead Nurturing. Marketing Qualified Leads are in their early phase of buyer journey. How to qualify a lead as MQL or SQL?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Imagine all the leads in your database being drivers, your email nurturing tracks being the freeways, and your emails being the roadside signs. Each email that you send should help your leads make an informed decision and get to the desired destination –hopefully, purchasing your product or solution.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

Share content including: B2B blog posts, white papers, articles, podcasts and other types of content pertaining to their needs. Trust and sales – Becoming the go-to resource for your industry will earn trust and this leads to improve lead generation. To learn more how to improve your Sales 2.0

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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 7, 2021

Strategy for lead generation includes looking at what you want your website to do, rather than what it is. Often, you’ll find that a limited number of concrete changes make a big difference to your lead generation figures. Marketo claims that it is only by looking at the process that you can understand a customer’s real intentions.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This includes selecting programs that are going to identify new leads and campaigns that are going to cause current leads in the system to move farther down the funnel. At Marketo we sell to the C-Suite, Marketing Executives, Sales Management, and Marketing practitioners.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

So here is further Q&A with Alex… What is the difference between prospects and leads? For Acquisio, a prospect appears earlier in the marketing funnel. They are usually people who have downloaded a white paper or an ebook from our website but done nothing else. Do you recommend using QR codes for driving leads?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2011

by Jason Miller Part two of the follow up from our Reaching the Social Customer webinar features our very own Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and co-founder of Marketo. Jon shares his thoughts on content marketing, lead nurturing, social media, and lead generation responding to your questions that were unanswered during the live webinar.

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SnapApp

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

” In this behind the scenes session, Vanessa discussed how SnapApp turned one white paper into a 17 week campaign. Heidi Bullock , VP of Demand Generation at Marketo presented on “ The Right Message at the Right Time. Within two months, nearly 500 qualified leads for sales were brought in. Inspiring stuff.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Vandermarel helps bring leads into the popular content engagement platform, and his place within the company is one part drive, one part serendipity. “I We know whether it’s an eBook or a white paper, or case study, the people consuming the content are trying to answer the question “What’s in it for me?”

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SnapApp

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

In this behind the scenes session, Vanessa discussed how SnapApp turned one white paper into a 17 week campaign. By taking one core asset and breaking it up into several “snackable” pieces, SnapApp created multiple touch points for every stage of the funnel without having to reinvent the wheel for each content piece. .

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Vidyard

JULY 7, 2016

When I first started working with marketing automation in particular, Eloqua was the 800-pound gorilla, there were a few other platforms out there like Apprimo, this little company called Marketo, and HubSpot was certainly doing some great things. Then it’s about building that into the funnel and eventually measure the results.

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