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Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions

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Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

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Any marketer (or sales leader) who has generated multiple leads within the same account only to realize, well downstream, that those “hand raises” were part of the same selling opportunity, or perhaps opportunities for different solutions, will see the wisdom of adapting lead management to the demand unit model.

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Tips for Increasing SDR Engagement Rates

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Some years ago, our firm conducted a lead management audit for a technology client who was struggling to convert raw, inbound inquiries into sales qualified leads. During the audit, it became quickly apparent that one of the major issues was at the very front end of the lead qualification process.

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The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

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This much is certain: allowing personal emails on forms will result in a greater percentage of early-stage leads, as well permitting those prospects who set up dedicated addresses (junk@ etc.) solely for the purpose of diverting marketing emails.

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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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for lead management to 3.35 However, when you consider that, in our model, a 5 represents the most advanced state of practice from a business theory perspective, and a 1 represents basic control and management of a process, you recognize how difficult the transition from 1 to 5 really is. for organization. LDW: Yes and no.

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Gmail Priority Inbox: the Death Knell for Email as Lead Generation?

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If (as is likely) the concept catches on and extends in one form or another to other email clients, notably Microsoft Outlook , Priority Inbox could sound the beginning of the end for email as a lead generation tool. One, because the effectiveness of email as a tool for acquiring net new sales leads is already as bad as it’s ever been.

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3 Key Reasons Not to Give Up on Lead Scoring

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Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. The classic business case for lead scoring has been a function of inbound marketing and the traditional lead funnel. 3 Key Reasons Not to Give Up on Lead Scoring Click To Tweet.