Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Here's my Lead Generation Tip for today. Hubspot Dashboard - finds daily chores for me to do around blogging, keywords, search rankings, etc. LinkedIn Q&A - to maintain my top Lead Gen Expert status and to accept invites and other LinkedIn goodness. Company Facebook Fan Page - post some value. Leave a comment

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Here's my Lead Generation Tip for today. Comment on a few relevant articles Hubspot Dashboard - finds daily chores for me to do around blogging, keywords, search rankings, etc. Look at the other top experts in the Lead Generation section of LinkedIn. I'm in good company! Leave a comment.

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Lead Generation Social Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

In fact, we bring value to each other. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. We each have two obvious things in common: We are bloggers and we are lead gen practitioners. Competitors are definitely worthy of being part of the Lead Gen Tips collection. Already this month a lead has come of it.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

In fact, we bring value to each other. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. We each have two obvious things in common: We are bloggers and we are lead gen practitioners. Competitors are definitely worthy of being part of the Lead Gen Tips collection. Already this month a lead has come of it.

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Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Tips 100

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I wanted to beat my best score, and. I wanted to beat their best scores. Outbound sales, lead generation and demand gen in general are all about the numbers, too: forecasting good numbers, hitting those numbers and then pushing those numbers to new levels. Green Leads has fun too. It was addicting.

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Lead Gen Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Peer-to-peer 100

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Basically it is the value of your hand as it relates to the investment you have made in it. They look at stages and lead scoring, but are they looking at the value of a lead and a demand generation/lead nurturing program? Is each investment adding the expected value (EV) at each stage?

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Ad brokers Marketing Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Basically it is the value of your hand as it relates to the investment you have made in it. They look at stages and lead scoring, but are they looking at the value of a lead and a demand generation/lead nurturing program? Is each investment adding the expected value (EV) at each stage?

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Ad brokers Marketing Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. That’s generated a good amount of traffic and leads. Mike: I still wonder about b2b Facebook Fan Pages as a medium for generating leads, but I agree with you that twitter and LinkedIn are an incredible source.

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Social Media Lead Gen Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. That's generated a good amount of traffic and leads. Mike: I still wonder about b2b Facebook Fan Pages as a medium for generating leads, but I agree with you that twitter and LinkedIn are an incredible source.

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Social Media Lead Gen Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 10, 2011

They just don't work any longer and they're not helping anybody succeed at generating quality b2b leads. It had everything you needed to pass a lead or book an appointment with your targeted prospecting base. That being said, there are some bad tips out there that need to be put to rest. Objection handling - As it states.

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Lead Gen Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Telemarketing 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

Green Leads is pleased to announce that we will be a Gold Sponsor at the SiriusDecisions 2011 Summit--B2B Sales and Marketing: Forging a New Alliance. Green Leads' interest in the event is the continued focus SiriusDecisions has placed on the topic of demand generation as it pertains to building and converting quality pipeline.

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Peer-to-peer Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2013

The prospect is typically educated more than an outbound generated lead, they are thinking about the topic that your product or service addresses, and the time is fresh to start the conversation. The outbound function assigned to these leads is typically referred to as Inbound Response. The more you know, the warmer that lead.

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Cold Calling Hubspot Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2009

When we're selling our outbound marketing demand gen solutions, we get asked all the time, where can I find inexpensive b2b sales leads ? So below is a collection of data sources we've used in our lead generation work. By far the best value on the market for the quality you receive. We've never found the value.

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B2B Sales Sales Leads Jigsaw Sales Qualified Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. I do, however, challenge the value of that inbound lead versus the value of the outbound lead, and that was not discussed. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs.

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Cost per Lead Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Cost 100

Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2009

When we're selling our outbound marketing demand gen solutions, we get asked all the time, where can I find inexpensive b2b sales leads ? So below is a collection of data sources we've used in our lead generation work. By far the best value on the market for the quality you receive. We've never found the value.

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Jigsaw B2B Sales Sales Leads Sales Qualified Leads 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 4, 2009

It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. I do, however, challenge the value of that inbound lead versus the value of the outbound lead, and that was not discussed. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs.

Cost per Lead 100

Cost per Lead Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Cost 100

Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2009

relevancy -- just a little fun ;) For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. Classic inbound marketing.

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Inbound Marketing Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2009

For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Services such as appointment setting, lead generation and list development are pervasive and a very common tool in the demand gen arsenal. In fact, those warm ones have the highest lead scores in most systems.

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Inbound Marketing Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. The topic got resurrected this week with the posting of my interview on the Funnelholic site, when a question from @chadhorenfeldt from Eloqua caused me to bring up Lead Equity. So how does this apply to lead gen/demand gen? What is Lead Equity?

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Leads Lead 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 3, 2009

Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. The topic got resurrected this week with the posting of my interview on the Funnelholic site, when a question from @chadhorenfeldt from Eloqua caused me to bring up Lead Equity. So how does this apply to lead gen/demand gen? What is Lead Equity?

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Leads Lead 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies, and the net-gen crowd. Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Have someone dedicated to providing value to the market.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies and the net-gen crowd. Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Have someone dedicated to providing value to the market.

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Lead Gen Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2008

As our recent Marketing Sherpa social media case study shows, social media is phenomenal for lead generation. Is there really b2b value on Facebook? Which leads me to my next question about quality posting or quantity posting. But it does take a fare amount of care and feeding. It becomes your resume, to a certain extent.

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Budget Programs Social Media Paid Search Agency SEM 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 24, 2008

Chris Brogan 's recent blog post, Your Lead Generation Methods Have to Change hits on a topic that we all need to be reminded of: The new lead generation shifts your methods as a marketer from “talk about your dumb product” into “empower the users.”. That, by the way is the nugget of this whole piece.). They’re equipping.

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User-Generated Content Lead Generation Consulting Marketing Prospects 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Chris Brogan 's recent blog post, Your Lead Generation Methods Have to Change hits on a topic that we all need to be reminded of: The new lead generation shifts your methods as a marketer from “talk about your dumb product” into “empower the users.” That, by the way is the nugget of this whole piece.) They’re not selling.

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User-Generated Content Tagging Lead Generation Consulting 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2008

As our recent Marketing Sherpa social media case study shows, social media is phenomenal for lead generation. Is there really b2b value on Facebook? Which leads me to my next question about quality posting or quantity posting. But it does take a fare amount of care and feeding. It becomes your resume, to a certain extent.

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Budget Programs Social Media Paid Search Agency Social Marketing 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

We identified the critical integration points between sales and marketing in demand generation, knowledge management, sales readiness and metrics. Joe: First, they should take advantage of and capitalize on every qualified lead sent to them by marketing. Clients and prospects are overwhelmed by public domain information. Joe: Sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 8, 2009

Demand Generation. For generations, Marketing has been focusing on branding, products, communications, creating demand and supporting sales. Demand generation and sales enablement are the two most significant areas where investments seem to be on the rise. Sales should hold marketing responsible for generating the right leads.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Social Media Guidelines 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 22, 2009

Alignment of Sales & Marketing Demand Generation Sales Enablement Social Media They each had significant focus, but as the union of both camp's topics of discussion, the umbrella topic of Sales & Marketing Alignment seems to cover it all. Some highlights below: Marketing needs to understand their customers and their sales force.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Linkedin Demand 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 1, 2010

The content value is huge, and the knowledge generated is phenomenal and growing daily. I've shared webinar tips before in Lead Gen Tips: How To Produce A Successful Webinar , but one thing Focus added to the agenda for preparation was to run through the mechanics of the webinar - hosting software. What's' behind the curtain?

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

As buyers become savvier and inbound marketing demands increase, he said, "We see our clients' outbound demand generation initiatives augmenting the process to provide sales with intelligent leads that fully meet the criteria for direct sales involvement." What are your thoughts regarding increased investment in inside sales?

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Telemarketing Deliverability Inbound Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

As buyers become savvier and inbound marketing demands increase, he said, "We see our clients' outbound demand generation initiatives augmenting the process to provide sales with intelligent leads that fully meet the criteria for direct sales involvement. What are your thoughts regarding increased investment in inside sales?

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Cold Calling Telemarketing Inbound Marketing B2B Sales 100

Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

We identified the critical integration points between sales and marketing in demand generation, knowledge management, sales readiness and metrics. Joe : First, they should take advantage of and capitalize on every qualified lead sent to them by marketing. Clients and prospects are overwhelmed by public domain information. Joe: Sales 2.0

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Trends Work Management Marketing Management Buzz 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 26, 2008

The law of large numbers means that there will be something of value in the volume. Relentless as they are, I'm sure there may be some value in the network effect of just anyone following you. So, Spam Followers I, not much of a pain, just ignore them, might be some value. Whats the value on LinkedIn?

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Social Media CAN-SPAM Media Lead Gen 100

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2008

The law of large numbers means that there will be something of value in the volume. Relentless as they are, I'm sure there may be some value in the network effect of just anyone following you. So, Spam Followers I, not much of a pain, just ignore them, might be some value. Whats the value on LinkedIn?

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Social Media CAN-SPAM Media Twitter 100

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

At Green Leads, we offer targeted content syndication as part of a broader, systematic lead-generation effort based on the buyer journey. You raise brand awareness, and you establish your company as a thought leader in the industry, which helps to build confidence and trust with leads. Why Does Content Syndication Matter?

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Cost per Lead CPL 130

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2009

I was reminded of this this past week when a young gun manager of demand generation turned on me with a rude "I just got a quote from your competitor that was 30% lower than your price. They wanted the value we could bring to the table, and they were willing to compensate us fairly to get it. I want a discount."

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Work Management Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Management List Brokers 100