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Inbound Marketing: Are You Attracting Quality Leads?

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A recent study showed that Inbound Marketing generates 54% more leads than outbound marketing campaigns. Sure, more leads sound great, but how do you make sure they are qualified? The following are key factors in making sure your inbound marketing leads are of high quality. Score your leads. Focus your content.

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When It Comes to Your Marketing Leads, Quality and Quantity Count

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B2B marketers need to track lead quality as well as lead quantity. It is important to track the quality of your leads. One way to measure this is by tracking the conversion rate of leads by source. Capture each marketing activity, its cost, leads generated, number of sales and sales revenue generated.

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B2B Marketer: You Paid for TOFU. Do you have MOFU?

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For a long time marketing departments have focused on TOFU, or top of the funnel lead generation. Now it’s time to also focus on MOFU, middle of the funnel qualified lead nurturing and development. You may have qualified the leads before the great hand-off to sales, who worked with the lead through the sales cycle.

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4 Surprising Ways B2B Marketing Campaigns Benefit Business

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The campaigns we’ve done for clients generated leads and revenue, but they also generated energy with the business owners, employees, suppliers and their community. You’ll not only generate leads and sales revenue, you’ll invigorate your self, your employees, suppliers and community.

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What Do I Spend on My Marketing Budget? Part 1

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“ Your marketing budget does depend on a variety of factors, including your lead generation return rates and lead-to-buyer conversion rates. If you understand your buyer’s buy cycle, you can calculate exactly what you need to spend in order to generate the revenues you need.

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B2B Marketers: How Much Time Should You Spend On Facebook?

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Generate leads? Generate Leads on Facebook: 1-2 hours per week. To generate leads, you’ll need to spend more time. If you’ve created an awareness and generated a lead, it might be a good time to ask for the order. How much time does it take to get results from Facebook?

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The Death of Salesmen, Really

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There was an awkward pause, after which the sales man launched into a fast-paced monologue about how he’s using social media to do lead generation. Now sales people should be working on conversions of all those leads marketing has passed to them (or of the leads they generate themselves).