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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

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Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

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How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? In the video below, Holly explains their process.

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The More Industrial Marketing Changes, the More it Stays the Same

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67 percent of manufacturers, industrial and engineering companies stated that customer acquisition or lead generation is their primary industrial marketing goal in 2012, the same top two marketing goals for the past six years. Either that or we industrial marketers haven’t quite figured out the lead generation puzzle yet.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

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Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. To most C-level execs that really means answering the question, “How much revenue did it generate?” Or do we need to show a verifiable ROI?

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

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The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage.

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

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The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

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If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. B2B sales processes are becoming “consumerized.”