markempa

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I’ve compiled a list of the 10 most popular and shared posts on the B2B Lead Blog, chosen by marketers, just like you, to help you get ready to have a great 2017. For the majority of B2B companies with complex sales, marketing-generated leads rarely account for 50% of revenue and often it’s often much less. Here’s why.

Account Based Marketing 84

Account Based Marketing Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 84

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

LeanData

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It’s frustrating to put so much time, budget, and effort into providing sales with the best leads only to see them go to waste. Is the sales team really letting the leads go stale to spite you? Most likely, the reps never saw the leads because: They weren’t notified about a new lead in an account they’re responsible for.

Lead Ranking 40

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Salesforce.com 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. The current version also hosts landing pages and Web sites, manages a lead database with profiles and Web activity history, generates lead scores, sends alerts to sales people, and synchronizes data with Salesforce.com.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed. I’m not sure it’s really a big issue and, in any case, other vendors provide similar help.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy. Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management DemandBase 40

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 21, 2009

The flash show when you enter the company’s Web site could easily be mistaken for a demand generation product – it lists campaign workflow, list segmentation, email templates, Salesforce.com integration and dynamic reporting. Automated synchronization is available for Salesforce.com using their standard APIs.

Efficiency 120

Efficiency Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. The idea is to help the sales rep decide who to call first. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

Marketo 120

Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services Eloqua 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2010

Small digression: most business marketing systems are designed around data from a sales automation system such as Salesforce.com. The system then draws on Aprimo’s heritage in marketing management to add detailed cost tracking, project management, asset workflow including annotation and commenting on PDFs, and a flexible campaign calendar.

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Work Management Marketing Management Resource Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 8, 2009

I had an interesting email conversation last month with a Raab Guide buyer about the nuances of company-level data management in demand generation systems. He started from the perfectly reasonable premise that the demand generation system should give an overview of activity for all leads associated with a given company.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Work Management 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Lead source is a critical piece of data you need in order to assess the value of your marketing campaigns and part of proper lead management. Avoid lead source clutter. Avoid lead source clutter. If you want more descriptive lead sources add a second field that gives more specific information.

Lead Scoring 48

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Practices Leads 48

LeanData

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Smart B2B salespeople and marketers have embraced this reality: Not every lead matters. When the focus is on targeted accounts instead of a vast sea of leads, companies have a greater chance of impacting their top line. And yet the right leads do matter – the ones inside key accounts that you want to engage. Those are precious.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Leads Lead 40

LeanData

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Smart B2B salespeople and marketers have embraced this reality: Not every lead matters. When the focus is on targeted accounts instead of a vast sea of leads, companies have a greater chance of impacting their top line. And yet the right leads do matter – the ones inside key accounts that you want to engage. Those are precious.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Leads Lead 40

LeanData

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Smart B2B salespeople and marketers have embraced this reality: Not every lead matters. When the focus is on targeted accounts instead of a vast sea of leads, companies have a greater chance of impacting their top line. And yet the right leads do matter – the ones inside key accounts that you want to engage. Those are precious.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Leads Lead 40

LeanData

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Smart B2B salespeople and marketers have embraced this reality: Not every lead matters. When the focus is on targeted accounts instead of a vast sea of leads, companies have a greater chance of impacting their top line. And yet the right leads do matter – the ones inside key accounts that you want to engage. Those are precious.

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Work Management Leads Lead 40

Biznology

JANUARY 23, 2013

Traditionally, the first step in list development has been working with a list broker who has experience in your target audience category. Internal databases populated from billing systems, lead management systems, and website registration systems. Let’s look at what’s new in B2B lists these days.

Acquisitions 80

Acquisitions B2B Marketing Salesforce.com Work Management 80

Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Email campaigns are targeted at segments; Web visitors are classified into segments; behavior alerts are triggered by segments; lead scores are assigned to segments; leads are sent to the sales system based on segments; reports are run against segments. Each lead is assigned to the first "child" action whose entry conditions it meets.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Small Business Marketing Marketing Automation Services 120

The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Demand Gen and Lead Management. We wanted to share them with you, with the goal of helping you realistically plan or adapt your own ABM strategies! The short answer is to “wire up” an Accounts view of your pipeline (leads through close) in your CRM so you can monitor activities at the account level. B2B Telemarketing.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 95

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. This is the future, and it’s why we are proud to be the leading independent marketing software company today working with ALL leading CRM solutions, including salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, Netsuite, and SugarCRM.

Acquisitions 48

Acquisitions Enterprise Management Salesforce.com Work Management 48

The Point

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s no secret that I am a fervent evangelist for marketing automation, and at our agency we see the real-life benefits every day in the form of clients generating higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and shorter sales cycles. Today, lead management in the CRM system starts when sales get the lead.

Salesforce.com 100

Salesforce.com Eloqua Work Management Marketing Management 100

LeanData

APRIL 8, 2015

experts in lead management solutions, announced that its customer base has increased to over 85 customers, a 400% increase compared to a year ago. Additionally, LeanData announced that the Spring Release of its Account-Based Lead Management Suite for B2B sales and marketing professionals is now available. “The

Account Based Marketing 56

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 56

NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

Your definitions of quality leads differed from ours. We weren’t on the same page when it came to target marketing and reaching your desired sales-ready leads. You guys spent too much time with those “tire-kicker” leads which wasted much of your team’s time. You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com.

Email Marketing 100

Email Marketing Work Management Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring 100

NuSpark Consulting

MAY 28, 2011

Your definitions of quality leads differed from ours. We weren’t on the same page when it came to target marketing and reaching your desired sales-ready leads. You guys spent too much time with those “tire-kicker” leads which wasted much of your team’s time. You guys only knew the basics of Salesforce.com.

Email Marketing 100

Email Marketing Work Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

markempa

JULY 7, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation Leads 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

Conversion Rate 48

Conversion Rate Lead Nurturing Conversion Optimization 48

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

Although we’re in a down economy I’ve still been able to travel twice out of the last three weeks meeting with clients, working until all hours of the night and seeing first hand what is on the minds of marketers these days. I work my but off yet have to find my own parking spot or take public transportation.

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

LeanData

MARCH 25, 2014

a startup focused on lead management software announced today that it has secured $5.1 Since starting the company, we’ve had the opportunity to work with many leading enterprises to unlock the value of their data and align sales and marketing objectives. LeanData on the Salesforce.com AppExchange.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management De-duplication Work Management Marketing Management 40

LeanData

MARCH 25, 2014

a startup focused on lead management software announced today that it has secured $5.1 Since starting the company, we’ve had the opportunity to work with many leading enterprises to unlock the value of their data and align sales and marketing objectives. LeanData on the Salesforce.com AppExchange.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management De-duplication Work Management Marketing Management 40

LeanData

MAY 19, 2014

We’re helping dozens of great B2B companies with account-centric lead management. Our customers can immediately see inbound lead activity that matches existing prospects, customers, and active opportunities w/out jumping around different salesforce views. So, how do you get started? It’s totally simple. Happy Selling!

Salesforce.com 40

Salesforce.com Work Management Marketing Management B2B Sales 40

LeanData

APRIL 8, 2015

experts in lead management solutions, announced that its customer base has increased to over 85 customers, a 400% increase compared to a year ago. Additionally, LeanData announced that the Spring Release of its Account-Based Lead Management Suite for B2B sales and marketing professionals is now available. “The

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

LeanData

APRIL 8, 2015

experts in lead management solutions, announced that its customer base has increased to over 85 customers, a 400% increase compared to a year ago. Additionally, LeanData announced that the Spring Release of its Account-Based Lead Management Suite for B2B sales and marketing professionals is now available. “The

Account Based Marketing 40

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 40

LeanData

MAY 19, 2014

We’re helping dozens of great B2B companies with account-centric lead management. Our customers can immediately see inbound lead activity that matches existing prospects, customers, and active opportunities w/out jumping around different salesforce views. So, how do you get started? It’s totally simple. Happy Selling!

Salesforce.com 40

Salesforce.com Work Management Marketing Management B2B Sales 40

markempa

MAY 22, 2017

Have you recently looked at your lead routing and assignment process? LeadData’s new report, The State of Lead Management , based on a survey of 527 B2B sellers and marketers found an average 25.5 % of marketing-generated leads get assigned to the wrong account owner. Case in point. Did you catch that?

Lead Ranking 291

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads 291

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We started this series of content marketing analyses with Master Data Management. We’ve helped companies build a content marketing strategy in just about every industry there is. For me it was mainly a data management tool. Lead nurturing, sales, marketing, support and service, all play a role in CRM.

Top of Funnel 285

Top of Funnel Work Management Analysis Marketing Management 285

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2008

For example, Ken points out that both salesforce.com and Netsuite took over $100M in venture capital before going public. Manage your complexity. At Marketo, we use these tools to drive our own high-volume revenue cycle, so I know it works. The result of this infrastructure is a streamlined revenue cycle.

Acquisitions 48

Acquisitions Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Salesforce.com 48