The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Valasys

MARCH 21, 2023

What is Lead Nurturing? B2B lead nurturing builds relationships with potential customers and guides them through the sales funnel to ultimately become paying customers. However, there can be several bottlenecks that can hinder the lead nurturing process. Such nurturing helps them turn into paying customers.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Contact information is easy to get, but how do you turn a lead into a customer? There is no magic bullet for conversion, despite the many wild promises you may hear, but lead nurturing can drive huge improvements. In fact: 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales. How efficient and easy is interaction?

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Lead nurturing is a powerful tool you can use to ensure your brand stays top of mind with prospects. It allows you to enroll contacts into a series of drip emails and nurture them further along the Buyer’s Journey. But did you know that 65 percent of B2B marketers have not established any lead nurturing?

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The Point

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If your organization is generating plenty of leads but those initial inquiries aren’t converting to sales qualified leads, meetings, or pipeline, a myriad of things could be at fault: 1) sales follow-up may be sub-standard in either cadence, frequency, or message. 2) lead nurturing. Better Lead Nurturing.

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Stevens & Tate

MAY 27, 2021

Most of the leads you generate will need to be nurtured before they’ll convert into customers. As such, no inbound marketing campaign is going to be complete if you don’t implement a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy. What Is Lead Nurturing? The Benefits Of Lead Nurturing.

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Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). But before you hang up your coat, here’s a collection of lead nurturing best practices worth exploring. Why persevere with lead nurturing?

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The lead nurturing process walks a prospect through the stages of the sales funnel and continues through the sale. Proper execution requires knowing what to send when and ensuring that you’re adequately meeting your target market’s needs. Remember not to oversell your personalized marketing; it can actually get a little creepy.

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

B2B lead nurturing is all about engaging with a targeted group of prospective customers by providing hyper-tailored solutions to their pain-points according to their specific stages in the buying cycles. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. Ways to Excel Effective Lead Nurturing.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Read on to find out what B2B Lead Roundtable Blog posts were shared the most as well as the three topics B2B marketers valued most in 2014. You can utilize this information to better inform your 2015 strategy. Topic #1 — Lead generation is king. Lead generation was a huge topic for 2014 and for good reason.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss? Comments welcome.

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BOP Design

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As B2B marketers, we are tasked with attracting ideal prospects to our B2B website, educating them to build trust in the products or services we provide, and then getting those prospects to take the first step – make contact with us via a website form, phone call, or email. What happens to your B2B marketing leads after they are qualified?

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Strategic-IC

MAY 29, 2018

A considered lead nurture strategy is important to support your sales and marketing activities and ensure prospects keep moving through the funnel. We explore 5 lead nurture tips to consider for an effective process. Why is Lead Nurturing Important? 5 Lead Nurturing Strategy Considerations.

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The Point

JULY 13, 2012

Which leads to another question: do certain types of campaigns even need an offer in the first place? Take lead nurturing : is it strictly essential that every lead nurturing touch include a specific, gated, call to action? I have my concerns, however, about extending it to lead nurturing and the email medium.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. Marketing Sherpa. Compute your ROI of lead nurturing now!

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 24, 2011

You know what lead nurturing is… Here’s my definition. Lead Nurturing is the process of communicating to a lead on an ongoing basis in order to educate, inform, continue to qualify and build a relationship until the lead is sales-ready. Marketing Sherpa. Compute your ROI of lead nurturing now!

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2016

That's where lead nurturing comes in : It's a way to stay connected to the leads you collect that aren't ready to buy from you yet, and build up trust until they are ready. If you want to learn more about lead nurturing in general, you can check out this guide. And many of these folks just aren't ready to buy yet.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Relevancy is one of the key factors in generating a consistent response from your lead nurturing emails: the more relevant your message to the reader’s job function, industry, interests, and stage in the selling cycle, the more likely he/she will be to respond. To download your free copy, click here.

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The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Lead Nurturing. Lead nurturing has long since become more than just an email channel, as marketers expand nurture campaigns to include channels like remarketing, content syndication, paid social, and even direct mail. Responding to those specific companies, by name (“Hey Google! Retargeting.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia. Leveraging social media to help maintain mindshare, keep prospects informed.

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markempa

JANUARY 4, 2010

To help you start the New Year, I’d like to wrap up my Lead Generation Checklist Series with the secret to successful lead generation – and, for that matter, marketing in today’s B2B space: lead nurturing. At it's core, B2B lead generation is about building relationships. Relevancy is the key.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. You don’t want a demo of their software — you haven’t even had time to read their content yet.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 30, 2021

And while most B2B marketers know “more is NOT better” when it comes to data, many of us are still conflicted about which B2B lead generation metrics to track. Every bit of confusion or extraneous information has to go if you want to make the best decisions with the most confidence. One Lead Generation Metric to Rule Them All.

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The Point

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Also, an ongoing nurture program doesn’t mean sending a monthly newsletter and whatever Webinar invitations happen to be on the calendar. Focus on information that delivers real value vs. emails that ask: “are you ready to buy yet?”. As such, avoid the temptation to inflict a barrage of promotional content about your solution.

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B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In his post, Howard described a personal experience of becoming a lead for a marketing technology company. Howard spoke with a salesperson and got pricing information. Howard closes his post with the emphatic statement: "Get your salespeople out of the lead nurturing business."

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markempa

APRIL 27, 2017

People aren’t looking for a reason to read your email nurturing messages, they’re looking for a reason to delete them. This is important because marketers rely on email as the top lead-nurturing tactic and according to Econsultancy, it’s the best channel for ROI. Think about it. You probably do this with your inbox too.

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. Implementing an effective lead nurturing strategy can have a huge impact on the results of your inbound marketing strategy.

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. In fact, a failure to align offers with ad groups can be a prime culprit in poor conversion (click-to-lead) rates.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 18, 2012

What about the potential customer who wants a bit more information on prices? However, too much focus is placed on these quick win sales. What about the potential customer who doesn’t know how you can help them yet? Click to read more »

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. Source: Marketing Sherpa/ KnowledgeStorm). B2B marketing and lead generation experts point to a lack of lead nurturing as the primary cause of this poor performance.

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ClickDimensions

JANUARY 9, 2024

Pipeline Visibility Maintaining clear visibility into the status of each deal in your pipeline can be difficult, especially as the number of leads and opportunities grows. This is especially prominent in SMBs who have been shown to lose just under 80% of their marketing leads as they never convert into sales, due to a lack of nurturing.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As such, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the latest lead generation trends, technological advances, and- as always- your customer base. Ready to learn more about the state of B2B lead generation? At the low end are leads for marketing products/services ($32) and technology ($31) ( source ). Keep reading.

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BOP Design

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We’ve seen a lot of success, both internally and in our clients’ organizations, for nurturing leads along to customer acquisition. As such, we are sharing our top tips for nurturing marketing leads, especially with the help of content marketing pieces. They are also great lead nurturing tools.

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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.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

In this blog, discover the who, what, when, how and why of lead nurturing through webinars and videos so you can take your buyers on a more engaging (and fun) journey. Anyone involved in marketing knows the importance of generating quality leads for their sales team. Event Marketing Lead Nurturing Modern B2B Marketing'

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 1, 2011

Plenty has been written about the importance of lead nurturing in B2B and industrial marketing. If you need a quick primer, read my earlier post, “ B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail. ”. What does lead nurturing do for sales? Are you beginning to see the similarities?

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