The Point

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For a long time, “ lead nurturing ” was thought of as something you did with the leads that sales didn’t want. The theory was: leads come in, the sales team gets the hot ones, and the rest go to lead nurturing. Today, of course, a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy is much more than that.

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The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And now that chat is becoming a staple of the B2B tech stack, creative marketers are finding ever more innovative ways for leveraging their investment to drive engagement throughout the lead lifecycle. Lead Nurturing. Trial & Demo Conversions. Responding to those specific companies, by name (“Hey Google! Retargeting.

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The Point

JULY 14, 2015

In an era when “demand generation” and “content marketing” are virtually synonymous, most B2B sales leads are the result of a prospect downloading or requesting content. That latter group becomes fodder for ongoing nurturing, in the hope that further education and brand awareness will ultimately result in conversion to qualified leads.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’re not generating leads – as in: a lot of leads – from your company’s blog, you’re missing out on what is perhaps not only your best opportunity to convert organic Web traffic into actionable, measurable sales inquiries, but also the best way to actually show real ROI from your social media investment.

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A client asks: “I notice that you’re recommending we gate our offer content behind landing pages as part of the lead nurturing campaign. It’s why click-to-lead conversion rates are never 100%, no matter how good your landing page. With a landing page, you’ll at least have the opportunity to capture his or her contact information.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Landing Pages 100

The Point

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

As with any research report, however, it’s wise to look at the data, and the conclusions drawn from that information, with a critical eye. And here’s where I think that analysis goes astray: First, demand generation effectiveness is not best measured by which channel generates the highest number of “quality” leads.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

One of the reasons for this under-utilization, and the inability of some marketers to deploy, for example, automated lead nurturing at every stage of the selling process, is resistance from the sales organization, and in particular, Inside Sales. Marketo creates task in CRM to remind BDR to call lead 1 week later. Wait 2 weeks.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. It enables you to deploy lead nurturing programs that are more timely, relevant, and, ultimately, effective. Comments welcome.

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Lead Nurturing Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Automation Services Sales Qualified Leads 100

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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The Point

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Ask a group of B2B marketers whether their Websites’ lead generation content (white papers, archived Webinars, case studies, videos, etc.) At one end of the spectrum, there are those that believe gating Web content is the most efficient way to convert Web visitors to actionable sales leads. So the question is: To gate or not to gate?

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The Point

JANUARY 24, 2013

Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns. Here they are, in a nutshell: 1.

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Social Media Demand Generation Agencies Media Leads 100

The Point

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

How is it that a quality white paper on a hot topic can still generate bad leads? Even a well-written white paper, by a respected author, on a hot topic of vital interest to your target audience, can still generate leads your salespeople will consider “junk.” It’s got to be the media, right? It’s the offer.

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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. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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The Point

JULY 18, 2011

because 1) the time commitment is minimal, and 2) white papers are perceived (not always justifiably) as information of value rather than sales collateral. Based on papers that have proven highly successful for our clients, here’s a typical outline for an effective, lead generation-oriented white paper: 1.

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The Point

JUNE 25, 2019

The reasons for this are varied, but many of them center on the quality of the underlying data, and the degree to which information about a particular lead, or opportunity, or closed deal is captured and tracked accurately. A good starting point is a mini data audit, focused on the following questions: * Are you capturing lead sources?

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The Point

MARCH 29, 2017

Though the marketing team was doing a great job generating raw inquiries at the top of the funnel, the sales reps weren’t receiving the number of “sales ready” leads they needed to hit their pipeline targets. The lead funnel is obsolete. Think about it: most companies have no problem generating leads at the top of the funnel.

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The Point

JANUARY 14, 2014

In my experience, most of the mental energy and strategic thinking around the practice of lead nurturing and lead management is usually applied to the goal of accelerating prospects through the sales process – from MQL to SQL, from SQL to Opportunity, and so on. And that lack of focus can be a big mistake. Probably not.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Services Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Leads 100

The Point

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

How to ignite your company’s growth so marketing is filling your sales pipeline with more new buyers than needed to beat your future revenue goals…AND without increasing your cost per visit and cost per lead. HS] I notice that you integrate with some of the leading marketing automation vendors, including Marketo and Act-On.

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Paid Content Demand Generation Agencies Cost per Lead Lead Scoring 100

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. Use of very short-term metrics will almost certainly devalue those leads and the perceived ROI from the program.

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The Point

MARCH 18, 2020

Offer free information on how to cope, certainly. Right now, people want empathy and information of value, not a sales pitch. If nothing else, lead nurturing. Provide (as many are) free versions of your product, or premium features, or extended licenses. can reinforce your brand as a trusted partner for future needs.

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Demand Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 243

The Point

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In fact, I’ll make almost the exact opposite prediction: “By 2015, the percentage of B2B leads that arrive via corporate Websites will shrink dramatically as marketers maintain multiple, distinct online channels that are optimized for demand generation.”. Want to guess how many of those leads arrive via our clients’ Websites?

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Demand Generation Agencies B2B Sales Sales Leads Microsite 100

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. Lead source. Don’t dump all inbound leads into the same bucket.

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Lead Nurturing Segmentation Sales Qualified Leads Campaigns 100

The Point

JUNE 24, 2022

Key Finding 2: Buyers leverage sales reps for information less (and later) than ever. The days when a marketer’s primary responsibility was simply generating raw leads to throw at sales are behind us. Short of that standard, and given today’s buyer preferences, cold-calling has no place in the demand generation mix.

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Top of Funnel Cold Calling B2B Demand Generation 130

The Point

MARCH 8, 2018

By which I mean that most analyst reports – Gartner Magic Quadrants, Forrester Wave Reports, and the like – are marketed as press announcements vs. information of value that might attract prospects actively evaluating your type of solution. Now, these sentiments may be newsworthy. See what I mean? via @spearmktg. Click To Tweet.

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Marketing Report Planning Gartner Demand Generation Agencies 216

The Point

APRIL 21, 2010

That was the challenge faced by Navicure , a leading Internet-based medical claims clearinghouse in Atlanta that helps medical practices increase profitability. convert that search traffic to measurable sales leads. In its first 30 days, the blog attracted dozens of new email subscribers and 60 sales leads.

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Demand Generation Agencies Sales Leads Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

The Point

JUNE 11, 2010

Just getting started with lead nurturing? Concerned that your lead nurturing program isn’t everything it should be? Great lead nurturing starts with more than just software. 10 Best Practices for Lead Generation & Pipeline Acceleration. For more information on the summit and to register, click here.

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The Point

AUGUST 27, 2019

The relatively high cost of LinkedIn advertising can lead some marketers to want to generate only highly-qualified leads or those further along in the buyer journey, but attempting to have the offer itself qualify those leads can be counter-productive. Use text in your image to convey additional information or detail (e.g.

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Paid Content Advertising Agencies Linkedin Advertisements 241

The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

The key to determining at what point an expensive click becomes TOO expensive is understanding a few key data points: * Maximum Allowable Cost Per Lead (MACPL) * Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) * Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Failure to Nurture Leads Correctly. In B2B search campaigns, an effective lead nurturing.

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The Point

APRIL 19, 2023

Disclaimer: our agency partners with Rev to help inform audience, media, and content strategy for our clients.) It won’t be long before AI will be able to inform marketers of new markets they should consider targeting based on data coming from their tech stack, and even how to market to these new audiences.

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The Point

APRIL 19, 2017

Sounds obvious, but the best content provides information of value, information that the reader doesn’t already have. No one question will help you create content that drives quality leads – leads that convert more readily to pipeline and revenue – more than this one.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Paper 214

The Point

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you could layer third-party intent data into every lead gen program you run, would you do it? In other words, would you only ever want marketing leads from prospects pre-determined to be actively researching your category, solution, use case, etc.? My argument: no, you wouldn’t. . Effective demand generation. Click To Tweet.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This functionality not only generates additional insights for marketers as to just how much of their content prospects are actually reading, but also enables more sophisticated lead qualification methods, for example: granting higher lead scores when an individual prospect reads more than say, 80 percent of a white paper.

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Paper Demand Generation Agencies Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 193

The Point

MAY 16, 2018

How about: * a white paper on “10 Most Popular PBX Features (& Top 10 Pet Peeves)”. * a “Business Phone System User Satisfaction Survey” (with a free gift card for responding). * a product comparison matrix or third party report comparing leading phone systems (“How Does Your Current System Rank?”). Instead, offer information of value.

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Campaigns Tips Demand Generation Agencies Lead Scoring 191

The Point

JANUARY 27, 2022

Pilot campaigns are modest in scope, and they cause companies to dabble in ABM without the lead time, personalized content, technology, research, data, and other key investments that a more thought-out strategy merits. ABM is a long-term proposition. are resonating best – can be applied to the more high-stakes, Tier 1 plays.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Campaigns Demand Generation Agencies 204

The Point

JANUARY 17, 2019

Some years ago, our firm conducted a lead management audit for a technology client who was struggling to convert raw, inbound inquiries into sales qualified leads. During the audit, it became quickly apparent that one of the major issues was at the very front end of the lead qualification process. Click To Tweet.

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Sales Qualified Leads Tips Lead Nurturing Multi-Channel 168

The Point

JULY 30, 2020

Blogs are historically the province of the PR team, and so they’re not often looked at as a vehicle for driving leads, sales engagement, and revenue. This is one of the most effective ways to convert organic blog traffic to sales leads that you can then nurture over time. Include links to gated content. from your Blog ”.

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Demand Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Budget 221