One of the coolest new features that LinkedIn recently launched is the ability to access statistics of any LinkedIn Group you want to join or are currently a part of. This information is great for figuring out if a LinkedIn Group you own is active or not, but it's also a great way to gain insights for generating leads from LinkedIn. To access the Group Statistics for a specific LinkedIn group, browse to the group and click 'More' in the group's top navigation. Better Target Your LinkedIn Ads. Create Better Targeted LinkedIn Product Pages. MORE >>

Guest Post from Gareth Morfill, Inside Sales Blackbelt at Green Leads. If they have a photo in their LinkedIn profile, look at it. Looking at the photo means you have to look at their LinkedIn profile first -- scan it. If you were talking to a prospect face to face, do you think that would make you pitch any differently? More confidently? We feel that it absolutely does. The simple act of having a real person to look at while you are having the conversation makes the building of rapport much easier. You may even be able to click on it and enlarge it. Science backs this up. MORE >>

Blog Makeover Nets Sales Leads for Software Company. How to Answer a Question: 5 Tips for Making the Most of LinkedIn. In fact, I’ve written much more in the last 12 months about social media and lead nurturing, yet many of those posts didn’t make the cut. Without further ado, here are the top 10 most popular blog posts from our blog, “ The Point ” in 2010 (as measured by page views). Normally, a survey like this might indicate something about hot topics or key trends, but here instead the popularity of the top posts has everything to do with one word: search. MORE >>

'Did you know there were rules about lead generation? All these years I’ve been stumbling around generating leads with no idea that I was supposed to be following the rules. The New Rules of Lead Generation by David Scott is an ambitious, comprehensive tour of the dark art and darker science of making the phone ring or the mouse click. has his own lead generation marketing firm. The first few chapters are a really terrific primer in the nuts and bolts of lead gen. Leads are a symptom of demand, not a separate thing. had no idea. It keeps going.  MORE >>

But the more landing pages you have, the more opportunities you have to generate leads. Well, before you generate leads, before you create a landing page, before you even craft your call-to-action, you need something to offer your leads. Use these shortcuts to create new offer content, quickly build a new landing page (following these landing page best practices , of course), and start generating more qualified leads for your business! Do you perform your own research about your industry that you could share with leads? So what gives? Blog Bundle. MORE >>