B2B Marketing Traction

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When It Comes to Your Marketing Leads, Quality and Quantity Count

B2B Marketing Traction

B2B marketers need to track lead quality as well as lead quantity. It is important to track the quality of your leads. One way to measure this is by tracking the conversion rate of leads by source. Capture each marketing activity, its cost, leads generated, number of sales and sales revenue generated.

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B2B Marketer: You Paid for TOFU. Do you have MOFU?

B2B Marketing Traction

For a long time marketing departments have focused on TOFU, or top of the funnel lead generation. Now it’s time to also focus on MOFU, middle of the funnel qualified lead nurturing and development. You may have qualified the leads before the great hand-off to sales, who worked with the lead through the sales cycle.

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Does Traditional Marketing Still Work?

B2B Marketing Traction

You can use traditional marketing to generate leads, but it is probably more cost-effectively used to build brand awareness or build loyalty after the initial lead generation. Once you have qualified leads, then spend the money on traditional marketing to stay in front of them, building brand awareness and loyalty.

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The Death of Salesmen, Really

B2B Marketing Traction

There was an awkward pause, after which the sales man launched into a fast-paced monologue about how he’s using social media to do lead generation. Now sales people should be working on conversions of all those leads marketing has passed to them (or of the leads they generate themselves).

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So Your Ad Agency Got an Award. Now What?

B2B Marketing Traction

Results in the way of leads, revenue, brand awareness? In the book, Professional Services Marketing: How the Best Firms Build Premier Brands, Thriving Lead Generation Engines, and Cultures of Business Development Success, authors Mike Schultz and John E. Doerr provide a list of marketing details to avoid.

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B2B Marketers: The Devil IS In the Details!

B2B Marketing Traction

Marketing is about getting results , including generating quality leads, engaging prospects and converting leads to clients and sales revenue. Doerr make in their book, Professional Services Marketing: How The Best Firms Build Premier Brands, Thriving Lead Generation Engines, and Cultures of Business Development Success.

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What Do I Spend on My Marketing Budget? Part 1

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“ Your marketing budget does depend on a variety of factors, including your lead generation return rates and lead-to-buyer conversion rates. If you understand your buyer’s buy cycle, you can calculate exactly what you need to spend in order to generate the revenues you need.