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. If you score clicks as “responses,” you risk over-inflating the value of leads who may only have passing interest in your content. Here’s why: 1. A click is not a response.

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Sales Engine

MAY 17, 2016

Marketing automation and lead management systems have allowed for a near-scientific breakdown of the sales funnel. Leads in each stage of the buying process meet very specific criteria and behave in certain predictable ways. It seems that this once-complex process can be distilled to an algorithm.

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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. The challenge is identifying that interest early in the process.

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markempa

AUGUST 2, 2016

When I’ve talked with marketers about their b2b lead generation results, I’ve heard statements like, “We’re generating a ton of leads, but they aren’t converting” or “We need to increase lead quantity” or “We need to generate more qualified leads.”. I’ve learned it’s not about generating more leads.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2017

MARKETING AUTOMATION AND LEAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS have allowed for a near-scientific breakdown of the sales funnel. Leads in each stage of the buying process meet very specific criteria and behave in certain predictable ways. It seems that this once-complex process can be distilled to an algorithm.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel 120

BOP Design

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To use personalization or automation in B2B sales, that is the quandary, or discussion, or battle depending on the parties involved. Benefits of Automation in the Sales Process. Utilizing a CRM like Pardot or HubSpot ensures you are on task with prospecting, communication and follow up with your leads. Brand Awareness.

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B2B Sales Top of Funnel Automation Personalization 74

markempa

AUGUST 23, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Ask why they downloaded the white paper.

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 2015

Tweet For the new year, I’m sharing 15 ideas on how to make your lead management more effective. This post isn’t just about generating more leads; it’s about generating better and higher quality of leads. This post isn’t just about generating more leads; it’s about generating better and higher quality of leads.

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markempa

OCTOBER 6, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

Content marketing is the approach of fitting your content within a structured and measurable process to create better results in attracting leads and transforming them into customers — and increasing revenue. How content management grows business leaders. Deliver more high quality leads for your sales teams.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

A great addition to Marketo’s Resources has been the Spear Marketing Group white paper, Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success , written by Howard Sewell. Not only is it a helpful resource when starting your lead nurturing , it also embodies and reinforces so many Marketo best practices.

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markempa

AUGUST 17, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. But trust me its worth it.

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markempa

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Tweet The ultimate goal of B2B marketing and lead generation is to help the sales team sell. Marketers spend a lot of time and effort creating inbound leads but struggle getting those leads to convert into customers after they hand them off to sales. Create content geared toward lead progression, not lead capture.

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markempa

OCTOBER 2, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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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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ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2016

This is Part One of a two-part blog about how organizations with a complex sales process can improve accuracy in lead/revenue projections. The real potential of lead nurturing is ignored. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process—even the early stages.

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ROI Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL 159

markempa

AUGUST 11, 2005

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Our sales team is very busy.

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markempa

JANUARY 12, 2015

Tweet It’s a new year, and you’re likely kicking off marketing and lead generation programs to drive more new leads for 2015. Most new leads go nowhere. It’s not about more leads; it’s about doing better with the ones you already have. Create a marketing funnel, not just a sales funnel. Business need.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 25, 2013

Generate more leads, generate better leads, and improve the rate to which lead opportunities turn into closed wins for the sales teams. A marketing automation solution is one tool B2B marketers use for succeeding at these lead management challenges. and increase sales productivity by an average of 4%.

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The Point

JULY 23, 2012

In an ideal world, all B2B sales leads would be pre-qualified and ready to buy. One result of that pressure can be a demand for tactical, sales-driven campaigns designed specifically to seek out hot leads, campaigns that lead with so-called “late stage” offers like demos, free trials, or even price discounts.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

When sales teams need marketing to help them make their numbers, the natural response is to go fishing for hot leads. This requires a constant re-loading of the sales funnel with new, expensive leads. In contrast, for Marketo, the proportion of sales derived from slow leads is an astounding 50 percent.

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The Point

JULY 21, 2016

Lead scoring is a core marketing automation functionality, and a key driver for one of the primary benefits of the technology, namely sales productivity. A well-planned, well-designed lead scoring schema ensures that sales reps are spending time with the leads that most merit the investment. Lack of segmentation.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lead nurturing is a hot topic right now. It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking De-duping Work Management Lead Qualification 100

markempa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For marketing departments, it’s impossible to deliver BANT qualified leads unless marketing owns an inside sales function. Making matters worse, BANT does not align with customer buying behavior early in the decision process when Marketing and Sales generally need to engage prospects to win new business.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

A white paper is developed and marketing decides to launch a “campaign” around the white paper. Taking a strategic approach reverses this and puts the buyers squarely as the focus and causes organizations to align around their buying process. Here’s what they said.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

In the early stages of a recent client engagement, it became apparent that the schema already in place to determine and assign lead scores was, well: broken. Using the sample logic outlined above, if a prospect took ANY “positive” action at least once every 2 months and 29 days, his or her lead score would continue to climb indefinitely.

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Vidyard

MAY 18, 2018

While average performers bought ads, high-performers leveraged white papers, trade shows, and interactive assets in new and interesting ways. Implementing marketing automation can effectively bridge the gap between the various technologies, and empower marketing and sales to work closely together. #2

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Valasys

JUNE 26, 2019

Discovering prospects in the marketplace that are actively consuming content is beneficial for marketers in the following ways: Allows marketers to create a hyper-personalized content strategy so as to expedite the journey of prospects through their individual sales funnels & optimize the sales conversion. About Netline.

Top of Funnel 61

Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Intent Signal Psychographics 61

NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Consider these as the stepping stones for optimal business growth by aligning marketing & sales, and developing a content strategy designed to generate leads and nurture them into sales. Process: Set your lead generation campaign goals. How many qualified leads. Cost-per-lead.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I thought I’d have fun with this post and attempt to explain key principles of lead generation and inbound marketing in an A-Z glossary format. All activity of the lead generation process needs to be measured via a robust analytics program. Where marketing and sales need to work together as leads proceed through the funnel.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

" Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Ardath’s book, eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale is now shipping!

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B2B Marketing Content Marketing B2B Planning 100

NuSpark Consulting

JULY 15, 2011

Our approach to lead generation beings with a message strategy. From there, the lead generation plan is developed, followed by lead nurturing. There’s more to the proposal than this, but the basics of a lead management plan is in place. Increase sales. Phase Three: Lead Nurturing.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Planning Sales Management 100

NuSpark Consulting

JULY 15, 2011

Our approach to lead generation beings with a message strategy. From there, the lead generation plan is developed, followed by lead nurturing. There’s more to the proposal than this, but the basics of a lead management plan is in place. Increase sales. Phase Three: Lead Nurturing.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Planning Sales Management 100

markempa

JULY 10, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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B2B Sales Lead Generation Sales Leads BtoB 120

NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 9, 2012

For lead generation, conversion optimization, and lead nurturing strategies, retargeting may be the overlooked child, but there’s no question it can be very effective and an efficient tactic to bring prospects back to your website or content. Conversion tactic : Sign up for a free white paper.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 9, 2012

For lead generation, conversion optimization, and lead nurturing strategies, retargeting may be the overlooked child, but there’s no question it can be very effective and an efficient tactic to bring prospects back to your website or content. Conversion tactic : Sign up for a free white paper.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 3, 2009

Marketbright uses the two-level approach that I consider an industry best practice: users can build simple linear campaigns with a wizard-driven interface, and embed these in a Visio-style flow chart to manage flows across campaigns. See my recent white paper Restoring the Balance for more on this.)

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