Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. What kind of marketing automation platform do we need?

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Lead Liaison

JUNE 21, 2023

Modern Day Lead Capture for High Performing Exhibitors and ROI Calculator Events are a great opportunity for businesses to connect with potential customers. However, traditional methods of collecting leads at events can be time-consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 1, 2012

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Buyer intent comes down to understanding what makes an excellent lead for your business. With a holistic perception of buyer intent in your business, your marketing and sales teams can improve the lead-qualification process and enhance sales conversions. The Shift to Customer-Centric Marketing. Source: G2.

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SendinBlue

AUGUST 24, 2020

Marketing automation platforms offer tools that help grow your business and improve customer experience. This list details some of the best marketing automation software around to help you decide which one is right for you. Let’s talk about marketing for a minute. Sendinblue. The software is hot on personalization.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

Qualified leads would ultimately receive more attention—the sales rep might play 18 holes with them to help close the deal. But with the way modern customers conduct online research prior to purchasing, the human interaction aspect of qualifying leads has all but disappeared. A solid definition of “lead”. What’s a lead?

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 13, 2013

As I noted in a post last year , there is a universe of specialized marketing automation systems for companies that sell through channel partners. Here are two more vendors with related offerings: NitroMojo focuses primarily on lead distribution and tracking. did they eventually buy? is there something else they might purchase?

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

In one of my meetings these past few weeks I was thinking of an analogy where I could break down the lead management process into much simpler terms so everyone could understand their roles - this is where football comes in. The Players and Coaches Take the Field Quarterback : The marketing team is the QB. Why football?

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 19, 2014

Is it necessary to pre-qualify inbound leads? Should CMOs feel confident that these leads from marketing automation are ready for sales to close? Without additional qualification measures (such as tele-qualifying), will these leads inevitably clog and choke the sales pipeline?

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is it necessary to pre-qualify inbound leads? Should CMOs feel confident that these leads from marketing automation are ready for sales to close. Without additional qualification measures (such as tele-qualifying), will these leads inevitably clog and choke the sales pipeline?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s important to follow through on leads. Upon receiving a new lead, it should be categorized, accessible, and tracked for the most relevant ongoing marketing campaigns. We know that lead management is defined as the process by which marketing acquires, evaluates, nurtures, and hands off leads to the sales team.

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Leadspace

MARCH 31, 2022

Their Go-to-Market team was tasked with doubling Sales Qualified Opportunities driven through both new logo capture and installed base customers. Leadspace was tasked with delivering a Buyer Platform measurably improving all aspects of the inbound lead management process. The Leadspace Solution: Delivered in 90 Days.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 17, 2015

You’ve vetted the vendors, selected your features, sized your database and scheduled your implementation; you are now ready to deploy your marketing automation platform, right? Without the correct staffing your marketing automation investment might as well be a car that sits in the garage, collecting dust.In

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The Point

MARCH 22, 2019

Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. Two reasons I can think of: One is that lead scoring is routinely set up as part of an initial implementation of a marketing automation platform. So, is lead scoring a dying art?

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Are you looking for the best lead generation tools to grow your business? Lead generation is more than just getting people to visit your site. And just like any tough job, lead generation requires the right tools–even for professional marketers. What Is a Lead Generation Software/Tool? Why is this important?

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2011

And for many of you, one of your goals will be to finally implement a marketing automation tool. Unfortunately, too many marketers begin this process with the question, “Which automation tools should we look at?” Not only is this the wrong question but its not even close to where you should begin.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 22, 2011

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. To learn more about The Annuitas Group and their proprietary methodology, the Lead Management Framework™ , go to [link]. What's the point of that?

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Our Lead Management Framework should then support this dialogue. Essentially, our lead qualification process should focus less on demographics and firmographics, and instead prioritize building sustained buyer engagement and understanding where the buyer is in the buying process. . Lead Management Framework.

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LeanData

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the recent webinar, The ROI of Lead Routing for High-Growth Enterprises , LeanData and its community of revenue team professionals was honored to hear part of the Alation growth story from Krishna Shah , senior marketing operations manager at Alation. From there, she started building. Building a solid foundation.

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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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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. The more you can humanize your lead follow-up the better.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you look at most major CRMs like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.com , you’ll notice a few different objects: Leads, Contacts, and Accounts. But then look at marketing automation like Lead Liaison and you’ll see one object: Prospects. This is where Account Based Marketing (ABM) meets Inbound Marketing.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2022

It should be listening to questions and replying with helpful answers, routing leads to the appropriate next step with each interaction. To be successful here, your tool must be tied back to a strategy, a content model, and a lead management framework. Your chat tool needs to know when to move a lead from bot to person.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sales tools are software and technology solutions that help sales teams automate and streamline various tasks and processes, such as lead generation, customer relationship management, and sales forecasting. Examples of popular sales tools include CRM software, marketing automation software, and sales forecasting tools.

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2019

Sellers—even smaller brands—are using marketing automation like InfusionSoft, Marketo and a local provider called Doppler emBlue to conduct event-triggered campaigns. Second, inbound marketing, meaning content posted by sellers on LinkedIn and blogs. The tech industry is really the leader in B2B marketing here.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I only recently came across the results of research published late last year by Leads360 , a leading provider of hosted (SaaS) solutions for managing sales leads. Leads360 base their conclusions on studying more than 20 million leads. emphasis mine). However, here’s where I think the argument falls apart.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

A couple of months ago, in a respected marketing Webzine, there appeared a case study detailing a software company that had gone to impressive lengths to make the most of their investment in marketing automation. Yes, you can tailor emails to fit every possible unique combination of demographic and behavioral criteria.

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Televerde

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

With rapid advances in technology forcing every organization into an uncertain future, many companies benefit from choosing to outsource their lead generation. The reasons for outsourcing lead generation are aplenty – and they may differ depending on your business or vertical. Make the most out of your martech.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 28, 2015

Misconceptions about tools like marketing automation (that is a marketing tool) just add fuel to the fire. Sure, sending emails and creating landing pages are all functions of marketing, but managing inbound leads and sharing prospect data with the CRM, is something that when done correctly- supports the entire organization.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 10, 2011

The continuing growth of B2B marketing and marketing automation is indeed good news for those of us in the B2B marketplace. Despite the claim by some that automation is “floundering”, marketing automation is clearly gaining steam and poised for even more growth in 2011.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Understandably, B2B marketers are hard-pressed to recalibrate their lead generation strategies in this ever-shifting landscape. Those are only a handful of the developments expected to impact B2B marketing this year. LinkedIn is gaining impressive traction as a B2B lead generation network.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

by Fergus Gloster Marketing automation solutions bring significant benefits in terms of demand generation to a wide range of companies. It’s very clear that marketers can now generate, score and nurture leads to a level that was not possible just a few years ago. Ready to get started?

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Where Daniel lost me completely, however, is in his opening paragraph: “Friction on your lead generation landing pages is bad, because it reduces conversions. First, if your sales force is unable to follow up with all the leads you’re generating for them, the solution is NOT (I would argue) to generate fewer leads. Wait, what?

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 1, 2016

A few thoughts on where to start: Analyze critical path, not attribution: Marketing analytics is mired in poorly considered “attribution” models. Really we want to know the critical path of content offer and engagement channel dialogue that led to someone becoming a qualified lead, opportunity and/or closed revenue?

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sagefrog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These intelligent systems have not only redefined how businesses manage and nurture customer relationships but have also revolutionized the utilization and cultivation of customer and lead data, fundamentally enhancing marketing and sales outcomes.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to Harvard Business Review , the first five minutes of prospect contact are make-or-break for hooking leads, much like landing that second date. However, effective lead management is not all about the first impression. What you’ll learn: What is lead management? Why is lead management important?

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