Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. Please view this as a general list; some of these points will be more or less pronounced depending on the marketing automation platform you’re using ( Marketo , Eloqua , HubSpot , Act-on , Autopilot , etc.) Interaction management.

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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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The Marketing Blender

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The 11 undeniable benefits of marketing automation for B2B sales and marketing teams. How automation can transform your B2B marketing effectiveness and results. These days, when most consultants and gurus talk about technology transforming marketing, automation is what they’re referring to.

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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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Optinmonster

JULY 15, 2021

Do you want to put your WooCommerce email marketing process on autopilot? Email marketing automation tools can help you collect leads, schedule emails, and build a long-lasting relationship with subscribers. In this guide, we’ll show you the best tools in the market that automate email processes and deliver results.

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The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. He explained how marketers can use marketing automation to win in the engagement economy. Yes, I really met Fabio.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 1, 2012

I wrote last week about the difficulty of linking marketing leads to sales results. One reason the topic was on my mind is I’m also thinking a lot these days about lead scoring. But the ultimate goal is to identify the leads most likely to generate revenue. .*

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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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LeadSloth

AUGUST 17, 2009

Earlier this year I downloaded Silverpop’s lead management workbook , and I planned to write about it. Unfortunately, not enough time… Last week I received a copy of Marketo’s Lead Nurturing workbook. Both books show how you can increase sales by nurturing all leads, from inquiry to opportunity.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. In this post, we focus on why Marketing Converts recommends the “unique” model to the vast majority of clients. Also, the majority of marketing automation platforms take the approach that a person only exists once in the platform.

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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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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

Therefore I initially called them a ‘niche vendor’ However, the product has evolved into a fairly complete marketing automation suite for SMB companies. Lead Scoring. Lead scoring configuration. It can also integrate with Salesforce Web-to-Lead forms. Email marketing. Form builder.

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Capstone Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In my last post , I framed out the three main lead management approaches in B2B SaaS. In this post, we focus on why Marketing Converts recommends the “unique” model to the vast majority of clients. Also, the majority of marketing automation platforms take the approach that a person only exists once in the platform.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. But while this cycle is simple, the actual boundaries of business marketing are not so clearly marked. Leads can enter from channels other than email. Registration is no longer required.)

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems. Lower conversion rates Poor-quality data dramatically reduces the accuracy of lead scoring and prioritization.

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BOP Design

MAY 15, 2018

However, automating for its own sake isn’t the best strategy. Especially for B2B marketing , automation should only be implemented where it provides real value. If you search for “marketing automation” on a search engine, you are served up a ton of ads by, no surprise, marketing automation software providers.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 12, 2011

Choosing a marketing automation system is a major decision. Be sure to include processes beyond what you do already: one of the reasons you’re looking at marketing automation is to expand what your department can accomplish. A disciplined selection process is essential to make a sound selection. The first three are below.

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The Point

AUGUST 8, 2013

When a client says “We set up lead scoring but sales doesn’t pay any attention,” it’s a sure sign that something is amiss – and more likely the problem doesn’t rest with sales. Here’s Part 2 of our discussion of the most common B2B lead scoring mistakes. No scoring suppression rules.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 16, 2010

Summary: here are some checklists to help select a marketing automation system. On June 29, I'll be giving a Webinar on “Matching a Marketing Automation System to Your Needs”, part of a day-long set of all-star lead management presentations organized by the Focus online business community.

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ViewPoint

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. ” How did Andy know so much about sales, marketing and sales leads? that opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

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Lead Liaison

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Why Does Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Marketing Automation Integration Matter? In this article we’ll discuss why Microsoft Dynamics CRM and marketing automation integration matter to businesses with a sales and marketing team. For example, Lead Liaison’s LMA has a concept of Lifecycle Stages.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 18, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. All real salespeople love sales leads and don’t ever believe anyone who tells you differently. The argument comes when salespeople define a lead.

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The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Marketing automation is a crucial piece of the demand gen puzzle, but when you’re the one tasked with launching a new marketing automation platform (MAP), it can be intimidating. You want to make sure your team is using the tool to its full potential — and that management sees and understands the return on investment.

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Lead Liaison

AUGUST 21, 2018

When preparing for an event, there are two main focuses: getting your “gear” ready for the show, and setting up a process for managing the leads you get from that marketing event. We’ll save the “gear” topic for another day…today we’re thinking about LEADS! What do marketing and sales always have in common?

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Are you still afraid of and intimidated by marketing automation? Modern marketing automation software (MAS) no longer suffers the stigma of being too complicated for anyone but a large enterprise technology company to adopt. When people learn about what marketing automation can do, they can be intimidated.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Are you still afraid of and intimidated by marketing automation? Modern marketing automation software (MAS) no longer suffers the stigma of being too complicated for anyone but a large enterprise technology company to adopt. When people learn about what marketing automation can do, they can be intimidated.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 9, 2013

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

B2B lead generation and lead management is a complicated process that can’t be detailed all in one book. It’s easier said than done which is why firms like mine exist, to implement proper lead generation tactics that build revenue. General B2B Marketing & Lead Generation. Content Marketing.

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 31, 2017

All you need is a content marketing strategy in place to stay on the straight and narrow, while still delivering great content to attract prospects and convert them into customers. So how do we create a great content marketing strategy in regulated industries? Get buy-in from the leadership team. Don’t be one of them.

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PureB2B

MARCH 22, 2017

Email marketing is very much alive. It has withstood the test of time and remains a strong force to contend with in lead generation and management, as well as customer engagement. Here are some ways to maximize your personalized email strategies: Practice Segmentation in Your Email Marketing. Plus, let’s not forget email.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 21, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Of course what I am thinking about are the functions of sales and marketing. No business rule which mandates measuring the ROI for lead generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before. Lead scoring, a key component of lead nurturing and management, is an effective tool for aligning sales and marketing.

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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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LeadSquared

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Converting contacts or leads into customers is a top priority for every organization. However, companies have struggled with lead nurturing and pushing them down the sales funnel for a long time. The lack of aligned goals made it tricky to harness quality leads and sales. Nurture your leads 4. Deliver on your promise 3.

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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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