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Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions

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Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

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B2B marketing has seen a dramatic change in the last decade, driven by radical advances in marketing technology and the emergence of new channels. Content marketing is dead. * Content marketing is dead. * Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Cold-calling is dead. The MQL is dead. . The MQL is dead.

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8 Questions to Ask Before Investing in Marketing Attribution

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[Thanks to Anne Angele, Spear’s esteemed Director of Marketing Technology, for this month’s guest post.]. Marketing attribution is a hot topic these days in B2B circles. Yet, for all the interest, precious few B2B companies achieve the holy grail of knowing exactly how – and where – their marketing investment impacts revenue.

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Top 5 Lead Management Excuses (with Poll)

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According to a recent industry survey by Demand Gen Report , fewer than 10 percent of marketing executives who responded have automated lead nurturing strategies and processes in place. Furthermore, only 15% of those same respondents planned to deploy or expand their lead management initiatives in 2009.

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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. for lead management to 3.35 for organization.

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The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

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Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms? B2B marketers seem divided on the question. Historically, the attitude towards personal emails in B2B marketing has been that they betray a lower level of intent. solely for the purpose of diverting marketing emails.

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Why Is Marketing Automation Maturity Still Woeful?

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Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.