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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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Indeed, those who announce that anything is “dead,” marketing-wise, typically have an agenda in mind, most often selling you a product or solution to facilitate whatever replaces the (allegedly) departed. But there are still 5+ billion email accounts worldwide. Email is very much alive.

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Tips for Increasing SDR Engagement Rates

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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.

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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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for lead management to 3.35 However, when you consider that, in our model, a 5 represents the most advanced state of practice from a business theory perspective, and a 1 represents basic control and management of a process, you recognize how difficult the transition from 1 to 5 really is. for organization.

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3 Key Reasons Not to Give Up on Lead Scoring

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Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. An effective, accurate, trusted lead scoring model is a vital cog in a company’s overall lead management process. I would argue: no.

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Report: B2B Buyers Engaging Earlier with Sales

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A highly tuned lead scoring program will help ensure that motivated buyers receive the appropriate attention and don’t fall through the proverbial cracks. How well does your current lead management process alert reps – be they BDRs or field reps – to high-intent behavior? Sales Alerts. Conversational Marketing.

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18 Common Features of a Best-in-Class Lead Nurture Program

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Leveraging of social engagement data, through a solution like Oktopost , to inform lead score, identify topic/product interest, generate sales alerts, and direct specific leads into more relevant nurture streams based on how and if those individuals engage with social content. Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash.