Inbox Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). But before you hang up your coat, here’s a collection of lead nurturing best practices worth exploring. Reading time: 4 minutes.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A prospective client asks: “We’re just getting our demand generation programs ramped up, and I’m not sure I’m ready for marketing automation. Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss? Comments welcome.

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BOP Design

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As B2B marketers, we are tasked with attracting ideal prospects to our B2B website, educating them to build trust in the products or services we provide, and then getting those prospects to take the first step – make contact with us via a website form, phone call, or email. What happens to your B2B marketing leads after they are qualified?

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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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The Point

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In an exclusive online event, discover how to get the most from your lead nurturing program, and how to plan for success if you’re just getting started. Join me on Wednesday, December 7 as I present a Webinar on “ Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success ,” hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

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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. Not really.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2016

That's where lead nurturing comes in : It's a way to stay connected to the leads you collect that aren't ready to buy from you yet, and build up trust until they are ready. If you want to learn more about lead nurturing in general, you can check out this guide. Product Marketing. Ecommerce. 1) Framebridge.

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The Point

AUGUST 4, 2009

Do a quick Web search on “lead nurturing” these days, and you’ll find plenty of high-level, strategic content on the “whys” – how nurturing can improve demand generation ROI, increase conversion rates, accelerate sales cycles, recycle long-discarded prospects, etc.

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The Point

AUGUST 15, 2012

You know that monthly newsletter you blast to your entire database under the guise of “lead nurturing”? And those Webinar invitations that you broadcast to every trade show lead you’ve generated since 2005? There was a time when lead nurturing was synonymous with simply staying in front of prospects.

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The Point

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A client asks: “I know the answer is probably “it depends” but curious if you think there’s a best practice for how many follow-up nurture emails to send TOFU content syndication leads before you stop due to non-engagement?”. That could be months, or even years down the road.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

When marketers embark on a formal lead nurturing strategy, opportunities for process improvement can arise in unexpected ways. That was the experience for iDirect , a leading provider of satellite IP communications based in Herndon, Virginia.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Effective lead nurturing is crucial to successful b2b marketing. Lead nurturing can help you improve your lead conversions over time. ” “ Lead nurturing will generate an increase in sale opportunities up to 20%. ” “ Lead nurturing can help you build a trusted relationship with your economic buyer.”

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markempa

JUNE 22, 2009

MarketingSherpa just published a chart that shows which best practices are marketers NOT using to effectively manage their marketing-to-sales pipeline process. The one that stands to me is the last one, "have a process for handing leads back to marketing" when they are not sales ready. Check it out.

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The Point

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span the entire buying cycle: early-stage, mid-stage, and late-stage. The Risks of Over-Reliance on Late-Stage Content Click To Tweet.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Employing the SEO best practices for Landing Page optimization (LPO) optimizes the landing pages for search engines – assimilating features that make the pages particularly appealing to the algorithms. Abiding by the landing page SEO checklist ensures that the marketers make their landing pages valuable for searchers.

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The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Lead Nurturing. Lead nurturing has long since become more than just an email channel, as marketers expand nurture campaigns to include channels like remarketing, content syndication, paid social, and even direct mail. Responding to those specific companies, by name (“Hey Google!

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How to define B2B Lead Quality (and its varying degrees) The following diagram demonstrates how to develop a holistic view of your ICP with some of the key data points that can be leveraged to ensure campaigns deliver quality B2B marketing leads.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

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The Point

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”? What best practices should we put in place? Over time, an accumulation of stale, non-responsive leads can bump you to a higher pricing tier for your CRM or marketing automation license.

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LeadSloth

AUGUST 5, 2010

DemandBase has just announced a webinar series called B2B Marketing Best Practices that Need to Die (I will present one of the sessions). Today, I’m working on my presentation for Monday’s lead nurturing webinar 7 steps to finding untapped revenue in your marketing database , where I’m presenting real best practices.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Let’s delve into B2B video marketing trends that the video marketers need to look forward to & keep abreast with to deliver the next big video types, keeping pace with the b2b video best practices for optimal returns from video content: 1. marketing endeavors. According to Brightcove Inc., Wrapping It Up.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change. Keep reading.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s the shocking reality of B2B lead generation – 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales opportunities. Source: Marketing Sherpa/ KnowledgeStorm). B2B marketing and lead generation experts point to a lack of lead nurturing as the primary cause of this poor performance.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

We are excited to have Jep Castelein of popular lead management and marketing automation blog, Lead Sloth , contribute a guest blog post. Read below to find out the best ways to optimize your conversion rates using lead nurturing: A lot of early adopters of Marketing Automation systems are in the technology industry.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 1, 2011

Plenty has been written about the importance of lead nurturing in B2B and industrial marketing. If you need a quick primer, read my earlier post, “ B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail. ”. What does lead nurturing do for sales? Are you beginning to see the similarities?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

In this blog, discover the who, what, when, how and why of lead nurturing through webinars and videos so you can take your buyers on a more engaging (and fun) journey. Anyone involved in marketing knows the importance of generating quality leads for their sales team. Event Marketing Lead Nurturing Modern B2B Marketing'

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2017

Lead nurturing is no different than building long-term relationships. It’s simply a strategy marketers use to stay in front of prospects, providing relevant, worthwhile content to warm them up until they are ready for sales. According to MarketingSherpa, 79% of marketing leads never convert to sales.

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is an integral part of inbound marketing as well as attraction marketing , and is a great way to send nurture leads throughout the buying process. Nurture Your Leads With Email Marketing What is Lead Nurturing? Here are a few email best practices that will help nurture your leads.

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The Point

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Additionally, we’ll see Account-Based Marketing (ABM) move on a path toward ubiquity, eventually morphing into use case strategies, tactics and best practices analogous to demand generation, inbound marketing, lead generation, and lead nurturing.”. – Tom Meriam, Vice President, Business Development.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Prior to the Marketo user summit I had heard a few great examples of nurturing programs being created without a lot of content, but after I shared some of these stories at the event I was approached by many others with similar stories. How can they do this with limited content marketing assets? What can they do?

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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

Indeed, much of the success that companies see with content syndication has more to do with what happens with leads AFTER they’re generated – i.e. how those leads are responded to, nurtured, and ultimately converted.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 8, 2011

by Carol Fox Is your lead nurturing process a little like waiting for eggs to hatch? Not to worry – many organizations are faced with the challenge of lead nurturing. On one hand, both marketing and sales are under pressure to close deals and hit monthly numbers. Humanize Your Message. Media type.

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markempa

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Develop a strategic lead generation plan, with focus on standardizing and documenting the sales process for purposes of tracking and measuring. Share best-practice lead generation information. Assign revenue goals to joint Sales and Marketing plans. Document the lead hand-off process and accountabilities at each stage.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 16, 2010

” In this seven-part series, we’ve taken an in-depth look at the “processes, practices and systems” that are widely recognized as “improving an organization’s performance and efficiency” in the area of sales and marketing lead generation. Part 1: Agree on Lead Definition.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 8, 2012

by Rajiv Kapoor According to a recent DemandGen Report nurtured leads are 20% more likely to turn into sales opportunities than non-nurtured leads. Lead nurturing allows you to communicate in a more regular and more targeted way, and as a result more prospects will move through your revenue cycle / lead lifecycle.

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Kapost

JUNE 12, 2017

Marketing automation is one of the most powerful tactics for today’s B2B marketer. According to a Pepper Global study on B2B marketing, the #1 benefit of marketing automation is the ability to. The post 5 Best Practices for Marketing Automation appeared first on Kapost Content Marketing Blog.

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The Point

MARCH 7, 2019

These have particular application in lead nurturing and customer marketing. DGR) Can you share any best practices or recommendations for marketers looking to augment their email strategies? And ABM has impacted B2B marketing more broadly in a similar fashion. Now it’s a common practice.

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