More and more B2B marketers are turning to lead scoring as a way of optimizing lead management. Many of us will remember when we used to process raw Excel lists, handing over hundreds of names with job titles and companies to our sales department, only to find that leads weren’t being followed up on. It wasn’t possible to know which leads were the most interested in your company, and wasn’t easy to see which matched your target buyer. In a recent episode of the weekly #B2Bchat on Twitter, we dug into questions surrounding lead scoring. What is lead scoring? MORE >>

Smart marketers apply some type of lead scoring to leads generated from website, SEO, and email initiatives. recommend ranking trade show leads using the point-system outlined below – the higher the ranking, the hotter the lead. While useful to build your marketing database for lead nurturing, a trade-show registration list is the least-qualified lead source because some aren’t remotely interested in your solution. If the trade show closely aligns with one of your solution offerings, then the quality of these kinds of leads will be better. MORE >>

An effective lead qualification team can charge through a high quantity of leads in a short amount of time, and they can still gather crucial insights while doing so. To separate the high quality leads from the ones that are highly unlikely to buy assess every lead on five important criteria. What problems does your prospect face? Prospects fall into three categories: Those that know their problem and the type of solution they need to fix it. If your prospect knows what they need, ask if they’re working with any solution providers to solve it. MORE >>

While some marketing teams are facing cut backs and spending freezes or reductions, they still need to hit their goals which may include generating X number of leads, Y amount of influenced pipeline and/or Z amount of influenced sales. While many may label this as “lead nurturing”, it goes well beyond lead nurturing. It’s at times like this when you need a bounce in your step and powerful tools that will make it easy to keep you engaged with customers and prospects but allow you to leave work at a reasonable hour. Inactive or Dormant Lead campaign. Trial tips. MORE >>

Tweet Last Tuesday, I had the opportunity to share the most exciting aspect of working at MECLABS – Research Partnerships that allow us to test and optimize lead generation processes. It’s thrilling for me to observe lead generation strategy transform into revenue for our Research Partners. You’ll learn how we: Improved the quality of sales-ready leads by attaining better information about prospects and where they are in the buying process. Determined how and when we speak to prospects to quickly advance them through the sales funnel. MORE >>