Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 5, 2009

One of the themes for marketers in 2009 is “doing more with less”. 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. in B2B Marketing ”.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 26, 2007

Lead qualification: There are two benefits here. In order to leave comments, you could add some additional lead qualification questions to the registration process. In addition, if your organization gets its share of leads, you can use newsletter comments to help in the lead qualification process.

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I'm going to introduce the players and coaches below and then summarize how the different parts fit together to create a Super Bowl caliber lead management process. The Players and Coaches Take the Field Quarterback : The marketing team is the QB. If you're a marketer, you're saying "I don't get paid like a quarterback".

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

When I say that you should become an eco-marketer, I don't mean that you should add some corny green recycle image to your website (who would do that?) Although I'm a big supporter of environmental issues and started my career running an environmental organization , I would like to focus on eco-marketing in terms of demand creation.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In my definition for this post, I’m referring to a process that automatically delivers highly targeted emails to prospects or customers in a specific time frame via a marketing automation platform. There is no question that lead nurturing has been a proven tactic for B2B marketers. Focus on leads that are in the funnel.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

It means that search marketing is working! If you don't have a search marketing strategy, walk over - NO RUN - to your VP of marketing and get his/her team together to discuss this immediately. New to Search Marketing? I've also seen others use search queries as part of an automated lead qualification process.

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Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2008

Thanks Stefan Pollard over at ClickZ for mentioning that tip If your marketing database and your CRM data are synched, you may even be able to find out which words are used by customers vs. prospects and further segmenting the search terms to use for various campaigns. This does a few things.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having worked with B2B marketers for many years, it's typically a no-brainer when someone asks me "should we implement lead scoring?". Lead scoring, which is the process of automating the qualification of leads that you generate, is a key stepping stone to get marketers to the next level.

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2007

This article may give you some additional information that you didn't have but it's not going to make your sales team start using the CRM properly or get marketing to only pass on qualified leads to sales. It's time to get a grip and at least know that you are not alone. What I like about Brian Carrol's post is the give and take.

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Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2006

You can do any one of the following things (and some of my own): Send a special offer for new subscribers Send a request for additional contact information for a mail-in offer Ask for additional lead qualification questions - eg: age, sex, purchase time frame, annual revenue (depends on whether it's B2B or B2C). Thanks for subscribing!

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Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Reflecting back on a long week I had the pleasure of meeting a number of new clients and seeing what they have accomplished as part of their online marketing initiatives. I am extremely lucky to see some of the most cutting edge marketing tactics being used and wanted to highlight some of them here. Email Autoresponder 1.0

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