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5 Reasons Why You’re Getting Bad Leads

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Let’s talk about leads. Odds are, you’re having conversations about how to attract more leads, how to improve the quality of your leads, how to convert your leads, or all of the above. And in that conversation you might be wondering, “why are we getting bad leads in the first place?” .

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Why Bother with Leading Scoring?

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According to Wikipedia, the definition of lead scoring is, “A methodology used to rank prospects against a scale that represents the perceived value. Blog B2B Marketing demand process Lead scoring marketing automation'

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BANT for Lead Qualification Just Won’t Work

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About two years ago I wrote a blog post on Why BANT No longer applies for B2B Lead Qualification. Given the environment in which we live as B2B Marketers, BANT (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe) is not a trustworthy indicator of the qualification status of the leads. BANT is not Aligned to a Buying Process. “I

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Why Cost Per Lead Can Be a Bad Metric

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A recent study by Ascend2 shows that 25% of respondents state that their cost per lead (CPL) is increasing. For years marketers have been keen to show cost per lead (or in the words of Jon Miller from Marketo – investment per lead) as a metric that has meaning. 14%) to get a lead that could drive a deal of $125,000.

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Why Lead Generation is Irrelevant

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According to a 2011 study by MarketingSherpa , 74% of B2B marketers stated that their biggest challenge was generating high quality leads. The next biggest challenge was a distant second: 49% cited “generating a high volume of leads”. However, lead generation is irrelevant in today’s b2b marketing climate.

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Lead Nurturing Isn’t a Stage in the Sales Funnel

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Take a look at an excerpt from a Leadspace Radio via Sales Lead Management Association with Carlos Hidalgo , CEO and founder of ANNUITAS. How can we STOP DOING lead nurturing campaigns? Number two is really the way that most organizations do lead scoring today is really, really poor. We eat it up.

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Why Organizations Should Stop Focusing on Lead Nurturing Campaigns

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The stats, guides and tips to effective lead nurturing abound in the B2B marketplace and yet with all of this information, still only a fraction of B2B companies are using or effective in the use of lead nurturing according to MarketingSherpa. This is why fewer than 4% of marketing generated leads are ever converted into sales.