The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

One of the reasons for this under-utilization, and the inability of some marketers to deploy, for example, automated lead nurturing at every stage of the selling process, is resistance from the sales organization, and in particular, Inside Sales. Marketo sends first follow-up email. Marketo sends second follow-up email.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 4, 2009

The folks at Marketo have always recognized that they can only succeed if more marketers learn the basics of demand generation. Their latest contribution is The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a 38-page workbook that may not quite live up to its ambitious title but certainly gives a good overview of the subject.

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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. Why persevere with lead nurturing?

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The Point

OCTOBER 30, 2013

A client asks: “I notice that you’re recommending we gate our offer content behind landing pages as part of the lead nurturing campaign. It’s why click-to-lead conversion rates are never 100%, no matter how good your landing page. Why is that necessary when we already know who these people are? Here’s why: 1.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just reviewed Marketo 's recently released Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. What I found most useful were the examples of calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. Go download it now: Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. Tags: lead nurturing demand marketing ebook whitepaper sales.

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The Lead Agency

JULY 4, 2019

Lead nurturing is an essential component of any B2B marketing strategy, helping organisations like yours convert prospects into loyal customers. By effectively nurturing your leads, you can offer consumers unique value during every stage of the customer decision-making journey.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss?

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just reviewed Marketo 's recently released Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing. What I found most useful were the examples of calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. Go download it now: Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing Specifically the section of the impact on opportunities won. It's a must read.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2009

Just a quick post to point readers to an interview of me on Marketo 's blog, Demand Generation and Social Media: Thought Leadership with Mike Damphousse of Green Leads. When it comes to leads, quality or quantity ? How does lead nurturing play a part in reaching these executive contacts?

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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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Oktopost

OCTOBER 5, 2022

At its core, lead nurturing is rooted in data. The more data you have on leads, the better you can craft engaging content and messaging. Hot Topics of this episode include: Using social engagement data to nurture the right people, with the right content, at the right time. Catch all episodes here. Episode Summary.

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Square 2 Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This means marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) or sales-qualified leads (SQLs). In fact, Marketo reports that number is as high as 96%, so leaving MQLs behind means you might never get to know these people. MQLs Are Important; What You Do With Them Could Make Or Break Your Program Performance.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Marketing automation provider Marketo has just published The Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing , a white paper that provides real value, covering the lead nurturing process from the basic how and why through ROI measurement. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in August 2009.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the key aspects of gaining an edge is the efficient management of leads. This is where Automated Lead Qualification steps in as a game-changer. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the intricacies of Automated Lead Qualification, demystifying its key components, benefits, and challenges. The result?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

According to SiriusDecisions, 80% of unqualified leads today—those understandably ignored by sales—will go on to buy from someone within the next 24 months. The solution is nurturing, buy how do you do that? The post Videos for Lead Nurturing? Opportunistic Video.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this comprehensive blog, we’ll unravel the transformative journey from SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) to loyal customer. To contextualize their significance, consider a report by Gleanster Research , which states that roughly 50% of leads are indeed qualified but aren’t quite prepared to make a buying decision.

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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. All this presents real challenges for both demand generation and lead management.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 5, 2009

Just a quick post to point readers to an interview of me on Marketo 's blog, Demand Generation and Social Media: Thought Leadership with Mike Damphousse of Green Leads. When it comes to leads, quality or quantity ? How does lead nurturing play a part in reaching these executive contacts?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lead nurturing helps marketers communicate consistently with buyers cross-channel and throughout the sales cycle—addressing the gap in time between when a lead first interacts with you and when she is ready to purchase. Why Is Lead Nurturing Important? Lead Nurturing—Evolved. Segment a lead database.

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markempa

JANUARY 28, 2008

If all you do is send generic email marketing messages to your early stage leads over and over and over again, you're missing the point. To be truly effective, marketers must get over the “automated only” approach to lead nurturing (meaning there's no actual human interaction just a blind system that can't think).

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The Point

MAY 18, 2010

That conclusion was prompted by this question, posed on Focus : “We want to start doing more lead nurturing with our leads, and really aren’t quite sure how to go about it. Do you use a specific software for lead nurturing? At our firm we use Marketo , which works extremely well for us.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Precious few B2B marketers can show true ROI from organic social activity, and even less are using organic social media in a systematic way to either generate social leads or drive those leads through the demand generation funnel. Integrating Social Leads into the Demand Generation Funnel via @spearmktg. Click To Tweet. (HS)

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 6, 2010

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. Element #2 – Email – the most critical element of a lead nurturing platform is email. But Facebook?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Our friends at Marketing Cloud recently posted a Brainshark about Marketo. For those of you who don’t know what a Brainshark is, it’s a cloud-based presentation I did on our lead nurturing process, conveniently segmented into eight pieces. Topics include: . Topics include: .

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Well, in many ways, Marketo and HubSpot are not unlike Sparta and Athens. To make it easier for you to guess, let’s take a look at both platforms and try to determine: HubSpot vs. Marketo: which is the marketing automation platform to rule them all? Marketo: which is the marketing automation platform to rule them all?

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 22, 2014

Author: Steve Gershik Most marketers have their eyes on many moving targets — lead generation , conversion rates, new customer acquisition, customer retention, and even customer expansion. With that in mind, here are five of the most common mid-funnel lead nurturing mistakes: 1. Don’t Let Your Data Go Bad.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

The Game of Nurture captures the fun, strategic elements of lead nurturing by turning it into a board game. Not only will you discover who on your team is really competitive, you’ll get some practical tips to think about incorporating into your lead nurturing strategy. Think you’re a pro lead-nurturer?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. And this necessitates investigating new lead generation methods. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Therefore, top-tier lead generation is essential to your sales pipeline. billion by 2023.

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Binary Demand

MAY 30, 2023

Lead generation is the lifeblood of any business. And this necessitates investigating new lead generation methods. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Remember that you cannot make sales without leads. Therefore, top-tier lead generation is essential to your sales pipeline. billion by 2023.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 28, 2020

In Marketo, wait steps allow you to build specific wait times into the flow of your campaigns. Marketo’s wait steps can be incredibly helpful, but they require a little forethought to get right. You can also move people into different campaigns based on whether or not something happened—like a lead score change or sales touchpoint.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s fiercely competitive business landscape, converting leads into loyal customers is the goal. Lead scoring, a critical component of any successful sales and marketing strategy, can be the bridge that guides your leads towards conversion. This is where lead scoring enters the picture.

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Valasys

MAY 31, 2019

HG for Marketo has been designed to link directly to the users’ marketing automation platform & to reflect upon the latest technologies being used by the potential & existing customers. Marketo is a long-standing leader in B2B marketing which was acquired by Abode on October 31, 2018.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2013

Author: Jon Miller (@jonmiller) By now, many marketers are convinced of the value of lead nurturing – but they remain flummoxed by the task of creating content to fuel their programs. In this post, I’d like to propose that marketers can and should embrace content curation as an effective, easy way to nurture leads.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Marketo is a very robust marketing automation tool that can provide you with endless possibilities for reaching your target audience, nurturing leads and customers, reporting on ROI, and so much more. There are several reasons for Marketo speed issues, but the good news is that there are also solutions for each of these causes.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the realm of B2B marketing, building a high-quality and targeted list of quality leads is paramount. B2B list building is the foundation upon which successful B2B lead generation campaigns are built. Secondly, automation accelerates the process, allowing businesses to generate B2B leads at a faster pace. trillion annually.

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